Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm: add idr_init to drm_stub.c
drm: fix problem with SiS typedef with sisfb enabled.
* 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm: convert drawable code to using idr
drm: convert drm context code to use Linux idr
This converts the code for allocating drawables to the Linux idr,
Fixes from: Michel Dänzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com>, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
This converts the drm context allocator to an idr, using the new idr
interface features from Kristian.
Fixes from Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
[POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
[POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
[POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
[POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
[POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
[POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
[POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
[POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
[POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
[POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
[POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
[POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
[POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
[POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
[POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
[POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
[POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
[POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
[POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
[POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
...
Fixed up conflicts manually in:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
include/asm-powerpc/pci.h
and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
* 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm: remove core typedefs from the ioc32 wrappers
drm: remove sarea typedefs
drm: detypedef the hashtab and more of sman
drm: de-typedef sman
drm: detypedeffing continues...
drm: detypef waitlist/freelist/buf_entry/device_dma/drm_queue structs
drm: drop drm_vma_entry_t, drm_magic_entry_t
drm: drop drm_buf_t typedef
drm: fixup other drivers for typedef removals
drm: remove drm_file_t, drm_device_t and drm_head_t typedefs
drm: remove a bunch of typedefs on the userspace interface
r300: updates register header
radeon: add support for vblank on crtc2
drm: cleanup list initialisation
drm: fix typo on code drm getsarea
drm: remove DRM_GETSAREA and replace with drm_getsarea function
drm: cleanup use of Linux list handling macros
Again this check is wrong now, and un-needed
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We've been using the 'new locking' for a long time now so it seems
pointless keeping the old one around. Remove it and undo the macros it
uses back into real code for readability. Remove the bogus 'no termios
change' checks.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Morten Helgesen <morten@sourcepoet.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Lots of serial drivers check and optimise for setting the termios values to
the ones they were before. This is pointless and the check is wrong
anyway. Remove the checks on the serial drivers. If we ever do need such
a check put it back in the tty layer instead _once_!
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove not only the references to Cobalt NVRAM, but the header file as
well.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is
required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide
non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past
actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system
becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it
necessary to audit TTY output as well.
Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the
audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely
transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still
work).
TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls
within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly
useless audit events.
Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs
by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel.
The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty
attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for
example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the
interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which
might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone).
Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set
e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the
audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file
descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY.
See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a
more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was
disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a
trim down to 80 columns.
Put it back into the right format and keep the overlong lines as the result
is also MUCH easier to read in this specific case.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the no longer used sonypi_camera_command().
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes dead keys and copy/paste of non-ASCII characters in UTF-8
mode on Linux console. See more details about the original patch at:
http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html
Already posted on
(Oldest) http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/5/31/148http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/24/69
(Recent) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/7/75
[bunk@stusta.de: make drivers/char/selection.c:store_utf8() static]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tty_ioctl, little whitespace cleanup
the point is to make
while (++i < n_baud_table);
clear and assign it to the do { } loop
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Also remove needless casts.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We gets lots of these when the kernel is running on a hypervisor. Zach says
"a guest kernel trying to get high frequency RTC will also be inaccurate, and
inevitably will have unhidable interrupt lateness."
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check the return of mutex_lock_interruptible() in drivers/char/rocket.c and
return ERESTARTSYS if we were interrupted.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simple and stupid - just use the helpers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Without this a tty write could block if a previous blocking tty write was
in progress on the same tty and blocked by a line discipline or hardware
event. Originally found and reported by Dave Johnson.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to
enter the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to
enter the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mspec_mmap was setting VM_LOCKED (without adjusting locked_vm): don't do
that, it serves no purpose in 2.6, other than to mess up the locked_vm
accounting - mspec's pages won't get reclaimed anyway. Thanks to Dmitry
Monakhov for raising the issue.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits)
sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable
sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry()
sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static
sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update
sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree
sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks
sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry
sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent()
sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag
sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags
sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup()
sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64
sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree
sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active
sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c
sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association
sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode()
sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create()
sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move
...
The only pseudo-legitimate MIPS user of genrtc was a systems that doesn't
have an RTC in hardware at all. At this point faking one is a little
pointless ...
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Instead of all drivers reading pci config space to get the revision
ID, they can now use the pci_device->revision member.
This exposes some issues where drivers where reading a word or a dword
for the revision number, and adding useless error-handling around the
read. Some drivers even just read it for no purpose of all.
In devices where the revision ID is being copied over and used in what
appears to be the equivalent of hotpath, I have left the copy code
and the cached copy as not to influence the driver's performance.
Compile tested with make all{yes,mod}config on x86_64 and i386.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
