11 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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Dave Hansen reported the following;
My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reported-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Nicolai Stange
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Alex Ng
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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Waiman Long reported that 24TB machines hit OOM during basic setup when
struct page initialisation was deferred. One approach is to initialise
memory on demand but it interferes with page allocator paths. This patch
creates dedicated threads to initialise memory before basic setup. It
then blocks on a rw_semaphore until completion as a wait_queue and counter
is overkill. This may be slower to boot but it's simplier overall and
also gets rid of a section mangling which existed so kswapd could do the
initialisation.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include rwsem.h, use DECLARE_RWSEM, fix comment, remove unneeded cast]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Waiman Long
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Scott Norton
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
in the firmware subsystem. Nothing really major, full details in the
shortlog. Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
reverted.All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
base/platform: Remove code duplication
of/platform: Use platform_device interface
base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
driver-core: make __device_attach() static
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11 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before
timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization,
including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the
initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem
use ACPI early. Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions
on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward
its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit
c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later".However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken
on the Tyan S8812 mainboard.To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into
two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init()
and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into
a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early
ACPI initialization spot.That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI
tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in
efi_enter_virtual_mode().Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141
Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()"
Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Toshi Kani
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
20 May, 2015
1 commit
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This adds an extra argument onto parse_params() to be used
as a way to make the unused callback a bit more useful and
generic by allowing the caller to pass on a data structure
of its choice. An example use case is to allow us to easily
make module parameters for every module which we will do
next.@ parse @
identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max;
identifier unknown, param, val, doing;
type s16;
@@
extern char *parse_args(const char *name,
char *args,
const struct kernel_param *params,
unsigned num,
s16 level_min,
s16 level_max,
+ void *arg,
int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val,
const char *doing
+ , void *arg
));@ parse_mod @
identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max;
identifier unknown, param, val, doing;
type s16;
@@
char *parse_args(const char *name,
char *args,
const struct kernel_param *params,
unsigned num,
s16 level_min,
s16 level_max,
+ void *arg,
int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val,
const char *doing
+ , void *arg
))
{
...
}@ parse_args_found @
expression R, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6;
identifier func;
@@(
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
func);
|
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
&func);
|
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
NULL);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
func);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
&func);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
NULL);
)@ parse_args_unused depends on parse_args_found @
identifier parse_args_found.func;
@@int func(char *param, char *val, const char *unused
+ , void *arg
)
{
...
}@ mod_unused depends on parse_args_found @
identifier parse_args_found.func;
expression A1, A2, A3;
@@- func(A1, A2, A3);
+ func(A1, A2, A3, NULL);Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Felipe Contreras
Cc: Ewan Milne
Cc: Jean Delvare
Cc: Hannes Reinecke
Cc: Jani Nikula
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the
THREAD_SIZE.E.g. architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096.
This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads.With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function
set_max_threads. The error is not fixed.After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be
reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory.Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is
an exported symbol.The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for
fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar.Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Guenter Roeck
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Apr, 2015
4 commits
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Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- arch/sh updates
- ocfs2 updates
- kernel/watchdog feature
- about half of mm/
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (122 commits)
Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
arm: add support for memtest
arm64: add support for memtest
memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
mm: move memtest under mm
mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
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Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when
I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel.ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and
arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time.A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable
the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary.Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Robert Elliott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:- changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in
boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked.- add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU
grace periods.- improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs.
- NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes.
- tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny.
- documentation updates.
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well
cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler
rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays
rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise
rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling
rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations
rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef
rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()
rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual trivial tree updates. Nothing outstanding -- mostly printk()
and comment fixes and unused identifier removals"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
goldfish: goldfish_tty_probe() is not using 'i' any more
powerpc: Fix comment in smu.h
qla2xxx: Fix printks in ql_log message
lib: correct link to the original source for div64_u64
si2168, tda10071, m88ds3103: Fix firmware wording
usb: storage: Fix printk in isd200_log_config()
qla2xxx: Fix printk in qla25xx_setup_mode
init/main: fix reset_device comment
ipwireless: missing assignment
goldfish: remove unreachable line of code
coredump: Fix do_coredump() comment
stacktrace.h: remove duplicate declaration task_struct
smpboot.h: Remove unused function prototype
treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
mod_devicetable: fix comment for match_flags
13 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU
has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures. This might
potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the
correct CPU isn't fully set up yet.That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some
systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to:2a442c9c6453 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code")
This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug
notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after
the CPU has been added to the runqueues.Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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Fix incorrect spelling of situation.
Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
05 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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Now we call ss->bind() in cgroup_init(), so cgroup_init() will
call cpuset_bind() and then the latter will access top_cpuset's
cpumask, which is NULL, because cpuset_init() is called after
cgroup_init()The simplest fix is to swap cgroup_init() and cpuset_init().
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Fixes: 295458e67284 ("cgroup: call cgroup_subsys->bind on cgroup subsys initialization")
Reported by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
14 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case that
makes it worth keeping around. Delete it.Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Chuck Ebbert
Cc: Frank Rowand
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Rob Landley
Cc: Shuah Khan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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The UP local API support can be set up from an early initcall. No need
for horrible hackery in the init code.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jiang Liu
Cc: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.827943883@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
17 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Pull vfs pile #2 from Al Viro:
"Next pile (and there'll be one or two more).The large piece in this one is getting rid of /proc/*/ns/* weirdness;
among other things, it allows to (finally) make nameidata completely
opaque outside of fs/namei.c, making for easier further cleanups in
there"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
coda_venus_readdir(): use file_inode()
fs/namei.c: fold link_path_walk() call into path_init()
path_init(): don't bother with LOOKUP_PARENT in argument
fs/namei.c: new helper (path_cleanup())
path_init(): store the "base" pointer to file in nameidata itself
make default ->i_fop have ->open() fail with ENXIO
make nameidata completely opaque outside of fs/namei.c
kill proc_ns completely
take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs
bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc
copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common
new helpers: ns_alloc_inum/ns_free_inum
make proc_ns_operations work with struct ns_common * instead of void *
switch the rest of proc_ns_operations to working with &...->ns
netns: switch ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() to working with &net->ns
make mntns ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() work with &mnt_ns->ns
common object embedded into various struct ....ns -
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now.This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.
This adds two new features:
1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().
By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like
the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this
has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can
add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
things go wrong.2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
are triggered.If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
early lock up or reboot problems.This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas
tried them out too and it works for his needs.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"
* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
15 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.orgReviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
Pull security layer updates from James Morris:
"In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack,
SELinux, and integrity code.The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT,
which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures. Support for reading
keys from rootfs before init is call is also added"* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
selinux: Remove security_ops extern
security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack()
VFS: refactor vfs_read()
ima: require signature based appraisal
integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready
ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file()
Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack
Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels
ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt
ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero
ima: added error messages to template-related functions
ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface
ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines
ima: no need to allocate entry for comment
ima: report policy load status
ima: use path names cache
...
14 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But,
this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment. Please refer it.Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2014
4 commits
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New pseudo-filesystem: nsfs. Targets of /proc/*/ns/* live there now.
It's not mountable (not even registered, so it's not in /proc/filesystems,
etc.). Files on it *are* bindable - we explicitly permit that in do_loopback().This stuff lives in fs/nsfs.c now; proc_ns_fget() moved there as well.
get_proc_ns() is a macro now (it's simply returning ->i_private; would
have been an inline, if not for header ordering headache).
proc_ns_inode() is an ex-parrot. The interface used in procfs is
ns_get_path(path, task, ops) and ns_get_name(buf, size, task, ops).Dentries and inodes are never hashed; a non-counting reference to dentry
is stashed in ns_common (removed by ->d_prune()) and reused by ns_get_path()
if present. See ns_get_path()/ns_prune_dentry/nsfs_evict() for details
of that mechanism.As the result, proc_ns_follow_link() has stopped poking in nd->path.mnt;
it does nd_jump_link() on a consistent pair it gets
from ns_get_path().Signed-off-by: Al Viro
-
If a user puts init=/whatever on the command line and /whatever can't be
run, then the kernel will try a few default options before giving up. If
init=/whatever came from a bootloader prompt, then this is unexpected but
probably harmless. On the other hand, if it comes from a script (e.g. a
tool like virtme or perhaps a future kselftest script), then the fallbacks
are likely to exist, but they'll do the wrong thing. For example, they
might unexpectedly invoke systemd.This adds a config option CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK. If unset, then a failure
to run the specified init= process be fatal.The tentative plan is to remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK for 3.20.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Rob Landley
Cc: Chuck Ebbert
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Shuah Khan
Cc: Frank Rowand
Cc: Josh Triplett
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers. To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged. The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory. With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space. Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.text data bss dec hex filename
8828345 1725264 983040 11536649 b00909 vmlinux.old
8827425 1725264 966656 11519345 afc571 vmlinux.new[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Nov, 2014
1 commit
18 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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Keys can only be loaded once the rootfs is mounted. Initcalls
are not suitable for that. This patch defines a special hook
to load the x509 public keys onto the IMA keyring, before
attempting to access any file. The keys are required for
verifying the file's signature. The hook is called after the
root filesystem is mounted and before the kernel calls 'init'.Changes in v3:
* added more explanation to the patch description (Mimi)Changes in v2:
* Hook renamed as 'integrity_load_keys()' to handle both IMA and EVM
keys by integrity subsystem.
* Hook patch moved after defining loading functionsSigned-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar
11 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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Currently if the user passes an invalid value on the kernel command line
then the kernel will crash during argument parsing. On most systems this
is very hard to debug because the console hasn't been initialized yet.This is a regression due to commit 51e158c12aca ("param: hand arguments
after -- straight to init") which, in response to the systemd debug
controversy, made it possible to explicitly pass arguments to init. To
achieve this parse_args() was extended from simply returning an error
code to returning a pointer. Regretably the new init args logic does not
perform a proper validity check on the pointer resulting in a crash.This patch fixes the validity check. Should the check fail then no arguments
will be passed to init. This is reasonable and matches how the kernel treats
its own arguments (i.e. no error recovery).Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
14 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of
__start___param[] and __stop___param in . This
requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c
const.Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Oct, 2014
2 commits
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:- Optimized support for Intel "Cluster-on-Die" (CoD) topologies (Dave
Hansen)- Various sched/idle refinements for better idle handling (Nicolas
Pitre, Daniel Lezcano, Chuansheng Liu, Vincent Guittot)- sched/numa updates and optimizations (Rik van Riel)
- sysbench speedup (Vincent Guittot)
- capacity calculation cleanups/refactoring (Vincent Guittot)
- Various cleanups to thread group iteration (Oleg Nesterov)
- Double-rq-lock removal optimization and various refactorings
(Kirill Tkhai)- various sched/deadline fixes
... and lots of other changes"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
sched/dl: Use dl_bw_of() under rcu_read_lock_sched()
sched/fair: Delete resched_cpu() from idle_balance()
sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
sched: Improve sysbench performance by fixing spurious active migration
sched/x86: Fix up typo in topology detection
x86, sched: Add new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs
sched/rt: Use resched_curr() in task_tick_rt()
sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
sched: cleanup: Rename 'out_unlock' to 'out_free_new_mask'
sched: Use dl_bw_of() under RCU read lock
sched/fair: Remove duplicate code from can_migrate_task()
sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
sched: print_rq(): Don't use tasklist_lock
sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()
sched: Fix the task-group check in tg_has_rt_tasks()
sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu
sched: Let the scheduler see CPU idle states
sched/deadline: Fix inter- exclusive cpusets migrations
sched/deadline: Clear dl_entity params when setscheduling to different class
sched/numa: Kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:- changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL
- RCU-tasks implementation
- torture-test updates
- miscellaneous fixes
- locktorture updates
- RCU documentation updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
locktorture: Cleanup header usage
locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
locktorture: Support rwlocks
rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
locktorture: Introduce torture context
locktorture: Support rwsems
locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
torture: Address race in module cleanup
locktorture: Make statistics generic
locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
locktorture: Support mutexes
locktorture: Add documentation
...
19 Sep, 2014
1 commit
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Tasks get their end of stack set to STACK_END_MAGIC with the
aim to catch stack overruns. Currently this feature does not
apply to init_task. This patch removes this restriction.Note that a similar patch was posted by Prarit Bhargava
some time ago but was never merged:http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127144305403241&w=2
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: bmr@redhat.com
Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com
Cc: jgh@redhat.com
Cc: minchan@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: Alex Thorlton
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Daeseok Youn
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Fabian Frederick
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Michael Opdenacker
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Seiji Aguchi
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Sep, 2014
1 commit
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Commit b58cc46c5f6b (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug. Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker
14 Sep, 2014
1 commit
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This way we unbloat a bit main.c and more importantly we initialize
nohz full after init_IRQ(). This dependency will be needed in further
patches because nohz full needs irq work to raise its own IRQ.
Information about the support for this ability on ARM64 is obtained on
init_IRQ() which initialize the pointer to __smp_call_function.Since tick_init() is called right after init_IRQ(), this is a good place
to call tick_nohz_init() and prepare for that dependency.Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
09 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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Fixing some checkpatch warnings(remove global initialization, move
__initdata, coalesce formats ...)Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can
re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks,
but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
parse_args()"* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c
cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare
Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx
param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()
05 Jun, 2014
4 commits
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Pull x86-64 espfix changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is the espfix64 code, which fixes the IRET information leak as
well as the associated functionality problem. With this code applied,
16-bit stack segments finally work as intended even on a 64-bit
kernel.Consequently, this patchset also removes the runtime option that we
added as an interim measure.To help the people working on Linux kernels for very small systems,
this patchset also makes these compile-time configurable features"* 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option"
x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support
x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML
x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard
x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file
x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race
x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack -
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
1. Remove CLONE_KERNEL, it has no users and it is dangerous.
The (old) comment says "List of flags we want to share for kernel
threads" but this is not true, we do not want to share ->sighand by
default. This flag can only be used if the caller is sure that both
parent/child will never play with signals (say, allow_signal/etc).2. Change rest_init() to clone kernel_init() without CLONE_SIGHAND.
In this case CLONE_SIGHAND does not really hurt, and it looks like
optimization because copy_sighand() can avoid kmem_cache_alloc().But in fact this only adds the minor pessimization. kernel_init()
is going to exec the init process, and de_thread() will need to
unshare ->sighand and do kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep) anyway,
but it needs to do more work and take tasklist_lock and siglock.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When a module is built into the kernel the module_init() function
becomes an initcall. Sometimes debugging through dynamic debug can
help, however, debugging built in kernel modules is typically done by
changing the .config, recompiling, and booting the new kernel in an
effort to determine exactly which module caused a problem.This patchset can be useful stand-alone or combined with initcall_debug.
There are cases where some initcalls can hang the machine before the
console can be flushed, which can make initcall_debug output inaccurate.
Having the ability to skip initcalls can help further debugging of these
scenarios.Usage: initcall_blacklist=
ex) added "initcall_blacklist=sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter and
the log contains:blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init
...
...
initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklistedex) added "initcall_blacklist=foo_bar,sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter
and the log contains:blacklisting initcall foo_bar
blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init
...
...
initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklisted[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak printk text]
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Josh Boyer
Cc: Rob Landley
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
