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2006-03-31[PATCH] uml: check for differences in host supportPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
If running on a host not supporting TLS (for instance 2.4) we should report that cleanly to the user, instead of printing not comprehensible "error 5" for that. Additionally, i386 and x86_64 support different ranges for user_desc->entry_number, and we must account for that; we couldn't pass ourselves -1 because we need to override previously existing TLS descriptors which glibc has possibly set, so test at startup the range to use. x86 and x86_64 existing ranges are hardcoded. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] uml: implement {get,set}_thread_area for i386Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Implement sys_[gs]et_thread_area and the corresponding ptrace operations for UML. This is the main chunk, additional parts follow. This implementation is now well tested and has run reliably for some time, and we've understood all the previously existing problems. Their implementation saves the new GDT content and then forwards the call to the host when appropriate, i.e. immediately when the target process is running or on context switch otherwise (i.e. on fork and on ptrace() calls). In SKAS mode, we must switch registers on each context switch (because SKAS does not switches tls_array together with current->mm). Also, added get_cpu() locking; this has been done for SKAS mode, since TT does not need it (it does not use smp_processor_id()). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] uml: split ldt.h in arch-independent and arch-dependant codePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ldt-{i386,x86_64}.h is made of two different parts - some code for parsing of LDT descriptors, which is arch-dependant, and the code to handle uml_ldt_t (an LDT block inside UML), which is mostly arch-independant (among x86 and x86_64, at least). Join the common part in a single file (ldt.h) and split the rest away (host_ldt-{i386,x86_64}.h). This is needed because processor.h, with next patches, will start including the LDT descriptor parsing macros in host_ldt.h, but it can't include ldt.h because it uses semaphores (and to define semaphores one must first include processor.h!). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] uml: sparse cleanupsAl Viro
misc sparse annotations Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] i386 kdump timer vector lockup fixVivek Goyal
Porting the patch I posted for x86_64 to i386. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114178139610707&w=2 o While using kdump, after a system crash when second kernel boots, timer vector gets (0x31) locked and CPU does not see timer interrupts travelling from IOAPIC to APIC. Currently it does not lead to boot failure in second kernel as timer interrupts continues to come as ExtInt through LAPIC directly, but fixing it is good in case some boards do not support the other mode. o After a system crash, it is not safe to service interrupts any more, hence interrupts are disabled. This leads to pending interrupts at LAPIC. LAPIC sends these interrupts to the CPU during early boot of second kernel. Other pending interrupts are discarded saying unexpected trap but timer interrupt is serviced and CPU does not issue an LAPIC EOI because it think this interrupt came from i8259 and sends ack to 8259. This leads to vector 0x31 locking as LAPIC does not clear respective ISR and keeps on waiting for EOI. o This patch issues extra EOI for the pending interrupts who have ISR set. o Though today only timer seems to be the special case because in early boot it thinks interrupts are coming from i8259 and uses mask_and_ack_8259A() as ack handler and does not issue LAPIC EOI. But probably doing it in generic manner for all vectors makes sense. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] Remove long dead i386 floppy asm codeBrian Gerst
It's been disabled since v2.1.88 Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] mm: schedule find_trylock_page() removalNick Piggin
find_trylock_page() is an odd interface in that it doesn't take a reference like the others. Now that XFS no longer uses it, and its last remaining caller actually wants an elevated refcount, opencode that callsite and schedule find_trylock_page() for removal. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] migrate_pages_to() must be defined for the no swap caseChristoph Lameter
Fix migrate_pages_to() definition. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] drivers/mtd/: small cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- chips/sharp.c: make two needlessly global functions static - move some declarations to a header file where they belong to Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers/mtd/Ingo Molnar
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (24 commits) [PARISC] Fix double free when removing HIL drivers [PARISC] Add atomic_sub_and_test [PARISC] Enabled some NLS modules in a500, b180 and c3000 defconfigs [PARISC] Kill duplicated EXPORT_SYMBOL warnings [PARISC] Move ioremap EXPORT_SYMBOL from parisc_ksyms.c [PARISC] Make local_t use atomic_long_t [PARISC] Update defconfigs [PARISC] Add PREEMPT support [PARISC] More useful readwrite lock helpers [PARISC] Convert HIL drivers to use input_allocate_device [PARISC] Fixup CONFIG_EISA a bit [PARISC] getsockopt should be ENTRY_COMP [PARISC] Remove obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP [PARISC] Temporary FIXME for ioremapping EISA regions [PARISC] Enable ioremap functionality unconditionally [PARISC] Fix stifb with IOREMAP and a 64-bit kernel [PARISC] Add CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP to conditionally enable ioremap [PARISC] Add STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS [PARISC] Fix IOREMAP with a 64-bit kernel [PARISC] Add parisc implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() ...
2006-03-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/mad: RMPP support for additional classes IB/mad: include GID/class when matching receives IB/mthca: Fix section mismatch problems IPoIB: Fix oops with raw sockets IB/mthca: Fix check of size in SRQ creation IB/srp: Fix unmapping of fake scatterlist
2006-03-30Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] sata_mv: three bug fixes [PATCH] libata: ata_dev_init_params() fixes [PATCH] libata: Fix interesting use of "extern" and also some bracketing [PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logic [PATCH] libata - ATA is both ATA and CFA [PATCH] libata: Add ->set_mode hook for odd drivers [PATCH] libata: BMDMA handling updates [PATCH] libata: kill trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add FIXME above ata_dev_xfermask() [PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes in ata_bus_softreset() [PATCH] libata: kill E.D.D.
2006-03-30Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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] ioremap() should prefer WB over UC [IA64] Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list in gate.lds [IA64] Move __mca_table out of the __init section [IA64] simplify some condition checks in iosapic_check_gsi_range [IA64] correct some messages and fixes some minor things [IA64-SGI] fix for-loop in sn_hwperf_geoid_to_cnode() [IA64-SGI] sn_hwperf use of num_online_cpus() [IA64] optimize flush_tlb_range on large numa box [IA64] lazy_mmu_prot_update needs to be aware of huge pages
2006-03-30[PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flagJens Axboe
This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page cache to another. In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file copies! Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system callJens Axboe
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add atomic_sub_and_testKyle McMartin
Define atomic_sub_and_test to fix build failures. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Make local_t use atomic_long_tKyle McMartin
As done in asm-generic/local.h in mainline. Otherwise local_t was 32-bit even on a 64-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add PREEMPT supportKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] More useful readwrite lock helpersKyle McMartin
spinlock.c needs _can_lock helpers. Rewrite _is_locked helpers to be _can_lock helpers. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Fixup CONFIG_EISA a bitHelge Deller
Fix up some ISA/EISA stuff. (Note: isa_ accessors have been removed from asm/io.h) Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Remove obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAPHelge Deller
Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP, it's now obsolete and won't work anyway. Remove it from lib/KConfig since it was only available on parisc. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Enable ioremap functionality unconditionallyHelge Deller
Enable CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP by default and remove all now unnecessary code. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP to conditionally enable ioremapHelge Deller
Instead of making it a #define in asm/io.h, allow user to select to turn on IOREMAP from the config menu. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKSHelge Deller
Add STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS to page.h as other architectures do. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add parisc implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page()James Bottomley
We need to do a little renaming of our original syntax because of the difference in arguments. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Add parisc implementation of flush_anon_page()James Bottomley
This should now allow SG_IO and fuse to function correctly on our platform. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Clarify pdc_stable license termsThibaut VARENE
pdc_stable.c is explicitly licensed under GPL version 2. Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30[IA64] Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list in gate.ldsJes Sorensen
Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list for the gate.lds linker script to avoid broken linker references when linking the final vmlinux file. Also add comment to include/asm-ia64/asmmacros.h to avoid anyone else hitting this problem in the future. Credits to James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> for spotting the DISCARD list in gate.lds.S Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-30IB/mad: RMPP support for additional classesHal Rosenstock
Add RMPP support for additional management classes that support it. Also, validate RMPP is consistent with management class specified. Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-03-29[PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logicAlan Cox
Add a field to the host_set called 'flags' (was host_set_flags changed to suit Jeff) Add a simplex_claimed field so we can remember who owns the DMA channel Add a ->mode_filter() hook to allow drivers to filter modes Add docs for mode_filter and set_mode Filter according to simplex state Filter cable in core This provides the needed framework to support all the mode rules found in the PATA world. The simplex filter deals with 'to spec' simplex DMA systems found in older chips. The cable filter avoids duplicating the same rules in each chip driver with PATA. Finally the mode filter is neccessary because drive/chip combinations have errata that forbid certain modes with some drives or types of ATA object. Drive speed setup remains per channel for now and the filters now use the framework Tejun put into place which cleans them up a lot from the older libata-pata patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] libata: Add ->set_mode hook for odd driversAlan Cox
Some hardware doesn't want the usual mode setup logic running. This allows the hardware driver to replace it for special cases in the least invasive way possible. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] libata: BMDMA handling updatesAlan Cox
This is the minimal patch set to enable the current code to be used with a controller following SFF (ie any PATA and early SATA controllers) safely without crashes if there is no BMDMA area or if BMDMA is not assigned by the BIOS for some reason. Simplex status is recorded but not acted upon in this change, this isn't a problem with the current drivers as none of them are for simplex hardware. A following diff will deal with that. The flags in the probe structure remain ->host_set_flags although Jeff asked me to rename them, simply because the rename would break the usual Linux rules that old code should break when there are changes. not compile and run and then blow up/eat your computer/etc. Renaming this later is a trivial exercise once a better name is chosen. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2006-03-29Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NETFILTER]: Rename init functions. [TCP]: Fix RFC2465 typo. [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6 [NET]: deinline 200+ byte inlines in sock.h [ECONET]: Convert away from SOCKOPS_WRAPPED [NET]: Fix ipx/econet/appletalk/irda ioctl crashes [NET]: Kill Documentation/networking/TODO [TG3]: Update version and reldate [TG3]: Skip timer code during full lock [TG3]: Speed up SRAM access [TG3]: Fix PHY loopback on 5700 [TG3]: Fix bug in 40-bit DMA workaround code [TG3]: Fix probe failure due to invalid MAC address
2006-03-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (67 commits) [PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c [PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea [PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes powerpc: remove OCP references powerpc: Make uImage default build output for MPC8540 ADS powerpc: move math-emu over to arch/powerpc powerpc: use memparse() for mem= command line parsing ppc: fix strncasecmp prototype [PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again [PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values [PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug [PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas ...
2006-03-29[PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace codeAnton Blanchard
Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code now we have proper calltrace support. Also make MMCRA sihv and sipr bits a variable since they may change in future cpus. Finally, MMCRA should be a 64bit quantity. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace supportBrian Rogan
Add oprofile calltrace support to powerpc. Disable spinlock backtracing now we can use calltrace info. (Updated to work on both 32bit and 64bit by me). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpcKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handlerEugene Surovegin
Fix 44x and BookE page fault handler to correctly lock PTE before trying to pte_update() it, otherwise this PTE might be swapped out after pte_present() check but before pte_uptdate() call, resulting in corrupted PTE. This can happen with enabled preemption and low memory condition. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal->cleanup_sighand pathOleg Nesterov
Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal(). This makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] pids: kill PIDTYPE_TGIDOleg Nesterov
This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit. It is also a preparation for the further tref/pids rework. This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct' instead. We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature free_pidmap(->tgid) call. Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID). Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] move __exit_signal() to kernel/exit.cOleg Nesterov
__exit_signal() is private to release_task() now. I think it is better to make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this function is much more simple and straightforward. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighandOleg Nesterov
Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to copy_sighand(). This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signalOleg Nesterov
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason. We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under 'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more. Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it lockless. This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighandOleg Nesterov
The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand(). This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no external references, nobody can see it, and IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true. ELSE Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it without any locking. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helperOleg Nesterov
Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use it. Hopefully we will have more users soon. This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to restore them as BUG_ON()s). ->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to ptrace, for example. If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old ->sighand.siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCUOleg Nesterov
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick. Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it and re-checked that it is still the same. But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section. To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] pidhash: don't use zero pidsOleg Nesterov
daemonize() calls set_special_pids(1,1), while init and kernel threads spawned from init/main.c:init() run with 0,0 special pids. This patch changes INIT_SIGNALS() so that that they run with ->pgrp == ->session == 1 also. This patch relies on fact that swapper's pid == 1. Now we have no hashed zero pids in pid_hash[]. User-space visibible change is that now /sbin/init runs with (1,1) special pids and becomes a session leader. Quoting Eric W. Biederman: > > daemonize consuming pids (1,1) then consumes pgrp 1. So that when > /sbin/init calls setsid() it thinks /sbin/init is a process group > leader and setsid() fails. So /sbin/init wants pgrp 1 session 1 > but doesn't get it. I am pretty certain daemonize did not exist so > /sbin/init got pgrp 1 session 1 in 2.4. > > That is the bug that is being fixed. > > This patch takes things one step farther and essentially calls > setsid() for pid == 1 before init is execed. That is new behavior > but it cleans up the kernel as we now do not need to support the > case of a process without a process group or a session. > > The only process that could have possibly cared was /sbin/init > and it already calls setsid() because it doesn't want that. > > If this was going to break anything noticeable the change in behavior > from 2.4 to 2.6 would have already done that. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threadsOleg Nesterov
fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process(). Contrary, boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr = 0. copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and kill unhash_process(). We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle() because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[]. We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init(). free_pidmap() is never called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused. So it is still possible to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV. However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case. We still have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and kernel threads which don't call daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>