07 Jan, 2009
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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 section mismatch
sched: fix double kfree in failure path
sched: clean up arch_reinit_sched_domains()
sched: mark sched_create_sysfs_power_savings_entries() as __init
getrusage: RUSAGE_THREAD should return ru_utime and ru_stime
sched: fix sched_slice()
sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2
sched: sched.c declare variables before they get used -
At the moment, the times() system call will appear to fail for a period
shortly after boot, while the value it want to return is between -4095 and
-1. The same thing will also happen for the time() system call on 32-bit
platforms some time in 2106 or so.On some platforms, such as x86, this is unavoidable because of the system
call ABI, but other platforms such as powerpc have a separate error
indication from the return value, so system calls can in fact return small
negative values without indicating an error. On those platforms,
force_successful_syscall_return() provides a way to indicate that the
system call return value should not be treated as an error even if it is
in the range which would normally be taken as a negative error number.This adds a force_successful_syscall_return() call to the time() and
times() system calls plus their 32-bit compat versions, so that they don't
erroneously indicate an error on those platforms whose system call ABI has
a separate error indication. This will not affect anything on other
platforms.Joakim Tjernlund added the fix for time() and the compat versions of
time() and times(), after I did the fix for times().Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: task stats regression fix
Original getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD) implementation can return ru_utime and
ru_stime. But commit "f06febc: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang" broke it.this patch restores it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
31 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
x86/swiotlb: add default physbus conversion
x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
swiotlb: allow architectures to override physbusphys conversions
swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
swiotlb: move some definitions to header
swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
...Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
25 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct
cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise
would not be). Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are
here as well.Fix refcounting. The following rules now apply:
1. The task pins the user struct.
2. The user struct pins its user namespace.
3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it.User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds(). Unsharing a new user_ns
is no longer possible. (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code
duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user
namespaces).When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty
keyrings and a clean group_info.This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells. Here
is his original patch description:>I suggest adding the attached incremental patch. It makes the following
>changes:
>
> (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user
> namespace.
>
> (2) Fixes eCryptFS.
>
> (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent
> with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is
> superfluous.
>
> (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the
> beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts
> at allocation.
>
> (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds
> to fill in rather than have it return the new root user. I don't imagine
> the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred
> struct.
>
> This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the
> reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be
> transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer.
>
> (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under
> preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds().
>
>David>Signed-off-by: David Howells
Changelog:
Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments
1. leave thread_keyring alone
2. use current_user_ns() in set_user()Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn
17 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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Impact: relax the locking of cpu-time accounting calls
->siglock buys nothing for thread_group_cputime() in do_sys_times() and
wait_task_zombie() (which btw takes the unrelated parent's ->siglock).Actually I think do_sys_times() doesn't need ->siglock at all.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Nov, 2008
5 commits
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Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
int ret = blah(new);
if (ret < 0) {
abort_creds(new);
return ret;
}
return commit_creds(new);There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:(1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.
(2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.
The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:
(1) execve().
This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
security code rather than altering the current creds directly.(2) Temporary credential overrides.
do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
on the thread being dumped.This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
the task's objective credentials.(3) LSM interface.
A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:
(*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
(*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()Removed in favour of security_capset().
(*) security_capset(), ->capset()
New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new
creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the
new creds, are now const.(*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()
Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
killed if it's an error.(*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()
Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().
(*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()
New. Free security data attached to cred->security.
(*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()
New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.
(*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()
New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
security by commit_creds().(*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()
Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().
(*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()
Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by
cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().(*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()
Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
directly to init's credentials.NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.(*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
(*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
refer to the security context.(4) sys_capset().
This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it
calls have been merged.(5) reparent_to_kthreadd().
This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
commit_thread() to point that way.(6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()
__sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
successful.switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting
__sigqueue_alloc().(7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.
The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
it.security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This
guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().
Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
commit_creds().The get functions all simply access the data directly.
(8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().
security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
rather than through an argument.Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
if it doesn't end up using it.(9) Keyrings.
A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:
(a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
They may want separating out again later.(b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.(c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
keyring.(d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.(e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
process or session keyrings (they're shared).(10) Usermode helper.
The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set
of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
after it has been cloned.call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A
special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
supplied keyring as the new session keyring.(11) SELinux.
SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
interface changes mentioned above:(a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that
the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
lock.(12) is_single_threaded().
This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
wants to use it too.The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want
to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).(13) nfsd.
The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials
down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
in this series have been applied.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: James Morris
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Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: James Morris
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: James Morris -
Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual
implementation.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: James Morris
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: James Morris -
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: James Morris
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
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Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: James Morris
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris
22 Oct, 2008
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Conflicts:
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
20 Oct, 2008
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…tp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus
18 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
17 Oct, 2008
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utsname() is quite expensive to calculate. Cache it in a local.
text data bss dec hex filename
before: 11136 720 16 11872 2e60 kernel/sys.o
after: 11096 720 16 11832 2e38 kernel/sys.oAcked-by: Vegard Nossum
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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On sethostname() and setdomainname(), previous information may be retained
if it was longer than than the new hostname/domainname.This can be demonstrated trivially by calling sethostname() first with a
long name, then with a short name, and then calling uname() to retrieve
the full buffer that contains the hostname (and possibly parts of the old
hostname), one just has to look past the terminating zero.I don't know if we should really care that much (hence the RFC); the only
scenarios I can possibly think of is administrator putting something
sensitive in the hostname (or domain name) by accident, and changing it
back will not undo the mistake entirely, though it's not like we can
recover gracefully from "rm -rf /" either... The other scenario is
namespaces (CLONE_NEWUTS) where some information may be unintentionally
"inherited" from the previous namespace (a program wants to hide the
original name and does clone + sethostname, but some information is still
left).I think the patch may be defended on grounds of the principle of least
surprise. But I am not adamant :-)(I guess the question now is whether userspace should be able to
write embedded NULs into the buffer or not...)At least the observation has been made and the patch has been presented.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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When a process wants to set the limit of open files to RLIM_INFINITY it
gets EPERM even if it has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability.For example, BIND does:
...
#elif defined(NR_OPEN) && defined(__linux__)
/*
* Some Linux kernels don't accept RLIM_INFINIT; the maximum
* possible value is the NR_OPEN defined in linux/fs.h.
*/
if (resource == isc_resource_openfiles && rlim_value == RLIM_INFINITY) {
rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = NR_OPEN;
unixresult = setrlimit(unixresource, &rl);
if (unixresult == 0)
return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
}
#elif ...If we allow setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY we increase portability
- you don't have to check if OS is linux and then use different schema for
limits.The spec says "Specifying RLIM_INFINITY as any resource limit value on a
successful call to setrlimit() shall inhibit enforcement of that resource
limit." and we're presently not doing that.Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Oct, 2008
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Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Sep, 2008
1 commit
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Overview
This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."
Code Changes
This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:struct task_cputime {
cputime_t utime;
cputime_t stime;
unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:struct thread_group_cputime {
struct task_cputime totals;
};struct thread_group_cputime {
struct task_cputime *totals;
};We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.
The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.Performance
The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.
Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many
voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
seconds per tick).Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed
for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.
Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results
were essentially the same with no itimer running.Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise,
performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this
test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below.
On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
06 Sep, 2008
1 commit
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We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by
select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property
(so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with
a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl().For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task
struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added
so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then
back to the default.The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less
than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows
the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications
and admins can override this via the prctl()Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
21 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting. The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process. Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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Call kernel_restart_prepare() in kernel_kexec() instead of duplicating the
code.Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the
following features:- Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
kexec.- Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.
The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under
Linux.kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:
1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.
3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"
4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.
5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
line can be as follow:/sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode
6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:
/sbin/kexec -e
Implementation point:
To support jumping without reserving memory. One shadow backup page (source
page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
page). When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped. Before jumping
to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
kernel and called code.A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2008
2 commits
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With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
uts_sem became unused.Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Presently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC. but it can return
NULL _very_ easily.GFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can't sleep. and, GFP_KERNEL is robust
and better.thus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup().
So, its callers pass the gfp_t as below:
call_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys():
depend on 'wait' argument.
call_usermodehelper_pipe():
always GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context.
orderly_poweroff():
pass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: "Paul Menage"
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 May, 2008
1 commit
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If none of the switch cases match, the PR_SET_PDEATHSIG and
PR_SET_DUMPABLE cases of the switch statement will never write to local
variable `error'.Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua
Cc: Andrew G. Morgan
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Apr, 2008
4 commits
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1. sys_getpgid() needs rcu_read_lock() to derive the pgrp _nr, even if
the task is current, otherwise we can race with another thread which
does sys_setpgid().2. Use rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock when pid != 0, make sure
that we don't use the NULL pid if the task exits right after successful
find_task_by_vpid().Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
1. sys_getsid() needs rcu_read_lock() to derive the session _nr, even if
the task is current, otherwise we can race with another thread which
does sys_setsid().2. The task can exit between find_task_by_vpid() and task_session_vnr(),
in that unlikely case sys_getsid() returns 0 instead of -ESRCH.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use change_pid() instead of detach_pid() + attach_pid() in sys_setpgid().
This way task_pgrp() is not NULL in between.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Just a trivial example, more to come.
k_getrusage() holds rcu_read_lock() because it was previously required by
lock_task_sighand(). Unneeded now.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Add the RUSAGE_THREAD option for the getrusage system call. This is
essentially Roland's patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/589, but the
line about RUSAGE_LWP line has been removed, as suggested by Ulrich and
Christoph.Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Ulrich Drepper
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Filesystem capability support makes it possible to do away with (set)uid-0
based privilege and use capabilities instead. That is, with filesystem
support for capabilities but without this present patch, it is (conceptually)
possible to manage a system with capabilities alone and never need to obtain
privilege via (set)uid-0.Of course, conceptually isn't quite the same as currently possible since few
user applications, certainly not enough to run a viable system, are currently
prepared to leverage capabilities to exercise privilege. Further, many
applications exist that may never get upgraded in this way, and the kernel
will continue to want to support their setuid-0 base privilege needs.Where pure-capability applications evolve and replace setuid-0 binaries, it is
desirable that there be a mechanisms by which they can contain their
privilege. In addition to leveraging the per-process bounding and inheritable
sets, this should include suppressing the privilege of the uid-0 superuser
from the process' tree of children.The feature added by this patch can be leveraged to suppress the privilege
associated with (set)uid-0. This suppression requires CAP_SETPCAP to
initiate, and only immediately affects the 'current' process (it is inherited
through fork()/exec()). This reimplementation differs significantly from the
historical support for securebits which was system-wide, unwieldy and which
has ultimately withered to a dead relic in the source of the modern kernel.With this patch applied a process, that is capable(CAP_SETPCAP), can now drop
all legacy privilege (through uid=0) for itself and all subsequently
fork()'d/exec()'d children with:prctl(PR_SET_SECUREBITS, 0x2f);
This patch represents a no-op unless CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES is
enabled at configure time.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning]
[serue@us.ibm.com: capabilities: use cap_task_prctl when !CONFIG_SECURITY]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Reviewed-by: James Morris
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Cc: Paul Moore
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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This patch adds prctl commands that make it possible
to deny the execution of timestamp counters in userspace.
If this is not implemented on a specific architecture,
prctl will return -EINVAL.ned-off-by: Erik Bosman
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
09 Feb, 2008
7 commits
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Some time ago the xxx_vnr() calls (e.g. pid_vnr or find_task_by_vpid) were
_all_ converted to operate on the current pid namespace. After this each call
like xxx_nr_ns(foo, current->nsproxy->pid_ns) is nothing but a xxx_vnr(foo)
one.Switch all the xxx_nr_ns() callers to use the xxx_vnr() calls where
appropriate.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With the new semantics of find_vpid() we don't need to play with ->nsproxy
explicitely, _vxx() do the right things.Also s/tasklist/rcu/.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Eric's "fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID)" eliminated the last reason for this hack.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
As Eric pointed out, there is no problem with init starting with sid == pgid
== 0, and this was historical linux behavior changed in 2.6.18.Remove kernel_init()->__set_special_pids(), this is unneeded and complicates
the rules for sys_setsid().This change and the previous change in daemonize() mean that /sbin/init does
not need the special "session != 1" hack in sys_setsid() any longer. We can't
remove this check yet, we should cleanup copy_process(CLONE_NEWPID) first, so
update the comment only.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Change set_special_pids() to work with struct pid, not pid_t from global name
space. This again speedups and imho cleanups the code, also a preparation for
the next patch.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sys_setsid() still deals with pid_t's from the global namespace. This means
that the "session > 1" check can't help for sub-namespace init, setsid() can't
succeed because copy_process(CLONE_NEWPID) populates PIDTYPE_PGID/SID links.Remove the usage of task_struct->pid and convert the code to use "struct pid".
This also simplifies and speedups the code, saves one find_pid().Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sys_setpgid() does unneeded conversions from pid_t to "struct pid" and vice
versa. Use "struct pid" more consistently. Saves one find_vpid() and
eliminates the explicit usage of ->nsproxy->pid_ns. Imho, cleanups the
code.Also use the same_thread_group() helper.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
