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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
ipsec: ipcomp - Decompress into frags if necessary
ipsec: ipcomp - Merge IPComp implementations
pkt_sched: Fix locking in shutdown_scheduler_queue()
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Wire up new system calls.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Wire up new system calls
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Introduced by commit aaca0bdca573f3f51ea03139f9c7289541e7bca3 ("flag
parameters: paccept"):
net/socket.c:1515:17: error: symbol 'sys_paccept' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/linux/syscalls.h:413) - incompatible argument 4 (different address spaces)
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This wires up the recently added Wire up signalfd4, eventfd2,
epoll_create1, dup3, pipe2, and inotify_init1 system calls.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6:
Make console charset translation optional
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* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6:
remove dummy asm/kvm.h files
firmware: create firmware binaries during 'make modules'.
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These got unintentionally moved, put them back as x86 provides its own
versions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch removes the dummy asm/kvm.h files on architectures not (yet)
supporting KVM and uses the same conditional headers installation as
already used for a.out.h .
Also removed are superfluous install rules in the s390 and x86 Kbuild
files (they are already in Kbuild.asm).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (34 commits)
powerpc: Wireup new syscalls
Move update_mmu_cache() declaration from tlbflush.h to pgtable.h
powerpc/pseries: Remove kmalloc call in handling writes to lparcfg
powerpc/pseries: Update arch vector to indicate support for CMO
ibmvfc: Add support for collaborative memory overcommit
ibmvscsi: driver enablement for CMO
ibmveth: enable driver for CMO
ibmveth: Automatically enable larger rx buffer pools for larger mtu
powerpc/pseries: Verify CMO memory entitlement updates with virtual I/O
powerpc/pseries: vio bus support for CMO
powerpc/pseries: iommu enablement for CMO
powerpc/pseries: Add CMO paging statistics
powerpc/pseries: Add collaborative memory manager
powerpc/pseries: Utilities to set firmware page state
powerpc/pseries: Enable CMO feature during platform setup
powerpc/pseries: Split retrieval of processor entitlement data into a helper routine
powerpc/pseries: Add memory entitlement capabilities to /proc/ppc64/lparcfg
powerpc/pseries: Split processor entitlement retrieval and gathering to helper routines
powerpc/pseries: Remove extraneous error reporting for hcall failures in lparcfg
powerpc: Fix compile error with binutils 2.15
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Fixed up conflict in arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/Kconfig manually.
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* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6: (22 commits)
UBI: always start the background thread
UBI: fix gcc warning
UBI: remove pre-sqnum images support
UBI: fix kernel-doc errors and warnings
UBI: fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings
UBI: bugfix - do not torture PEB needlessly
UBI: rework scrubbing messages
UBI: implement multiple volumes rename
UBI: fix and re-work debugging stuff
UBI: amend commentaries
UBI: fix error message
UBI: improve mkvol request validation
UBI: add ubi_sync() interface
UBI: fix 64-bit calculations
UBI: fix LEB locking
UBI: fix memory leak on error path
UBI: do not forget to free internal volumes
UBI: fix memory leak
UBI: avoid unnecessary division operations
UBI: fix buffer padding
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Preliminary support for the Intel 5100 MCH. CE and UE errors are reported
along with the current DIMM label information and other memory parameters.
Reasons why this is preliminary:
1) This chip has 2 independent memory controllers which, for best
perforance, use interleaved accesses to the DDR2 memory. This
architecture does not map very well to the current edac data structures
which depend on symmetric channel access to the interleaved data.
Without core changes, the best I could do for now is to map both memory
controllers to different csrows (first all ranks of controller 0, then
all ranks of controller 1). Someone much more familiar with the edac
core than I will probably need to come up with a more general data
structure to handle the interleaving and de-interleaving of the two
memory controllers.
2) I have not yet tackled the de-interleaving of the rank/controller
address space into the physical address space of the CPU. There is
nothing fundamentally missing, it is just ending up to be a lot of
code, and I'd rather keep it separate for now, esp since it doesn't
work yet...
3) The code depends on a particular i5100 chip select to DIMM mainboard
chip select mapping. This mapping seems obvious to me in order to
support dual and single ranked memory, but it is not unique and DIMM
labels could be wrong on other mainboards. There is no way to query
this mapping that I know of.
4) The code requires that the i5100 is in 32GB mode. Only 4 ranks per
controller, 2 ranks per DIMM are supported. I do not have hardware
(nor do I expect to have hardware anytime soon) for the 48GB (6 ranks
per controller) mode.
5) The serial presence detect code should be broken out into a "real"
i2c driver so that decode-dimms.pl can work.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.
Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache. This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).
The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.
Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use a special error value FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED to mean that a locking
operation returned asynchronously. This is returned by
posix_lock_file() for sleeping locks to mean that the lock has been
queued on the block list, and will be woken up when it might become
available and needs to be retried (either fl_lmops->fl_notify() is
called or fl_wait is woken up).
f_op->lock() to mean either the above, or that the filesystem will
call back with fl_lmops->fl_grant() when the result of the locking
operation is known. The filesystem can do this for sleeping as well
as non-sleeping locks.
This is to make sure, that return values of -EAGAIN and -EINPROGRESS by
filesystems are not mistaken to mean an asynchronous locking.
This also makes error handling in fs/locks.c and lockd/svclock.c slightly
cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add members for memory reclaim delay to taskstats, and accumulate them in
__delayacct_add_tsk() .
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sometimes, application responses become bad under heavy memory load.
Applications take a bit time to reclaim memory. The statistics, how long
memory reclaim takes, will be useful to measure memory usage.
This patch adds accounting memory reclaim to per-task-delay-accounting for
accounting the time of do_try_to_free_pages().
<i.e>
- When System is under low memory load,
memory reclaim may not occur.
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8197800 1577300 6620500 0 4808 1516724
-/+ buffers/cache: 55768 8142032
Swap: 16386292 0 16386292
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 3 26 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 4 22 0 0 100 0
0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 3 18 0 0 100 0
Measure the time of tar command.
$ ls -s test.dat
1501472 test.dat
$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real 0m13.388s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m5.304s
$ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
CPU count real total virtual total delay total
428 5528345500 5477116080 62749891
IO count delay total
338 8078977189
SWAP count delay total
0 0
RECLAIM count delay total
0 0
- When system is under heavy memory load
memory reclaim may occur.
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 24 0 0 100 0
0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 4 24 0 0 100 0
0 0 7159032 49848 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 22 0 0 100 0
In this case, one process uses more 8G memory
by execution of malloc() and memset().
$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real 1m38.563s <- increased by 85 sec
user 0m0.140s
sys 0m7.060s
$ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
CPU count real total virtual total delay total
9021 7140446250 7315277975 923201824
IO count delay total
8965 90466349669
SWAP count delay total
3 21036367
RECLAIM count delay total
740 61011951153
In the later case, the value of RECLAIM is increasing.
So, taskstats can show how much memory reclaim influences TAT.
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujistu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Report per-thread I/O statistics in /proc/pid/task/tid/io and aggregate
parent I/O statistics in /proc/pid/io. This approach follows the same
model used to account per-process and per-thread CPU times.
As a practial application, this allows for example to quickly find the top
I/O consumer when a process spawns many child threads that perform the
actual I/O work, because the aggregated I/O statistics can always be found
in /proc/pid/io.
[ Oleg Nesterov points out that we should check that the task is still
alive before we iterate over the threads, but also says that we can do
that fixup on top of this later. - Linus ]
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Heaton <matt@hostmonster.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by-with-comments: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Allocate the structure on the first call to sys_acct(). After this each
namespace, that ordered the accounting, will live with this structure till
its own death.
Two notes
- routines, that close the accounting on fs umount time use
the init_pid_ns's acct by now;
- accounting routine accounts to dying task's namespace
(also by now).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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All the bsdacct-related info will be stored in the area, pointer by this
one.
It will be NULL automatically for all new namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adapt acct_update_integrals() to include user time when calculating the time
difference. The units of acct_rss_mem1 and acct_vm_mem1 are also changed from
pages-jiffies to pages-usecs to avoid calling jiffies_to_usecs() in
xacct_add_tsk() which might overflow.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated
and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after
the last caller's death.
Anyway - better late, then never.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This one had the only users so far - the kill_proc, which is removed, so
drop this (invalid in namespaced world) call too.
And of course - erase all references on it from comments.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This function operated on a pid_t to kill a task, which is no longer valid
in a containerized system.
It has finally lost all its users and we can safely remove it from the
tree.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When struct pid is built on a 64 bit platform gcc has to insert padding to
maintain the correct alignment, by simply reordering its members the
memory usage shrinks from 88 bytes to 80.
I've successfully run with this patch on my desktop AMD64 machine.
There are no significant kernel size changes to a default config.X86_64
on the latest git v2.6.26-rc1
text data bss dec hex filename
5404828 976760 734280 7115868 6c945c vmlinux
5404811 976760 734280 7115851 6c944b vmlinux.pid-patch
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds proper prototypes for pid{hash,map}_init() in
include/linux/pid_namespace.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:
open
rmmod
remove_proc_entry
close
->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared. In simple
cases it's small memory leak.
For every ->open, ->release has to be done. List of openers is introduced
which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded.
Discussions with Al long ago (sigh).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch moves the extern of struct proc_kmsg_operations to
fs/proc/internal.h and adds an #include "internal.h" to fs/proc/kmsg.c
so that the latter sees the former.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fs/partitions/check.c:381: warning: ignoring return value of ___device_add___,
declared with attribute warn_unused_result
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: multiple-return-statements-per-function are evil]
Signed-off-by: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct
arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore dumps as well.
At the moment, this affects the CRIS and the H8300 arch.
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar@axis.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical
positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418.
This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount
of lowmem. With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification
routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc
namespace creation/ removal.
When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e. value written to the proc
file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it
registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file. This is
the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick".
To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni.
This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing.
With this patch, the process is the following:
1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode"
/proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends
on lowmem)
/proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1"
2) echo <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
. sets msg_ctlmni to <val>
. de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added
msgmni won't be recomputed anymore)
. /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0"
3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
. de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing
this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays
blocked at its current value)
3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
. recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size
and number of ipc namespaces
. re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The attached patch:
- reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock:
Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock.
Now it's the other way around.
- converts the undo structure to rcu.
Benefits:
- With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures.
The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later.
- The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that
recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock,
then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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sem_array.sem_pending is a double linked list, the attached patch converts
it to struct list_head.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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sem_queue.sma and sem_queue.id were never used, the attached patch removes
them.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The undo structures contain two linked lists, the attached patch replaces
them with generic struct list_head lists.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical
section.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Do some code factorization in the return code analysis.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After scalability problems have been detected when using the sysV ipcs, I have
proposed to use an RCU based implementation of the IDR api instead (see
threads http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/11/212 and
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/295).
This resulted in many people asking to convert the idr API and make it rcu
safe (because most of the code was duplicated and thus unmaintanable and
unreviewable).
So here is a first attempt.
The important change wrt to the idr API itself is during idr removes: idr
layers are freed after a grace period, instead of being moved to the free
list.
The important change wrt to ipcs, is that idr_find() can now be called
locklessly inside a rcu read critical section.
Here are the results I've got for the pmsg test sent by Manfred:
2.6.25-rc3-mm1 2.6.25-rc3-mm1+ 2.6.25-mm1 Patched 2.6.25-mm1
1 1168441 1064021 876000 947488
2 1094264 921059 1549592 1730685
3 2082520 1738165 1694370 2324880
4 2079929 1695521 404553 2400408
5 2898758 406566 391283 3246580
6 2921417 261275 263249 3752148
7 3308761 126056 191742 4243142
8 3329456 100129 141722 4275780
1st column: stock 2.6.25-rc3-mm1
2nd column: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 + ipc patches (store ipcs into idrs)
3nd column: stock 2.6.25-mm1
4th column: 2.6.25-mm1 + this pacth series.
This patch:
Add an rcu_head to the idr_layer structure in order to free it after a grace
period.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kdump kernel fails to boot with calgary iommu and aacraid driver on a x366
box. The ongoing dma's of aacraid from the first kernel continue to exist
until the driver is loaded in the kdump kernel. Calgary is initialized
prior to aacraid and creation of new tce tables causes wrong dma's to
occur. Here we try to get the tce tables of the first kernel in kdump
kernel and use them. While in the kdump kernel we do not allocate new tce
tables but instead read the base address register contents of calgary
iommu and use the tables that the registers point to. With these changes
the kdump kernel and hence aacraid now boots normally.
Signed-off-by: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_DEAD) flushes cwq->thread under
cpu_maps_update_begin(). This means that the multithreaded workqueues
can't use get_online_cpus() due to the possible deadlock, very bad and
very old problem.
Introduce the new state, CPU_POST_DEAD, which is called after
cpu_hotplug_done() but before cpu_maps_update_done().
Change workqueue_cpu_callback() to use CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEAD.
This means that create/destroy functions can't rely on get_online_cpus()
any longer and should take cpu_add_remove_lock instead.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(),
but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not
an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example.
Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the
specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last
queue_work() which is visible to the caller.
For example, this code
queue_work(wq, work);
/* WINDOW */
queue_work(wq, work);
flush_work(work);
doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is
- wq starts the execution of work->func()
- the caller migrates to another CPU
now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and
at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may
return before the first work->func() completes.
It is trivial to add another helper
int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work)
{
return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work);
}
which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus
it much slower than flush_work().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that we have core_state->dumper list we can use it to wake up the
sub-threads waiting for the coredump completion.
This uglifies the code and .text grows by 47 bytes, but otoh mm_struct
lessens by sizeof(struct completion). Also, with this change we can
decouple exit_mm() from the coredumping code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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binfmt->core_dump() has to iterate over the all threads in system in order
to find the coredumping threads and construct the list using the
GFP_ATOMIC allocations.
With this patch each thread allocates the list node on exit_mm()'s stack and
adds itself to the list.
This allows us to do further changes:
- simplify ->core_dump()
- change exit_mm() to clear ->mm first, then wait for ->core_done.
this makes the coredumping process visible to oom_kill
- kill mm->core_done
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t and kill now unneeded
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Move mm->core_waiters into "struct core_state" allocated on stack. This
shrinks mm_struct a little bit and allows further changes.
This patch mostly does s/core_waiters/core_state. The only essential
change is that coredump_wait() must clear mm->core_state before return.
The coredump_wait()'s path is uglified and .text grows by 30 bytes, this
is fixed by the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mm->core_startup_done points to "struct completion startup_done" allocated
on the coredump_wait()'s stack. Introduce the new structure, core_state,
which holds this "struct completion". This way we can add more info
visible to the threads participating in coredump without enlarging
mm_struct.
No changes in affected .o files.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kill PF_BORROWED_MM. Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and
do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users.
No functional changes yet. But this allows us to do further
fixes/cleanups.
oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the
kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm(). The problem with
PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races. With this
patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper:
/* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */
struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
return NULL;
return tsk->mm;
}
Note also ecard_task(). It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel
thread without PF_BORROWED_MM.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).
daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.
This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ptrace_stop() has some complicated checks to prevent the scheduling in the
TASK_TRACED state with the pending SIGKILL, but these checks are racy, and
they depend on arch_ptrace_stop_needed().
This patch assumes that the traced task should die asap if it was killed by
SIGKILL, in that case schedule()->signal_pending_state() has no reason to
ignore the TASK_WAKEKILL part of TASK_TRACED, and we can kill this nasty
special case.
Note: do_exit()->ptrace_notify() is special, the killed task can already
dequeue SIGKILL at this point. Another indication that fatal_signal_pending()
is not exactly right.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h
userspace headers:
- include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove
the superfluous listings in the Kbuild files of the following
architectures:
- cris
- frv
- powerpc
- x86
- don't expose function prototypes and macros to userspace:
- arm
- blackfin
- cris
- mn10300
- parisc
- remove #ifdef CONFIG_'s around #define's:
- blackfin
- m68knommu
- sh: AFAIK __SH5__ should work in both kernel and userspace,
no need to leak CONFIG_SUPERH64 to userspace
- xtensa: cosmetical change to remove empty
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #else #endif
from the userspace headers
Not changed by this patch is the fact that the following architectures
have a different struct pt_regs depending on CONFIG_ variables:
- h8300
- m68knommu
- mips
This does not work in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add an interface to set limit. This is necessary to memory resource
controller because it shrinks usage at set limit.
Other controllers may not need this interface to shrink usage because
shrinking is not necessary or impossible.
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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