NeilBrown [Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:55:44 +0000 (15:55 +1100)]
md: raid1/raid10: handle allocation errors during array setup.
Both raid1 and raid10 create a mempool during startup.
If the 'alloc' function for this mempool fails, unplug_slaves
is called.
If that happens when the pool is being initialised, unplug_slaves
will try to use the 'conf' structure that isn't filled in yet, and
badness will happen.
So ensure that unplug_slaves doesn't get called unless we know
that the conf structure if fully initialised.
Dan Williams [Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:55:38 +0000 (15:55 +1100)]
md/raid5: initialize conf->device_lock earlier
Deallocating a raid5_conf_t structure requires taking 'device_lock'.
Ensure it is initialized before it is used, i.e. initialize the lock
before attempting any further initializations that might fail.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown [Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:55:32 +0000 (15:55 +1100)]
md/raid1/raid10: add a cond_resched
During 'check' of a raid1 or raid10 it is possible for the management
thread to spend a lot of time running 'memcmp' on blocks from
different devices, so make sure the thread has a chance to schedule.
raid5d already has a cond_resched (in process_stripe).
Reported-By: Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits)
microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs
microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address
microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections
microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets
microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C
microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:"
microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing.
microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR
microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero
microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions
microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file
microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals
microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes
microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS
microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception
microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers
microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h.
microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction
microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (42 commits)
Btrfs: hash the btree inode during fill_super
Btrfs: relocate file extents in clusters
Btrfs: don't rename file into dummy directory
Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
Btrfs: fix early enospc during balancing
Btrfs: deal with NULL space info
Btrfs: account for space used by the super mirrors
Btrfs: fix extent entry threshold calculation
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: fix bitmap size tracking
Btrfs: don't keep retrying a block group if we fail to allocate a cluster
Btrfs: make balance code choose more wisely when relocating
Btrfs: fix arithmetic error in clone ioctl
Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy ioctl
Btrfs: change how subvolumes are organized
Btrfs: do not reuse objectid of deleted snapshot/subvol
Btrfs: speed up snapshot dropping
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
truncate: use new helpers
truncate: new helpers
fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
exofs: remove BKL from super operations
fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
libfs: return error code on failed attr set
seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
vfs: optimize touch_time() too
vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:59 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.
All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:58 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).
(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Jan Beulich [Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:51:44 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits)
md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation
md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath.
md: report device as congested when suspended
md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread
md: remove sparse warnings about lock context.
md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one"
async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case
ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings
drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings
raid6test: fix stack overflow
ioat2: clarify ring size limits
md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2
md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect
dca: module load should not be an error message
ioat: driver version 4.0
dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains
async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction
dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver
dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client
fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support
...
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
V4L/DVB (13039): dib0700: not building CONFIG_DVB_TUNER_DIB0070 breaks compilation
V4L/DVB (13038): dvbdev: Remove an anoying/uneeded warning
V4L/DVB (13037): go7007: Revert compatibility code added at the wrong place
media: video: Fix build in saa7164
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
...
task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process,
it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is
handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: fix usage for compressed kernels
When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as
for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including
<linux/kernel.h> causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are
not available in the decompression environment.
linux/kernel.h brings at least:
extern int console_printk[];
extern const char hex_asc[];
which causes errors at link-time as they are not available when
compiling the pre-boot environement. There are also a few others:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `valid_user_regs':
arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h:158: undefined reference to `elf_hwcap'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_silent':
include/linux/kernel.h:292: undefined reference to `console_printk'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_verbose':
include/linux/kernel.h:297: undefined reference to `console_printk'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `pack_hex_byte':
include/linux/kernel.h:360: undefined reference to `hex_asc'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `hweight_long':
include/linux/bitops.h:45: undefined reference to `hweight32'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__cmpxchg_local_generic':
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:21: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:42: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__xchg':
arch/arm/include/asm/system.h:309: undefined reference to `__bad_xchg'
However, those files apparently use nothing from <linux/kernel.h>, all
they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so
<linux/types.h> should be enough
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lzma/gzip: fix potential oops when input data is truncated
If the lzma/gzip decompressors are called with insufficient input data
(len > 0 & fill = NULL), they will attempt to call the fill function to
obtain more data, leading to a kernel oops.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Julia Lawall [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:36 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c: fix resource size off by 1 error
In this case, the calls to request_mem_region, ioremap, and
release_mem_region all have a consistent length argument, len, but since
in other files (res->end - res->start) + 1, equivalent to
resource_size(res), is used for a resource-typed structure res, one could
consider whether the same should be done here.
The problem was found using the following semantic patch:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
edac: core: remove completion-wait for complete with rcu_barrier
Module edac_core.ko uses call_rcu() callbacks in edac_device.c, edac_mc.c
and edac_pci.c.
They all use a wait_for_completion() scheme, but this scheme it not 100%
safe on multiple CPUs. See the _rcu_barrier() implementation which
explains why extra precausion is needed.
The patch adds a comment about rcu_barrier() and as a precausion calls
rcu_barrier(). A maintainer needs to look at removing the
wait_for_completion code.
Jason Uhlenkott [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:27 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: i3200 memory controller driver
A driver for the Intel 3200 and 3210 memory controllers. It has only had
light testing so far, and currently makes no attempt to decode error
addresses at anything finer than csrow granularity.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ira W. Snyder [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:25 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add mpc83xx support
Add support for the Freescale MPC83xx memory controller to the existing
driver for the Freescale MPC85xx memory controller. The only difference
between the two processors are in the CS_BNDS register parsing code, which
has been changed so it will work on both processors.
The L2 cache controller does not exist on the MPC83xx, but the OF
subsystem will not use the driver if the device is not present in the OF
device tree.
I had to change the nr_pages calculation to make the math work out. I
checked it on my board and did the math by hand for a 64GB 85xx using 64K
pages. In both cases, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE comes out to the correct
value.
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yang Shi [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:24 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add P2020DS support
Based on Kumar's new compatible types patch, add P2020 into MPC85xx EDAC
compatible lists so that EDAC can recognize P2020 meomry controller and L2
cache controller and export the relevant fields to sysfs.
EDAC MPC85xx DDR3 support is needed if DDR3 memory stick is installed on a
P2020DS board so that EDAC core can recognize DDR3 memory type.
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For
consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable
CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
pid namespaces are clear.
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a
multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as
zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So
prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:17 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
MAINTAINERS: add Matt Mackall and Herbert Xu to HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:16 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
bfin-otp: add writing support
The on-chip OTP may be written at runtime, so enable support for it in the
driver. However, since writing should really be done only on development
systems, don't bend over backwards to make sure the simple software lock
is per-fd -- per-device is OK.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nils Carlson [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:13 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
hpet: hpet driver periodic timer setup bug fixes
The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly,
both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while
emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic
mode).
With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first
set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has
the side effect of overwriting the comparator value. This results in
wrong periodicity for the interrupts. For, periodic interrupts to work,
following steps are necessary, in that order.
* Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit
* Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the
first interrupt should be generated
* Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts
(http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf )
When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic
interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of
comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation.
Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic
interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable
of doing periodic interrupts. This hp_delta will result in slower than
expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230 s[0] = '!';
kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.
[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s] Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In read_zero, we check for access_ok() once for the count bytes. It is
unnecessarily checked again in clear_user. Use __clear_user, which does
not check for access_ok().
David Howells [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:06 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fdpic: ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size
Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size, and only
consider the executable's PT_GNU_STACK, assuming the executable has one.
Currently the behaviour is to take the largest stack size and use that,
but that means you can't reduce the stack size in the executable. The
loader's stack size should probably only be used when executing the loader
directly.
WARNING: This patch is slightly dangerous - it may render a system
inoperable if the loader's stack size is larger than that of important
executables, and the system relies unknowingly on this increasing the size
of the stack.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Roland McGrath [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:04 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending
__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two
instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just
to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself.
On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being
__fatal_signal_pending itself).
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:03 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX
In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a
multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a
TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call. It will still be send to the
whole process of which that thread is part.
Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX.
The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with
perf-counters. Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is
available. If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the
new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space
state right after it returns from the kernel. This is esp. convenient
for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments.
Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex
as argument:
struct f_owner_ex {
int type;
pid_t pid;
};
Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permission()
group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the
sender and uses current_cred().
This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case. From the security pov the
sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why
we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check.
Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or
SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing. But
still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a
couple of cycles.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
exec: fix set_binfmt() vs sys_delete_module() race
sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after
search_binary_handler() does try_module_get(). In this case
set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers
check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old
->binfmt.
The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can
rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module
and use __module_get() which never fails.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:58 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: allow do_coredump() to wait for user space pipe readers to complete
Allow core_pattern pipes to wait for user space to complete
One of the things that user space processes like to do is look at metadata
for a crashing process in their /proc/<pid> directory. this is racy
however, since do_coredump in the kernel doesn't wait for the user space
process to complete before it reaps the crashing process. This patch
corrects that. Allowing the kernel to wait for the user space process to
complete before cleaning up the crashing process. This is a bit tricky to
do for a few reasons:
1) The user space process isn't our child, so we can't sys_wait4 on it
2) We need to close the pipe before waiting for the user process to complete,
since the user process may rely on an EOF condition
I've discussed several solutions with Oleg Nesterov off-list about this,
and this is the one we've come up with. We add ourselves as a pipe reader
(to prevent premature cleanup of the pipe_inode_info), and remove
ourselves as a writer (to provide an EOF condition to the writer in user
space), then we iterate until the user space process exits (which we
detect by pipe->readers == 1, hence the > 1 check in the loop). When we
exit the loop, we restore the proper reader/writer values, then we return
and let filp_close in do_coredump clean up the pipe data properly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:56 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl.
Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem,
we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the
system simply by running bad applications.
If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can
have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system.
This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption.
core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel,
dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log.
A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may
be handled (this is the default value).
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:54 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: make do_coredump() more resilient to recursive crashes
Change how we detect recursive dumps.
Currently we have a mechanism by which we try to compare pathnames of the
crashing process to the core_pattern path. This is broken for a dozen
reasons, and just doesn't work in any sort of robust way.
I'm replacing it with the use of a 0 RLIMIT_CORE value. Since helper apps
set RLIMIT_CORE to zero, we don't write out core files for any process
with that particular limit set. It the core_pattern is a pipe, any
non-zero limit is translated to RLIM_INFINITY.
This allows complete dumps to be captured, but prevents infinite recursion
in the event that the core_pattern process itself crashes.
Roland McGrath [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:53 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
signals: tracehook_notify_jctl change
This changes tracehook_notify_jctl() so it's called with the siglock held,
and changes its argument and return value definition. These clean-ups
make it a better fit for what new tracing hooks need to check.
Tracing needs the siglock here, held from the time TASK_STOPPED was set,
to avoid potential SIGCONT races if it wants to allow any blocking in its
tracing hooks.
This also folds the finish_stop() function into its caller
do_signal_stop(). The function is short, called only once and only
unconditionally. It aids readability to fold it in.
[oleg@redhat.com: do not call tracehook_notify_jctl() in TASK_STOPPED state]
[oleg@redhat.com: introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
wait_noreap_copyout(): check for ->wo_info != NULL
Current behaviour of sys_waitid() looks odd. If user passes infop ==
NULL, sys_waitid() returns success. When user additionally specifies flag
WNOWAIT, sys_waitid() returns -EFAULT on the same conditions. When user
combines WNOWAIT with WCONTINUED, sys_waitid() again returns success.
This patch adds check for ->wo_info in wait_noreap_copyout().
User-visible change: starting from this commit, sys_waitid() always checks
infop != NULL and does not fail if it is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller. If it's not
NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up
the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying
function.
This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return
incorrect value.
man 2 waitid says:
waitid(): returns 0 on success
Test-case:
int main(void)
{
if (fork())
assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0);
task_pid_type() is only used by eligible_pid() which has to check wo_type
!= PIDTYPE_MAX anyway. Remove this check from task_pid_type() and factor
out ->pids[type] access, this shrinks .text a bit and simplifies the code.
The matches the behaviour of other similar helpers, say get_task_pid().
The caller must ensure that pid_type is valid, not the callee.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() is not right, we can miss the
wakeup if the task was detached before __wake_up_parent() and the caller
of do_wait() didn't use __WALL.
Move ->wo_pid checks from eligible_child() to the new helper,
eligible_pid(), and change child_wait_callback() to use it instead of
eligible_child().
Note: actually I think it would be better to fix the __WCLONE check in
eligible_child(), it doesn't look exactly right. But it is not clear what
is the supposed behaviour, and any change is user-visible.
do_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD case
Suggested by Roland.
do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or
it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent
otherwise we should not wake up.
Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with
CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch.
do_wait() wakeup optimization: change __wake_up_parent() to use filtered wakeup
Ratan Nalumasu reported that in a process with many threads doing
unnecessary wakeups. Every waiting thread in the process wakes up to loop
through the children and see that the only ones it cares about are still
not ready.
Now that we have struct wait_opts we can change do_wait/__wake_up_parent
to use filtered wakeups.
We can make child_wait_callback() more clever later, right now it only
checks eligible_child().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
do_wait() wakeup optimization: shift security_task_wait() from eligible_child() to wait_consider_task()
Preparation, no functional changes.
eligible_child() has a single caller, wait_consider_task(). We can move
security_task_wait() out from eligible_child(), this allows us to use it
for filtered wake_up().
int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD);
printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r);
return 0;
}
Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly
fails with errno == -ECHILD.
The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its
->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD. But in this case
we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We now count MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, so we can show swap usage. It would
be useful for users to show swap usage in memory.stat file, because they
don't need calculate memsw.usage - res.usage to know swap usage.
Reduce the resource counter overhead (mostly spinlock) associated with the
root cgroup. This is a part of the several patches to reduce mem cgroup
overhead. I had posted other approaches earlier (including using percpu
counters). Those patches will be a natural addition and will be added
iteratively on top of these.
The patch stops resource counter accounting for the root cgroup. The data
for display is derived from the statisitcs we maintain via
mem_cgroup_charge_statistics (which is more scalable). What happens today
is that, we do double accounting, once using res_counter_charge() and once
using memory_cgroup_charge_statistics(). For the root, since we don't
implement limits any more, we don't need to track every charge via
res_counter_charge() and check for limit being exceeded and reclaim.
The main mem->res usage_in_bytes can be derived by summing the cache and
rss usage data from memory statistics (MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE). However, for memsw->res usage_in_bytes, we need
additional data about swapped out memory. This patch adds a
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT and uses that along with MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE to derive the memsw data. This data is computed
recursively when hierarchy is enabled.
The tests results I see on a 24 way show that
1. The lock contention disappears from /proc/lock_stats
2. The results of the test are comparable to running with
cgroup_disable=memory.
Here is a sample of my program runs
Without Patch
Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':
Data from Prarit (kernel compile with make -j64 on a 64
CPU/32G machine)
For a single run
Without patch
real 27m8.988s
user 87m24.916s
sys 382m6.037s
With patch
real 4m18.607s
user 84m58.943s
sys 50m52.682s
With config turned off
real 4m54.972s
user 90m13.456s
sys 50m19.711s
NOTE: The data looks counterintuitive due to the increased performance
with the patch, even over the config being turned off. We probably need
more runs, but so far all testing has shown that the patches definitely
help.
memory controller: soft limit reclaim on contention
Implement reclaim from groups over their soft limit
Permit reclaim from memory cgroups on contention (via the direct reclaim
path).
memory cgroup soft limit reclaim finds the group that exceeds its soft
limit by the largest number of pages and reclaims pages from it and then
reinserts the cgroup into its correct place in the rbtree.
Add additional checks to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() to detect long
loops in case all swap is turned off. The code has been refactored and
the loop check (loop < 2) has been enhanced for soft limits. For soft
limits, we try to do more targetted reclaim. Instead of bailing out after
two loops, the routine now reclaims memory proportional to the size by
which the soft limit is exceeded. The proportion has been empirically
determined.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix softlimit css refcnt handling]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: refcount of the "victim" should be decremented before exiting the loop] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Refactor the arguments passed to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() into
flags, so that new parameters don't have to be passed as we make the
reclaim routine more flexible
Introduce an RB-Tree for storing memory cgroups that are over their soft
limit. The overall goal is to
1. Add a memory cgroup to the RB-Tree when the soft limit is exceeded.
We are careful about updates, updates take place only after a particular
time interval has passed
2. We remove the node from the RB-Tree when the usage goes below the soft
limit
The next set of patches will exploit the RB-Tree to get the group that is
over its soft limit by the largest amount and reclaim from it, when we
face memory contention.
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits. Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported. Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added. Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.
Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter. Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here. Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.
Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something
similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares. The CPU
controllers interpretation of shares is very different though.
Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the
administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory
contention do the limits become active. The current soft limits
implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory
controller and not for memory+swap controller. The implementation
maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts
reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount.
memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroup
Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting
all pages in the root cgroup. As a side-effect, we can no longer set a
memory hard limit in the root cgroup.
A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been
added as well. Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup,
pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:31 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with
a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a
pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.)
Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem
about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently
needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were
to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit
would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right
information.
[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:29 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU
Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU
This is a prepatch for making the procs file writable. In order to free the
old css_sets for each task to be moved as they're being moved, the freeing
mechanism must be RCU-protected, or else we would have to have a call to
synchronize_rcu() for each task before freeing its old css_set.
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:28 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: use vmalloc for large cgroups pidlist allocations
Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that
judges based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be
vmalloced or can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree.
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:27 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: ensure correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces
Previously there was the problem in which two processes from different pid
namespaces reading the tasks or procs file could result in one process
seeing results from the other's namespace. Rather than one pidlist for
each file in a cgroup, we now keep a list of pidlists keyed by namespace
and file type (tasks versus procs) in which entries are placed on demand.
Each pidlist has its own lock, and that the pidlists themselves are passed
around in the seq_file's private pointer means we don't have to touch the
cgroup or its master list except when creating and destroying entries.
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:26 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: add a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids
struct cgroup used to have a bunch of fields for keeping track of the
pidlist for the tasks file. Those are now separated into a new struct
cgroup_pidlist, of which two are had, one for procs and one for tasks.
The way the seq_file operations are set up is changed so that just the
pidlist struct gets passed around as the private data.
Interface example: Suppose a multithreaded process has pid 1000 and other
threads with ids 1001, 1002, 1003:
$ cat tasks
1000
1001
1002
1003
$ cat cgroup.procs
1000
$
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:25 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: revert "cgroups: fix pid namespace bug"
The following series adds a "cgroup.procs" file to each cgroup that
reports unique tgids rather than pids, and allows all threads in a
threadgroup to be atomically moved to a new cgroup.
The subsystem "attach" interface is modified to support attaching whole
threadgroups at a time, which could introduce potential problems if any
subsystem were to need to access the old cgroup of every thread being
moved. The attach interface may need to be revised if this becomes the
case.
Also added is functionality for read/write locking all CLONE_THREAD
fork()ing within a threadgroup, by means of an rwsem that lives in the
sighand_struct, for per-threadgroup-ness and also for sharing a cacheline
with the sighand's atomic count. This scheme should introduce no extra
overhead in the fork path when there's no contention.
The final patch reveals potential for a race when forking before a
subsystem's attach function is called - one potential solution in case any
subsystem has this problem is to hang on to the group's fork mutex through
the attach() calls, though no subsystem yet demonstrates need for an
extended critical section.
This is in preparation for some clashing cgroups changes that subsume the
original commit's functionaliy.
The original commit fixed a pid namespace bug which Ben Blum fixed
independently (in the same way, but with different code) as part of a
series of patches. I played around with trying to reconcile Ben's patch
series with Li's patch, but concluded that it was simpler to just revert
Li's, given that Ben's patch series contained essentially the same fix.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:23 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound subsystems
This patch removes the restriction that a cgroup hierarchy must have at
least one bound subsystem. The mount option "none" is treated as an
explicit request for no bound subsystems.
A hierarchy with no subsystems can be useful for plain task tracking, and
is also a step towards the support for multiply-bindable subsystems.
As part of this change, the hierarchy id is no longer calculated from the
bitmask of subsystems in the hierarchy (since this is not guaranteed to be
unique) but is allocated via an ida. Reference counts on cgroups from
css_set objects are now taken explicitly one per hierarchy, rather than
one per subsystem.
Example usage:
mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup
Based on the "no-op"/"none" subsystem concept proposed by
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:22 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: add a back-pointer from struct cg_cgroup_link to struct cgroup
Currently the cgroups code makes the assumption that the subsystem
pointers in a struct css_set uniquely identify the hierarchy->cgroup
mappings associated with the css_set; and there's no way to directly
identify the associated set of cgroups other than by indirecting through
the appropriate subsystem state pointers.
This patch removes the need for that assumption by adding a back-pointer
from struct cg_cgroup_link object to its associated cgroup; this allows
the set of cgroups to be determined by traversing the cg_links list in
the struct css_set.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:20 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: move the cgroup debug subsys into cgroup.c to access internal state
While it's architecturally clean to have the cgroup debug subsystem be
completely independent of the cgroups framework, it limits its usefulness
for debugging the contents of internal data structures. Move the debug
subsystem code into the scope of all the cgroups data structures to make
more detailed debugging possible.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:19 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: support named cgroups hierarchies
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to
allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and
multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new
cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount option
A pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems;
a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation.
Example usage:
# To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1
# To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt
In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and
Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs
documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and
Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition
remained.
This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peng Tao [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:13 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now. The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use
There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between
calendar time and broken-down time.
Here is some source I found:
fs/ncpfs/dir.c
fs/smbfs/proc.c
fs/fat/misc.c
fs/udf/udftime.c
fs/cifs/netmisc.c
net/netfilter/xt_time.c
drivers/scsi/ips.c
drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c
arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
arch/m68k/mac/misc.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h
...
We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we
can get following benefit:
1: Make kernel simple and unify
2: Easy to fix bug in converting code
3: Reduce clone of code in future
For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime,
this patch will make me easy.
This code is based on code from glibc-2.6
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hugetlbfs: do not call user_shm_lock() for MAP_HUGETLB fix
Commit 6bfde05bf5c ("hugetlbfs: allow the creation of files suitable for
MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount") altered can_do_hugetlb_shm() to
check if a file is being created for shared memory or mmap(). If this
returns false, we then unconditionally call user_shm_lock() triggering a
warning. This block should never be entered for MAP_HUGETLB. This
patch partially reverts the problem and fixes the check.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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