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2009-04-09Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: consolidate documents blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree() tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
2009-04-09Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
2009-04-09Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk futex: comment requeue key reference semantics * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF) posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork() timers: add missing kernel-doc
2009-04-09blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()Li Zefan
Impact: fix kfree crash with non-standard act_mask string If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(), the returned ptr != the original ptr. This bug was introduced by me. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49DD694C.8020902@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file headerFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64 Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings: CC arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55: arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7, from include/linux/module.h:14, from include/linux/ftrace.h:8, from include/linux/syscalls.h:68, from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18: arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition [...] sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h to import the syscalls tracing prototypes. But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file, especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher level headers. Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file. Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demandAndrew Morton
Impact: circular locking bugfix The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu() are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some form. Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock. Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu() invokation. This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is pci_call_probe(). It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu() altogether. The code there is rather nasty. I can't think of anything simple at this time... Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd contextOleg Nesterov
kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to improve the scalability. We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2Vitaliy Gusev
Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just use "current" to get the same result. Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-08ptrace: some checkpatch fixesRoland McGrath
This fixes all the checkpatch --file complaints about kernel/ptrace.c and also removes an unused #include. I've verified that there are no changes to the compiled code on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> [ Removed the parts that just split a line - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-08posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)Oleg Nesterov
update_rlimit_cpu() tries to optimize out set_process_cpu_timer() in case when we already have CPUCLOCK_PROF timer which should expire first. But it uses cputime_lt() instead of cputime_gt(). Test case: int main(void) { struct itimerval it = { .it_value = { .tv_sec = 1000 }, }; assert(!setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &it, NULL)); struct rlimit rl = { .rlim_cur = 1, .rlim_max = 1, }; assert(!setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &rl)); for (;;) ; return 0; } Without this patch, the task is not killed as RLIMIT_CPU demands. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20090327000610.GA10108@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()Oleg Nesterov
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911 copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other expired cpu timers. Change copy_signal() to set cputime_expires.prof_exp if we have RLIMIT_CPU. Also, set cputimer.running = 1 in that case. This is not strictly necessary, but imho makes sense. Reported-by: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20090327000607.GA10104@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: update to latest upstream to queue up fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into core/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: need latest upstream to queue up dependent fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'core/softlockup' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
2009-04-07Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output Update /debug/tracing/README tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup function-graph: add proper initialization for init task tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs() tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write() blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
2009-04-07Merge branch 'irq/threaded' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq/threaded' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: fix devres.o build for GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n genirq: provide old request_irq() for CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ=n genirq: threaded irq handlers review fixups genirq: add support for threaded interrupts to devres genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
2009-04-07kprobes: support per-kprobe disablingMasami Hiramatsu
Add disable_kprobe() and enable_kprobe() to disable/enable kprobes temporarily. disable_kprobe() asynchronously disables probe handlers of specified kprobe. So, after calling it, some handlers can be called at a while. enable_kprobe() enables specified kprobe. aggr_pre_handler and aggr_post_handler check disabled probes. On the other hand aggr_break_handler and aggr_fault_handler don't check it because these handlers will be called while executing pre or post handlers and usually those help error handling. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmedMasami Hiramatsu
Rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmed and invert logic due to avoiding naming confusion from per-probe disabling. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL just after function definitionsMasami Hiramatsu
Clean up positions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in kernel/kprobes.c according to checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: cleanup aggr_kprobe related codeMasami Hiramatsu
Currently, kprobes can disable all probes at once, but can't disable it individually (not unregister, just disable an kprobe, because unregistering needs to wait for scheduler synchronization). These patches introduce APIs for on-the-fly per-probe disabling and re-enabling by dis-arming/re-arming its breakpoint instruction. This patch: Change old_p to ap in add_new_kprobe() for readability, copy flags member in add_aggr_kprobe(), and simplify the code flow of register_aggr_kprobe(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threadsPeter W Morreale
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush on both large and small machines. The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices. Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the kernel. The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000. Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly] Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-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>
2009-04-07ftrace: Correct a text align for event format outputZhaolei
If we cat debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/bprint/format, we'll see: name: bprint ID: 6 format: field:unsigned char common_type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:unsigned long ip; offset:12; size:4; field:char * fmt; offset:16; size:4; field: char buf; offset:20; size:0; print fmt: "%08lx (%d) fmt:%p %s" There is an inconsistent blank before char buf. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49D5E3EE.70201@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Update /debug/tracing/READMENikanth Karthikesan
Some of the tracers have been renamed, which was not updated in the in-kernel run-time README file. Update it. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <200903231158.32151.knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace fileFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix a crash while cat trace file Currently we are using a cpumask to remind each cpu where a trace occured. It lets us notice the user that a cpu just had its first trace. But on latest -tip we have the following crash once we cat the trace file: IP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier Pid: 3897, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.29-tip-02825-g0f22972-dirty #81) EIP: 0060:[<c0270c4a>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0 EIP is at print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c12d9e98 EDX: ccdb7010 ESI: d31f4000 EDI: 00322401 EBP: d31f3f10 ESP: d31f3efc DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Process cat (pid: 3897, ti=d31f2000 task=d3b3cf20 task.ti=d31f2000) Stack: d31f4080 ccdb7010 d31f4000 d691fe70 ccdb7010 d31f3f24 c0270e5c d31f4000 d691fe70 d31f4000 d31f3f34 c02718e8 c12d9e98 d691fe70 d31f3f70 c02bfc33 00001000 09130000 d3b46e00 d691fe98 00000000 00000079 00000001 00000000 Call Trace: [<c0270e5c>] ? print_trace_line+0x170/0x17c [<c02718e8>] ? s_show+0xa7/0xbd [<c02bfc33>] ? seq_read+0x24a/0x327 [<c02bf9e9>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x327 [<c02ab18b>] ? vfs_read+0x86/0xe1 [<c02ab289>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65 [<c0202d8f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c Code: 00 00 00 89 45 ec f7 c7 00 20 00 00 89 55 f0 74 4e f6 86 98 10 00 00 02 74 45 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 e8 52 f3 ff ff <0f> a3 03 19 c0 85 c0 75 2b 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 EIP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:d31f3efc CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace aa9cf38e5ebed9dd ]--- This is because we alloc the iter->started cpumask on tracing_pipe_open but not on tracing_open. It hadn't been noticed until now because we need to have ring buffer overruns to activate the starting of cpu buffer detection. Also, we need a check to not print the messagge for the first trace on the file. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1238619188-6109-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeupZhaolei
The wakeup tracing in sched_switch does not stop when a user disables tracing. This is because the probe_sched_wakeup() is missing the check to prevent the wakeup from being traced. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49D1C543.3010307@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.hFrederic Weisbecker
Building a kernel with tracing can raise the following warning on tip/master: kernel/trace/trace.c:1249: error: implicit declaration of function 'vbin_printf' We are missing an include to string.h Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1238160130-7437-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()Lai Jiangshan
Impact: fix time output bug in 32bits system ns2usecs() returns 'long', it's incorrect. (In i386) ... <idle>-0 [000] 521.442100: _spin_lock <-tick_do_update_jiffies64 <idle>-0 [000] 521.442101: do_timer <-tick_do_update_jiffies64 <idle>-0 [000] 521.442102: update_wall_time <-do_timer <idle>-0 [000] 521.442102: update_xtime_cache <-update_wall_time .... (It always print the time less than 2200 seconds besides ...) Because 'long' is 32bits in i386. ( (1<<31) useconds is about 2200 seconds) ... <idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134759: rcu_bh_qsctr_inc <-__do_softirq <idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134760: _local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq <idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134761: idle_cpu <-irq_exit ... (very large value) Because 'long' is a signed type and it is 32bits in i386. Changes in v2: return 'unsigned long long' instead of 'cycle_t' Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49D05D10.4030009@cn.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracerSteven Rostedt
Maneesh Soni was getting a crash when running the wakeup tracer. We debugged it down to the recording of the function with the CALLER_ADDR2 macro. This is used to get the location of the caller to schedule. But the problem comes when schedule is called by assmebly. In the case that Maneesh had, retint_careful would call schedule. But retint_careful does not set up a proper frame pointer. CALLER_ADDR2 is defined as __builtin_return_address(2). This produces the following assembly in the wakeup tracer code. mov 0x0(%rbp),%rcx <--- get the frame pointer of the caller mov %r14d,%r8d mov 0xf2de8e(%rip),%rdi mov 0x8(%rcx),%rsi <-- this is __builtin_return_address(1) mov 0x28(%rdi,%rax,8),%rbx mov (%rcx),%rax <-- get the frame pointer of the caller's caller mov %r12,%rcx mov 0x8(%rax),%rdx <-- this is __builtin_return_address(2) At the reading of 0x8(%rax) Maneesh's machine would take a fault. The reason is that retint_careful did not set up the return address and the content of %rax here was zero. To verify this, I sent Maneesh a patch to create a frame pointer in retint_careful. He ran the test again but this time he would take the same type of fault from sysret_careful. The retint_careful was no longer an issue, but there are other callers that still have issues. Instead of adding frame pointers for all callers to schedule (in possibly all archs), it is much safer to simply not use CALLER_ADDR2. This loses out on knowing what called schedule, but the function tracer will help there if needed. Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'tracing/blktrace-fixes' into tracing/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this used to be a tracing/blktrace-v2 devel topic still cooking during the merge window - has propagated to fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07Revert "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section."Rusty Russell
This reverts commit 9cb610d8e35fe3ec95a2fe2030b02f85aeea83c1. This was an impressively stupid patch. Firstly, we reset the SHF_ALLOC flag lower down in the same function, so the patch was useless. Even better, find_sec() ignores sections with SHF_ALLOC not set, so it breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y with CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD=n, which refuses to load the module since it can't find the __versions section. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-06exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) checkOleg Nesterov
The CAP_KILL check in exit_notify() looks just wrong, kill it. Whatever logic we have to reset ->exit_signal, the malicious user can bypass it if it execs the setuid application before exiting. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06kernel/sysctl.c: avoid annoying warningsLinus Torvalds
Some of the limit constants are used only depending on some complex configuration dependencies, yet it's not worth making the simple variables depend on those configuration details. Just mark them as perhaps not being unused, and avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: add stack dumps to asserts hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
2009-04-06Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects kmemtrace: small cleanups kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI kmemtrace: kmemtrace_alloc() must fill type_id kmemtrace: use tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcu_tree_trace.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_unlzma.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_bunzip2.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_inflate.c kmemtrace, squashfs: fix slab.h dependency problem in squasfs kmemtrace, befs: fix slab.h dependency problem kmemtrace, security: fix linux/key.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: fix linux/fdtable.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set() kmemtrace, fs, security: move alloc_secdata() and free_secdata() to linux/security.h
2009-04-06Merge branch 'linus' into irq/threadedIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/irq.h kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-04-05Merge branch 'audit.b62' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b62' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path audit: audit_set_auditable defined but not used audit: incorrect ref counting in audit tree tag_chunk audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context() audit: ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messages Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel auditfilter.c auditsc: fix kernel-doc notation audit: EXECVE record - removed bogus newline
2009-04-05Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
2009-04-05Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_pathEric Paris
audit_log_d_path had spaces in the strings which would be emitted on the error paths. This patch simply replaces those spaces with an _ or removes the needless spaces entirely. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05audit: audit_set_auditable defined but not usedEric Paris
after 0590b9335a1c72a3f0defcc6231287f7817e07c8 audit_set_auditable() is now only used by the audit tree code. If CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE is unset it will be defined but unused. This patch simply moves the function inside a CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE block. cc1: warnings being treated as errors /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/auditsc.c:745: error: ‘audit_set_auditable’ defined but not used make[2]: *** [kernel/auditsc.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05audit: incorrect ref counting in audit tree tag_chunkEric Paris
tag_chunk has bad exit paths in which the inotify ref counting is wrong. At the top of the function we found &old_watch using inotify_find_watch(). inotify_find_watch takes a reference to the watch. This is never dropped on an error path. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context()Paul Moore
The audit subsystem treats syscall return codes as type long, unfortunately the audit_get_context() function mistakenly converts the return code to an int type in the parameters which could cause problems on systems where the sizeof(int) != sizeof(long). Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05audit: ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messagesMiloslav Trmac
AUDIT_USER_TTY, like all other messages sent from user-space, is sent NUL-terminated. Unlike other user-space audit messages, which come only from trusted sources, AUDIT_USER_TTY messages are processed using audit_log_n_untrustedstring(). This patch modifies AUDIT_USER_TTY handling to ignore the trailing NUL and use the "quoted_string" representation of the message if possible. Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL charactersMiloslav Trmac
currently audit_log_n_untrustedstring() uses audit_string_contains_control() to check if the 'string' has any control characters. If the 'string' has an embedded NULL audit_string_contains_control() will return that the data has no control characters and will then pass the string to audit_log_n_string with the total length, not the length up to the first NULL. audit_log_n_string() does a memcpy of the entire length and so the actual audit record emitted may then contain a NULL and then whatever random memory is after the NULL. Since we want to log the entire octet stream (if we can't trust the data to be a string we can't trust that a NULL isn't actually a part of it) we should just consider NULL as a control character. If the caller is certain they want to stop at the first NULL they should be using audit_log_untrustedstring. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel auditfilter.cZhenwen Xu
make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel/auditfilter.c -- --------------------------------- Zhenwen Xu - Open and Free Home Page: http://zhwen.org My Studio: http://dim4.cn >From 99692dc640b278f1cb1a15646ce42f22e89c0f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhenwen Xu <Helight.Xu@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:04:59 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel/auditfilter.c Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <Helight.Xu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05auditsc: fix kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Fix auditsc kernel-doc notation: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2156): No description found for parameter 'attr' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2156): Excess function parameter 'u_attr' description in '__audit_mq_open' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2204): No description found for parameter 'notification' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2204): Excess function parameter 'u_notification' description in '__audit_mq_notify' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05audit: EXECVE record - removed bogus newlineJiri Pirko
(updated) Added hunk that changes the comment, the rest is the same. EXECVE records contain a newline after every argument. auditd converts "\n" to " " so you cannot see newlines even in raw logs, but they're there nevertheless. If you're not using auditd, you need to work round them. These '\n' chars are can be easily replaced by spaces when creating record in kernel. Note there is no need for trailing '\n' in an audit record. record before this patch: "type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\"\na1=\"a\"\na2=\"b\"\na3=\"c\"\n" record after this patch: "type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\" a1=\"a\" a2=\"b\" a3=\"c\"" Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumaskLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits) cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed x86: microcode: cleanup x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses. cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others. cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain() cpumask: make Xen use the new operators. cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86 x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map ...
2009-04-05Merge ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param: module: use strstarts() strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h module: don't use stop_machine on module load module: create a request_module_nowait() module: include other structures in module version check module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section. module: clarify the force-loading taint message. module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols module: remove module_text_address() module: __module_address module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/extable.c manually.
2009-04-05Merge branch 'printk-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: correct the behavior of printk_timed_ratelimit() vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users, cleanup fix regression from "vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users" vsprintf: fix bug in negative value printing vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users vsprintf: add binary printf printk: introduce printk_once() Fix trivial conflicts (printk_once vs log_buf_kexec_setup() added near each other) in include/linux/kernel.h.