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2011-09-28rcu: Simplify quiescent-state accountingPaul E. McKenney
There is often a delay between the time that a CPU passes through a quiescent state and the time that this quiescent state is reported to the RCU core. It is quite possible that the grace period ended before the quiescent state could be reported, for example, some other CPU might have deduced that this CPU passed through dyntick-idle mode. It is critically important that quiescent state be counted only against the grace period that was in effect at the time that the quiescent state was detected. Previously, this was handled by recording the number of the last grace period to complete when passing through a quiescent state. The RCU core then checks this number against the current value, and rejects the quiescent state if there is a mismatch. However, one additional possibility must be accounted for, namely that the quiescent state was recorded after the prior grace period completed but before the current grace period started. In this case, the RCU core must reject the quiescent state, but the recorded number will match. This is handled when the CPU becomes aware of a new grace period -- at that point, it invalidates any prior quiescent state. This works, but is a bit indirect. The new approach records the current grace period, and the RCU core checks to see (1) that this is still the current grace period and (2) that this grace period has not yet ended. This approach simplifies reasoning about correctness, and this commit changes over to this new approach. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Add grace-period, quiescent-state, and call_rcu trace eventsPaul E. McKenney
Add trace events to record grace-period start and end, quiescent states, CPUs noticing grace-period start and end, grace-period initialization, call_rcu() invocation, tasks blocking in RCU read-side critical sections, tasks exiting those same critical sections, force_quiescent_state() detection of dyntick-idle and offline CPUs, CPUs entering and leaving dyntick-idle mode (except from NMIs), CPUs coming online and going offline, and CPUs being kicked for staying in dyntick-idle mode for too long (as in many weeks, even on 32-bit systems). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> rcu: Add the rcu flavor to callback trace events The earlier trace events for registering RCU callbacks and for invoking them did not include the RCU flavor (rcu_bh, rcu_preempt, or rcu_sched). This commit adds the RCU flavor to those trace events. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Make TINY_RCU also use softirq for RCU_BOOST=nPaul E. McKenney
This patch #ifdefs TINY_RCU kthreads out of the kernel unless RCU_BOOST=y, thus eliminating context-switch overhead if RCU priority boosting has not been configured. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Add event-trace markers to TREE_RCU kthreadsPaul E. McKenney
Add event-trace markers to TREE_RCU kthreads to allow including these kthread's CPU time in the utilization calculations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Move RCU_BOOST declarations to allow compiler checkingPaul E. McKenney
Andi Kleen noticed that one of the RCU_BOOST data declarations was out of sync with the definition. Move the declarations so that the compiler can do the checking in the future. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Update comments to reflect softirqs vs. kthreadsPaul E. McKenney
We now have kthreads only for flavors of RCU that support boosting, so update the now-misleading comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Add RCU type to callback-invocation tracingPaul E. McKenney
Add a string to the rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() trace messages that indicates the RCU type ("rcu_sched", "rcu_bh", or "rcu_preempt"). The trace messages for the actual invocations themselves are not marked, as it should be clear from the rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() events before and after. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Put names into TINY_RCU structures under RCU_TRACEPaul E. McKenney
In order to allow event tracing to distinguish between flavors of RCU, we need those names in the relevant RCU data structures. TINY_RCU has avoided them for memory-footprint reasons, so add them only if CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Event-trace markers for computing RCU CPU utilizationPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds the trace_rcu_utilization() marker that is to be used to allow postprocessing scripts compute RCU's CPU utilization, give or take event-trace overhead. Note that we do not include RCU's dyntick-idle interface because event tracing requires RCU protection, which is not available in dyntick-idle mode. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback invocationPaul E. McKenney
There was recently some controversy about the overhead of invoking RCU callbacks. Add TRACE_EVENT()s to obtain fine-grained timings for the start and stop of a batch of callbacks and also for each callback invoked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Don't destroy rcu_torture_boost() callback until it is donePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_torture_boost() cleanup code destroyed debug-objects state before waiting for the last RCU callback to be invoked, resulting in rare but very real debug-objects warnings. Move the destruction to after the waiting to fix this problem. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Catch rcutorture up to new RCU API additionsPaul E. McKenney
Now that the RCU API contains synchronize_rcu_bh(), synchronize_sched(), call_rcu_sched(), and rcu_bh_expedited()... Make rcutorture test synchronize_rcu_bh(), getting rid of the old rcu_bh_torture_synchronize() workaround. Similarly, make rcutorture test synchronize_sched(), getting rid of the old sched_torture_synchronize() workaround. Make rcutorture test call_rcu_sched() instead of wrappering synchronize_sched(). Also add testing of rcu_bh_expedited(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Abstract common code for RCU grace-period-wait primitivesPaul E. McKenney
Pull the code that waits for an RCU grace period into a single function, which is then called by synchronize_rcu() and friends in the case of TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, and from rcu_barrier() and friends in the case of TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Fix mismatched variable in rcutree_trace.cAndi Kleen
rcutree.c defines rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu as int, not unsigned int, so the extern has to follow that. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Restore checks for blocking in RCU read-side critical sectionsPaul E. McKenney
Long ago, using TREE_RCU with PREEMPT would result in "scheduling while atomic" diagnostics if you blocked in an RCU read-side critical section. However, PREEMPT now implies TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which defeats this diagnostic. This commit therefore adds a replacement diagnostic based on PROVE_RCU. Because rcu_lockdep_assert() and lockdep_rcu_dereference() are now being used for things that have nothing to do with rcu_dereference(), rename lockdep_rcu_dereference() to lockdep_rcu_suspicious() and add a third argument that is a string indicating what is suspicious. This third argument is passed in from a new third argument to rcu_lockdep_assert(). Update all calls to rcu_lockdep_assert() to add an informative third argument. Also, add a pair of rcu_lockdep_assert() calls from within rcu_note_context_switch(), one complaining if a context switch occurs in an RCU-bh read-side critical section and another complaining if a context switch occurs in an RCU-sched read-side critical section. These are present only if the PROVE_RCU kernel parameter is enabled. Finally, fix some checkpatch whitespace complaints in lockdep.c. Again, you must enable PROVE_RCU to see these new diagnostics. But you are enabling PROVE_RCU to check out new RCU uses in any case, aren't you? Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Avoid unnecessary self-wakeup of per-CPU kthreadsShaohua Li
There are a number of cases where the RCU can find additional work for the per-CPU kthread within the context of that per-CPU kthread. In such cases, the per-CPU kthread is already running, so attempting to wake itself up does nothing except waste CPU cycles. This commit therefore checks to see if it is in the per-CPU kthread context, omitting the wakeup in this case. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Use kthread_create_on_node()Eric Dumazet
Commit a26ac2455ffc (move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) added per-CPU kthreads. However, kthread creation uses kthread_create(), which can put the kthread's stack and task struct on the wrong NUMA node. Therefore, use kthread_create_on_node() instead of kthread_create() so that the stacks and task structs are placed on the correct NUMA node. A similar change was carried out in commit 94dcf29a11b3 (kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()). Also change rcutorture's priority-boost-test kthread creation. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-25ptrace: PTRACE_LISTEN forgets to unlock ->siglockOleg Nesterov
If PTRACE_LISTEN fails after lock_task_sighand() it doesn't drop ->siglock. Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-19Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86, iommu: Mark DMAR IRQ as non-threaded genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup again
2011-09-19Make taskstats round statistics down to nearest 1k bytes/eventsLinus Torvalds
Even with just the interface limited to admin, there really is little to reason to give byte-per-byte counts for taskstats. So round it down to something less intrusive. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-19Make TASKSTATS require root accessLinus Torvalds
Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more. But at the same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level. Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative to checking the capabilities by hand. Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueueThomas Tuttle
Take cwq->gcwq->lock to avoid racing between drain_workqueue checking to make sure the workqueues are empty and cwq_dec_nr_in_flight decrementing and then incrementing nr_active when it activates a delayed work. We discovered this when a corner case in one of our drivers resulted in us trying to destroy a workqueue in which the remaining work would always requeue itself again in the same workqueue. We would hit this race condition and trip the BUG_ON on workqueue.c:3080. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-12genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup againGeert Uytterhoeven
If an irq_chip provides .irq_shutdown(), but neither of .irq_disable() or .irq_mask(), free_irq() crashes when jumping to NULL. Fix this by only trying .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() if there's no .irq_shutdown() provided. This revives the symmetry with irq_startup(), which tries .irq_startup(), .irq_enable(), and irq_unmask(), and makes it consistent with the comment for irq_chip.irq_shutdown() in <linux/irq.h>, which says: * @irq_shutdown: shut down the interrupt (defaults to ->disable if NULL) This is also how __free_irq() behaved before the big overhaul, cfr. e.g. 3b56f0585fd4c02d047dc406668cb40159b2d340 ("genirq: Remove bogus conditional"), where the core interrupt code always overrode .irq_shutdown() to .irq_disable() if .irq_shutdown() was NULL. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315742394-16036-2-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-07Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: rtc: twl: Fix registration vs. init order rtc: Initialized rtc_time->tm_isdst rtc: Fix RTC PIE frequency limit rtc: rtc-twl: Remove lockdep related local_irq_enable() rtc: rtc-twl: Switch to using threaded irq rtc: ep93xx: Fix 'rtc' may be used uninitialized warning alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timers alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_get alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversal
2011-09-07Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free() sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule() sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemption
2011-08-31perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()Eric B Munson
We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and timing information when events were being multiplexing. Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3 times to cause multiplexing on Core 2): $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled 63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns out the bug was introduced by the following commit: commit c4794295917ebeda8013b6cb9c8d71ab4f74a1fa events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled but it would show up in any other scenario. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch codeStephane Eranian
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a simple ping/pong example: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10684.51 ctxsw/s Now start a cgroup perf stat: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 6674.61 ctxsw/s That's a 37% penalty. Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup. The results shown by perf stat are bogus: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles # 0.000 GHz The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock (here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups. The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are in the same cgroup. With this patch the same test now yields: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10775.30 ctxsw/s Start perf stat with cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Run pong outside the cgroup: $ /pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10687.80 ctxsw/s The penalty is now less than 2%. And the results for perf stat are correct: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz Now perf stat reports the correct counts for for the non cgroup event. If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the correct counts: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz 10.001457237 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free()WANG Cong
This patch fixes the following memory leak: unreferenced object 0xffff880107266800 (size 512): comm "sched-powersave", pid 3718, jiffies 4323097853 (age 27495.450s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81133940>] create_object+0x187/0x28b [<ffffffff814ac103>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98 [<ffffffff811232ba>] __kmalloc_node+0x104/0x159 [<ffffffff81044b98>] kzalloc_node.clone.97+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff8104cb90>] build_sched_domains+0xb7/0x7f3 [<ffffffff8104d4df>] partition_sched_domains+0x1db/0x24a [<ffffffff8109ee4a>] do_rebuild_sched_domains+0x3b/0x47 [<ffffffff810a00c7>] rebuild_sched_domains+0x10/0x12 [<ffffffff8104d5ba>] sched_power_savings_store+0x6c/0x7b [<ffffffff8104d5df>] sched_mc_power_savings_store+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff8131322c>] sysdev_class_store+0x20/0x22 [<ffffffff81193876>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144 [<ffffffff81135b10>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x102 [<ffffffff81135d23>] sys_write+0x4d/0x74 [<ffffffff814c8a42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313671017-4112-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule()Thomas Gleixner
There is no real reason to run blk_schedule_flush_plug() with interrupts and preemption disabled. Move it into schedule() and call it when the task is going voluntarily to sleep. There might be false positives when the task is woken between that call and actually scheduling, but that's not really different from being woken immediately after switching away. This fixes a deadlock in the scheduler where the blk_schedule_flush_plug() callchain enables interrupts and thereby allows a wakeup to happen of the task that's going to sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dwfxtra7yg1b5r65m32ywtct@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemptionThomas Gleixner
Block-IO and workqueues call into notifier functions from the scheduler core code with interrupts and preemption disabled. These calls should be made before entering the scheduler core. To simplify this, separate the scheduler core code into __schedule(). __schedule() is directly called from the places which set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and from schedule(). This allows us to add the work checks into schedule(), so they are only called when a task voluntary goes to sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110622174918.813258321@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-26All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system callNeilBrown
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all linkage for it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootconNishanth Aravamudan
It seems that 7bf693951a8e ("console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified. I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees. However, it's more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.39.x, 3.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbersAndi Kleen
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0 version. Some of those were binary only. I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables. For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel. $ uname -a Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ hpacucli ctrl all show Error: No controllers detected. $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli hpacucli-8.75-12.0 Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() == "linux2": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564 It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using '==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken programs. This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a 2.6.40+x version number instead. The x is the x in 3.x. I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and compatibility to existing programs is important. Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease. This can be worked around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace) To use: wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c gcc -o uname26 uname26.c ./uname26 program Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: fix tracing builds inside the source tree xfs: remove subdirectories xfs: don't expect xfs headers to be in subdirectories
2011-08-23Revert "irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit f3637a5f2e2eb391ff5757bc83fb5de8f9726464. It turns out that this breaks several drivers, one example being OMAP boards which use the on-board OMAP UARTs and the omap-serial driver that will not boot to userspace after the commit. Paul Walmsley reports that enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ reveals 'IRQ handler type mismatch' errors: IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 74 current handler: serial idle ... and the reason is that setting IRQF_ONESHOT will now result in those interrupt handlers having different IRQF flags, and thus being unsharable. So the commit log in the reverted commit: "Since it is required for those users and there is no difference for others it makes sense to add this flag unconditionally." is simply not true: there may not be any difference from a "actions at irq time", but there is a *big* difference wrt this flag testing irq management (see __setup_irq() in kernel/irq/manage.c). One solution may be to stop verifying IRQF_ONESHOT in __setup_irq(), but right now the safe course of action is to revert the change. Let's revisit this in a later merge window. Reported-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Requested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags block: improve rq_affinity placement blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH xen/blkback: Make description more obvious. cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse bsg-lib: add module.h include cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index ...
2011-08-18irqdesc: fix new kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning in irqdesc.c: Warning(kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:353): No description found for parameter 'owner' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-17Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset
2011-08-17Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock
2011-08-17Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: Track the owner of irq descriptor irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified genirq: Fix wrong bit operation
2011-08-14PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unsetRafael J. Wysocki
Function genpd_queue_power_off_work() is not defined for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, so pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() causes a build error to happen in that case. Fix the problem by making pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() depend on CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-08-12xfs: remove subdirectoriesChristoph Hellwig
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from kernel/. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-11move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()Vasiliy Kulikov
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and similar functions. Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on rlimit only. But the check created new security threat: many poorly written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it cannot fail if executed with root privileges. So, the check is removed in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to buggy programs. The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons spawning user processes. Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve(). The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues. Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag. With the change only this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve() behaviour is not changed. Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still exceeded at the moment of execve(). If the process was sleeping for days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was exceeded days ago would be unexpected. If the limit is not exceeded anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork(). The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one. Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag). v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user(). Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename perf sched: Do not delete session object prematurely perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership perf, x86: Add model 45 SandyBridge support perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration perf tools: Make clean leaves some files perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier perf probe: Fix coredump introduced by probe module option jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildid
2011-08-11blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA supportNamhyung Kim
Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results look like (other flags might be shown also): - WRITE: W - WRITE_FLUSH: FW - WRITE_FUA: WF - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA: FWF Note that we reuse TC_BARRIER due to lack of bit space of act_mask so that the older versions of blktrace tools will report flush requests as barriers from now on. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timersJohn Stultz
Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box. A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_getJohn Stultz
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversalJohn Stultz
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so correct this. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-09cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warningJonathan Nieder
syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning. Commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now") improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping the WARN_ONCE(). But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a recent kernel. Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever. Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com> Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-09lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lockPeter Zijlstra
match_held_lock() was assuming it was being called on a lock class that had already seen usage. This condition was true for bug-free code using lockdep_assert_held(), since you're in fact holding the lock when calling it. However the assumption fails the moment you assume the assertion can fail, which is the whole point of having the assertion in the first place. Anyway, now that there's more lockdep_is_held() users, notably __rcu_dereference_check(), its much easier to trigger this since we test for a number of locks and we only need to hold any one of them to be good. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312547787.28695.2.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>