David S. Miller [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:09:25 +0000 (11:09 -0400)]
jump label: Add sparc64 support
Add jump label support for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <3b5b071fcdb2afb7f67cacecfa78b14c740278a7.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Jason Baron [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:09:22 +0000 (11:09 -0400)]
jump label: x86 support
add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.
Jason Baron [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:09:08 +0000 (11:09 -0400)]
jump label: Add jump_label_text_reserved() to reserve jump points
Add a jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end), so that other
pieces of code that want to modify kernel text, can first verify that
jump label has not reserved the instruction.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <06236663a3a7b1c1f13576bb9eccb6d9c17b7bfe.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Jason Baron [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:09:00 +0000 (11:09 -0400)]
jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Jason Baron [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:08:56 +0000 (11:08 -0400)]
jump label: Make text_poke_early() globally visible
Make text_poke_early available outside of alternative.c. The jump label
patchset wants to make use of it in order to set up the optimal no-op
sequences at run-time.
Jason Baron [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:08:51 +0000 (11:08 -0400)]
jump label: Make dynamic no-op selection available outside of ftrace
Move Steve's code for finding the best 5-byte no-op from ftrace.c to
alternative.c. The idea is that other consumers (in this case jump label)
want to make use of that code.
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:28:50 +0000 (11:28 +0200)]
perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuff
Revert the timer per cpu-context timers because of unfortunate
nohz interaction. Fixing that would have been somewhat ugly, so
go back to driving things from the regular tick. Provide a
jiffies interval feature for people who want slower rotations.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.519845633@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:28:48 +0000 (11:28 +0200)]
perf: Complete software pmu grouping
Aside from allowing software events into a !software group,
allow adding !software events to pure software groups.
Once we've moved the software group and attached the first
!software event, the group will no longer be a pure software
group and hence no longer be eligible for movement, at which
point the straight ctx comparison is correct again.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.410784731@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Events were not grouped anymore. The reason was that in
perf_event_open(), the field event->group_leader was
initialized before the function looked up the group_fd
to find the event leader. This patch fixes this by
reordering the code correctly.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.360420946@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jean Pihet [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:21:32 +0000 (09:21 +0200)]
tracing, perf: Add more power related events
This patch adds new generic events for dynamic power management
tracing:
- clock events class: used for clock enable/disable and for
clock rate change,
- power_domain events class: used for power domains transitions.
The OMAP architecture will be using the new events for PM debugging,
however the new events are made generic enough to be used by all
platforms.
Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com> Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: discuss@lesswatts.org Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinUmbSUUuxUzc8++pcb9gd1CZFdyTQFrveTBXyV@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Namhyung Kim [Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:04:28 +0000 (10:04 +0900)]
kprobes: Make functions static
Make following (internal) functions static to make sparse
happier :-)
* get_optimized_kprobe: only called from static functions
* kretprobe_table_unlock: _lock function is static
* kprobes_optinsn_template_holder: never called but holding asm code
Matt Helsley [Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:01:20 +0000 (13:01 -0700)]
perf events: Clean up pid passing
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid()
because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses
current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use
for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and
thus find_get_context()) is called.
The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281
Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct
pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to
a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall
much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Matt Helsley [Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:01:19 +0000 (13:01 -0700)]
perf events: Split out task search into helper
Split out the code which searches for non-exiting tasks into its own
helper. Creating this helper not only makes the code slightly more
readable it prepares to move the search out of find_get_context() in
a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <561205417b450b8a4bf7488374541d64b4690431.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Matt Helsley [Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:01:18 +0000 (13:01 -0700)]
hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces
because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current
namespace.
(See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 )
This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the
best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally
is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches
will show a better solution.
Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the
bulk of the work finding this bug.
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdog
In case you boot with the watchdog disabled, i.e., nowatchdog, then,
if you try to disable it via /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog, you get
a kernel crash. The reason is that you are trying to cancel a hrtimer
which has never been initialized.
This patch fixes this by skipping execution of
watchdog_disable_all_cpus() when the watchdog is marked
disabled from boot.
The enums for FTRACE_ENABLE_MCOUNT and FTRACE_DISABLE_MCOUNT were
used as commands to ftrace_run_update_code(). But these commands
were used by the old nasty ftrace daemon that has long been slain.
This is a clean up patch to remove the references to these enums
and simplify the code a little.
Reported-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:58:33 +0000 (18:58 -0400)]
tracing: Do not trace in irq when funcgraph-irq option is zero
When the function graph tracer funcgraph-irq option is zero, disable
tracing in IRQs. This makes the option have two effects.
1) When reading the trace file, do not display the functions that
happen in interrupt context (when detected)
2) [*new*] When recording a trace, skip those that are detected
to be in interrupt by the 'in_irq()' function
Note, in_irq() is updated at irq_enter() and irq_exit(). There are
still functions that are recorded by the function graph tracer that
is in interrupt context but outside the irq_enter/exit() routines.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Jiri Olsa [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:53:44 +0000 (16:53 +0200)]
tracing: Add funcgraph-irq option for function graph tracer.
It's handy to be able to disable the irq related output
and not to have to jump over each irq related code, when
you have no interrest in it.
The option is by default enabled, so there's no change to
current behaviour. It affects only the final output, so all
the irq related data stay in the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100907145344.GC1912@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
#### all functions enabled ####
sys_write:traceon:unlimited
schedule:traceon:unlimited
do_IRQ:traceon:unlimited
This outputs two lists. One is the fact that all functions are
currently enabled for function tracing, the other has three probed
functions, which happen to have 'traceon' as their commands.
Currently, when reading the first list (functions enabled) the
seq_file code will receive a "NULL" from the t_next() function
causing it to exit early. This makes "read()" from userspace stop
reading the code at this boarder. Although read is allowed to do this,
some (broken) applications might consider this an end of file and
stop early.
This patch adds the start of the second list to t_next() when it
finishes the first list. It is a simple change and gives the
set_ftrace_filter file nicer reading ability.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:47:43 +0000 (11:47 -0400)]
tracing: Keep track of set_ftrace_filter position and allow lseek again
This patch keeps track of the index within the elements of
set_ftrace_filter and if the position goes backwards, it nicely
resets and starts from the beginning again.
This allows for lseek and pread to work properly now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:00:28 +0000 (10:00 -0400)]
tracing: Replace typecasted void pointer in set_ftrace_filter code
The set_ftrace_filter uses seq_file and reads from two lists. The
pointer returned by t_next() can either be of type struct dyn_ftrace
or struct ftrace_func_probe. If there is a bug (there was one)
the wrong pointer may be used and the reference can cause an oops.
This patch makes t_next() and friends only return the iterator structure
which now has a pointer of type struct dyn_ftrace and struct
ftrace_func_probe. The t_show() can now test if the pointer is NULL or
not and if the pointer exists, it is guaranteed to be of the correct type.
Now if there's a bug, only wrong data will be shown but not an oops.
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:43:22 +0000 (08:43 -0400)]
tracing: Do not reset *pos in set_ftrace_filter
After the filtered functions are read, the probed functions are read
from the hash in set_ftrace_filter. When the hashed probed functions
are read, the *pos passed in is reset. Instead of modifying the pos
given to the read function, just record the pos where the filtered
functions ended and subtract from that.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Merge branch 'sched/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimum scheduling granularity
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
fs/9p: Don't use dotl version of mknod for dotu inode operations
fs/9p: Use the correct dentry operations
9p: Check for NULL fid in v9fs_dir_release()
fs/9p: Fix error handling in v9fs_get_sb
fs/9p, net/9p: memory leak fixes
Merge branch 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi/pl022: move probe call to subsys_initcall()
powerpc/5200: mpc52xx_uart.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
spi/pl022: fix APB pclk power regression on U300
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Warn if PIO transfers time out
spi/s3c64xx: Fix incorrect reuse of 'val' local variable.
spi/s3c64xx: Fix compilation warning
spi/dw_spi: clean the cs_control code
spi/dw_spi: Allow interrupt sharing
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Increase dead reckoning time in wait_for_xfer()
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Move to subsys_initcall()
spi: free children in spi_unregister_master, not siblings
gpiolib: Add 'struct gpio_chip' forward declaration for !GPIOLIB case
of: Fix missing includes - ll_temac
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Staticise non-exported functions
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Make probe more robust against missing board config
perf_events: Fix BTS interrupt handling to avoid being dazed by NMI (v2)
Fix a bug introduced with commit de725de and the change in the
meaning of the return value of intel_pmu_handle_irq(). With the
current code, when you are using the BTS, you get 'dazed by NMI'
each time the BTS buffer fills up.
BTS does interrupt on the PMU vector, thus NMI. You need to take
this into account in the return value of the function.
This version fixes initial patch which was missing changes to
perf_event_intel_ds.c.
Randy Dunlap [Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:55:26 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
docbook: skip files with no docs since they generate scary warnings
Fix docbook templates that reference files that do not contain the
expected kernel-doc notation.
Fixes these warnings:
Warning(arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h): no structured comments found
Warning(lib/vsprintf.c): no structured comments found
These cause errors in the generated html output, like below, so drop
these lines.
Name
arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h - Document generation inconsistency
Oops
Warning
The template for this document tried to insert the structured comment from the file arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h at this point, but none was found. This dummy section is inserted to allow generation to continue.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Berg [Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:55:22 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
docbook: warn on unused doc entries
When you don't use !E or !I but only !F, then it's very easy to miss
including some functions, structs etc. in documentation. To help
finding which ones were missed, allow printing out the unused ones as
warnings.
For example, using this on mac80211 yields a lot of warnings like this:
Warning: didn't use docs for DOC: mac80211 workqueue
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_max_queues
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_change
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_conf
when generating the documentation for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Berg [Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:55:12 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
kernel-doc: ignore case when stripping attributes
There are valid attributes that could have upper case letters, but we
still want to remove, like for example
__attribute__((aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN)))
as encountered in the wireless code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory
There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls
preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than
the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's
the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn
can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation.
To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument
before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of
saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of
a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to
allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by
preallocate_image_memory() is too low.
Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory
allocation patterns into account.
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (28 commits)
ipheth: remove incorrect devtype to WWAN
MAINTAINERS: Add CAIF
sctp: fix test for end of loop
KS8851: Correct RX packet allocation
udp: add rehash on connect()
net: blackhole route should always be recalculated
ipv4: Suppress lockdep-RCU false positive in FIB trie (3)
niu: Fix kernel buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL
ipvs: fix active FTP
gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms
via-velocity: Turn scatter-gather support back off.
ipv4: Fix reverse path filtering with multipath routing.
UNIX: Do not loop forever at unix_autobind().
PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)
irda: off by one
3c59x: Fix deadlock in vortex_error()
netfilter: discard overlapping IPv6 fragment
ipv6: discard overlapping fragment
net: fix tx queue selection for bridged devices implementing select_queue
bonding: Fix jiffies overflow problems (again)
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to the same cgroup API thinko fix going
through both Andrew and the networking tree. However, there were small
differences between the two, with Andrew's version generally being the
nicer one, and the one I merged first. So pick that one.
Conflicts in: include/linux/cgroup.h and kernel/cgroup.c
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state()
sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel
* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel:
drm/i915: don't enable self-refresh on Ironlake
drm/i915: Double check that the wait_request is not pending before warning
Revert "drm/i915: Warn if we run out of FIFO space for a mode"
Revert "drm/i915: Allow LVDS on pipe A on gen4+"
Revert "drm/i915: Enable RC6 on Ironlake."
mark gross [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:20:09 +0000 (23:20 +0200)]
PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to
pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case. Thanks to Dan Carpenter
for pointing out the problem!
Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Dave Chinner [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:00:22 +0000 (09:00 +0000)]
xfs: log IO completion workqueue is a high priority queue
The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting
in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work
processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel
create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting
held up behind metadata IO completions. Hence log commits would
stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be
cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion
processing was being seen to slow everything down even further.
By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue,
they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and
processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never
gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as
quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos
the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Roland McGrath [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:37:06 +0000 (19:37 -0700)]
execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings
can take a really long time in the execve system call. It runs
uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings. This change
makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL.
Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for
SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending(). It would be perfectly
correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in
execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending().
We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible
consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that
an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before.
Roland McGrath [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:36:28 +0000 (19:36 -0700)]
execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and
environment strings for execve, in copy_strings(). There is already
a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new
points in the abstract sense.
When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time
spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice.
So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system
when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments.
Roland McGrath [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:35:49 +0000 (19:35 -0700)]
setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size
The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not
check the size of the argument/environment area on the stack.
When it is unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON.
This is exploitable with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to
create a crash pretty easily.
Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible
to map in any executable. We're not checking that the actual
executable (or intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit. So those
mappings might clobber part of the initial stack mapping. But
that is just userland lossage that userland made happen, not a
kernel problem.
Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: x86: Perform hardware_enable in CPU_STARTING callback
KVM: i8259: fix migration
KVM: fix i8259 oops when no vcpus are online
KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread
perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system
perf: Fix CPU hotplug
perf, trace: Fix module leak
tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names
tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names
perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names
perf probe: Fix return probe support
tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case
tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
David Howells [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:59:51 +0000 (09:59 +0100)]
KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership
of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session
keyring [CVE-2010-2960].
If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all
processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created
by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure.
To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/.
David Howells [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:59:46 +0000 (09:59 +0100)]
KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
There's an protected access to the parent process's credentials in the middle
of keyctl_session_to_parent(). This results in the following RCU warning:
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads
cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init
block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
cciss: handle allocation failure
cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
Merge branch 'at91-fixes-for-linus' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-2.6-at91
* 'at91-fixes-for-linus' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-2.6-at91:
AT91: at91sam9261ek: remove C99 comments but keep information
AT91: at91sam9261ek board: remove warnings related to use of SPI or SD/MMC
AT91: dm9000 initialization update
AT91: SAM9G45 - add a separate clock entry for every single TC block
AT91: clock: peripheral clocks can have other parent than mck
AT91: change dma resource index
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:51:54 +0000 (12:51 +0200)]
perf: Ensure we call add_event_to_ctx() with the right locks held
Even though we call it from the inherit path, where the child is
not yet accessible, we need to hold ctx->lock, add_event_to_ctx()
assumes IRQs are disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: rawmidi: fix the get next midi device ioctl
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong HP pin detection in snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
ALSA: seq/oss - Fix double-free at error path of snd_seq_oss_open()
ALSA: msnd-classic: Fix invalid cfg parameter
ALSA: hda - Enable PC-beep for EeePC with ALC269 codec
ALSA: hda - Add errata initverb sequence for CS42xx codecs
ALSA: usb - Release capture substream URBs properly
ALSA: virtuoso: fix setting of Xonar DS line-in/mic-in controls
ALSA: virtuoso: work around missing reset in the Xonar DS Windows driver
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Lenovo T400s
ALSA: usb-audio: fix detection of vendor-specific device protocol settings
ALSA: usb-audio: Assume first control interface is for audio
ALSA: hda - Add a new hp-laptop model for Conexant 5066, tested on HP G60
We don't know how to enable it safely, especially as outputs turn on and
off. When disabling LP1 we also need to make sure LP2 and 3 are already
disabled.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29173
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29082 Reported-by: Chris Lord <chris@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Dan Rosenberg [Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:24:57 +0000 (18:24 -0400)]
xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
The XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 12
bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the fsxattr struct
declared on the stack in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() does not alter (or zero)
the 12-byte fsx_pad member before copying it back to the user. This
patch takes care of it.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Nicolas Ferre [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:26:42 +0000 (11:26 +0200)]
AT91: at91sam9261ek board: remove warnings related to use of SPI or SD/MMC
The sd/mmc data structure is not used if SPI is selected. The configuration
of PIO on the board prevent from using both interfaces at the same time
(board dependent).
Remove the warnings at compilation time adding a preprocessor condition.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Brian King [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:03:21 +0000 (09:03 +0200)]
block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
While testing CPU DLPAR, the following problem was discovered.
We were DLPAR removing the first CPU, which in this case was
logical CPUs 0-3. CPUs 0-2 were already marked offline and
we were in the process of offlining CPU 3. After marking
the CPU inactive and offline in cpu_disable, but before the
cpu was completely idle (cpu_die), we ended up in __make_request
on CPU 3. There we looked at the topology map to see which CPU
to complete the I/O on and found no CPUs in the cpu_sibling_map.
This resulted in the block layer setting the completion cpu
to be NR_CPUS, which then caused an oops when we tried to
complete the I/O.
Fix this by sanity checking the value we return from blk_cpu_to_group
to be a valid cpu value.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Dan Williams [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:50:47 +0000 (07:50 +0000)]
ipheth: remove incorrect devtype to WWAN
The 'wwan' devtype is meant for devices that require preconfiguration
and *every* time setup before the ethernet interface can be used, like
cellular modems which require a series of setup commands on serial ports
or other mechanisms before the ethernet interface will handle packets.
As ipheth only requires one-per-hotplug pairing setup with no
preconfiguration (like APN, phone #, etc) and the network interface is
usable at any time after that initial setup, remove the incorrect
devtype wwan.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata-sff: Reenable Port Multiplier after libata-sff remodeling.
libata: skip EH autopsy and recovery during suspend
ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
libata,pata_via: revert ata_wait_idle() removal from ata_sff/via_tf_load()
ahci: fix hang on failed softreset
pata_artop: Fix device ID parity check
Chris Wright [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:34:59 +0000 (16:34 -0700)]
tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread
Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without
having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is
degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show()
to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security
implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079.
Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
libata: skip EH autopsy and recovery during suspend
For some mysterious reason, certain hardware reacts badly to usual EH
actions while the system is going for suspend. As the devices won't
be needed until the system is resumed, ask EH to skip usual autopsy
and recovery and proceed directly to suspend.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@amd.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
libata,pata_via: revert ata_wait_idle() removal from ata_sff/via_tf_load()
Commit 978c0666 (libata: Remove excess delay in the tf_load path)
removed ata_wait_idle() from ata_sff_tf_load() and via_tf_load().
This caused obscure detection problems in sata_sil.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16606
The commit was pure performance optimization. Revert it for now.
Reported-by: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Bisected-by: gianluca <gianluca@sottospazio.it> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails
When under significant memory pressure, a process enters direct reclaim
and immediately afterwards tries to allocate a page. If it fails and no
further progress is made, it's possible the system will go OOM. However,
on systems with large amounts of memory, it's possible that a significant
number of pages are on per-cpu lists and inaccessible to the calling
process. This leads to a process entering direct reclaim more often than
it should increasing the pressure on the system and compounding the
problem.
This patch notes that if direct reclaim is making progress but allocations
are still failing that the system is already under heavy pressure. In
this case, it drains the per-cpu lists and tries the allocation a second
time before continuing.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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