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Maxim Uvarov
b663a79c19 taskstats: add context-switch counters
Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:

	* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
	* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)

Statistics information is available from:
	1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
	2. /proc/PID/status (task only).

This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
aa0ac36518 Remove capability.h from mm.h
I forgot to remove capability.h from mm.h while removing sched.h!  This
patch remedies that, because the only inline function which was using
CAP_something was made out of line.

Cross-compile tested without regressions on:

	all powerpc defconfigs
	all mips defconfigs
	all m68k defconfigs
	all arm defconfigs
	all ia64 defconfigs

	alpha alpha-allnoconfig alpha-defconfig alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-allnoconfig i386-defconfig i386-up
	ia64 ia64-allnoconfig ia64-defconfig ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-allnoconfig parisc-defconfig parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-allnoconfig s390-defconfig s390-up
	sparc sparc-allnoconfig sparc-defconfig sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-allnoconfig sparc64-defconfig sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-allnoconfig x86_64-defconfig x86_64-up

as well as my two usual configs.

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>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Venki Pallipadi
c5c061b8f9 Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_stats
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers.  This will
let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in
/proc/timer_stats.

Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below.
  10D,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
   10,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)

Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e84845c4bf add printk.time option, deprecate 'time'
Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time.  Previously it
could be enabled only, but not disabled.

Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is.  Make its
logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time").

Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value".

Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be
changed at run-time by modifying
  /sys/module/printk/parameters/time
to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it.

Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also
be set at boot-time by using
  linux printk.time=<bool>

If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated
and will be removed.

Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt.

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>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Andi Kleen
78c1b06574 Remove clockevents_{release,request}_device
Not called by anything in tree.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Paul Menage
c2aef333c9 Reduce cpuset.c write_lock_irq() to read_lock()
cpuset.c:update_nodemask() uses a write_lock_irq() on tasklist_lock to
block concurrent forks; a read_lock() suffices and is less intrusive.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage<menage@google.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>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
45807a1df9 vdso: print fatal signals
Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.

This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console.  This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.

Defaults to off.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
708f4b5223 Make /proc/modules use seq_list_xxx helpers
Here there is not need even in .show callback altering.  The original code
passes list_head in *v.

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>
2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00
Satoru Takeuchi
1c6b4aa945 cpu hotplug: fix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty realtime process
Fix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty real time process.

Assuming the following case:

 - Try to hot remove CPU2 from CPU1.
 - There is a real time process on CPU2, and that process doesn't sleep at all.
 - That rt process and ksoftirqd/2 is migrated to the CPU0

Then ksoftirqd/2 can't stop becasue that rt process runs everlastingly on
CPU0, and CPU1 waiting the ksoftirqd/2's termination hangs up.  To fix this
problem, set the priority of ksoftirqd/2 to max one before kthread_stop().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Satoru Takeuchi
85653af7d4 Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process
stop_machine_run() does its work on "kstopmachine" thread having max
priority.  However that thread get such priority after woken up.
Therefore, in the following case ...

  - "kstopmachine" try to run on CPU1

  - There is a real time process which doesn't relinquish CPU time
    voluntary on CPU1

...  "kstopmachine" can't start to run and the CPU on which
    stop_machine_run() is runing hangs up.  To fix this problem, call
    sched_setscheduler() before waking up that thread.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Tomas Janousek
d62141414a Use boot based time for uptime in /proc
Commit 411187fb05 caused uptime not to increase
during suspend.  This may cause confusion so I restore the old behaviour by
using the boot based time instead of monotonic for uptime.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Tomas Janousek
924b42d5a2 Use boot based time for process start time and boot time in /proc
Commit 411187fb05 caused boot time to move and
process start times to become invalid after suspend.  Using boot based time
for those restores the old behaviour and fixes the issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: little cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Tomas Janousek
7c3f1a5732 Introduce boot based time
The commits

  411187fb05 (GTOD: persistent clock support)
  c1d370e167 (i386: use GTOD persistent clock
    support)

changed the monotonic time so that it no longer jumps after resume, but it's
not possible to use it for boot time and process start time calculations then.
 Also, the uptime no longer increases during suspend.

I add a variable to track the wall_to_monotonic changes, a function to get the
real boot time and a function to get the boot based time from the monotonic
one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove exports, add comment]
Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Sripathi Kodi
6175ecfed3 Use write_trylock_irqsave in ptrace_attach
This patch makes ptrace_attach use write_trylock_irqsave().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded initialisation]
Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:40 -07:00
Jeff Dike
e18eecb8b3 Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE.

This also adds UML support.

Tested on UML and i386.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, speedups, tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:38 -07:00
Jan Beulich
98011f569e mm: fix improper .init-type section references
.. which modpost started warning about.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
f0c0b2b808 change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logic
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6.

This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable.
Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based.

[Default Order]
The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically.

[Node-based Order]
This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones
(ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist.
current 2.6.21 kernel uses this.

Pros.
 * A user can expect local memory as much as possible.
Cons.
 * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL.

Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL
because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

[Zone-based order]
This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone
never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist.

Pros.
 * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted.
Cons.
 * memory locality may not be best.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd.

command:
%echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order.

command:
%echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order.

Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
18a8bd949d serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h.  the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage.  the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time.  need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.

Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier.  Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.

new command line will be:
	console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
	earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8

it will print in very early stage:
	Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
	console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
	console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]

Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
d37bf60de0 console: console handover to preferred console
for earlyprintk=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8

the handover will happen from earlyser0 to tty0.  but what we want is to
hand over to ttyS0.

Later with serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250.patch,

	console=tty0 console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8

will handover to ttyS0 instead of tty0.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:34 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
eaa944afb2 console: more buf for index parsing
Change name to buf according to the usage as name + index

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:34 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
4fd885170b CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table
Roman Zippel noticed another inconsistency of the wmult table.

wmult[16] has a missing digit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 16:45:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
12a2296054 Merge branch 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  splice: fix offset mangling with direct splicing (sendfile)
  security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmsplice
  relay: fixup kerneldoc comment
  relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()
2007-07-13 10:51:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
aba2da66cf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  [PATCH] sched: small topology.h cleanup
  [PATCH] sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output
  [PATCH] sched: remove stale version info from kernel/sched_debug.c
  [PATCH] sched: allow larger granularity
  [PATCH] sched: fix prio_to_wmult[] for nice 1

[ I re-did the commits to get rid of some bogus merge commit that
  Ingo had. - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 10:13:37 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
4bd77321a8 [PATCH] sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output
fix show_task()/show_tasks() output:

- there's no sibling info anymore

- the fields were not aligned properly with the description

- get rid of the lazy-TLB output: it's been quite some time since
  we last had a bug there, and when we had a bug it wasnt helped a
  bit by this debug output.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 10:11:17 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
45f384a64f [PATCH] sched: remove stale version info from kernel/sched_debug.c
kernel/sched_debug.c referred to CFS -v20, but there's no CFS versioning
needed within the upstream kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 10:10:41 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a5968df873 [PATCH] sched: allow larger granularity
Allow granularity up to 100 msecs, instead of 10 msecs.
(needed on larger boxes)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 10:10:08 -07:00
Mike Galbraith
e127031f4f [PATCH] sched: fix prio_to_wmult[] for nice 1
There's a typo in the values in prio_to_wmult[] for nice level 1.  While
it did not cause bad CPU distribution, but caused more rescheduling
between nice-0 and nice-1 tasks than necessary.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 10:09:02 -07:00
Tom Zanussi
d3f35d98b3 relay: fixup kerneldoc comment
Change comment from kerneldoc to normal.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-13 14:14:28 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
24da24de2e relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()
The current code that sets the read position in subbuf_splice_actor may
give erroneous results if the buffer size isn't a power of 2.  This
patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-13 14:14:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bb50cbbd4b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
  security: unexport mmap_min_addr
  SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel
  security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
  SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc
  SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks
  selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy()
  selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery
  selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter.
  selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage.
  selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
2007-07-12 13:46:48 -07:00
Eric Paris
ed03218951 security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting
to mmap to low area of the address space.  The amount of space protected is
indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to
0, preserving existing behavior.

This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect."  Policy already
contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being
one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its
best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also
want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of
the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other
memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time
we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea)

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
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>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Jens Axboe
cac36bb06e pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer
in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the
name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh
Dickins a bit.

A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really
there, and that the contents are good.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1db60cf205 relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop
It cleans up the relay splice implementation a lot, and gets rid of
a lot of internal pipe knowledge that should not be in there.

Plus fixes for padding and partial first page (and lots more) from
Tom Zanussi.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d6b29d7cee splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use
the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of
pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header
file finally.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:14 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
ebf9909343 splice: relay support
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c31f2e8a42 sched: add CFS credits
add credits for recent major scheduler contributions:

  Con Kolivas, for pioneering the fair-scheduling approach
  Peter Williams, for smpnice
  Mike Galbraith, for interactivity tuning of CFS
  Srivatsa Vaddagiri, for group scheduling enhancements

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0fec171cdb sched: clean up sleep_on() APIs
clean up the sleep_on() APIs:

 - do not use fastcall
 - replace fragile macro magic with proper inline functions

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9761eea851 sched: style cleanups
4 small style cleanups to sched.c: checkpatch.pl is now happy about
the totality of sched.c [ignoring false positives] - yay! ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
23bdd703a5 sched: do not set softirqs to nice +19
do not set softirqs to nice +19. _If_ for whatever reason
we missed to process some high-prio softirq and woke up
ksoftirqd, we should give it a fair chance to actually
get some work done, even if the system is under load.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
43ae34cb4c sched: scheduler debugging, core
scheduler debugging core: implement /proc/sched_debug and
/proc/<PID>/sched files for scheduler debugging.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
77e54a1f88 sched: add CFS debug sysctls
add CFS debug sysctls: only tweakable if SCHED_DEBUG is enabled.
This allows for faster debugging of scheduler problems.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b2cfba19f6 sched: remove unused rq types from sched.c
remove unused rq types from sched.c, now that we switched
over to CFS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
634fa8c97c sched: remove interactivity types
remove now unused interactivity-heuristics related defined and
types of the old scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dff06c157b sched: clean up include files in sched.c
clean up include files in sched.c, they were still old-style <asm/>.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Balbir Singh
172ba844a8 sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats
update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1b9f19c212 sched: turn on the use of unstable events
make use of sched-clock-unstable events.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bb29ab2686 sched: x86, track TSC-unstable events
track TSC-unstable events and propagate it to the scheduler code.
Also allow sched_clock() to be used when the TSC is unstable,
the rq_clock() wrapper creates a reliable clock out of it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dd41f596cd sched: cfs core code
apply the CFS core code.

this change switches over the scheduler core to CFS's modular
design and makes use of kernel/sched_fair/rt/idletask.c to implement
Linux's scheduling policies.

thanks to Andrew Morton and Thomas Gleixner for lots of detailed review
feedback and for fixlets.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-07-09 18:51:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f3479f10c5 sched: remove the sleep-bonus interactivity code
remove the sleep-bonus interactivity code from the core scheduler.

scheduling policy is implemented in the policy modules, and CFS does
not need such type of heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:59 +02:00