30 Sep, 2006
18 commits
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The clock_nanosleep() function does not return the time remaining when the
sleep is interrupted by a signal.This patch creates a new call out, compat_clock_nanosleep_restart(), which
handles returning the remaining time after a sleep is interrupted. This
patch revives clock_nanosleep_restart(). It is now accessed via the new
call out. The compat_clock_nanosleep_restart() is used for compatibility
access.Since this is implemented in compatibility mode the normal path is
virtually unaffected - no real performance impact.Signed-off-by: Toyo Abe
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Spawing ksoftirqd, migration, or watchdog, and calling init_timers_cpu()
may fail with small memory. If it happens in initcalls, kernel NULL
pointer dereference happens later. This patch makes crash happen
immediately in such cases. It seems a bit better than getting kernel NULL
pointer dereference later.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Both __kfifo_put() and __kfifo_get() have header comments stating that if
there is but one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, locking is not
necessary. This is almost the case, but a couple of memory barriers are
needed. Another option would be to change the header comments to remove the
bit about locking not being needed, and to change the those callers who
currently don't use locking to add the required locking. The attachment
analyzes this approach, but the patch below seems simpler.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Stelian Pop
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Lets do the same thing we do for oopses - print out the version in the
report. It's an extra line of output though. We could tack it on the end
of the INFO: lines, but that screws up Ingo's pretty output.Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.Eric's original description:
There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
because we give it special properties. Most significantly init
must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test
->pid == 1.Introduce is_init to capture this case.
With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
process that has pid == 1.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc:
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc. Restoring files on
current on error path may lead to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d
files_struct.->files changing at exit.c and khtread.c are safe as exit_files() makes all
things under lock.Found during OpenVZ stress testing.
[akpm@osdl.org: add export]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix "variable defined but not used" compiler warning in unwind.c when
CONFIG_MODULES is not set.Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert
Cc: Jan Beulich
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in
is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**".[rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer
Acked-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Oleg brought up some interesting points about grabbing the pi_lock for some
protections. In this discussion, I realized that there are some places
that the pi_lock is being grabbed when it really wasn't necessary. Also
this patch does a little bit of clean up.This patch basically does three things:
1) renames the "boost" variable to "chain_walk". Since it is used in
the debugging case when it isn't going to be boosted. It better
describes what the test is going to do if it succeeds.2) moves get_task_struct to just before the unlocking of the wait_lock.
This removes duplicate code, and makes it a little easier to read. The
owner wont go away while either the pi_lock or the wait_lock are held.3) removes the pi_locking and owner blocked checking completely from the
debugging case. This is because the grabbing the lock and doing the
check, then releasing the lock is just so full of races. It's just as
good to go ahead and call the pi_chain_walk function, since after
releasing the lock the owner can then block anyway, and we would have
missed that. For the debug case, we really do want to do the chain walk
to test for deadlocks anyway.[oleg@tv-sign.ru: more of the same]
Signed-of-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Esben Nielsen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
lock_timer_base acquires a lock and returns with that lock held. Add a
lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock
pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this function since it
intentionally uses the lock in this manner.Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Initialize module_subsys earlier (or at least earlier than devices) since
it could be used very early in the boot process if kmod loads a module
before the device initcalls. Otherwise, kmod will crash in
kernel/module.c:mod_sysfs_setup() since the kset in module_subsys is not
initialized yet.I only noticed this problem because occasionally, kmod loads the modules
for my SCSI and Ethernet adapters very early, during the boot process
itself. I don't quite understand why it loads them sometimes and doesn't
load them other times. Or who is telling kmod to do so. Can someone
explain?Signed-off-by: Mark Huang
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
rcu_torture_read_lock and rcu_bh_torture_read_lock acquire locks without
releasing them, and the matching functions rcu_torture_read_unlock and
rcu_bh_torture_read_unlock get called with the corresponding locks held and
release them. Add lock annotations to these four functions so that sparse
can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain
about these functions since they intentionally use locks in this manner.Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett
Acked-by: Paul McKenney
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add relay interface support to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl. Fix typos etc. in
relay.c and relayfs.txt.Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Check driver layer return values in kernel/params.c
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If the cpu has the lock held for write, is interrupted, and the interrupt
handler calls read_trylock(), it's an instant deadlock.Now, Dave Miller has subsequently pointed out that we don't have any
situations where this can occur. Nevertheless, we should delete
generic__raw_read_lock (and its associated EXPORT to make Arjan happy) so that
nobody thinks they can use it.Acked-by: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (130 commits)
[ARM] 3856/1: Add clocksource for Intel IXP4xx platforms
[ARM] 3855/1: Add generic time support
[ARM] 3873/1: S3C24XX: Add irq_chip names
[ARM] 3872/1: S3C24XX: Apply consistant tabbing to irq_chips
[ARM] 3871/1: S3C24XX: Fix ordering of EINT4..23
[ARM] nommu: confirms the CR_V bit in nommu mode
[ARM] nommu: abort handler fixup for !CPU_CP15_MMU cores.
[ARM] 3870/1: AT91: Start removing static memory mappings
[ARM] 3869/1: AT91: NAND support for DK and KB9202 boards
[ARM] 3868/1: AT91 hardware header update
[ARM] 3867/1: AT91 GPIO update
[ARM] 3866/1: AT91 clock update
[ARM] 3865/1: AT91RM9200 header updates
[ARM] 3862/2: S3C2410 - add basic power management support for AML M5900 series
[ARM] kthread: switch arch/arm/kernel/apm.c
[ARM] Off-by-one in arch/arm/common/icst*
[ARM] 3864/1: Refactore sharpsl_pm
[ARM] 3863/1: Add Locomo SPI Device
[ARM] 3847/2: Convert LOMOMO to use struct device for GPIOs
[ARM] Use CPU_CACHE_* where possible in asm/cacheflush.h
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28 Sep, 2006
1 commit
27 Sep, 2006
10 commits
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With the patches flying between Oleg and myself somehow this temporary
debug code got left in pid.c. It was never intended to make it to the
stable kernel.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In de_thread we move pids from one process to another, a rather ugly case.
The function transfer_pid makes it clear what we are doing, and makes the
action atomic. This is useful we ever want to atomically traverse the
process group and session lists, in a rcu safe manner.Even if the atomic properties this change should be a win as transfer_pid
should be less code to execute than executing both attach_pid and
detach_pid, and this should make de_thread slightly smaller as only a
single function call needs to be emitted. The only downside is that the
code might be slower to execute as the odds are against transfer_pid being
in cache.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since sys_sysctl is deprecated start allow it to be compiled out. This
should catch any remaining user space code that cares, and paves the way
for further sysctl cleanups.[akpm@osdl.org: If sys_sysctl() is not compiled-in, emit a warning]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place (kernel/signal.c).
Currently it's in fs/proc/task_mmu.c, a file that is dependent on both
CONFIG_PROC_FS and CONFIG_MMU being enabled, but it's used from
kernel/signal.c from where it is called unconditionally.[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Check that access_process_vm() is accessing a valid mapping in the target
process.This limits ptrace() accesses and accesses through /proc//maps to only
those regions actually mapped by a program.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If you have two resources which aree exactly the same size,
insert_resource() currently inserts the new one below the existing one.
This is wrong because there's no way to insert a resource of the same size
above an existing one.I took this opportunity to rewrite the initial loop to be a for-loop
instead of a goto-loop and fix the documentation.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Dominik Brodowski
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits)
Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core
Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core
PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe
Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe
sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype
drivers/base: check errors
drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
v4l-dev2: handle __must_check
add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
add __must_check to device management code
Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition
Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c
sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error
kobject: must_check fixes
Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files
Class: add support for class interfaces for devices
Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
Driver core: add device_rename function
Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly
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26 Sep, 2006
10 commits
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Add the pm_trace attribute in /sys/power which has to be explicitly set to
one to really enable the "PM tracing" code compiled in when CONFIG_PM_TRACE
is set (which modifies the machine's CMOS clock in unpredictable ways).Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Change suspend_console() so that it waits for all consoles to flush the
remaining messages and make it possible to switch the console suspending off
with the help of a Kconfig option.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: Stefan Seyfried
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Make swsusp use memory bitmaps to store its internal information during the
resume phase of the suspend-resume cycle.If the pfns of saveable pages are saved during the suspend phase instead of
the kernel virtual addresses of these pages, we can use them during the resume
phase directly to set the corresponding bits in a memory bitmap. Then, this
bitmap is used to mark the page frames corresponding to the pages that were
saveable before the suspend (aka "unsafe" page frames).Next, we allocate as many page frames as needed to store the entire suspend
image and make sure that there will be some extra free "safe" page frames for
the list of PBEs constructed later. Subsequently, the image is loaded and, if
possible, the data loaded from it are written into their "original" page
frames (ie. the ones they had occupied before the suspend).The image data that cannot be written into their "original" page frames are
loaded into "safe" page frames and their "original" kernel virtual addresses,
as well as the addresses of the "safe" pages containing their copies, are
stored in a list of PBEs. Finally, the list of PBEs is used to copy the
remaining image data into their "original" page frames (this is done
atomically, by the architecture-dependent parts of swsusp).Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Introduce the memory bitmap data structure and make swsusp use in the suspend
phase.The current swsusp's internal data structure is not very efficient from the
memory usage point of view, so it seems reasonable to replace it with a data
structure that will require less memory, such as a pair of bitmaps.The idea is to use bitmaps that may be allocated as sets of individual pages,
so that we can avoid making allocations of order greater than 0. For this
reason the memory bitmap structure consists of several linked lists of objects
that contain pointers to memory pages with the actual bitmap data. Still, for
a typical system all of these lists fit in a single page, so it's reasonable
to introduce an additional mechanism allowing us to allocate all of them
efficiently without sacrificing the generality of the design. This is done
with the help of the chain_allocator structure and associated functions.We need to use two memory bitmaps during the suspend phase of the
suspend-resume cycle. One of them is necessary for marking the saveable
pages, and the second is used to mark the pages in which to store the copies
of them (aka image pages).First, the bitmaps are created and we allocate as many image pages as needed
(the corresponding bits in the second bitmap are set as soon as the pages are
allocated). Second, the bits corresponding to the saveable pages are set in
the first bitmap and the saveable pages are copied to the image pages.
Finally, the first bitmap is used to save the kernel virtual addresses of the
saveable pages and the second one is used to save the contents of the image
pages.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Introduce some constants that hopefully will help improve the readability of
code in kernel/power/snapshot.c.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The name of the pagedir_nosave variable does not make sense any more, so it
seems reasonable to change it to something more meaningful.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Get rid of the FIXME in kernel/power/snapshot.c#alloc_pagedir() and
simplify the functions called by it.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move some functions in kernel/power/snapshot.c to a better place (in the
same file) and introduce free_image_page() (will be necessary in the
future).Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Clean up mm/page_alloc.c#mark_free_pages() and make it avoid clearing
PageNosaveFree for PageNosave pages. This allows us to get rid of an ugly
hack in kernel/power/snapshot.c#copy_data_pages().Additionally, the page-copying loop in copy_data_pages() is moved to an
inline function.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The current suspend code has to be run on one CPU, so we use the CPU
hotplug to take the non-boot CPUs offline on SMP machines. However, we
should also make sure that these CPUs will not be enabled by someone else
after we have disabled them.The functions disable_nonboot_cpus() and enable_nonboot_cpus() are moved to
kernel/cpu.c, because they now refer to some stuff in there that should
better be static. Also it's better if disable_nonboot_cpus() returns an
error instead of panicking if something goes wrong, and
enable_nonboot_cpus() has no reason to panic(), because the CPUs may have
been enabled by the userland before it tries to take them online.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
