03 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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These patches make the kernel pass 64-bit inode numbers internally when
communicating to userspace, even on a 32-bit system. They are required
because some filesystems have intrinsic 64-bit inode numbers: NFS3+ and XFS
for example. The 64-bit inode numbers are then propagated to userspace
automatically where the arch supports it.Problems have been seen with userspace (eg: ld.so) using the 64-bit inode
number returned by stat64() or getdents64() to differentiate files, and
failing because the 64-bit inode number space was compressed to 32-bits, and
so overlaps occur.This patch:
Make filldir_t take a 64-bit inode number and struct kstat carry a 64-bit
inode number so that 64-bit inode numbers can be passed back to userspace.The stat functions then returns the full 64-bit inode number where
available and where possible. If it is not possible to represent the inode
number supplied by the filesystem in the field provided by userspace, then
error EOVERFLOW will be issued.Similarly, the getdents/readdir functions now pass the full 64-bit inode
number to userspace where possible, returning EOVERFLOW instead when a
directory entry is encountered that can't be properly represented.Note that this means that some inodes will not be stat'able on a 32-bit
system with old libraries where they were before - but it does mean that
there will be no ambiguity over what a 32-bit inode number refers to.Note similarly that directory scans may be cut short with an error on a
32-bit system with old libraries where the scan would work before for the
same reasons.It is judged unlikely that this situation will occur because modern glibc
uses 64-bit capable versions of stat and getdents class functions
exclusively, and that older systems are unlikely to encounter
unrepresentable inode numbers anyway.[akpm: alpha build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Oct, 2006
4 commits
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This adds the new kernel_execve function on all architectures that were using
_syscall3() to implement execve.The implementation uses code from the _syscall3 macros provided in the
unistd.h header file. I don't have cross-compilers for any of these
architectures, so the patch is untested with the exception of i386.Most architectures can probably implement this in a nicer way in assembly or
by combining it with the sys_execve implementation itself, but this should do
it for now.[bunk@stusta.de: m68knommu build fix]
[markh@osdl.org: build fix]
[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[ralf@linux-mips.org: mips fix]
[schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Ian Molton
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Richard Curnow
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Miles Bader
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move the init_nsproxy definition out of arch/ into kernel/nsproxy.c. This
avoids all arches having to be updated. Compiles and boots on s390.Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Andrey Savochkin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch adds a nsproxy structure to the task struct. Later patches will
move the fs namespace pointer into this structure, and introduce a new utsname
namespace into the nsproxy.The vserver and openvz functionality, then, would be implemented in large part
by virtualizing/isolating more and more resources into namespaces, each
contained in the nsproxy.[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Andrey Savochkin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
kprobe_flush_task() possibly calls kfree function during holding
kretprobe_lock spinlock, if kfree function is probed by kretprobe that will
incur spinlock deadlock. This patch moves kfree function out scope of
kretprobe_lock.Signed-off-by: bibo, mao
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Oct, 2006
3 commits
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This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With 2.6.18-rc4-mm2, now wall_jiffies will always be the same as jiffies.
So we can kill wall_jiffies completely.This is just a cleanup and logically should not change any real behavior
except for one thing: RTC updating code in (old) ppc and xtensa use a
condition "jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1". This condition is never met so I
suppose it is just a bug. I just remove that condition only instead of
kill the whole "if" block.[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 build fix and cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Ian Molton
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Richard Curnow
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Miles Bader
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use the new diagnose 0x9c in the spinlock implementation for s390. It
yields the remaining timeslice of the virtual cpu that tries to acquire a
lock to the virtual cpu that is the current holder of the lock.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Sep, 2006
3 commits
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Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390
timer interrupt handler with this change.Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but
callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update. Passing ticks
get rid of this redundant calculation. Also there are another redundancy
pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky.This cleanup make a barrier added by
5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless. So this patch removes
it.As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now
wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies. (This patch does not really
remove wall_jiffies. It would be another cleanup patch)Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: john stultz
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Acked-by: Russell King
Cc: Ian Molton
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Acked-by: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Richard Curnow
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Miles Bader
Cc: Chris Zankel
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.Eric's original description:
There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
because we give it special properties. Most significantly init
must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test
->pid == 1.Introduce is_init to capture this case.
With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
process that has pid == 1.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc:
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Convert s390 page handling macros to functions. In particular this fixes a
problem with s390's SetPageUptodate macro which uses its input parameter
twice which again can cause subtle bugs.[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Sep, 2006
8 commits
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Major cleanup of all s390 inline assemblies. They now have a common
coding style. Quite a few have been shortened, mainly by using register
asm variables. Use of the EX_TABLE macro helps as well. The atomic ops,
bit ops and locking inlines new use the Q-constraint if a newer gcc
is used. That results in slightly better code.Thanks to Christian Borntraeger for proof reading the changes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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Huge s390 assembly files whitespace cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
A user space program can read uninitialised kernel memory
by appending to a file from a bad address and then reading
the result back. The cause is the copy_from_user function
that does not clear the remaining bytes of the kernel
buffer after it got a fault on the user space address.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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Add a kernel config option for the IBM System z9. This will produce
faster code on newer compilers using the -march=z9-109 option.Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
The clocksource infrastructure introduced with commit
ad596171ed635c51a9eef829187af100cbf8dcf7 broke 31 bit s390.
The reason is that the do_div() primitive for 31 bit always
had a restriction: it could only divide an unsigned 64 bit
integer by an unsigned 31 bit integer. The clocksource code
now uses do_div() with a base value that has the most
significant bit set. The result is that clock->cycle_interval
has a funny value which causes the linux time to jump around
like mad.
The solution is "obvious": implement a proper __div64_32
function for 31 bit s390.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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sparse complains, if we use bitwise operations on enums. Cast enum to
long in order to fix that problem!Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Don't use static initialization for struct members containing
variables because gcc would generate more code and use double space
on stack.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Lock for mmap_sem is missing on page fault retry for init task
when it fails due to out of memory.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
27 Sep, 2006
4 commits
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Since sys_sysctl is deprecated start allow it to be compiled out. This
should catch any remaining user space code that cares, and paves the way
for further sysctl cleanups.[akpm@osdl.org: If sys_sysctl() is not compiled-in, emit a warning]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
...
26 Sep, 2006
4 commits
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Convert cmm's usage of kernel_thread to kthread_run. Also create the
cmmthread at module load time, so it is possible to check if creation of
the thread fails.In addition the cmmthread now gets terminated when the module gets unloaded
instead of leaving a stale kernel thread. Also check the return values of
other registration functions at module load and handle their return values
appropriately.Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Add a notifer chain to the out of memory killer. If one of the registered
callbacks could release some memory, do not kill the process but return and
retry the allocation that forced the oom killer to run.The purpose of the notifier is to add a safety net in the presence of
memory ballooners. If the resource manager inflated the balloon to a size
where memory allocations can not be satisfied anymore, it is better to
deflate the balloon a bit instead of killing processes.The implementation for the s390 ballooner is included.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
archDo not define or display counters for the DMA32 and the HIGHMEM zone if such
zones were not configured.[akpm@osdl.org: s390 fix]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
- Remove unused all_contexts parameter
No caller used it
- Move skip argument into the structure (needed for
followon patches)Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
23 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (64 commits)
[BLOCK] dm-crypt: trivial comment improvements
[CRYPTO] api: Deprecate crypto_digest_* and crypto_alg_available
[CRYPTO] padlock: Convert padlock-sha to use crypto_hash
[CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
[CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
[CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
[SCSI] iscsi: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
[CRYPTO] digest: Remove old HMAC implementation
[CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and me
[SCTP]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
[IPSEC]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
[CRYPTO] tcrypt: Use HMAC template and hash interface
[CRYPTO] hmac: Add crypto template implementation
[CRYPTO] digest: Added user API for new hash type
[CRYPTO] api: Mark parts of cipher interface as deprecated
[PATCH] scatterlist: Add const to sg_set_buf/sg_init_one pointer argument
[CRYPTO] drivers: Remove obsolete block cipher operations
[CRYPTO] users: Use block ciphers where applicable
[SUNRPC] GSS: Use block ciphers where applicable
[IPSEC] ESP: Use block ciphers where applicable
...
21 Sep, 2006
4 commits
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This patch removes obsolete block operations of the simple cipher type
from drivers. These were preserved so that existing users can make a
smooth transition. Now that the transition is complete, they are no
longer needed.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
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This patch adds block cipher algorithms for S390. Once all users of the
old cipher type have been converted the existing CBC/ECB non-block cipher
operations will be removed.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
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Accelerated versions of crypto algorithms must carry a distinct driver name
and priority in order to distinguish themselves from their generic counter-
part.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
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Now that the tfm is passed directly to setkey instead of the ctx, we no
longer need to pass the &tfm->crt_flags pointer.This patch also gets rid of a few unnecessary checks on the key length
for ciphers as the cipher layer guarantees that the key length is within
the bounds specified by the algorithm.Rather than testing dia_setkey every time, this patch does it only once
during crypto_alloc_tfm. The redundant check from crypto_digest_setkey
is also removed.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
20 Sep, 2006
8 commits
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When an invalid mount option is specified, no root inode is created
for hypfs, hypfs_fill_super() returns with -EINVAL and then
hypfs_kill_super() is called. hypfs_kill_super() does not check if
the root inode has been initialized. This patch adds this check.Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
This introduces new user-copy operations which are optimized for
copying more than 256 Bytes on new hardware.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Introduces a struct uaccess_ops which allows setting user-copy
operations at run-time.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Changed and simplified some page table related #defines and code.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
This patch delivers a new Linux API in the form of a misc char
device that is useable from user space and allows write access
to the z/VM APPLDATA Monitor Records collected by the *MONITOR
System Service of z/VM.Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Follow other architectures and remove kexec experimental flag.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Introduce asm header that contains the appldata data structures and
the diag inline assembly.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
