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2007-05-07slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flagChristoph Lameter
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by SLAB. I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is performed before each freeing of an object. I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually before the free. That also places the check near the code object manipulation of the object. Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree). There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors. This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for unimplemented flags from SLUB. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creationChristoph Lameter
This patch provides a new macro KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>) to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct. Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary. Example struct test_slab { int a,b,c; struct list_head; } __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC) will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we panic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07cpusets: allow TIF_MEMDIE threads to allocate anywhereDavid Rientjes
OOM killed tasks have access to memory reserves as specified by the TIF_MEMDIE flag in the hopes that it will quickly exit. If such a task has memory allocations constrained by cpusets, we may encounter a deadlock if a blocking task cannot exit because it cannot allocate the necessary memory. We allow tasks that have the TIF_MEMDIE flag to allocate memory anywhere, including outside its cpuset restriction, so that it can quickly die regardless of whether it is __GFP_HARDWALL. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07Safer nr_node_ids and nr_node_ids determination and initial valuesChristoph Lameter
The nr_cpu_ids value is currently only calculated in smp_init. However, it may be needed before (SLUB needs it on kmem_cache_init!) and other kernel components may also want to allocate dynamically sized per cpu array before smp_init. So move the determination of possible cpus into sched_init() where we already loop over all possible cpus early in boot. Also initialize both nr_node_ids and nr_cpu_ids with the highest value they could take. If we have accidental users before these values are determined then the current valud of 0 may cause too small per cpu and per node arrays to be allocated. If it is set to the maximum possible then we only waste some memory for early boot users. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits) [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall [PATCH] i386: type may be unused [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation. [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split. [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff [PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu [PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks [PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c [PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems [PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64 [PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER [PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0) [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c [PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning [PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible [PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386 [PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386 ... Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed sysfs: printk format warning DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt platform: reorder platform_device_del Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack
2007-05-02MSI: arch must connect the irq and the msi_descMichael Ellerman
set_irq_msi() currently connects an irq_desc to an msi_desc. The archs call it at some point in their setup routine, and then the generic code sets up the reverse mapping from the msi_desc back to the irq. set_irq_msi() should do both connections, making it the one and only call required to connect an irq with it's MSI desc and vice versa. The arch code MUST call set_irq_msi(), and it must do so only once it's sure it's not going to fail the irq allocation. Given that there's no need for the arch to return the irq anymore, the return value from the arch setup routine just becomes 0 for success and anything else for failure. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destructionJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of an mm. Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are needed in common code. They are: arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec. The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for other architectures. It's called when an mm is first used. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-alignedJeremy Fitzhardinge
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and Ingo suggested KVM as well). Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86-64: Account for module percpu space separately from kernel percpuJeremy Fitzhardinge
Rather than using a single constant PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, compute it as the sum of kernel_percpu + PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE. This is now common to all architectures; if an architecture wants to set PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM to something special, then it may do so (ia64 is the only one which does). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86-64: do not use virt_to_page on kernel data addressVivek Goyal
o virt_to_page() call should be used on kernel linear addresses and not on kernel text and data addresses. Swsusp code uses it on kernel data (statically allocated swsusp_header). o Allocate swsusp_header dynamically so that virt_to_page() can be used safely. o I am changing this because in next few patches, __pa() on x86_64 will no longer support kernel text and data addresses and hibernation breaks. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86: Move swsusp __pa() dependent code to arch portionVivek Goyal
o __pa() should be used only on kernel linearly mapped virtual addresses and not on kernel text and data addresses. o Hibernation code needs to determine the physical address associated with kernel symbol to mark a section boundary which contains pages which don't have to be saved and restored during hibernate/resume operation. o Move this piece of code in arch dependent section. So that architectures which don't have kernel text/data mapped into kernel linearly mapped region can come up with their own ways of determining physical addresses associated with a kernel text. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-04-30power management: force pm_ops.valid callback to be assignedJohannes Berg
This patch changes the docs and behaviour from "all states valid" to "no states valid" if no .valid callback is assigned. Users of pm_ops that only need mem sleep can assign pm_valid_only_mem without any overhead, others will require more elaborate callbacks. Now that all users of pm_ops have a .valid callback this is a safe thing to do and prevents things from getting messy again as they were before. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Looks-okay-to: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30power management: implement pm_ops.valid for everybodyJohannes Berg
Almost all users of pm_ops only support mem sleep, don't check in .valid and don't reject any others in .prepare so users can be confused if they check /sys/power/state, especially when new states are added (these would then result in s-t-r although they're supposed to be something different). This patch implements a generic pm_valid_only_mem function that is then exported for users and puts it to use in almost all existing pm_ops. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30power management: remove firmware disk modeJohannes Berg
This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach, it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but cannot actually be used for that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30rework pm_ops pm_disk_mode, kill misuseJohannes Berg
This patch series cleans up some misconceptions about pm_ops. Some users of the pm_ops structure attempt to use it to stop the user from entering suspend to disk, this, however, is not possible since the user can always use "shutdown" in /sys/power/disk and then the pm_ops are never invoked. Also, platforms that don't support suspend to disk simply should not allow configuring SOFTWARE_SUSPEND (read the help text on it, it only selects suspend to disk and nothing else, all the other stuff depends on PM). The pm_ops structure is actually intended to provide a way to enter platform-defined sleep states (currently supported states are "standby" and "mem" (suspend to ram)) and additionally (if SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is configured) allows a platform to support a platform specific way to enter low-power mode once everything has been saved to disk. This is currently only used by ACPI (S4). This patch: The pm_ops.pm_disk_mode is used in totally bogus ways since nobody really seems to understand what it actually does. This patch clarifies the pm_disk_mode description. It also removes all the arm and sh users that think they can veto suspend to disk via pm_ops; not so since the user can always do echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk, they need to find a better way involving Kconfig or such. ACPI is the only user left with a non-zero pm_disk_mode. The patch also sets the default mode to shutdown again, but when a new pm_ops is registered its pm_disk_mode is selected as default, that way the default stays for ACPI where it is apparently required. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30Extend print_symbol capabilityRobert Peterson
Today's print_symbol function dumps a kernel symbol with printk. This patch extends the functionality of kallsyms.c so that the symbol lookup function may be used without the printk. This is useful for modules that want to dump symbols elsewhere, for example, to debugfs. I intend to use the new function call in the GFS2 file system (which will be a separate patch). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [clameter@sgi.com: sprint_symbol should return length of string like sprintf] Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-28libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirkJeff Garzik
Both old-IDE and libata should be able handle all controllers and devices found using normal resource reservation methods. This eliminates the awful, low-performing split-driver configuration where old-IDE drove the PATA portion of a PCI device, in PIO-only mode, and libata drove the SATA portion of the /same/ PCI device, in DMA mode. Typically vendors would ship SATA hard drive / PATA optical configuration, which would lend itself to slow (PIO-only) CD-ROM performance. For Intel users running in combined mode, it is now wholly dependent on your driver choice (potentially link order, if you compile both drivers in) whether old-IDE or libata will drive your hardware. In either case, you will get full performance from both SATA and PATA ports now, without having to pass a kernel command line parameter. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-27[NET]: Fix networking compilation errorsDavid Howells
Fix miscellaneous networking compilation errors. (*) Export ktime_add_ns() for modules. (*) wext_proc_init() should have an ANSI declaration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (46 commits) dev_dbg: check dev_dbg() arguments drivers/base/attribute_container.c: use mutex instead of binary semaphore mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return errno when kobject_add_dir() failure occurs s2ram: add arch irq disable/enable hooks define platform wakeup hook, use in pci_enable_wake() security: prevent permission checking of file removal via sysfs_remove_group() device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference s390: cio: Delay uevents for subchannels sysfs: bin.c printk fix Driver core: use mutex instead of semaphore in DMA pool handler driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no bus debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64() the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.c Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported way Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-file kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystem qeth: Remove usage of subsys.rwsem PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core IEEE1394: remove rwsem use from ieee1394 core ...
2007-04-27mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return errno when kobject_add_dir() failure occursAkinobu Mita
mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return an errno when kobject_add_dir() for module "holders" directory fails. So caller of mod_sysfs_setup() will keep going and get oops. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27s2ram: add arch irq disable/enable hooksJohannes Berg
After some more discussion this patch replaces it: From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Subject: suspend: add arch irq disable/enable hooks For powermac, we need to do some things between suspending devices and device_power_off, for example setting the decrementer. This patch allows architectures to define arch_s2ram_{en,dis}able_irqs in their asm/suspend.h to have control over this step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27make SysRq-T show all tasks againIngo Molnar
show_state() (SysRq-T) developed the buggy habbit of not showing TASK_RUNNING tasks. This was due to the mistaken belief that state_filter == -1 would be a pass-through filter - while in reality it did not let TASK_RUNNING == 0 p->state values through. Fix this by restoring the original '!state_filter means all tasks' special-case i had in the original version. Test-built and test-booted on i686, SysRq-T now works as intended. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-26[AF_RXRPC]: Make it possible to merely try to cancel timers from a moduleDavid Howells
Export try_to_del_timer_sync() for use by the AF_RXRPC module. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[TCP] tcp_probe: improvements for net-2.6.22Stephen Hemminger
Change tcp_probe to use ktime (needed to add one export). Add option to only get events when cwnd changes - from Doug Leith Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other cast skb member helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET_SCHED]: Use ktime as clocksourcePatrick McHardy
Get rid of the manual clock source selection mess and use ktime. Also use a scalar representation, which allows to clean up pkt_sched.h a bit more and results in less ktime_to_ns() calls in most cases. The PSCHED_US2JIFFIE/PSCHED_JIFFIE2US macros are implemented quite inefficient by this patch, following patches will convert all qdiscs to hrtimers and get rid of them entirely. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_tEric Dumazet
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain 'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct sock. This has some drawbacks : - Fixed resolution of micro second. - Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16 I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution. As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...) Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS) Note : this patch includes a bug correction in compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-24Allow reading tainted flag as userBastian Blank
The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions. Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-12[PATCH] fix kernel oops with badly formatted module optionRandy Dunlap
Catch malformed kernel parameter usage of "param = value". Spaces are not supported, but don't cause a kernel fault on such usage, just report an error. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07sched.c: Remove unused variable 'relative'Linus Torvalds
Getting rid of the p->children printout in show_task() left behind an unused variable. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07[PATCH] sched: get rid of p->children use in show_task()Ingo Molnar
the p->parent PID printout gives us all the information about the task tree that we need - the eldest_child()/older_sibling()/ younger_sibling() printouts are mostly historic and i do not remember ever having used those fields. (IMO in fact they confuse the SysRq-T output.) So remove them. This code has sentimental value though, those fields and printouts are one of the oldest ones still surviving from Linux v0.95's kernel/sched.c: if (p->p_ysptr || p->p_osptr) printk(" Younger sib=%d, older sib=%d\n\r", p->p_ysptr ? p->p_ysptr->pid : -1, p->p_osptr ? p->p_osptr->pid : -1); else printk("\n\r"); written 15 years ago, in early 1992. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus 'snif' Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07[PATCH] irq-devres: fix failure path of devm_request_irq()Tejun Heo
devres should be deallocated with devres_free() not kfree(). This bug corrupts slab on IRQ request failure. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07[PATCH] high-res timers: resume fixIngo Molnar
Soeren Sonnenburg reported that upon resume he is getting this backtrace: [<c0119637>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90 [<c0142d30>] retrigger_next_event+0x0/0xb0 [<c0104d30>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [<c0142d30>] retrigger_next_event+0x0/0xb0 [<c0140068>] __kfifo_put+0x8/0x90 [<c0130fe5>] on_each_cpu+0x35/0x60 [<c0143538>] clock_was_set+0x18/0x20 [<c0135cdc>] timekeeping_resume+0x7c/0xa0 [<c02aabe1>] __sysdev_resume+0x11/0x80 [<c02ab0c7>] sysdev_resume+0x47/0x80 [<c02b0b05>] device_power_up+0x5/0x10 it turns out that on resume we mistakenly re-enable interrupts too early. Do the timer retrigger only on the current CPU. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04[PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittimejohn stultz
In debugging a problem w/ the -rt tree, I noticed that on systems that mark the tsc as unstable before it is registered, the TSC would still be selected and used for a short period of time. Digging in it looks to be a result of the mix of the clocksource list changes and my clocksource initialization changes. With the -rt tree, using a bad TSC, even for a short period of time can results in a hang at boot. I was not able to reproduce this hang w/ mainline, but I'm not completely certain that someone won't trip on it. This patch resolves the issue by initializing the jiffies clocksource earlier so a bad TSC won't get selected just because nothing else is yet registered. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04[PATCH] swsusp: fix memory shrinkerRafael J. Wysocki
Fix a bug in the swsusp's memory shrinker that causes some systems using highmem to refuse to suspend to disk if image_size is set above 1/2 of available RAM. Special thanks to Jiri Slaby for reporting the problem and assistance in debugging it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04[PATCH] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exportsThomas Bittermann
This patch adds 2 missing symbol exports: jiffies_to_timeval() and timeval_to_jiffies(). The (not yet merged) dm-raid4-5 module will need them, and they used to be indirectly exported by virtue of being inline functions. Commit 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f ("[PATCH] Uninline jiffies.h functions") uninlined them, and thus modules now need them explicitly exported to use them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-02[PATCH] Fix microcode-related suspend problemRafael J. Wysocki
Fix the regression resulting from the recent change of suspend code ordering that causes systems based on Intel x86 CPUs using the microcode driver to hang during the resume. The problem occurs since the microcode driver uses request_firmware() in its CPU hotplug notifier, which is called after tasks has been frozen and hangs. It can be fixed by telling the microcode driver to use the microcode stored in memory during the resume instead of trying to load it from disk. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Maxim <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-02[PATCH] driver core: fix built-in drivers sysfs linksKay Sievers
built-in drivers had broken sysfs links that caused bootup hangs for certain driver unregistry sequences. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-29[PATCH] pid: Properly detect orphaned process groups in exit_notifyEric W. Biederman
In commit 0475ac0845f9295bc5f69af45f58dff2c104c8d1 when converting the orphaned process group handling to use struct pid I made a small mistake. I accidentally replaced an == with a !=. Besides just being a dumb thing to do apparently this has a bad side effect. The improper orphaned process group detection causes kwin to die after a suspend/resume cycle. I'm amazed this patch has been around as long as it has without anyone else noticing something funny going on. And the following people deserve credit for spotting and helping to reproduce this. Thanks to: Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk> Thanks to: "Michael Wu" Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-28[PATCH] hrtimers: fix reprogramming SMP raceIngo Molnar
hrtimer_start() incorrectly set the 'reprogram' flag to enqueue_hrtimer(), which should only be 1 if the hrtimer is queued to the current CPU. Doing otherwise could result in a reprogramming of the current CPU's clockevents device, with a timer that is not queued to it - resulting in a bogus next expiry value. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-27[PATCH] Revert "swsusp: disable nonboot CPUs before entering platform suspend"Rafael J. Wysocki
This reverts commit 94985134b7b46848267ed6b734320db01c974e72 and insteads removes the WARN_ON() that caused that commit in the first place. The problem is that we call disable_nonboot_cpus() in swsusp before powering down the system in order to avoid triggering the WARN_ON() in arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/sleep.c:init_low_mapping() and this doesn't work well on Thomas' system. So instead, remove the WARN_ON() in arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/sleep.c: init_low_mapping(), which triggers every time during the suspend to disk in the platform mode, as the potential problem it is related to doesn't seem to occur in practice. [ I think we might want to disallow the case of multiple users of that mm, or something. Normally, playing with the current process page tables on the current CPU should be fine as long as we don't have other threads using those tables at the same time.. Anyway, not pretty, but better than the warning or the lockup - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-27[PATCH] ntp: avoid time_offset overflowsjohn stultz
I've been seeing some odd NTP behavior recently on a few boxes and finally narrowed it down to time_offset overflowing when converted to SHIFT_UPDATE units (which was a side effect from my HZfreeNTP patch). This patch converts time_offset from a long to a s64 which resolves the issue. [tglx@linutronix.de: signedness fixes] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.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>
2007-03-26[PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for nowThomas Gleixner
The current sysfs support of clockevents does not obey the "only one value per file" rule. The real fix is not 2.6.21 material. Therefor remove the sysfs support for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-25[PATCH] clocksource: Fix thinko in watchdog selectionThomas Gleixner
The watchdog implementation excludes low res / non continuous clocksources from being selected as a watchdog reference unintentionally. Allow using jiffies/PIT as a watchdog reference as long as no better clocksource is available. This is necessary to detect TSC breakage on systems, which have no pmtimer/hpet. The main goal of the initial patch (preventing to switch to highres/nohz when no reliable fallback clocksource is available) is still guaranteed by the checks in clocksource_watchdog(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-25[PATCH] dynticks: fix hrtimer rounding error in next_timer_interruptThomas Gleixner
The rework of next_timer_interrupt() fixed the timer wheel bugs, but invented a rounding error versus the next hrtimer event. This is caused by the conversion of the hrtimer internal representation to relative jiffies. This causes bug #8100: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100 next_timer_interrupt() returns "now" in such a case and causes the code in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to trigger the timer softirq, which is bogus as no timer is due for expiry. This results in an endless context switching between idle and ksoftirqd until a timer is due for expiry. Modify the hrtimer evaluation so that, it returns now + 1, when the conversion results in a delta < 1 jiffie. It's confirmed to resolve bug #8100 Reported-by: Emil Karlson <jkarlson@cc.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-23[PATCH] time: fix formatting in /proc/timer_listJames Morris
Fix the print formatting of three unsigned long fields in /proc/timer_list, which are currently being formatted as signed long. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: 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>