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16 years agotask IO accounting: provide distinct tgid/tid I/O statistics
Andrea Righi [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:49 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
task IO accounting: provide distinct tgid/tid I/O statistics

Report per-thread I/O statistics in /proc/pid/task/tid/io and aggregate
parent I/O statistics in /proc/pid/io.  This approach follows the same
model used to account per-process and per-thread CPU times.

As a practial application, this allows for example to quickly find the top
I/O consumer when a process spawns many child threads that perform the
actual I/O work, because the aggregated I/O statistics can always be found
in /proc/pid/io.

[ Oleg Nesterov points out that we should check that the task is still
  alive before we iterate over the threads, but also says that we can do
  that fixup on top of this later.  - Linus ]

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Heaton <matt@hostmonster.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by-with-comments: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agobsdacct: fix and add comments around acct_process()
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:49 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: fix and add comments around acct_process()

Fix the one describing what this function is and add one more - about
locking absence around pid namespaces loop.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agobsdacct: account dying tasks in all relevant namespaces
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:48 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: account dying tasks in all relevant namespaces

This just makes the acct_proces walk the pid namespaces from current up to
the top and account a task in each with the accounting turned on.

ns->parent access if safe lockless, since current it still alive and holds
its namespace, which in turn holds its parent.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: turn acct off for all pidns-s on umount time
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:47 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: turn acct off for all pidns-s on umount time

All the bsd_acct_strcts with opened accounting are linked into a global
list.  So, the acct_auto_close(_mnt) walks one and drops the accounting
for each.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: switch from global bsd_acct_struct instance to per-pidns one
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:47 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: switch from global bsd_acct_struct instance to per-pidns one

Allocate the structure on the first call to sys_acct().  After this each
namespace, that ordered the accounting, will live with this structure till
its own death.

Two notes
- routines, that close the accounting on fs umount time use
  the init_pid_ns's acct by now;
- accounting routine accounts to dying task's namespace
  (also by now).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: make internal code work with passed bsd_acct_struct, not global
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:46 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: make internal code work with passed bsd_acct_struct, not global

This adds the appropriate pointer to all the internal (i.e.  static)
functions that work with global acct instance.  API calls pass a global
instance to them (while we still have such).

Mostly this is a s/acct_globals./acct->/ over the file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: turn the acct_lock from on-the-struct to global
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:45 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: turn the acct_lock from on-the-struct to global

Don't use per-bsd-acct-struct lock, but work with a global one.

This lock is taken for short periods, so it doesn't seem it'll become a
bottleneck, but it will allow us to easily avoid many locking difficulties
in the future.

So this is a mostly s/acct_globals.lock/acct_lock/ over the file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: make check timer accept a bsd_acct_struct argument
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:44 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: make check timer accept a bsd_acct_struct argument

We're going to have many bsd_acct_struct instances, not just one, so the
timer (currently working with a global one) has to know which one to work
with.

Use a handy setup_timer macro for it (thanks to Oleg for one).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: "truthify" a comment near acct_process
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:44 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: "truthify" a comment near acct_process

The acct_process does not accept any arguments actually.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agopidns: add the struct bsd_acct_struct pointer on pid_namespace struct
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:43 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pidns: add the struct bsd_acct_struct pointer on pid_namespace struct

All the bsdacct-related info will be stored in the area, pointer by this
one.

It will be NULL automatically for all new namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agopidns: use kzalloc when allocating new pid_namespace struct
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:42 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pidns: use kzalloc when allocating new pid_namespace struct

It makes many fields initialization implicit helping in auto-setting
#ifdef-ed fields (bsd-acct related pointer will be such).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agobsdacct: rename acct_gbls to bsd_acct_struct
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:42 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
bsdacct: rename acct_gbls to bsd_acct_struct

After I fixed access to task->tgid in kernel/acct.c, Oleg pointed out some
bad side effects with this accounting vs pid namespaces interaction.  I.e.
 when some task in pid namespace sets this accounting up, this blocks all
the others from doing the same.  Restricting this to init namespace only
could help, but didn't look a graceful solution.

So here is the approach to make this accounting work with pid namespaces
properly.

The idea is simple - when a task dies it accounts itself in each namespace
it is visible from and which set the accounting up.

For example here are the commands run and the output of lastcomm from init
and sub namespaces:

init_ns# accton pacct
 sub_ns# accton pacct (this is a different file - sub ns is run in
                       a chroot-ed environment)
init_ns# cat /dev/null
 sub_ns# ls /dev/null
init_ns# accton
 sub_ns# accton

 sub_ns#  lastcomm -f pacct
ls                      0        [136,0]    0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30
accton                  0        [136,0]    0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30

init_ns# lastcomm -f pacct
accton                  root     pts/0      0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub
cat                     root     pts/1      0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30
ls                      root     pts/0      0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub
accton                  root     pts/1      0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30

That was the summary, the details are in patches.

This patch:

It will be visible in pid_namespace.h file, so fix its name to look better
outside the acct.c file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
16 years agoaccounting: account for user time when updating memory integrals
Jonathan Lim [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:40 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
accounting: account for user time when updating memory integrals

Adapt acct_update_integrals() to include user time when calculating the time
difference.  The units of acct_rss_mem1 and acct_vm_mem1 are also changed from
pages-jiffies to pages-usecs to avoid calling jiffies_to_usecs() in
xacct_add_tsk() which might overflow.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.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>
16 years agounexport uts_sem
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:40 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
unexport uts_sem

With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
uts_sem became unused.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomarkers: fix sparse integer as NULL pointer warning
Harvey Harrison [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:39 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
markers: fix sparse integer as NULL pointer warning

kernel/trace/trace_sysprof.c:164:20: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomarkers: use rcu_barrier_sched() and call_rcu_sched()
Mathieu Desnoyers [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:38 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
markers: use rcu_barrier_sched() and call_rcu_sched()

rcu_barrier_sched() and call_rcu_sched() were introduced in 2.6.26 for the
Markers.  Change the marker code to use them.

It can be seen as a fix since the marker code was using an ugly,
temporary, #ifdef hack to work around CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.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>
16 years agoaoe: convert emsgs_sema into a completion
Matthias Kaehlcke [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:38 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
aoe: convert emsgs_sema into a completion

ATA over Ethernet: The semaphore emsgs_sema is used for signalling an
event, convert it in a completion.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agopidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:37 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time

It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated
and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after
the last caller's death.

Anyway - better late, then never.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
16 years agopidns: remove now unused find_pid function.
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:36 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pidns: remove now unused find_pid function.

This one had the only users so far - the kill_proc, which is removed, so
drop this (invalid in namespaced world) call too.

And of course - erase all references on it from comments.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
16 years agopidns: remove now unused kill_proc function
Pavel Emelyanov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:35 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pidns: remove now unused kill_proc function

This function operated on a pid_t to kill a task, which is no longer valid
in a containerized system.

It has finally lost all its users and we can safely remove it from the
tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
16 years agoshrink struct pid by removing padding on 64 bit builds
Richard Kennedy [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:35 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
shrink struct pid by removing padding on 64 bit builds

When struct pid is built on a 64 bit platform gcc has to insert padding to
maintain the correct alignment, by simply reordering its members the
memory usage shrinks from 88 bytes to 80.

I've successfully run with this patch on my desktop AMD64 machine.

There are no significant kernel size changes to a default config.X86_64
on the latest git v2.6.26-rc1

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5404811  976760  734280 7115851  6c944b vmlinux.pid-patch

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoproper pid{hash,map}_init() prototypes
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:34 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proper pid{hash,map}_init() prototypes

This patch adds proper prototypes for pid{hash,map}_init() in
include/linux/pid_namespace.h

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>
16 years agosysctl: allow override of /proc/sys/net with CAP_NET_ADMIN
Stephen Hemminger [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:32 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
sysctl: allow override of /proc/sys/net with CAP_NET_ADMIN

Extend the permission check for networking sysctl's to allow modification
when current process has CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and is not root.  This
version uses the until now unused permissions hook to override the mode
value for /proc/sys/net if accessed by a user with capabilities.

Found while working with Quagga.  It is impossible to turn forwarding
on/off through the command interface because Quagga uses secure coding
practice of dropping privledges during initialization and only raising via
capabilities when necessary.  Since the dameon has reset real/effective
uid after initialization, all attempts to access /proc/sys/net variables
will fail.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agosysctl: check for bogus modes
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:31 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
sysctl: check for bogus modes

Catch, e. g., 644/0644 typo.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@parallels.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoproc: misplaced export of find_get_pid
David Sterba [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:31 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proc: misplaced export of find_get_pid

Move EXPORT_SYMBOL right after the func

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoproc: move Kconfig to fs/proc/Kconfig
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:30 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proc: move Kconfig to fs/proc/Kconfig

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>
16 years agoproc: remove pathetic remount code
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:30 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proc: remove pathetic remount code

MS_RMT_MASK will unmask changes in do_remount_sb() anyway.

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>
16 years agoproc: always do ->release
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:29 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proc: always do ->release

Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:

open
rmmod
remove_proc_entry
close

->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared.  In simple
cases it's small memory leak.

For every ->open, ->release has to be done.  List of openers is introduced
which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded.

Discussions with Al long ago (sigh).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agomove proc_kmsg_operations to fs/proc/internal.h
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:28 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
move proc_kmsg_operations to fs/proc/internal.h

This patch moves the extern of struct proc_kmsg_operations to
fs/proc/internal.h and adds an #include "internal.h" to fs/proc/kmsg.c
so that the latter sees the former.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agounexport proc_clear_tty
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:28 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
unexport proc_clear_tty

With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
proc_clear_tty became unused.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
16 years agodell_rbu: use memory_read_from_buffer()
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:27 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
dell_rbu: use memory_read_from_buffer()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofs/partitions/efi: convert to pr_debug
Thomas Gleixner [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:26 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
fs/partitions/efi: convert to pr_debug

convert the local Dprintk() compile time debug printk wrappers to the
generic pr_debug() wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoblock/ioctl.c and fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition()
Abdel Benamrouche [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:26 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
block/ioctl.c and fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition()

Now that add_partition() has been aught to propagate errors, let's check them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofs/partition/check.c: fix return value warning
Abdel Benamrouche [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:25 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
fs/partition/check.c: fix return value warning

fs/partitions/check.c:381: warning: ignoring return value of ___device_add___,
  declared with attribute warn_unused_result

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: multiple-return-statements-per-function are evil]
Signed-off-by: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodcdbas: use memory_read_from_buffer()
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:24 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
dcdbas: use memory_read_from_buffer()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agofirmware: use memory_read_from_buffer()
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:23 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
firmware: use memory_read_from_buffer()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodrivers/misc/phantom: note PCI
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:23 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
drivers/misc/phantom: note PCI

Tell users that the driver is only for PCI devices to stop asking for
support of firewire and parallel devices.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoChar: mxser, various cleanups
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:22 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, various cleanups

- remove unused macro
- some whitespace cleanup
- useless debug prints removal

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agoChar: mxser, remove predefined isa support
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:22 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, remove predefined isa support

Remove a support of ISA addresses predefined at compile time.  It is
unused (filled by zeroes) and prolongs the code.  Don't initialize global
array and add `ioaddr' module param description.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agoChar: mxser, prints cleanup
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:21 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, prints cleanup

- use dev_* for printing in pci probe function
- move ISA p[rints directly into isa find function, do not postpone it.
  Remove macros bound to it then.
- prepend some prints by "mxser: " to know what it belongs to

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agoChar: mxser, update documentation
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:20 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, update documentation

Update Documentation/moxa-smartio to the later document from the mxser
package.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agoChar: mxser, globals cleanup
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:20 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, globals cleanup

- remove unused mxvar_diagflag
- move mxser_msr into the only user/function
- GMStatus, hmm, fix race-prone access to it. We need only one instance for
  real, not MXSER_PORTS. Move it to MOXA_GETMSTATUS ioctl.
- mxser_mon_ext, almost the same, but alloc it on heap, since it has more than
  2 kilos.
- fix indexing, `i' is not the index value, `i * MXSER_PORTS_PER_BOARD + j' is

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agoChar: mxser, ioctl cleanup
Jiri Slaby [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:19 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
Char: mxser, ioctl cleanup

- remove break ctl from ioctl handler, it's never reached, since
  tty_ops->break_ctl is defined (mxser break handling is done in software)
- mark MOXA_GET_MAJOR as deprecated
- fix TIOCGICOUNT (some retval non-checks of put_user). Use copy_to_user
  to whole structure instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
16 years agonwflash: use simple_read_from_buffer()
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:18 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
nwflash: use simple_read_from_buffer()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agodsp56k: BKL pushdown
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:17 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
dsp56k: BKL pushdown

Push the BKL down into the driver ioctl methods

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.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>
16 years agods1302: push down the BKL into the driver ioctl code
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:17 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ds1302: push down the BKL into the driver ioctl code

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoppdev: wrap ioctl handler in driver and push lock down
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:16 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ppdev: wrap ioctl handler in driver and push lock down

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.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>
16 years agoixj: push BKL into driver and wrap ioctls
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:16 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ixj: push BKL into driver and wrap ioctls

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agosx: push BKL down into the firmware ioctl handler
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:15 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
sx: push BKL down into the firmware ioctl handler

Also fix the capability checking for firmware load.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.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>
16 years agorio: push down the BKL into the firmware ioctl handler
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:14 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
rio: push down the BKL into the firmware ioctl handler

TTY side is already done.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.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>
16 years agomwave: ioctl BKL pushdown
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:14 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
mwave: ioctl BKL pushdown

Push the BKL down to the point it wraps the actual mwave method handlers

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoip2: push BKL down for the firmware interface
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:13 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ip2: push BKL down for the firmware interface

(The tty side is already done)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.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>
16 years agoefirtc: push down the BKL
Alan Cox [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:12 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
efirtc: push down the BKL

Push it down as far as the EFI method calls.  Someone who knows EFI can do
the other bits.  Also fix another wrong unknown ioctl return.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years ago#if 0 hpet_unregister()
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:11 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
#if 0 hpet_unregister()

This patch #if 0's the unused hpet_unregister().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoproper extern for mwave_s_mdd
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:11 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
proper extern for mwave_s_mdd

This patch adds a proper extern for mwave_s_mdd in
drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.h

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>
16 years agoelf: use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags
Edgar E. Iglesias [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:10 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
elf: use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags

ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct
arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps.  Use it for kcore dumps as well.
At the moment, this affects the CRIS and the H8300 arch.

Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar@axis.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agopty: remove unused UNIX98_PTY_COUNT options
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:09 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
pty: remove unused UNIX98_PTY_COUNT options

The h8300 and sparc options somehow survived when the code stopped using
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT.

Reviewed-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:08 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing

This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical
positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418.

This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount
of lowmem.  With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification
routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc
namespace creation/ removal.

When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e.  value written to the proc
file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it
registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file.  This is
the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick".

To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni.
This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing.

With this patch, the process is the following:
1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode"
   /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends
                           on lowmem)
   /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1"

2) echo <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
   . sets msg_ctlmni to <val>
   . de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added
     msgmni won't be recomputed anymore)
   . /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0"

3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing
     this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays
     blocked at its current value)

3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size
     and number of ipc namespaces
   . re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc: use simple_read_from_buffer()
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:07 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc: use simple_read_from_buffer()

Also this patch kills unneccesary trailing NULL character.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list locking
Manfred Spraul [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:06 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list locking

The attached patch:
- reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock:
  Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock.
  Now it's the other way around.
- converts the undo structure to rcu.

Benefits:
- With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures.
  The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later.
- The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that
  recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock,
  then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc/sem.c: convert sem_array.sem_pending to struct list_head
Manfred Spraul [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:06 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc/sem.c: convert sem_array.sem_pending to struct list_head

sem_array.sem_pending is a double linked list, the attached patch converts
it to struct list_head.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc/sem.c: remove unused entries from struct sem_queue
Manfred Spraul [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:05 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc/sem.c: remove unused entries from struct sem_queue

sem_queue.sma and sem_queue.id were never used, the attached patch removes
them.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc/sem.c: convert undo structures to struct list_head
Manfred Spraul [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:04 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc/sem.c: convert undo structures to struct list_head

The undo structures contain two linked lists, the attached patch replaces
them with generic struct list_head lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down()
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:03 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down()

Remove the ipc_lock_down() routines: they used to call idr_find() locklessly
(given that the ipc ids lock was already held), so they are not needed
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoipc: call idr_find() without locking in ipc_lock()
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:03 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
ipc: call idr_find() without locking in ipc_lock()

Call idr_find() locklessly from ipc_lock(), since the idr tree is now RCU
protected.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: make idr_remove rcu-safe
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:02 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
idr: make idr_remove rcu-safe

Introduce the free_layer() routine: it is the one that actually frees memory
after a grace period has elapsed.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: make idr_find rcu-safe
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:01 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
idr: make idr_find rcu-safe

Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: make idr_get_new* rcu-safe
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:00 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
idr: make idr_get_new* rcu-safe

Make the idr_get_new* routines rcu-safe.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: error checking factorization
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:59 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
idr: error checking factorization

Do some code factorization in the return code analysis.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: fix a printk call
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:59 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
idr: fix a printk call

Fix the incomplete printk call.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: rename some of the idr APIs internal routines
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:58 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
idr: rename some of the idr APIs internal routines

This is a trivial patch that renames:

   . alloc_layer to get_from_free_list since it idr_pre_get that actually
     allocates memory.
   . free_layer to move_to_free_list since memory is not actually freed there.

This makes things more clear for the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoidr: change the idr structure
Nadia Derbey [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:57 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
idr: change the idr structure

After scalability problems have been detected when using the sysV ipcs, I have
proposed to use an RCU based implementation of the IDR api instead (see
threads http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/11/212 and
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/295).

This resulted in many people asking to convert the idr API and make it rcu
safe (because most of the code was duplicated and thus unmaintanable and
unreviewable).

So here is a first attempt.

The important change wrt to the idr API itself is during idr removes: idr
layers are freed after a grace period, instead of being moved to the free
list.

The important change wrt to ipcs, is that idr_find() can now be called
locklessly inside a rcu read critical section.

Here are the results I've got for the pmsg test sent by Manfred:

   2.6.25-rc3-mm1   2.6.25-rc3-mm1+   2.6.25-mm1   Patched 2.6.25-mm1
1         1168441           1064021       876000               947488
2         1094264            921059      1549592              1730685
3         2082520           1738165      1694370              2324880
4         2079929           1695521       404553              2400408
5         2898758            406566       391283              3246580
6         2921417            261275       263249              3752148
7         3308761            126056       191742              4243142
8         3329456            100129       141722              4275780

1st column: stock 2.6.25-rc3-mm1
2nd column: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 + ipc patches (store ipcs into idrs)
3nd column: stock 2.6.25-mm1
4th column: 2.6.25-mm1 + this pacth series.

This patch:

Add an rcu_head to the idr_layer structure in order to free it after a grace
period.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocalgary iommu: use the first kernels TCE tables in kdump
Chandru [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:55 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
calgary iommu: use the first kernels TCE tables in kdump

kdump kernel fails to boot with calgary iommu and aacraid driver on a x366
box.  The ongoing dma's of aacraid from the first kernel continue to exist
until the driver is loaded in the kdump kernel.  Calgary is initialized
prior to aacraid and creation of new tce tables causes wrong dma's to
occur.  Here we try to get the tce tables of the first kernel in kdump
kernel and use them.  While in the kdump kernel we do not allocate new tce
tables but instead read the base address register contents of calgary
iommu and use the tables that the registers point to.  With these changes
the kdump kernel and hence aacraid now boots normally.

Signed-off-by: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: do CPU_UP_CANCELED if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:54 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: do CPU_UP_CANCELED if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails

The bug was pointed out by Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>, and this
patch is based on his original patch.

workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_UP_PREPARE) expects that if it returns
NOTIFY_BAD, _cpu_up() will send CPU_UP_CANCELED then.

However, this is not true since

"cpu hotplug: cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE"
commit: a0d8cdb652d35af9319a9e0fb7134de2a276c636

The callback which has returned NOTIFY_BAD will not receive
CPU_UP_CANCELED.  Change the code to fulfil the CPU_UP_CANCELED logic if
CPU_UP_PREPARE fails.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:53 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on()

schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on() to avoid the code
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: queue_work() can use queue_work_on()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:53 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: queue_work() can use queue_work_on()

queue_work() can use queue_work_on() to avoid the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:52 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work()

Add lockdep annotations to flush_work() and update the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoS390 topology: don't use kthread() for arch_reinit_sched_domains()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:51 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
S390 topology: don't use kthread() for arch_reinit_sched_domains()

Now that it is safe to use get_online_cpus() we can revert

[S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock.
commit: fd781fa25c9e9c6fd1599df060b05e7c4ad724e5

and call arch_reinit_sched_domains() directly from topology_work_fn().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.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>
16 years agoworkqueues: make get_online_cpus() useable for work->func()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:50 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: make get_online_cpus() useable for work->func()

workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_DEAD) flushes cwq->thread under
cpu_maps_update_begin().  This means that the multithreaded workqueues
can't use get_online_cpus() due to the possible deadlock, very bad and
very old problem.

Introduce the new state, CPU_POST_DEAD, which is called after
cpu_hotplug_done() but before cpu_maps_update_done().

Change workqueue_cpu_callback() to use CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEAD.
This means that create/destroy functions can't rely on get_online_cpus()
any longer and should take cpu_add_remove_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.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>
16 years agoworkqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu: use flush_work()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:49 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu: use flush_work()

Change schedule_on_each_cpu() to use flush_work() instead of
flush_workqueue(), this way we don't wait for other work_struct's which
can be queued meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: implement flush_work()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:49 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: implement flush_work()

Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(),
but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not
an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example.

Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the
specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last
queue_work() which is visible to the caller.

For example, this code

queue_work(wq, work);
/* WINDOW */
queue_work(wq, work);

flush_work(work);

doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is

- wq starts the execution of work->func()

- the caller migrates to another CPU

now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and
at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may
return before the first work->func() completes.

It is trivial to add another helper

int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work)
{
return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work);
}

which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus
it much slower than flush_work().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoworkqueues: insert_work: use "list_head *" instead of "int tail"
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:47 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
workqueues: insert_work: use "list_head *" instead of "int tail"

insert_work() inserts the new work_struct before or after cwq->worklist,
depending on the "int tail" parameter. Change it to accept "list_head *"
instead, this shrinks .text a bit and allows us to insert the barrier
after specific work_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: format_corename: fix the "core_uses_pid" logic
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:47 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: format_corename: fix the "core_uses_pid" logic

I don't understand why the multi-thread coredump implies the core_uses_pid
behaviour, but we shouldn't use mm->mm_users for that.  This counter can
be incremented by get_task_mm().  Use the valued returned by
coredump_wait() instead.

Also, remove the "const char *pattern" argument, format_corename() can use
core_pattern directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: kill mm->core_done
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:46 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: kill mm->core_done

Now that we have core_state->dumper list we can use it to wake up the
sub-threads waiting for the coredump completion.

This uglifies the code and .text grows by 47 bytes, but otoh mm_struct
lessens by sizeof(struct completion).  Also, with this change we can
decouple exit_mm() from the coredumping code.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: elf_fdpic_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:45 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: elf_fdpic_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list

Kill the nasty rcu_read_lock() + do_each_thread() loop, use the list
encoded in mm->core_state instead, s/GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_KERNEL/.

This patch allows futher cleanups in binfmt_elf_fdpic.c.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: elf_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:45 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: elf_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list

Kill the nasty rcu_read_lock() + do_each_thread() loop, use the list
encoded in mm->core_state instead, s/GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_KERNEL/.

This patch allows futher cleanups in binfmt_elf.c, in particular we can
kill the parallel info->threads list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:44 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time

binfmt->core_dump() has to iterate over the all threads in system in order
to find the coredumping threads and construct the list using the
GFP_ATOMIC allocations.

With this patch each thread allocates the list node on exit_mm()'s stack and
adds itself to the list.

This allows us to do further changes:

- simplify ->core_dump()

- change exit_mm() to clear ->mm first, then wait for ->core_done.
  this makes the coredumping process visible to oom_kill

- kill mm->core_done

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: make mm->core_state visible to ->core_dump()
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:43 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: make mm->core_state visible to ->core_dump()

Move the "struct core_state core_state" from coredump_wait() to
do_coredump(), this makes mm->core_state visible to binfmt->core_dump().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agocoredump: turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:42 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t

Turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t and kill now unneeded
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm().

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: simplify core_state->nr_threads calculation
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:42 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: simplify core_state->nr_threads calculation

Change zap_process() to return int instead of incrementing
mm->core_state->nr_threads directly.  Change zap_threads() to set
mm->core_state only on success.

This patch restores the original size of .text, and more importantly now
->nr_threads is used in two places only.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: move mm->core_waiters into struct core_state
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:41 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: move mm->core_waiters into struct core_state

Move mm->core_waiters into "struct core_state" allocated on stack.  This
shrinks mm_struct a little bit and allows further changes.

This patch mostly does s/core_waiters/core_state.  The only essential
change is that coredump_wait() must clear mm->core_state before return.

The coredump_wait()'s path is uglified and .text grows by 30 bytes, this
is fixed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: turn mm->core_startup_done into the pointer to struct core_state
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:41 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: turn mm->core_startup_done into the pointer to struct core_state

mm->core_startup_done points to "struct completion startup_done" allocated
on the coredump_wait()'s stack.  Introduce the new structure, core_state,
which holds this "struct completion".  This way we can add more info
visible to the threads participating in coredump without enlarging
mm_struct.

No changes in affected .o files.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: elf_core_dump: skip kernel threads
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:40 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: elf_core_dump: skip kernel threads

linux_binfmt->core_dump() runs before the process does exit_aio(), this
means that we can hit the kernel thread which shares the same ->mm.
Afaics, nothing really bad can happen, but perhaps it makes sense to fix
this minor bug.

It is sad we have to iterate over all threads in system and use
GFP_ATOMIC.  Hopefully we can kill theses ugly do_each_thread()s, but this
needs some nontrivial changes in mm_struct and do_coredump.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agocoredump: zap_threads() must skip kernel threads
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:39 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
coredump: zap_threads() must skip kernel threads

The main loop in zap_threads() must skip kthreads which may use the same
mm.  Otherwise we "kill" this thread erroneously (for example, it can not
fork or exec after that), and the coredumping task stucks in the
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state forever because of the wrong ->core_waiters
count.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agokill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:38 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD

Kill PF_BORROWED_MM.  Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and
do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users.

No functional changes yet.  But this allows us to do further
fixes/cleanups.

oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the
kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm().  The problem with
PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races.  With this
patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper:

/* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */
struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
return NULL;
return tsk->mm;
}

Note also ecard_task().  It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel
thread without PF_BORROWED_MM.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agointroduce PF_KTHREAD flag
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:37 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
introduce PF_KTHREAD flag

Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads.  It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).

daemonize() was changed as well.  In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.

This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC.  But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agoptrace: simplify ptrace_stop()->sigkill_pending() path
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:37 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
ptrace: simplify ptrace_stop()->sigkill_pending() path

1. SIGKILL can't be blocked, remove this check from sigkill_pending().

2. When ptrace_stop() sees sigkill_pending() == T, it can just return.
   Kill "int killed" and simplify the code. This also is more correct,
   the tracer shouldn't see us in TASK_TRACED if we are not going to
   stop.

I strongly believe this code needs further changes.  We should do the "was
this task killed" check unconditionally, currently it depends on
arch_ptrace_stop_needed().  On the other hand, sigkill_pending() isn't
very clever.  If the task was killed tkill(SIGKILL), the signal can be
already dequeued if the caller is do_exit().

Signed-off-by: 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>
16 years agoptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:36 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
ptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL

ptrace_stop() has some complicated checks to prevent the scheduling in the
TASK_TRACED state with the pending SIGKILL, but these checks are racy, and
they depend on arch_ptrace_stop_needed().

This patch assumes that the traced task should die asap if it was killed by
SIGKILL, in that case schedule()->signal_pending_state() has no reason to
ignore the TASK_WAKEKILL part of TASK_TRACED, and we can kill this nasty
special case.

Note: do_exit()->ptrace_notify() is special, the killed task can already
dequeue SIGKILL at this point. Another indication that fatal_signal_pending()
is not exactly right.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agoinclude/asm/ptrace.h userspace headers cleanup
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:34 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
include/asm/ptrace.h userspace headers cleanup

This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h
userspace headers:

- include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove
  the superfluous listings in the Kbuild files of the following
  architectures:
  - cris
  - frv
  - powerpc
  - x86
- don't expose function prototypes and macros to userspace:
  - arm
  - blackfin
  - cris
  - mn10300
  - parisc
- remove #ifdef CONFIG_'s around #define's:
  - blackfin
  - m68knommu
- sh: AFAIK __SH5__ should work in both kernel and userspace,
      no need to leak CONFIG_SUPERH64 to userspace
- xtensa: cosmetical change to remove empty
            #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #else #endif
          from the userspace headers

Not changed by this patch is the fact that the following architectures
have a different struct pt_regs depending on CONFIG_ variables:
- h8300
- m68knommu
- mips

This does not work in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
16 years agokernel/signal.c: change vars pid and tgid types to pid_t
Gustavo Fernando Padovan [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:33 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
kernel/signal.c: change vars pid and tgid types to pid_t

Change the type of pid and tgid variables from int to the POSIX type
pid_t.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
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>