25 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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sysvipc_shm_proc_show() picks between format strings (based on the
expected maximum length of a SHM segment) in a way that prevents gcc from
performing format checks on the seq_printf() parameters. This hid two
format errors - shp->shm_segsz and shp->shm_nattach are both unsigned
long, but were being printed as unsigned int and signed int respectively.
This leads to 32-bit truncation of SHM segment sizes reported in
/proc/sysvipc/shm. (And for nattach, but that's less of a problem for
most users).This patch makes the format string directly visible to gcc's format
specifier checker, and fixes the two broken format specifiers.Signed-off-by: Paul Menage
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Cc: Manfred Spraul
Cc: Pierre Peiffer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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Found a silly double assignment of err is do_shmat. Silly, but good to
clean up the useless code.Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2008
5 commits
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semctl_down(), msgctl_down() and shmctl_down() are used to handle the same set
of commands for each kind of IPC. They all start to do the same job (they
retrieve the ipc and do some permission checks) before handling the commands
on their own.This patch proposes to consolidate this by moving these same pieces of code
into one common function called ipcctl_pre_down().It simplifies a little these xxxctl_down() functions and increases a little
the maintainability.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The IPC_SET command performs the same permission setting for all IPCs. This
patch introduces a common ipc_update_perm() function to update these
permissions and makes use of it for all IPCs.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
All IPCs make use of an intermetiate *_setbuf structure to handle the IPC_SET
command. This is not really needed and, moreover, it complicates a little bit
the code.This patch gets rid of the use of it and uses directly the semid64_ds/
msgid64_ds/shmid64_ds structure.In addition of removing one struture declaration, it also simplifies and
improves a little bit the common 64-bits path.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently, the way the different commands are handled in sys_shmctl introduces
some duplicated code.This patch introduces the shmctl_down function to handle all the commands
requiring the rwmutex to be taken in write mode (ie IPC_SET and IPC_RMID for
now). It is the equivalent function of semctl_down for shared memory.This removes some duplicated code for handling these both commands and
harmonizes the way they are handled among all IPCs.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
By continuing to consolidate a little the IPC code, each id can be built
directly in ipc_addid() instead of having it built from each callers of
ipc_addid()And I also remove shm_addid() in order to have, as much as possible, the
same code for shm/sem/msg.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Apr, 2008
2 commits
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After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
fast paths. In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
unref for interleave policies.A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
simplifies the code. Maybe I'll get it right this time.See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.Summary:
Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
policies. So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
counting added by my previous attempt. It then unrefs only shared policies
when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
helper function introduced by this patch.Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
containing just the policy. read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
this case. To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy. This copy occurs before reading
a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
here.I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
conditional free. The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
get_vma_policy() is not handling fallback to task policy correctly when the
get_policy() vm_op returns NULL. The NULL overwrites the 'pol' variable that
was holding the fallback task mempolicy. So, it was falling back directly to
system default policy.Fix get_vma_policy() to use only non-NULL policy returned from the vma
get_policy op.shm_get_policy() was falling back to current task's mempolicy if the "backing
file system" [tmpfs vs hugetlbfs] does not support the get_policy vm_op and
the vma policy is null. This is incorrect for show_numa_maps() which is
likely querying the numa_maps of some task other than current. Remove this
fallback.Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Mar, 2008
1 commit
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Address 3 known bugs in the current memory policy reference counting method.
I have a series of patches to rework the reference counting to reduce overhead
in the allocation path. However, that series will require testing in -mm once
I repost it.1) alloc_page_vma() does not release the extra reference taken for
vma/shared mempolicy when the mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE. This can result in
leaking mempolicy structures. This is probably occurring, but not being
noticed.Fix: add the conditional release of the reference.
2) hugezonelist unconditionally releases a reference on the mempolicy when
mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE. This can result in decrementing the reference
count for system default policy [should have no ill effect] or premature
freeing of task policy. If this occurred, the next allocation using task
mempolicy would use the freed structure and probably BUG out.Fix: add the necessary check to the release.
3) The current reference counting method assumes that vma 'get_policy()'
methods automatically add an extra reference a non-NULL returned mempolicy.
This is true for shmem_get_policy() used by tmpfs mappings, including
regular page shm segments. However, SHM_HUGETLB shm's, backed by
hugetlbfs, just use the vma policy without the extra reference. This
results in freeing of the vma policy on the first allocation, with reuse of
the freed mempolicy structure on subsequent allocations.Fix: Rather than add another condition to the conditional reference
release, which occur in the allocation path, just add a reference when
returning the vma policy in shm_get_policy() to match the assumptions.Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Feb, 2008
3 commits
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sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns() and shm_exit_ns() are all called when an
ipc_namespace is released to free all ipcs of each type. But in fact, they
do the same thing: they loop around all ipcs to free them individually by
calling a specific routine.This patch proposes to consolidate this by introducing a common function,
free_ipcs(), that do the job. The specific routine to call on each
individual ipcs is passed as parameter. For this, these ipc-specific
'free' routines are reworked to take a generic 'struct ipc_perm' as
parameter.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Each ipc_namespace contains a table of 3 pointers to struct ipc_ids (3 for
msg, sem and shm, structure used to store all ipcs) These 'struct ipc_ids'
are dynamically allocated for each icp_namespace as the ipc_namespace
itself (for the init namespace, they are initialized with pointers to
static variables instead)It is so for historical reason: in fact, before the use of idr to store the
ipcs, the ipcs were stored in tables of variable length, depending of the
maximum number of ipc allowed. Now, these 'struct ipc_ids' have a fixed
size. As they are allocated in any cases for each new ipc_namespace, there
is no gain of memory in having them allocated separately of the struct
ipc_namespace.This patch proposes to make this table static in the struct ipc_namespace.
Thus, we can allocate all in once and get rid of all the code needed to
allocate and free these ipc_ids separately.Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently the IPC namespace management code is spread over the ipc/*.c files.
I moved this code into ipc/namespace.c file which is compiled out when needed.The linux/ipc_namespace.h file is used to store the prototypes of the
functions in namespace.c and the stubs for NAMESPACES=n case. This is done
so, because the stub for copy_ipc_namespace requires the knowledge of the
CLONE_NEWIPC flag, which is in sched.h. But the linux/ipc.h file itself in
included into many many .c files via the sys.h->sem.h sequence so adding the
sched.h into it will make all these .c depend on sched.h which is not that
good. On the other hand the knowledge about the namespaces stuff is required
in 4 .c files only.Besides, this patch compiles out some auxiliary functions from ipc/sem.c,
msg.c and shm.c files. It turned out that moving these functions into
namespaces.c is not that easy because they use many other calls and macros
from the original file. Moving them would make this patch complicated. On
the other hand all these functions can be consolidated, so I will send a
separate patch doing this a bit later.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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In the new implementation of the [sem|shm|msg]_lock[_check]() routines, we
use the return value of ipc_lock() in container_of() without any check.
But ipc_lock may return a errcode. The use of this errcode in
container_of() may alter this errcode, and we don't want this.And in xxx_exit_ns, the pointer return by idr_find is of type 'struct
kern_ipc_per'...Today, the code will work as is because the member used in these
container_of() is the first member of its container (offset == 0), the
errcode isn't changed then. But in the general case, we can't count on
this assumption and this may lead later to a real bug if we don't correct
this.Again, the proposed solution is simple and correct. But, as pointed by
Nadia, with this solution, the same check will be done several times (in
all sub-callers...), what is not very funny/optimal...Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2007
10 commits
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With the use of idr to store the ipc, the case where the idr cache is
empty, when idr_get_new is called (this may happen even if we call
idr_pre_get() before), is not well handled: it lets
semget()/shmget()/msgget() return ENOSPC when this cache is empty, what 1.
does not reflect the facts and 2. does not conform to the man(s).This patch fixes this by retrying the whole process of allocation in this case.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remvoe the unneeded parameters from ipc_checkid() and ipc_buildid()
interfaces.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a patch that fixes the way idr_find() used to be called in ipc_lock():
in all the paths that don't imply an update of the ipcs idr, it was called
without the idr tree being locked.The changes are:
. in ipc_ids, the mutex has been changed into a reader/writer semaphore.
. ipc_lock() now takes the mutex as a reader during the idr_find().
. a new routine ipc_lock_down() has been defined: it doesn't take the
mutex, assuming that it is being held by the caller. This is the routine
that is now called in all the update paths.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch fixes the wrong / obsolete comments in the ipc code. Also adds
a missing lock around ipc_get_maxid() in shm_get_stat().Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch converts casts of struct kern_ipc_perm to
. struct msg_queue
. struct sem_array
. struct shmid_kernel
into the equivalent container_of() macro. It improves code maintenance
because the code need not change if kern_ipc_perm is no longer at the
beginning of the containing struct.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch introduces a new ipc_lock_check() routine interface:
. each time ipc_checkid() is called, this is done after calling ipc_lock().
ipc_checkid() is now called from inside ipc_lock_check().[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix RCU locking]
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a trivial patch that removes the ipc_get() routine: it is replaced
by a call to idr_find().Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch introduces a change into the sys_msgget(), sys_semget() and
sys_shmget() routines: they now share a common code, which is better for
maintainability.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch introduces ipcs storage into IDRs. The main changes are:
. This ipc_ids structure is changed: the entries array is changed into a
root idr structure.
. The grow_ary() routine is removed: it is not needed anymore when adding
an ipc structure, since we are now using the IDR facility.
. The ipc_rmid() routine interface is changed:
. there is no need for this routine to return the pointer passed in as
argument: it is now declared as a void
. since the id is now part of the kern_ipc_perm structure, no need to
have it as an argument to the routineSigned-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.The idea is:
- all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
- when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
- when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
task's namespace the global one is to be used;
- when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
2 commits
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Why do we need r/o bind mounts?
This feature allows a read-only view into a read-write filesystem. In the
process of doing that, it also provides infrastructure for keeping track of
the number of writers to any given mount.This has a number of uses. It allows chroots to have parts of filesystems
writable. It will be useful for containers in the future because users may
have root inside a container, but should not be allowed to write to
somefilesystems. This also replaces patches that vserver has had out of the
tree for several years.It allows security enhancement by making sure that parts of your filesystem
read-only (such as when you don't trust your FTP server), when you don't want
to have entire new filesystems mounted, or when you want atime selectively
updated. I've been using the following script to test that the feature is
working as desired. It takes a directory and makes a regular bind and a r/o
bind mount of it. It then performs some normal filesystem operations on the
three directories, including ones that are expected to fail, like creating a
file on the r/o mount.This patch:
Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their own 'struct
file's.This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be used by these
filesystems, and will provide a unified place which the r/o bind mount code
may patch.Also, rename an existing, static-scope init_file() to a less generic name.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Aug, 2007
2 commits
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When user locks an ipc shmem segmant with SHM_LOCK ctl and the segment is
already locked the shmem_lock() function returns 0. After this the
subsequent code leaks the existing user struct:== ipc/shm.c: sys_shmctl() ==
...
err = shmem_lock(shp->shm_file, 1, user);
if (!err) {
shp->shm_perm.mode |= SHM_LOCKED;
shp->mlock_user = user;
}
...
==Other results of this are:
1. the new shp->mlock_user is not get-ed and will point to freed
memory when the task dies.
2. the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is screwed on both user structs.The exploit looks like this:
==
id = shmget(...);
setresuid(uid, 0, 0);
shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
setresuid(uid + 1, 0, 0);
shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
==My solution is to return 0 to the userspace and do not change the
segment's user.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix the SYSV IPC SHM to work with the changes applied by the new fault handler
patches when CONFIG_MMU=n.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).
But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS have very little value as they only
deactivate the unshare of the uts and ipc namespaces and do not improve
performance.Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Pavel Emelianov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jun, 2007
3 commits
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Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when examining
/proc//maps. To do so they look for a block device with major zero, a
dentry named SYSV, and having the minor of the internal sysv
shared memory kernel mount.To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing
/proc//maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to use the
SYSV dentry naming convention.User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv shared
memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so has a different
block device minor number from the rest of sysv shared memory.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Albert Cahalan
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Here's another breakage as a result of shared memory stacked files :(
The NUMA policy for a VMA is determined by checking the following (in the
order given):1) vma->vm_ops->get_policy() (if defined)
2) vma->vm_policy (if defined)
3) task->mempolicy (if defined)
4) Fall back to default_policyBy switching to stacked files for shared memory, get_policy() is now always
set to shm_get_policy which is a wrapper function. This causes us to stop
at step 1, which yields NULL for hugetlb instead of task->mempolicy which
was the previous (and correct) result.This patch modifies the shm_get_policy() wrapper to maintain steps 1-3 for
the wrapped vm_ops.(akpm: the refcounting of mempolicies is busted and this patch does nothing to
improve it)Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: William Irwin
Cc: dean gaudet
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
shmid used to be stored as inode# for shared memory segments. Some of
the proc-ps tools use this from /proc/pid/maps. Recent cleanups
to newseg() changed it. This patch sets inode number back to shared
memory id to fix breakage.Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty
Cc: "Albert Cahalan"
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Mar, 2007
2 commits
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This patch provides the following hugetlb-related fixes to the recent stacked
shm files changes:
- Update is_file_hugepages() so it will reconize hugetlb shm segments.
- get_unmapped_area must be called with the nested file struct to handle
the sfd->file->f_ops->get_unmapped_area == NULL case.
- The fsync f_op must be wrapped since it is specified in the hugetlbfs
f_ops.This is based on proposed fixes from Eric Biederman that were debugged and
tested by me. Without it, attempting to use hugetlb shared memory segments
on powerpc (and likely ia64) will kill your box.Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: William Irwin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
shm_nopage() can become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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The current ipc shared memory code runs into several problems because it
does not quite use files like the rest of the kernel. With the option of
backing ipc shared memory with either hugetlbfs or ordinary shared memory
the problems got worse. With the added support for ipc namespaces things
behaved so unexpected that we now have several bad namespace reference
counting bugs when using what appears at first glance to be a reasonable
idiom.So to attack these problems and hopefully make the code more maintainable
this patch simply uses the files provided by other parts of the kernel and
builds it's own files out of them. The shm files are allocated in do_shmat
and freed when their reference count drops to zero with their last unmap.
The file and vm operations that we don't want to implement or we don't
implement completely we just delegate to the operations of our backing
file.This means that we now get an accurate shm_nattch count for we have a
hugetlbfs inode for backing store, and the shm accounting of last attach
and last detach time work as well.This means that getting a reference to the ipc namespace when we create the
file and dropping the referenece in the release method is now safe and
correct.This means we no longer need a special case for clearing VM_MAYWRITE
as our file descriptor now only has write permissions when we have
requested write access when calling shmat. Although VM_SHARED is now
cleared as well which I believe is harmless and is mostly likely a
minor bug fix.By using the same set of operations for both the hugetlb case and regular
shared memory case shmdt is not simplified and made slightly more correct
as now the test "vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops" is 100% accurate in spotting
all shared memory regions generated from sysvipc shared memory.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Michal Piotrowski
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jan, 2007
1 commit
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As written, sys_shmget will return ENOSPC when one page is still
available for allocation. This patch corrects the test.Signed-off-by: Guy Streeter
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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