05 Apr, 2012

1 commit

  • Commit bfdc0b4 adds code to restrict access to dmesg_restrict,
    however, it incorrectly alters kptr_restrict rather than
    dmesg_restrict.

    The original patch from Richard Weinberger
    (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/14/362) alters dmesg_restrict as
    expected, and so the patch seems to have been misapplied.

    This adds the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check to both dmesg_restrict and
    kptr_restrict, since both are sensitive.

    Reported-by: Phillip Lougher
    Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Acked-by: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    Kees Cook
     

29 Mar, 2012

5 commits

  • Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
    - Some MM stragglers
    - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
    - Some IPI optimisations
    - kexec
    - kdump
    - IPMI
    - the radix-tree iterator work
    - various other misc bits.

    "That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
    those along when they've baked a little more."

    * emailed from Andrew Morton : (35 commits)
    backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
    crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
    mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
    mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
    mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
    selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
    selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
    radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
    radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
    radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
    fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
    nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
    pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
    sysctl: use bitmap library functions
    ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
    ipmi: simplify locking
    ipmi: fix message handling during panics
    ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
    ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
    ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Use bitmap_set() instead of using set_bit() for each bit. This conversion
    is valid because the bitmap is private in the function call and atomic
    bitops were unnecessary.

    This also includes minor change.
    - Use bitmap_copy() for shorter typing

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     
  • …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
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
    it. Performed with the following command:

    perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`

    Signed-off-by: David Howells

    David Howells
     
  • Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

    David Howells
     

24 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman:

    - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity.

    Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and
    are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing
    network devices.

    sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call
    and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Hopefully
    this means the code is now approachable.

    Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until
    something was found that was usable.

    - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation
    is fixed.

    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits)
    sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away
    sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
    sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.
    sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
    sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir
    sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
    sysctl: remove an unused variable
    sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users
    sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.
    sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.
    sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header
    sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy
    sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
    sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir
    sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
    sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set
    sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry
    sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.
    sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.
    sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

14 Feb, 2012

1 commit


25 Jan, 2012

3 commits

  • Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c
    into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c.

    Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation
    being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them.
    Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that
    it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for
    simpler maintenance.

    For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove
    their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • Simplify the code by treating the base sysctl table like any other
    sysctl table and register it with register_sysctl_table.

    To ensure this table is registered early enough to avoid problems
    call sysctl_init from proc_sys_init.

    Rename sysctl_net.c:sysctl_init() to net_sysctl_init() to avoid
    name conflicts now that kernel/sysctl.c:sysctl_init() is no longer
    static.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • - In sysctl.h move functions only available if CONFIG_SYSCL
    is defined inside of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL

    - Move the stub function definitions for !CONFIG_SYSCTL
    into sysctl.h and make them static inlines.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     

05 Dec, 2011

1 commit

  • Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack
    overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a
    high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may
    corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to
    reading them unless systems stop.

    This patch adds the sysctl parameter
    kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting
    the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user
    stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default.

    Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka
    Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
    Cc: Randy Dunlap
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Mitsuo Hayasaka
     

01 Nov, 2011

2 commits

  • Quoth Andrew:

    - Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
    butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

    - alpha

    - vfs bits

    - drivers/misc

    - a few core kerenl tweaks

    - printk() features

    - MAINTAINERS updates

    - backlight merge

    - leds merge

    - various lib/ updates

    - checkpatch updates

    * akpm: (127 commits)
    epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
    checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
    kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto and simple_strto as obsolete
    llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
    wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
    fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
    security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
    kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
    lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
    lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
    lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
    lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
    lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
    lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
    lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
    drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
    leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
    leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
    drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
    drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running
    kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files
    only. The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now
    creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files
    which are run on older kernels. They assume capabilities are available
    which actually aren't. libcap-ng is one example. And we ran into the
    same problem with systemd too.

    Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cap_last_cap const, per Ulrich]
    Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard
    Cc: Randy Dunlap
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Lennart Poettering
    Cc: Kay Sievers
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dan Ballard
     

30 Oct, 2011

1 commit


14 Aug, 2011

1 commit

  • Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
    they belong. Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
    under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.

    cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
    accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
    pool as desired. Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
    under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.

    This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
    cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Turner
    Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao
    Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao
    Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul Turner
     

21 Jul, 2011

1 commit


04 Jun, 2011

1 commit

  • Turns out that distro packages use this file as an indicator of
    the perf event subsystem - this is easier to check for from scripts
    than the existence of the system call.

    This is easy enough to keep around for the kernel, so add a
    comment to make sure it stays so.

    Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: paulus@samba.org
    Cc: acme@redhat.com
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031751170.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Vince Weaver
     

26 May, 2011

1 commit

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
    arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
    compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
    arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
    arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
    arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
    arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
    include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
    tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
    arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
    compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
    arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
    tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
    tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
    tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
    audit: support the "standard"
    arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
    arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
    arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
    arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
    arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

24 May, 2011

1 commit


23 May, 2011

1 commit

  • This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh.

    Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog
    kthreads to consume a lot of CPU.

    In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and
    proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog.

    Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines
    Cc: Marcin Slusarz
    Cc: Don Zickus
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    LKML-Reference:

    Mandeep Singh Baines
     

20 May, 2011

1 commit

  • This change adds support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace to tile.
    Like x86 and sparc, by default it is set to "1", generating a one-line
    printk whenever a user process crashes. By setting it to "2", we get
    a much more complete userspace diagnostic at crash time, including
    a user-space backtrace, register dump, and memory dump around the
    address of the crash.

    Some vestiges of the Tilera-internal version of this support are
    removed with this patch (the show_crashinfo variable and the
    arch_coredump_signal function). We retain a "crashinfo" boot parameter
    which allows you to set the boot-time value of exception-trace.

    Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

    Chris Metcalf
     

04 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem
    reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with
    cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user
    didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by
    a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new
    sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers.

    /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset
    /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable

    You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are
    &= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these
    as the bset and pI.

    -v2: make globals static
    create spinlock to protect globals

    -v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE
    -v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit
    Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
    No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    Eric Paris
     

24 Mar, 2011

2 commits

  • When dmesg_restrict is set to 1 CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to read the kernel
    ring buffer. But a root user without CAP_SYS_ADMIN is able to reset
    dmesg_restrict to 0.

    This is an issue when e.g. LXC (Linux Containers) are used and complete
    user space is running without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. A unprivileged and jailed
    root user can bypass the dmesg_restrict protection.

    With this patch writing to dmesg_restrict is only allowed when root has
    CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
    Acked-by: Dan Rosenberg
    Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Cc: Eric Paris
    Cc: Kees Cook
    Cc: James Morris
    Cc: Eugene Teo
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Richard Weinberger
     
  • Add boundaries of allowed input ranges for: dirty_expire_centisecs,
    drop_caches, overcommit_memory, page-cluster and panic_on_oom.

    Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek
    Acked-by: Dave Young
    Cc: David Rientjes
    Cc: Wu Fengguang
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Petr Holasek
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • …s/security-testing-2.6

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (33 commits)
    AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c
    AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly
    KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE
    KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code
    KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted
    KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
    AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read
    SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook
    LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM
    SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket
    SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute
    SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class
    TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.
    Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"
    selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions
    selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting
    selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer
    selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm
    ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure
    IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

16 Mar, 2011

3 commits

  • …/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
    sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
    sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
    sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
    sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
    sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
    sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
    sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
    sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
    sched: Fix the group_imb logic
    sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
    sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
    sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
    sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
    sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
    sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
    sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
    sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
    sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
    sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
    softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
    perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
    tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
    tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
    tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
    tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
    ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
    ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
    tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
    tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
    tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
    tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
    tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
    tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
    tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
    perf header: Stop using 'self'
    perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
    perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
    perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
    ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
    tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • James Morris
     

08 Mar, 2011

2 commits

  • a) struct inode is not going to be freed under ->d_compare();
    however, the thing PROC_I(inode)->sysctl points to just might.
    Fortunately, it's enough to make freeing that sucker delayed,
    provided that we don't step on its ->unregistering, clear
    the pointer to it in PROC_I(inode) before dropping the reference
    and check if it's NULL in ->d_compare().

    b) I'm not sure that we *can* walk into NULL inode here (we recheck
    dentry->seq between verifying that it's still hashed / fetching
    dentry->d_inode and passing it to ->d_compare() and there's no
    negative hashed dentries in /proc/sys/*), but if we can walk into
    that, we really should not have ->d_compare() return 0 on it!
    Said that, I really suspect that this check can be simply killed.
    Nick?

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     
  • James Morris
     

23 Feb, 2011

1 commit


16 Feb, 2011

2 commits


03 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair. This
    allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
    level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
    unfairness in CPU time distribution.

    We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
    yield first, then last, then next. We need next to be able
    to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
    "yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
    of the CFS tree. When they are, we need to go into that
    sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
    entity once we get to the right level.

    Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Rik van Riel
     

02 Feb, 2011

1 commit


26 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
    Input: wacom - pass touch resolution to clients through input_absinfo
    Input: wacom - add 2 Bamboo Pen and touch models
    Input: sysrq - ensure sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are consistent
    Input: sparse-keymap - fix KEY_VSW handling in sparse_keymap_setup
    Input: tegra-kbc - add tegra keyboard driver
    Input: gpio_keys - switch to using request_any_context_irq
    Input: serio - allow registered drivers to get status flag
    Input: ct82710c - return proper error code for ct82c710_open
    Input: bu21013_ts - added regulator support
    Input: bu21013_ts - remove duplicate resolution parameters
    Input: tnetv107x-ts - don't treat NULL clk as an error
    Input: tnetv107x-keypad - don't treat NULL clk as an error

    Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/input/keyboard/Makefile due to
    additions of tc3589x/Tegra drivers

    Linus Torvalds
     

25 Jan, 2011

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  • Currently sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are initialised separately
    and inconsistently, leading to sysrq being actually enabled by reported
    as not enabled in sysfs. The first change to the sysfs configurable
    synchronises these two:

    static int __read_mostly sysrq_enabled = 1;
    static int __sysrq_enabled;

    Add a common define to carry the default for these preventing them becoming
    out of sync again. Default this to 1 to mirror previous behaviour.

    Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

    Andy Whitcroft
     

14 Jan, 2011

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