- Jul 17, 2007
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Adrian Bunk authored
Add a proper prototype for proc_nr_files() in include/linux/fs.h Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Identical implementations of PTRACE_POKEDATA go into generic_ptrace_pokedata() function. AFAICS, fix bug on xtensa where successful PTRACE_POKEDATA will nevertheless return EPERM. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Identical implementations of PTRACE_PEEKDATA go into generic_ptrace_peekdata() function. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelianov authored
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by:
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing while allocating. Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever we can. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. However, as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been running a long time. This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE. This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable. When a non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool will use ZONE_MOVABLE. Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always the largest contiguous block we care about. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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David Miller authored
All of the clockevent notifiers expect a pointer to an "unsigned int" cpu argument, but hrtimer_cpu_notify() passes in a pointer to a long. [ Discussed with and ok by Thomas Gleixner ] Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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- Jul 16, 2007
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Linus Torvalds authored
Randy Dunlap noticed that the recent comment clarifications from Andrew had somehow gotten duplicated. Quoth Andrew: "hm, that could have been some late-night reject-fixing." Fix it up. Cc: From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: -
Jiri Kosina authored
kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context, which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere without any restrictions. This is however not true - a call to printk() could deadlock if called from scheduler code (namely from schedule(), wake_up(), etc) on runqueue lock when it tries to wake up klogd. Document this. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Now we always use stop_machine for module insertion or deletion, we no longer need the modlist_lock: merely disabling preemption is sufficient to block against list manipulation. This avoids deadlock on OOPSen where we can potentially grab the lock twice. Bug: 8695 Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean indicating whether the work was actually cancelled. A zero return value means that the work was not pending/queued. Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue() sometimes, see the next patch as an example. Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait loop. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by:
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Imho, the current naming of cancel_xxx workqueue functions is very confusing. cancel_delayed_work() cancel_rearming_delayed_work() cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() // obsolete cancel_work_sync() This looks as if the first 2 functions differ in "type" of their argument which is not true any longer, nowadays the difference is the behaviour. The semantics of cancel_rearming_delayed_work(dwork) was changed significantly, it doesn't require that dwork rearms itself, and cancels dwork synchronously. Rename it to cancel_delayed_work_sync(). This matches cancel_delayed_work() and cancel_work_sync(). Re-create cancel_rearming_delayed_work() as a simple inline obsolete wrapper, like cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(). Signed-off-by:
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vignesh babu authored
Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2() Signed-off-by:
vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Acked-by:
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This follows a suggestion from Chuck Ebbert on how to make seccomp absolutely zerocost in schedule too. The only remaining footprint of seccomp is in terms of the bzImage size that becomes a few bytes (perhaps even a few kbytes) larger, measure it if you care in the embedded. Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This reduces the memory footprint and it enforces that only the current task can enable seccomp on itself (this is a requirement for a strightforward [modulo preempt ;) ] TIF_NOTSC implementation). Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Remove pointless `else'. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Hopefully this will help people to understand the new regime. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The recent PRIVATE and REQUEUE_PI changes to the futex code made it hard to read. Tidy it up. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds, but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time. The patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: 2.6.22-rc6: #threads 1: transactions: 3733 (373.21 per sec.) 2: transactions: 6676 (667.46 per sec.) 3: transactions: 6957 (695.50 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7055 (705.48 per sec.) 5: transactions: 6596 (659.33 per sec.) 2.6.22-rc6 + sys_time.patch: 1: transactions: 4005 (400.47 per sec.) 2: transactions: 7379 (737.77 per sec.) 3: transactions: 7347 (734.49 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7468 (746.65 per sec.) 5: transactions: 7428 (742.47 per sec.) Mixed API uses of gettimeofday() and time() are guaranteed to be coherent via the use of a at-most-once-per-second slowpath that updates xtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
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Eric W. Biederman authored
While working on unshare support for the network namespace I noticed we were putting clone flags in an int. Which is weird because the syscall uses unsigned long and we at least need an unsigned to properly hold all of the unshare flags. So to make the code consistent, this patch updates the code to use unsigned long instead of int for the clone flags in those places where we get it wrong today. Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by:
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vasily Tarasov authored
OpenVZ Linux kernel team has discovered the problem with 32bit quota tools working on 64bit architectures. In 2.6.10 kernel sys32_quotactl() function was replaced by sys_quotactl() with the comment "sys_quotactl seems to be 32/64bit clean, enable it for 32bit" However this isn't right. Look at if_dqblk structure: struct if_dqblk { __u64 dqb_bhardlimit; __u64 dqb_bsoftlimit; __u64 dqb_curspace; __u64 dqb_ihardlimit; __u64 dqb_isoftlimit; __u64 dqb_curinodes; __u64 dqb_btime; __u64 dqb_itime; __u32 dqb_valid; }; For 32 bit quota tools sizeof(if_dqblk) == 0x44. But for 64 bit kernel its size is 0x48, 'cause of alignment! Thus we got a problem. Attached patch reintroduce sys32_quotactl() function, that handles this and related situations. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it link with CONFIG_QUOTA=n] Signed-off-by:Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Henrik Kretzschmar authored
Fix parameter name in audit_core_dumps for kerneldoc. Signed-off-by:
Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
It should improve performance in some scenarii where a lot of these nsproxy objects are created by unsharing namespaces. This is a typical use of virtual servers that are being created or entered. This is also a good tool to find leaks and gather statistics on namespace usage. Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong, create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means that the subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in copy_mnt_ns() or copy_utsname(). Modify create_new_namespaces() to also use the errors returned by the copy_*_ns routines and not to systematically return ENOMEM. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: better changelog] Signed-off-by:
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
This patch enables the unshare of user namespaces. It adds a new clone flag CLONE_NEWUSER and implements copy_user_ns() which resets the current user_struct and adds a new root user (uid == 0) For now, unsharing the user namespace allows a process to reset its user_struct accounting and uid 0 in the new user namespace should be contained using appropriate means, for instance selinux The plan, when the full support is complete (all uid checks covered), is to keep the original user's rights in the original namespace, and let a process become uid 0 in the new namespace, with full capabilities to the new namespace. Signed-off-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cedric Le Goater authored
Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table, resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated accounting. A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation. Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?) The unshare is not included in this patch. Changes since [try #4]: - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and get_user_ns to return the namespace. Changes since [try #3]: - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h} Changes since [try #2]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() Changes since [try #1]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() - added a root_user per user namespace Signed-off-by: -
Cedric Le Goater authored
CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS have very little value as they only deactivate the unshare of the uts and ipc namespaces and do not improve performance. Signed-off-by:
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Miloslav Trmac authored
Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Currently we handle spurious IRQ activity based upon seeing a lot of invalid interrupts, and we clear things back on the base of lots of valid interrupts. Unfortunately in some cases you get legitimate invalid interrupts caused by timing asynchronicity between the PCI bus and the APIC bus when disabling interrupts and pulling other tricks. In this case although the spurious IRQs are not a problem our unhandled counters didn't clear and they act as a slow running timebomb. (This is effectively what the serial port/tty problem that was fixed by clearing counters when registering a handler showed up) It's easy enough to add a second parameter - time. This means that if we see a regular stream of harmless spurious interrupts which are not harming processing we don't go off and do something stupid like disable the IRQ after a month of running. OTOH lockups and performance killers show up a lot more than 10/second [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Maxim Uvarov authored
Make available to the user the following task and process performance statistics: * Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw) * Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw) Statistics information is available from: 1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/) 2. /proc/PID/status (task only). This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
I forgot to remove capability.h from mm.h while removing sched.h! This patch remedies that, because the only inline function which was using CAP_something was made out of line. Cross-compile tested without regressions on: all powerpc defconfigs all mips defconfigs all m68k defconfigs all arm defconfigs all ia64 defconfigs alpha alpha-allnoconfig alpha-defconfig alpha-up arm i386 i386-allnoconfig i386-defconfig i386-up ia64 ia64-allnoconfig ia64-defconfig ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-allnoconfig parisc-defconfig parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-allnoconfig s390-defconfig s390-up sparc sparc-allnoconfig sparc-defconfig sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-allnoconfig sparc64-defconfig sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-allnoconfig x86_64-defconfig x86_64-up as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by:
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Venki Pallipadi authored
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers. This will let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in /proc/timer_stats. Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below. 10D, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 10, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2 Signed-off-by:
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it could be enabled only, but not disabled. Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time"). Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value". Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be changed at run-time by modifying /sys/module/printk/parameters/time to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it. Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also be set at boot-time by using linux printk.time=<bool> If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated and will be removed. Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Not called by anything in tree. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Paul Menage authored
cpuset.c:update_nodemask() uses a write_lock_irq() on tasklist_lock to block concurrent forks; a read_lock() suffices and is less intrusive. Signed-off-by:
Paul <Menage<menage@google.com> Acked-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch. This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where userspace debugging is very hard. Defaults to off. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers] Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelianov authored
Here there is not need even in .show callback altering. The original code passes list_head in *v. Signed-off-by:
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Satoru Takeuchi authored
Fix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty real time process. Assuming the following case: - Try to hot remove CPU2 from CPU1. - There is a real time process on CPU2, and that process doesn't sleep at all. - That rt process and ksoftirqd/2 is migrated to the CPU0 Then ksoftirqd/2 can't stop becasue that rt process runs everlastingly on CPU0, and CPU1 waiting the ksoftirqd/2's termination hangs up. To fix this problem, set the priority of ksoftirqd/2 to max one before kthread_stop(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Satoru Takeuchi authored
stop_machine_run() does its work on "kstopmachine" thread having max priority. However that thread get such priority after woken up. Therefore, in the following case ... - "kstopmachine" try to run on CPU1 - There is a real time process which doesn't relinquish CPU time voluntary on CPU1 ... "kstopmachine" can't start to run and the CPU on which stop_machine_run() is runing hangs up. To fix this problem, call sched_setscheduler() before waking up that thread. Signed-off-by:
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