This module harvests more than just memory errors, it also harvests
various bus and dma errors that the Chipset detects. Previously, it would
report all such errors, which would cause output to be TOO loud.
This patches therefore adds a parameter which is used to turn off
NON-MEMORY error reports by default. Or the reporting can be enabled via
the parameter
Also did code style cleanup: less than 80 characters per line rule
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:12 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: core fix added newline to sysfs dimm labels
The channel DIMM label does not seem to be used much in the edac code.
However, where it is used (in the core code), it is assumed to not have a
newline embedded. This leaves the sysfs file newline free which looks
funny when cat'ing it. Here we just add the trailing newline to the sysfs
chX_dimm_label output...
[Doug Thompson note: the DIMM label is one of the primary uses of EDAC.
User space daemon scripts, edac-utils@sourceforge, populate the DIMM label
fields, via /sys/devices/system/edac attributes, with the silk screen
labels of the motherboard in use. dmidecode access BIOS tables, but BIOS
tables are well known to be incorrect and useless in these respects.
edac-utils will strip off any newlines before its use of the output, when
displaying DIMM slot silk screen labels.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:11 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: core fix static to dynamic kset
Static kobjects and ksets are not supported in Linux kernel. Convert the
mc_kset from static to dynamic. This patch depends on my previous patch
to remove the module parameter attributes from mc...
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:10 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: core fix redundant sysfs controls to parameters
/sys/devices/system/edac/mc has a few files which are duplicated in
/sys/module/edac_core/parameters. Now that all the functionality is
duplicated between these two locations, we remove the former kobject
attributes and update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:09 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: core fix workq timer
When updating the edac_mc_poll_msec module parameter from the sysfs
/sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_poll_msec file, we don't update
the workq timers. So that, if we move from a big poll time to a small
one, the small one won't take effect until the big one has timed out.
Here we provide a new module parameter set method to call out to the
update routine. This brings the /sys/module/edac_core/parameters
functionality up to that provided by the /sys/drivers/system/edac/mc sysfs
module parameter files so that we can remove them or at least link to the
/sys/module files...
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:08 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: core fix to use dynamic kobject
Static kobjects are not supported in linux kernel. Convert the
edac_pci_top_main_kobj from static to dynamic. This avoids the double
free of the edac_pci_top_main_kobj.name that we see on module reload of
the e752x edac driver (and probably others as well).
In addition Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> has pointed out that this code may be
cleaned up significantly. I will look at that as a follow-on patch, for
now, I just want the minimum fix to get this double-free oops bug
squashed...
Many thanks to Greg KH for his patience in showing me what the
Documentation/kobject.txt already said (oops)...
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:08 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: i5100: cleanup
Some code cleanliness issues found by Andrew Morton (thanks!) which should
not affect functionality, but which should help make the code more
maintainable.
In particular, we now:
* convert all #define's w/ a parameter to static inlines
* use 1UL rather than 1ULL when calculating an unsigned long
* use pci_disable_device
The resulting code is tested and seems to work fine...
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:05 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: i5100 fix missing bits
The error mask we use to trigger ECC notifications is missing many bits of
interest. We add these bits here so that all possible ECC errors can be
reported.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arthur Jones [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:49:04 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
edac: i5100 new intel chipset driver
Preliminary support for the Intel 5100 MCH. CE and UE errors are reported
along with the current DIMM label information and other memory parameters.
Reasons why this is preliminary:
1) This chip has 2 independent memory controllers which, for best
perforance, use interleaved accesses to the DDR2 memory. This
architecture does not map very well to the current edac data structures
which depend on symmetric channel access to the interleaved data.
Without core changes, the best I could do for now is to map both memory
controllers to different csrows (first all ranks of controller 0, then
all ranks of controller 1). Someone much more familiar with the edac
core than I will probably need to come up with a more general data
structure to handle the interleaving and de-interleaving of the two
memory controllers.
2) I have not yet tackled the de-interleaving of the rank/controller
address space into the physical address space of the CPU. There is
nothing fundamentally missing, it is just ending up to be a lot of
code, and I'd rather keep it separate for now, esp since it doesn't
work yet...
3) The code depends on a particular i5100 chip select to DIMM mainboard
chip select mapping. This mapping seems obvious to me in order to
support dual and single ranked memory, but it is not unique and DIMM
labels could be wrong on other mainboards. There is no way to query
this mapping that I know of.
4) The code requires that the i5100 is in 32GB mode. Only 4 ranks per
controller, 2 ranks per DIMM are supported. I do not have hardware
(nor do I expect to have hardware anytime soon) for the 48GB (6 ranks
per controller) mode.
5) The serial presence detect code should be broken out into a "real"
i2c driver so that decode-dimms.pl can work.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.
Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache. This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).
The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.
Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new helper function which sends a LOOKUP request with the supplied
name. This will be used by the next patch to send special LOOKUP requests
with "." and ".." as the name.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement export_operations, to allow fuse filesystems to be exported to
NFS. This feature has been in the out-of-tree fuse module, and is widely
used and tested.
It has not been originally merged into mainline, because doing the NFS
export in userspace was thought to be a cleaner and more efficient way of
doing it, than through the kernel.
While that is true, it would also have involved a lot of duplicated effort
at reimplementing NFS exporting (all the different versions of the
protocol). This effort was unfortunately not undertaken by anyone, so we
are left with doing it the easy but less efficient way.
If this feature goes in, the out-of-tree fuse module can go away,
which would have several advantages:
- not having to maintain two versions
- less confusion for users
- no bugs due to kernel API changes
Comment from hch:
- Use the same fh_type values as XFS, since we use the same fh encoding.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
locks: allow ->lock() to return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED
Allow filesystem's ->lock() method to call posix_lock_file() instead of
posix_lock_file_wait(), and return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED. This makes it
possible to implement a such a ->lock() function, that works with the lock
manager, which needs the call to be asynchronous.
Now the vfs_lock_file() helper can be used, so this is a cleanup as well.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
locks: add special return value for asynchronous locks
Use a special error value FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED to mean that a locking
operation returned asynchronously. This is returned by
posix_lock_file() for sleeping locks to mean that the lock has been
queued on the block list, and will be woken up when it might become
available and needs to be retried (either fl_lmops->fl_notify() is
called or fl_wait is woken up).
f_op->lock() to mean either the above, or that the filesystem will
call back with fl_lmops->fl_grant() when the result of the locking
operation is known. The filesystem can do this for sleeping as well
as non-sleeping locks.
This is to make sure, that return values of -EAGAIN and -EINPROGRESS by
filesystems are not mistaken to mean an asynchronous locking.
This also makes error handling in fs/locks.c and lockd/svclock.c slightly
cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix nlm_fopen() to return NLM_FAILED (or NLM_LCK_DENIED_NOLOCKS) instead
of NLM_LCK_DENIED. The latter means the lock request failed because of a
conflicting lock (i.e. a temporary error), which is wrong in this case.
Also fix the client to return ENOLCK instead of EAGAIN if a blocking lock
request returns with NLM_LOCK_DENIED.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sometimes, application responses become bad under heavy memory load.
Applications take a bit time to reclaim memory. The statistics, how long
memory reclaim takes, will be useful to measure memory usage.
This patch adds accounting memory reclaim to per-task-delay-accounting for
accounting the time of do_try_to_free_pages().
<i.e>
- When System is under low memory load,
memory reclaim may not occur.
$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real 0m13.388s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m5.304s
$ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
CPU count real total virtual total delay total
428 5528345500547711608062749891
IO count delay total
338 8078977189
SWAP count delay total
0 0
RECLAIM count delay total
0 0
- When system is under heavy memory load
memory reclaim may occur.
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 24 0 0 100 0
0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 4 24 0 0 100 0
0 0 7159032 49848 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 22 0 0 100 0
In this case, one process uses more 8G memory
by execution of malloc() and memset().
$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real 1m38.563s <- increased by 85 sec
user 0m0.140s
sys 0m7.060s
David Howells [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:50 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
tsacct: fix bacct_add_tsk()'s use of do_div()
Fix bacct_add_tsk()'s use of do_div() on an s64 by making ac_etime a u64
instead and dividing that.
Possibly this should be guarded lest the interval calculation turn up
negative, but the possible negativity of the result of the division is
cast away, and it shouldn't end up negative anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
text data bss dec hex filename 5404828 976760 734280 7115868 6c945c vmlinux 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
- 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>
- 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>
- 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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.
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.
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>
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>
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:
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