08 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"A couple of fixes + getting rid of __blkdev_put() return value"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
proc: Use PDE attribute setting accessor functions
make blkdev_put() return void
block_device_operations->release() should return void
mtd_blktrans_ops->release() should return void
hfs: SMP race on directory close()
07 May, 2013
1 commit
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The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
06 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
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02 May, 2013
2 commits
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.hSigned-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
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Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,
Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).7kloc removed.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
ppc: Clean up scanlog
ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
...
01 May, 2013
2 commits
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show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
different forms. This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
does plus task and thread_info pointers.* Archs which didn't print debug info now do.
alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
um, xtensa* Already prints debug info. Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
The printed information is superset of what used to be there.arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86
* s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
along with generic debug info. Heiko and Martin think that the
arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
Converted to use the generic version.Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
dumps.An example BUG() dump follows.
kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007
task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
RIP: 0010:[] [] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
Call Trace:
[] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
[] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
[] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
[] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
...v2: Typo fix in x86-32.
v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it. s390
specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf [tile bits]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo [hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
architecture. show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
current task as does dump_stack(). On some archs, dump_stack() prints
extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.The usages in arch-independent code of the two functions indicate
show_stack(NULL, NULL) should print out bare backtrace while
dump_stack() is used for debugging purposes when something went wrong,
so it does make sense to print additional information on the task which
triggered dump_stack().There's no reason to require archs to implement two separate but mostly
identical functions. It leads to unnecessary subtle information.This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin. Blackfin's
dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand.Debug information can be printed separately by calling
dump_stack_print_info() so that arch-specific dump_stack()
implementation can still emit the same debug information. This is used
in blackfin.This patch brings the following behavior changes.
* On some archs, an extra level in backtrace for show_stack() could be
printed. This is because the top frame was determined in
dump_stack() on those archs while generic dump_stack() can't do that
reliably. It can be compensated by inlining dump_stack() but not
sure whether that'd be necessary.* Most archs didn't use to print debug info on dump_stack(). They do
now.An example WARN dump follows.
WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
Hardware name: empty
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #9
0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
ffffffff8108f50f ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a03c
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
Call Trace:
[] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
...v2: CPU number added to the generic debug info as requested by s390
folks and dropped the s390 specific dump_stack(). This loses %ksp
from the debug message which the maintainers think isn't important
enough to keep the s390-specific dump_stack() implementation.dump_stack_print_info() is moved to kernel/printk.c from
lib/dump_stack.c. Because linkage is per objecct file,
dump_stack_print_info() living in the same lib file as generic
dump_stack() means that archs which implement custom dump_stack()
- at this point, only blackfin - can't use dump_stack_print_info()
as that will bring in the generic version of dump_stack() too. v1
The v1 patch broke build on blackfin due to this issue. The build
breakage was reported by Fengguang Wu.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [s390 bits]
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Acked-by: Richard Kuo [hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Apr, 2013
4 commits
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Pull SMP/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is a pretty large, multi-arch series unifying and generalizing
the various disjunct pieces of idle routines that architectures have
historically copied from each other and have grown in random, wildly
inconsistent and sometimes buggy directions:101 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 1328 deletions(-)
this went through a number of review and test iterations before it was
committed, it was tested on various architectures, was exposed to
linux-next for quite some time - nevertheless it might cause problems
on architectures that don't read the mailing lists and don't regularly
test linux-next.This cat herding excercise was motivated by the -rt kernel, and was
brought to you by Thomas "the Whip" Gleixner."* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch
um: Use generic idle loop
ia64: Make sure interrupts enabled when we "safe_halt()"
sparc: Use generic idle loop
idle: Remove unused ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
bfin: Fix typo in arch_cpu_idle()
xtensa: Use generic idle loop
x86: Use generic idle loop
unicore: Use generic idle loop
tile: Use generic idle loop
tile: Enter idle with preemption disabled
sh: Use generic idle loop
score: Use generic idle loop
s390: Use generic idle loop
powerpc: Use generic idle loop
parisc: Use generic idle loop
openrisc: Use generic idle loop
mn10300: Use generic idle loop
mips: Use generic idle loop
microblaze: Use generic idle loop
... -
The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move
the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list]
[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Russell King
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use helper function free_highmem_page() to free highmem pages into
the buddy system.Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use common help functions to free reserved pages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Cc: Jeff Dike
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2013
2 commits
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All archs are converted over. Remove the config switch and the
fallback code.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366149209-24787-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
10 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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Adjust printk in create_proc_mconsole() to reflect it is now using
proc_create() not create_proc_mconsole().Signed-off-by: David Howells
03 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLEWe might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Geoff Levand
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef
Cc: Hakan Akkan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Kevin Hilman
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
22 Mar, 2013
1 commit
19 Mar, 2013
2 commits
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It allows for cleaning up on a considerable amount of places. They did
port_get, hangup, kref_put. Now the only thing needed is to call
tty_port_tty_hangup which does exactly that. And they can also decide
whether to consider CLOCAL or completely ignore that.Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
It allows for cleaning up on a considerable amount of places. They did
port_get, wakeup, kref_put. Now the only thing needed is to call
tty_port_tty_wakeup which does exactly that.One exception is ifx6x60 where tty_wakeup was open-coded. We now call
tty_wakeup properly there.Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
11 Mar, 2013
5 commits
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The tty below tty_port might get destroyed by the tty layer
while we hold a reference to it.
So we have to carry tty_port around...Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
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As we setup the SIGWINCH handler in tty_port_operations->activate
it makes sense to tear down it in ->destruct.Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
-
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c:18:8: error: conflicting types for 'sig_info'
In file included from /home/slyfox/linux-2.6/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c:12:0:
arch/um/include/shared/as-layout.h:64:15: note: previous declaration of 'sig_info' was hereSigned-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich
CC: Jeff Dike
CC: Richard Weinberger
CC: "Martin Pärtel"
CC: Al Viro
CC: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger -
arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c: In function 'check_coredump_limit':
arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c:338:16: error: storage size of 'lim' isn't known
arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c:339:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'getrlimit' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich
CC: Jeff Dike
CC: Richard Weinberger
CC: Al Viro
CC: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger -
This new version moves the skb_tx_timestamp in the main uml
driver. This should avoid the need to call this function in each
transport (vde, slirp, tuntap, ...). It also add support for ethtool
get_ts_info.Signed-off-by: Paul Chavent
Acked-by: Richard Cochran
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
24 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.- a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
unified.- a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
(fixing several potential problems with missing argument
validation, while we are at it)- a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed
- a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
(uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.- microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once
- saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
architectures switched to using those."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
x86: convert to ksignal
sparc: convert to ksignal
arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
burying unused conditionals
make do_sigaltstack() static
arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
kill sparc32_open()
sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
...
22 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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Pull tty/serial patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver patches for 3.9-rc1.More tty port rework and fixes from Jiri here, as well as lots of
individual serial driver updates and fixes.All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while."
* tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
tty: mxser: improve error handling in mxser_probe() and mxser_module_init()
serial: imx: fix uninitialized variable warning
serial: tegra: assume CONFIG_OF
TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write
lguest: select CONFIG_TTY to build properly.
ARM defconfigs: add missing inclusions of linux/platform_device.h
fb/exynos: include platform_device.h
ARM: sa1100/assabet: include platform_device.h directly
serial: imx: Fix recursive locking bug
pps: Fix build breakage from decoupling pps from tty
tty: Remove ancient hardpps()
pps: Additional cleanups in uart_handle_dcd_change
pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper
pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do
pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
pps: Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling
pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function
tty: serial: uartlite: Support uartlite on big and little endian systems
tty: serial: uartlite: Fix sparse and checkpatch warnings
serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments)
...Fix up trivial conflicts, mostly just due to the TTY config option
clashing with the EXPERIMENTAL removal. -
Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:- add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
able to check return values.- remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
updates"Fix up trivial conflicts
* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
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04 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
19 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
16 Jan, 2013
3 commits
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Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many
call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get in those paths.Now, the one where most of tty_port_tty_get gets removed:
tty_flip_buffer_push.IOW we also closed all the races in drivers not using tty_port_tty_get
at all yet.Also we move tty_flip_buffer_push declaration from include/linux/tty.h
to include/linux/tty_flip.h to all others while we are changing it
anyway.Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
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Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many
call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get in those paths.tty_insert_flip_char is the next one to proceed. This one is used all
over the code, so the patch is huge.Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
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Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty pointer in
many call sites. Only tty_port will be needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get calls in those paths.Here we start with tty_buffer_request_room.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
12 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.CC: Jeff Dike
CC: Richard Weinberger
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger
07 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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Also remove unused "mac" from uml_net struct.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."Fixed up conflicts as per Al.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
new helper: restore_altstack()
unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
missing user_stack_pointer() instances
Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
20 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffectedSigned-off-by: Al Viro
18 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to
containers in general and user namespaces in particular. The user
space interface is now complete.This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user
namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces.
The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from
using cool new kernel features is broken.This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for
the pid, user, mount namespaces.This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace
cleanups/simplifications. Of particular significance is the rework of
the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out
tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation. At
least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup.The files under /proc//ns/ have been converted from regular files
to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS,
ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is
currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission
checks are always applied.The files under /proc//ns/ have been given stable inode numbers
so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same
namespaces.Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the
permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user
namespace root to usefully use the networking stack. Similar changes
for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my
tree.Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn
in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the
/proc//ns/ files in this tree.Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs,
ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the
Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from
being built when any of those filesystems are enabled.Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial
user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits)
proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks.
proc: Generalize proc inode allocation
userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs
userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file
procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file
userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
userns: Implent proc namespace operations
userns: Kill task_user_ns
userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter
userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.
userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation
userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces.
userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped
userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure
vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.
vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces
vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace
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13 Dec, 2012
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that
stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):
- kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.
We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
or kernel_execve():kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
successful do_execve() before returning.kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
do transition to user mode anymore.As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
architecture-independent.- daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c
- struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.- sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
kernel/fork.c now."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
new helper: signal_pt_regs()
unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
death to idle_regs()
don't pass regs to copy_process()
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
xtensa: switch to generic clone()
openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
tile: switch to generic clone()
...Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
12 Dec, 2012
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of activity:211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-)
most of it on the tooling side.
Main changes:
* ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt.
* uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg
Nesterov.* UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI
transition* Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri
Olsa.* Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri
Olsa.* Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data
maps, from Namhyung Kim* Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim
* Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with
different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via
python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify
that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected,
from Jiri Olsa* Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method is
now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the
'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots.* libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it
build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings
really pointed to real bugs.* Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the
report and annotate browsers. It does filtering to find the
scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used. From
Feng Tang* perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from
Andrew Vagin.* Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim.
* Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra.
* Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the
existing threads when we start a tool like trace.* Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this
produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of
tglx's original "trace" tool.* Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace'
* Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'.
* There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to
build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is
not possible, from Borislav Petkov.* Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David
Ahern.* Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session
environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina
Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim.* Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can
figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc. From
Jiri Olsa.* Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g. Android,
from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.* Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large
number of events, from David Ahern.* Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea.
* Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea.
* perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa.
* Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung
Kim.* Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line,
from Namhyung Kim.* ... and much more."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits)
uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race
perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method
perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error
tools: Pass the target in descend
tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile
tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing
perf ui: Always compile browser setup code
perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish()
perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions
perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper
perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory
perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check
perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable
perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand
perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command
perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups
perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps
perf tools: Add gtk. config option for launching GTK browser
perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build
perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes
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Pull RCU update from Ingo Molnar:
"The major features of this tree are:1. A first version of no-callbacks CPUs. This version prohibits
offlining CPU 0, but only when enabled via CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y.
Relaxing this constraint is in progress, but not yet ready
for prime time. These commits were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/724.2. Changes to SRCU that allows statically initialized srcu_struct
structures. These commits were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/296.3. Restructuring of RCU's debugfs output. These commits were posted
to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/341.4. Additional CPU-hotplug/RCU improvements, posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/327.
Note that the commit eliminating __stop_machine() was judged to
be too-high of risk, so is deferred to 3.9.5. Changes to RCU's idle interface, most notably a new module
parameter that redirects normal grace-period operations to
their expedited equivalents. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/739.6. Additional diagnostics for RCU's CPU stall warning facility,
posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/315.
The most notable change reduces the
default RCU CPU stall-warning time from 60 seconds to 21 seconds,
so that it once again happens sooner than the softlockup timeout.7. Documentation updates, which were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/280.
A couple of late-breaking changes were posted at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/634 and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/547.8. Miscellaneous fixes, which were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/309.9. Finally, a fix for an lockdep-RCU splat was posted to LKML
at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/7/486."* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
sched: Mark RCU reader in sched_show_task()
rcu: Separate accounting of callbacks from callback-free CPUs
rcu: Add callback-free CPUs
rcu: Add documentation for the new rcuexp debugfs trace file
rcu: Update documentation for TREE_RCU debugfs tracing
rcu: Reduce default RCU CPU stall warning timeout
rcu: Fix TINY_RCU rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle check
rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives
rcu: Add new rcutorture module parameters to start/end test messages
rcu: Remove list_for_each_continue_rcu()
rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem
rcu: Add tracing for synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Remove old debugfs interfaces and also RCU flavor name
rcu: split 'rcuhier' to each flavor
rcu: split 'rcugp' to each flavor
rcu: split 'rcuboost' to each flavor
rcu: split 'rcubarrier' to each flavor
rcu: Fix tracing formatting
rcu: Remove the interface "rcudata.csv"
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