22 May, 2012
3 commits
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Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet. I wish I'd had
something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
horror..."Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
score: Use common threadinfo allocator
sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
fork: Remove the weak insanity
sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
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Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with
more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
the other commits for the convenience of the tester).2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that
survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches
of that set remain.4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new
implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the
execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier
implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to
LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
subsequent updates posted to LKML."* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive
rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration
rcu: Update RCU maintainership
rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate
rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation
rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU
rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu()
rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine
rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods
rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality
rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier()
rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm
rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments
rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period
rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()
rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu()
rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()
timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment
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During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up,
we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious)
configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in
scheduling events.We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the
code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the
scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the
initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody.And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason:
it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow
blocking allocations much too early.So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()'
(which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption
disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'. kernel_init() is run
in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as
opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what
will be the first idle thread.So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must
be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle
thread into the init thread.Reported-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 May, 2012
1 commit
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…/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:
1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature
(with more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
the other commits for the convenience of the tester).2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all
that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to
LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and
third patches of that set remain.4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new
implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs
the execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier
implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to
LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
subsequent updates posted to LKML.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
08 May, 2012
1 commit
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Reason: Pull in the separate branch which was created so arch/tile can
base further work on it.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
06 May, 2012
1 commit
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Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is
UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as
well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since
mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to
doing the proper mount:[ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
[ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18.Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries
when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail
and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying,
which has revealed the issue this patch fixes.This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when
we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS.This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be
'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR
major. This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through
the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root
("/dev/nfs").Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 May, 2012
2 commits
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Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and
let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASKSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.867948914@linutronix.de -
All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is
no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a
generic instance so all archs can be converted over.The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are
converted over.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Chen Liqin
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: David Howells
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley
Cc: Jesper Nilsson
Cc: Jonas Bonn
Cc: Mark Salter
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Richard Kuo
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de
25 Apr, 2012
3 commits
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Commit 026cee0086f had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from
the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment
variables. This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string
where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers
to the parsing subfunctions. Previously, unknown_bootoption() was
the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back
the '=' character. Now the ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last
one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the
envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer
seen as valid environment variables by init.Tested-by: Woody Suwalski
Acked-by: Pawel Moll
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf -
Commit #0209f649 (rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout) set an upper
limit of 16 on the leaf-level fanout for the rcu_node tree. This was
needed to reduce lock contention that was induced by the synchronization
of scheduling-clock interrupts, which was in turn needed to improve
energy efficiency for moderate-sized lightly loaded servers.However, reducing the leaf-level fanout means that there are more
leaf-level rcu_node structures in the tree, which in turn means that
RCU's grace-period initialization incurs more cache misses. This is
not a problem on moderate-sized servers with only a few tens of CPUs,
but becomes a major source of real-time latency spikes on systems with
many hundreds of CPUs. In addition, the workloads running on these large
systems tend to be CPU-bound, which eliminates the energy-efficiency
advantages of synchronizing scheduling-clock interrupts. Therefore,
these systems need maximal values for the rcu_node leaf-level fanout.This commit addresses this problem by introducing a new kernel parameter
named RCU_FANOUT_LEAF that directly controls the leaf-level fanout.
This parameter defaults to 16 to handle the common case of a moderate
sized lightly loaded servers, but may be set higher on larger systems.Reported-by: Mike Galbraith
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
The old text confused real-time applications with real-time threads, so
that you pretty much needed to understand how this kernel configuration
parameter worked to understand the help text. This commit therefore
attempts to make the help text human-readable.Reported-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
02 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
"(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98ac2 ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
01 Apr, 2012
2 commits
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... implemented that way since the next commit will leave it
almost alone in ext2_fs.h - most of the file (including
struct ext2_super_block) is going to move to fs/ext2/ext2.h.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
29 Mar, 2012
3 commits
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This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
misc comments.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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…m/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
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Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h so that there's only one
and it's used by everything.Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
26 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
24 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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Printing the error code makes it easier to debug the cause of a mount
failure. For example I had the problem that the root file system could
not be mounted read-writeable because my SD card was write-protected.
Without an error code it looks like the SD card was not detected at all.Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Otherwise the 'Calibration skipped' message gets printed everytime a CPU
is hotplugged in, cluttering console for systems that frequently hotplug
CPUs.Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam
Cc: Phil Carmody
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Sameer Nanda
Cc: Peter De Schrijver
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window. It is going to be a
bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
maintain and that nobody really used anymore.Here are some of the highlights:
- Legacy iSeries is gone. Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
hopefully.- The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"... it's a rewrite of a
mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
new implementation hopefully being much more reliable. Thanks
Mahesh Salgaonkar.- The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big
spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
there. Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
not very nice and which Grant objects to. I will have a patch soon
that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
getting rid of the need for that pointer completely). Thanks Gavin
Shan.- I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the
way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
"edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed
a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
fault retry & fatal signals on page faults.- Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch
of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
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21 Mar, 2012
3 commits
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
typo fixes from Masanari.There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
Doc: Update numastat.txt
qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
compiler.h: Fix typo
security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
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It is no longer selectable, so remove the check for it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt -
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
sched: Update yield() docs
printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
sched: Rename load-balancing fields
sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
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15 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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s/countinuous/contiguous/, reword sentence.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
01 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Coccinelle based conversion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
22 Feb, 2012
1 commit
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The RCU_TRACE kernel parameter has always been intended for debugging,
not for production use. Formalize this by moving RCU_TRACE from
init/Kconfig to lib/Kconfig.debug.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
18 Jan, 2012
3 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
audit: comparison on interprocess fields
audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
audit: complex interfield comparison helper
audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
audit: do not call audit_getname on error
audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
audit: allow matching on obj_uid
audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
audit: reject entry,always rules
audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
...Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.
Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts. -
This patch provides functionality to audit system call events on the
ARM platform. The implementation was based off the structure of the
MIPS platform and information in this
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2009-October/000382.html)
mailing list thread. The required audit_syscall_exit and
audit_syscall_entry checks were added to ptrace using the standard
registers for system call values (r0 through r3). A thread information
flag was added for auditing (TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT) and a meta-flag was
added (_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK) to simplify modifications to the syscall
entry/exit. Now, if either the TRACE flag is set or the AUDIT flag is
set, the syscall_trace function will be executed. The prober changes
were made to Kconfig to allow CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL to be enabled.Due to platform availability limitations, this patch was only tested
on the Android platform running the modified "android-goldfish-2.6.29"
kernel. A test compile was performed using Code Sourcery's
cross-compilation toolset and the current linux-3.0 stable kernel. The
changes compile without error. I'm hoping, due to the simple modifications,
the patch is "obviously correct".Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Husted
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris -
At the moment we allow tasks to set their loginuid if they have
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL. In reality we want tasks to set the loginuid when they
log in and it be impossible to ever reset. We had to make it mutable even
after it was once set (with the CAP) because on update and admin might have
to restart sshd. Now sshd would get his loginuid and the next user which
logged in using ssh would not be able to set his loginuid.Systemd has changed how userspace works and allowed us to make the kernel
work the way it should. With systemd users (even admins) are not supposed
to restart services directly. The system will restart the service for
them. Thus since systemd is going to loginuid==-1, sshd would get -1, and
sshd would be allowed to set a new loginuid without special permissions.If an admin in this system were to manually start an sshd he is inserting
himself into the system chain of trust and thus, logically, it's his
loginuid that should be used! Since we have old systems I make this a
Kconfig option.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
15 Jan, 2012
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Autogenerated GPG tag for Rusty D1ADB8F1: 15EE 8D6C AB0E 7F0C F999 BFCB D920 0E6C D1AD B8F1
* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool.
intelfbdrv.c: bailearly is an int module_param
paride/pcd: fix bool verbose module parameter.
module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)
module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch)
module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
kernel/async: remove redundant declaration.
printk: fix unnecessary module_param_name.
lirc_parallel: fix module parameter description.
module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.
module_param: check type correctness for module_param_array
modpost: use linker section to generate table.
modpost: use a table rather than a giant if/else statement.
modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize
kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
module: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
module: struct module_ref should contains long fields
module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables
module: Add comments describing how the "strmap" logic worksFix up conflicts in scripts/mod/file2alias.c due to the new linker-
generated table approach to adding __mod_*_device_table entries. The
ARM sa11x0 mcp bus needed to be converted to that too.
13 Jan, 2012
2 commits
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For checkpoint/restore we need auxilary features being compiled into the
kernel, such as additional prctl codes, /proc//map_files and etc...
but same time these features are not mandatory for a regular kernel so
CHECKPOINT_RESTORE config symbol should bring a way to disable them all at
once if one wish to get rid of additional functionality.Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Andrew Vagin
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
12 Jan, 2012
3 commits
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* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-break
sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
sched: Remove empty #ifdefs -
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel config: Fix the APB_TIMER selection
x86/mrst: Add additional debug prints for pb_keys
x86/intel config: Revamp configuration to allow for Moorestown and Medfield
x86/intel/scu/ipc: Match the changes in the x86 configuration
x86/apb: Fix configuration constraints
x86: Fix INTEL_MID silly
x86/Kconfig: Cyclone-timer depends on x86-summit
x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devices
x86/sfi: Kill the IRQ as id hack -
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
x86: Fix mmap random address range
x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
11 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
10 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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The dependency bug was pointed out by this build warning:
warning: (SCHED_AUTOGROUP) selects CGROUP_SCHED which has unmet direct dependencies (CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL)
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Fabio Estevam
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326192383-5113-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
vfs: count unlinked inodes
vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
vfs: trim includes a bit
switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
vfs: move mnt_devname
vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
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07 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro