05 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
everyone who participated in the hunt.The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
most active in this, according to the recorded git
history, in alphabetical order.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Alan Cox
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Andrew Hendry
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Hans Verkuil
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jan Blunck
Cc: John Kacur
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Oliver Neukum
Cc: Paul Menage
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Trond Myklebust
19 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long
workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwq
17 Feb, 2011
3 commits
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Currently we return 0 in swsusp_alloc() when alloc_image_page() fails.
Fix that. Also remove unneeded "error" variable since the only
useful value of error is -ENOMEM.[rjw: Fixed up the changelog and changed subject.]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki -
MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is defined as HZ / 100 and depending on
configuration may end up 0 or 1. Even when it's 1, depending on when
the mayday timer is added in the current jiffy interval, it may expire
way before a jiffy has passed.Make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least two to guarantee that at
least a full jiffy has passed before calling rescuers.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reported-by: Ray Jui
Cc: stable@kernel.org -
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reported-by: Alan Stern
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Alex Dubov
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
16 Feb, 2011
2 commits
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list -
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
14 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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After executing the matching works, a rescuer leaves the gcwq whether
there are more pending works or not. This may decrease the
concurrency level to zero and stall execution until a new work item is
queued on the gcwq.Make rescuer wake up a regular worker when it leaves a gcwq if there
are more works to execute, so that execution isn't stalled.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reported-by: Ray Jui
Cc: stable@kernel.org
12 Feb, 2011
3 commits
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In the continuing effort to avoid kernel addresses leaking to
unprivileged users, this patch switches to %pK for
/proc/timer_list reporting.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: John Stultz
Cc: Dan Rosenberg
Cc: Eugene Teo
Cc: Linus Torvalds
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read
security: add cred argument to security_capable()
tpm_tis: Use timeouts returned from TPM -
The wake_up_process() call in ptrace_detach() is spurious and not
interlocked with the tracee state. IOW, the tracee could be running or
sleeping in any place in the kernel by the time wake_up_process() is
called. This can lead to the tracee waking up unexpectedly which can be
dangerous.The wake_up is spurious and should be removed but for now reduce its
toxicity by only waking up if the tracee is in TRACED or STOPPED state.This bug can possibly be used as an attack vector. I don't think it
will take too much effort to come up with an attack which triggers oops
somewhere. Most sleeps are wrapped in condition test loops and should
be safe but we have quite a number of places where sleep and wakeup
conditions are expected to be interlocked. Although the window of
opportunity is tiny, ptrace can be used by non-privileged users and with
some loading the window can definitely be extended and exploited.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Feb, 2011
2 commits
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Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a
wider range of call sites.Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: James Morris -
In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Reviewed-by: James Morris
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Feb, 2011
2 commits
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During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it
complains very loudly. Some failures should be expected under
certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use. Tone
those error messages down a bit. Keep the rest at a high level.Reported-by: Paul Bolle
Tested-by: Paul Bolle
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed
cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily.
drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of -objs with -y
loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of -objs with -y
blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
08 Feb, 2011
3 commits
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Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for
del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings),
so revert the commit for this release:f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
and try again later.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Yong Zhang
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error. As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1.Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error. As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred->magic == 0. Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL. This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().Fix these bugs by
(1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().
(2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Feb, 2011
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* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
05 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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…t/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
04 Feb, 2011
4 commits
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Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing
softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs
disabled.Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing
softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from
happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled.Reported-by: Nick Bowler
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -
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* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Prevent irq storm on migration -
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* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix update_curr_rt()
sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15 -
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()
watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl
watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency
watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic
perf: Fix Pentium4 raw event validation
perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
03 Feb, 2011
6 commits
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Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.Suggested-by: David Miller
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: David S. Miller
LKML-Reference:
CC: Frederic Weisbecker
CC: Ingo Molnar
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Andrew Morton
CC: Peter Zijlstra
CC: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
cpu_stopper_thread()
migration_cpu_stop()
__migrate_task()
deactivate_task()
dequeue_task()
dequeue_task_rq()
update_curr_rt()Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is
rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and
thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task.Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
It is quite possible for the event to have been disabled between
perf_event_read() sending the IPI and the CPU servicing the IPI and
calling __perf_event_read(), hence revalidate the state.Reported-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.Suggested-by: David Miller
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
move_native_irq() masks and unmasks the interrupt line
unconditionally, but the interrupt line might be masked due to a
threaded oneshot handler in progress. Unmasking the line in that case
can lead to interrupt storms. Observed on PREEMPT_RT.Originally-from: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: stable@kernel.org
31 Jan, 2011
4 commits
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Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz
[ add {}'s to fix a warning ]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc:
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
If it was not possible to enable watchdog for any cpu, switch
watchdog_enabled back to 0, because it's visible via
kernel.watchdog sysctl.Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc:
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of
watchdog threads AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer.
As hrtimers are initialized only at boot it's not possible to
enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog threads started to
eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash.Additionally, even if these threads would start properly,
watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so
you couldn't disable watchdog.To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already
existing watchdog_enabled variable.Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz
[ removed another no_watchdog instance ]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc:
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Since check_prlimit_permission always fails in the case of SUID/GUID
processes, such processes are not able to read or set their own limits.
This commit changes this by assuming that process can always read/change
its own limits.Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jan, 2011
2 commits
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* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine -
Commit 927c7a9e92c4 ("perf: Fix race in callchains") introduced
a mismatch in the sizing of struct callchain_cpus_entries.nr_cpu_ids must be used instead of num_possible_cpus(), or we
might get out of bound memory accesses on some machines.Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Stephane Eranian
CC: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
26 Jan, 2011
4 commits
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The delta in clock_task is a more fair attribution of how much time a tg has
been contributing load to the current cpu.While not really important it also means we're more in sync (by magnitude)
with respect to periodic updates (since __update_curr deltas are clock_task
based).Signed-off-by: Paul Turner
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Since updates are against an entity's queuing cfs_rq it's not possible to
enter update_cfs_{shares,load} with a NULL cfs_rq. (Indeed, update_cfs_load
would crash prior to the check if we did anyway since we load is examined
during the initializers).Also, in the update_cfs_load case there's no point
in maintaining averages for rq->cfs_rq since we don't perform shares
distribution at that level -- NULL check is replaced accordingly.Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the deference before NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
While care is taken around the zero-point in effective_load to not exceed
the instantaneous rq->weight, it's still possible (e.g. using wake_idx != 0)
for (load + effective_load) to underflow.In this case the comparing the unsigned values can result in incorrect balanced
decisions.Signed-off-by: Paul Turner
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* '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 errorFix up trivial conflicts in drivers/input/keyboard/Makefile due to
additions of tc3589x/Tegra drivers
