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2010-04-24kernel/sys.c: fix compat uname machineAndreas Schwab
On ppc64 you get this error: $ setarch ppc -R true setarch: ppc: Unrecognized architecture because uname still reports ppc64 as the machine. So mask off the personality flags when checking for PER_LINUX32. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-23Merge commit 'tip/tracing/core' into oprofile/coreRobert Richter
Conflicts: drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-04-23Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
2010-04-23Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()Suresh Siddha
Issues in the current select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() in the context of a task wake-up: a) Once we select the idle sibling, we use that domain (spanning the cpu that the task is currently woken-up and the idle sibling that we found) in our wake_affine() decisions. This domain is completely different from the domain(we are supposed to use) that spans the cpu that the task currently woken-up and the cpu where the task previously ran. b) We do select_idle_sibling() check only for the cpu that the task is currently woken-up on. If select_task_rq_fair() selects the previously run cpu for waking the task, doing a select_idle_sibling() check for that cpu also helps and we don't do this currently. c) In the scenarios where the cpu that the task is woken-up is busy but with its HT siblings are idle, we are selecting the task be woken-up on the idle HT sibling instead of a core that it previously ran and currently completely idle. i.e., we are not taking decisions based on wake_affine() but directly selecting an idle sibling that can cause an imbalance at the SMT/MC level which will be later corrected by the periodic load balancer. Fix this by first going through the load imbalance calculations using wake_affine() and once we make a decision of woken-up cpu vs previously-ran cpu, then choose a possible idle sibling for waking up the task on. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1270079265.7835.8.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23sched: Pre-compute cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd))Peter Zijlstra
Dave reported that his large SPARC machines spend lots of time in hweight64(), try and optimize some of those needless cpumask_weight() invocations (esp. with the large offstack cpumasks these are very expensive indeed). Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woesPeter Zijlstra
Chase reported that due to us decrementing calc_load_task prematurely (before the next LOAD_FREQ sample), the load average could be scewed by as much as the number of CPUs in the machine. This patch, based on Chase's patch, cures the problem by keeping the delta of the CPU going into NO_HZ idle separately and folding that in on the next LOAD_FREQ update. This restores the balance and we get strict LOAD_FREQ period samples. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1271934490.1776.343.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird casesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check lives before the owner running check. This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back & re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
2010-04-22CRED: Fix a race in creds_are_invalid() in credentials debuggingDavid Howells
creds_are_invalid() reads both cred->usage and cred->subscribers and then compares them to make sure the number of processes subscribed to a cred struct never exceeds the refcount of that cred struct. The problem is that this can cause a race with both copy_creds() and exit_creds() as the two counters, whilst they are of atomic_t type, are only atomic with respect to themselves, and not atomic with respect to each other. This means that if creds_are_invalid() can read the values on one CPU whilst they're being modified on another CPU, and so can observe an evolving state in which the subscribers count now is greater than the usage count a moment before. Switching the order in which the counts are read cannot help, so the thing to do is to remove that particular check. I had considered rechecking the values to see if they're in flux if the test fails, but I can't guarantee they won't appear the same, even if they've changed several times in the meantime. Note that this can only happen if CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS is enabled. The problem is only likely to occur with multithreaded programs, and can be tested by the tst-eintr1 program from glibc's "make check". The symptoms look like: CRED: Invalid credentials CRED: At include/linux/cred.h:240 CRED: Specified credentials: ffff88003dda5878 [real][eff] CRED: ->magic=43736564, put_addr=(null) CRED: ->usage=766, subscr=766 CRED: ->*uid = { 0,0,0,0 } CRED: ->*gid = { 0,0,0,0 } CRED: ->security is ffff88003d72f538 CRED: ->security {359, 359} ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:850! ... RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81049889>] [<ffffffff81049889>] __invalid_creds+0x4e/0x52 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8104a37b>] copy_creds+0x6b/0x23f Note the ->usage=766 and subscr=766. The values appear the same because they've been re-read since the check was made. Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-21tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffersFrederic Weisbecker
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens. It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many, plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces. Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the opps, most of the time it is our main interest. This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice. The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed. Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode. v2: Fix double setup v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-21Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc5' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up latest -rc's. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-21CRED: Fix double free in prepare_usermodehelper_creds() error handlingDavid Howells
Patch 570b8fb505896e007fd3bb07573ba6640e51851d: Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Date: Tue Mar 30 00:04:00 2010 +0100 Subject: CRED: Fix memory leak in error handling attempts to fix a memory leak in the error handling by making the offending return statement into a jump down to the bottom of the function where a kfree(tgcred) is inserted. This is, however, incorrect, as it does a kfree() after doing put_cred() if security_prepare_creds() fails. That will result in a double free if 'error' is jumped to as put_cred() will also attempt to free the new tgcred record by virtue of it being pointed to by the new cred record. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-19perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from hostZhang, Yanmin
Below patch introduces perf_guest_info_callbacks and related register/unregister functions. Add more PERF_RECORD_MISC_XXX bits meaning guest kernel and guest user space. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-19rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variablePaul E. McKenney
The lockdep facility temporarily disables lockdep checking by incrementing the current->lockdep_recursion variable. Such disabling happens in NMIs and in other situations where lockdep might expect to recurse on itself. This patch therefore checks current->lockdep_recursion, disabling RCU lockdep splats when this variable is non-zero. In addition, this patch removes the "likely()", as suggested by Lai Jiangshan. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100415195039.GA22623@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15sched: Fix UP update_avg() build warningMike Galbraith
update_avg() is only used for SMP builds, move it to the nearest SMP block. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1271309399.14779.17.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to -rc4. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'perf' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-04-15blkio: fix for modular blk-cgroup buildDivyesh Shah
After merging the block tree, 20100414's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: ERROR: "get_gendisk" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined! ERROR: "sched_clock" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined! This happens because the two symbols aren't exported and hence not available when blk-cgroup code is built as a module. I've tried to stay consistent with the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with the other symbols in the respective files. Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com> Acked-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.cn> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-15perf: Fix hlist related build errorFrederic Weisbecker
hlist helpers need to be available for all software events, not only trace events. Pull them out outside the ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING section. Fixes: kernel/perf_event.c:4573: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_put' kernel/perf_event.c:4614: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_get' kernel/perf_event.c:5534: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_release Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1271281338-23491-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic eventsMasami Hiramatsu
Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent). e.g. echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the entry of account_system_time. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rulesFrederic Weisbecker
The cpu/task clock events implement their own version of exclusion on top of exclude_user and exclude_kernel. The result is that when the event triggered in the kernel but we have exclude_kernel set, we try to rewind using task_pt_regs. There are two side effects of this: - we call task_pt_regs even on kernel threads, which doesn't give us the desired result. - if the event occured in the kernel, we shouldn't rewind to the user context. We want to actually ignore the event. get_irq_regs() will always give us the right interrupted context, so use its result and submit it to perf_exclude_context() that knows when an event must be ignored. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Store active software events in a hashlistFrederic Weisbecker
Each time a software event triggers, we need to walk through the entire list of events from the current cpu and task contexts to retrieve a running perf event that matches. We also need to check a matching perf event is actually counting. This walk is wasteful and makes the event fast path scaling down with a growing number of events running on the same contexts. To solve this, we store the running perf events in a hashlist to get an immediate access to them against their type:event_id when they trigger. v2: - Fix SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE definition (and re-learn some basic maths along the way) - Only allocate hlist for online cpus, but keep track of the refcount on offline possible cpus too, so that we allocate it if needed when it becomes online. - Drop the kref use as it's not adapted to our tricks anymore. v3: - Fix bad refcount check (address instead of value). Thanks to Eric Dumazet who spotted this. - While exiting cpu, move the hlist release out of the IPI path to lock the hlist mutex sanely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/core
2010-04-13Input: implement SysRq as a separate input handlerDmitry Torokhov
Instead of keeping SysRq support inside of legacy keyboard driver split it out into a separate input handler (filter). This stops most SysRq input events from leaking into evdev clients (some events, such as first SysRq scancode - not keycode - event, are still leaked into both legacy keyboard and evdev). [martinez.javier@gmail.com: fix compile error when CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not defined] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-04-13genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core codeThomas Gleixner
Remove all code which is related to IRQF_DISABLED from the core kernel code. IRQF_DISABLED still exists as a flag, but becomes a NOOP and will be removed after a grace period. That way we can easily revert to the previous behaviour by just restoring the core code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.991244690@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabledIngo Molnar
Running interrupt handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows. That has been observed with multiqueue NICs delivering all their interrupts to a single core. We might band aid that somehow by checking the interrupt stacks, but the real safe fix is to run the irq handlers with interrupts disabled. Drivers for whacky hardware still can reenable them in the handler itself, if the need arises. (They do already due to lockdep) The risk of doing this is rather low: - lockdep already enforces this - CONFIG_NOHZ has shaken out the drivers which relied on jiffies updates - time keeping is not longer sensitive to the timer interrupt being delayed Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.758579387@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq()Marc Zyngier
Now that we enjoy threaded interrupts, we're starting to see irq_chip implementations (wm831x, pca953x) that make use of threaded interrupts for the controller, and nested interrupts for the client interrupt. It all works very well, with one drawback: Drivers requesting an IRQ must now know whether the handler will run in a thread context or not, and call request_threaded_irq() or request_irq() accordingly. The problem is that the requesting driver sometimes doesn't know about the nature of the interrupt, specially when the interrupt controller is a discrete chip (typically a GPIO expander connected over I2C) that can be connected to a wide variety of otherwise perfectly supported hardware. This patch introduces the request_any_context_irq() function that mostly mimics the usual request_irq(), except that it checks whether the irq level is configured as nested or not, and calls the right backend. On success, it also returns either IRQC_IS_HARDIRQ or IRQC_IS_NESTED. [ tglx: Made return value an enum, simplified code and made the export of request_any_context_irq GPL ] Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Cc: <joachim.eastwood@jotron.com> LKML-Reference: <927ea285bd0c68934ddae1a47e44a9ba@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13Merge branch 'linus' into irq/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Get the upstream IRQF_DISABLED related changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13time: Remove xtime_cacheJohn Stultz
With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly half a second off. This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the xtime_cache related code. This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change, where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling the edge case in update_wall_time(). Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz> LKML-Reference: <1270589451-30773-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-12security: remove dead hook acctEric Paris
Unused hook. Remove. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12security: remove dead hook task_setgroupsEric Paris
Unused hook. Remove. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12security: remove dead hook task_setgidEric Paris
Unused hook. Remove. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12security: remove dead hook task_setuidEric Paris
Unused hook. Remove. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12security: remove dead hook cred_commitEric Paris
Unused hook. Remove. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-10PM / Hibernate: user.c, fix SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA handlingJiri Slaby
When CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is set we decode the device improperly by old_decode_dev and it results in an error while hibernating with s2disk. All users already pass the new device number, so switch to new_decode_dev(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-04-10ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscallArnd Bergmann
The comment suggests that this usage is stale. There is no bkl in the exec path so if there is a race lurking there, the bkl in ptrace is not going to help in this regard. Overview of the possibility of "accidental" races this bkl might protect: - ptrace_traceme() is protected against task removal and concurrent read/write on current->ptrace as it locks write tasklist_lock. - arch_ptrace_attach() is serialized by ptrace_traceme() against concurrent PTRACE_TRACEME or PTRACE_ATTACH - ptrace_attach() is protected the same way ptrace_traceme() and in turn serializes arch_ptrace_attach() - ptrace_check_attach() does its own well described serializing too. There is no obvious race here. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2010-04-08Merge 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: Fix sched_getaffinity()
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/module.h kernel/module.c Semantic conflict: include/trace/events/module.h Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up possibly racy module refcounting") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-07mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork() - Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel threads and was oopsing. - Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)] Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-06Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Force MSI irq handlers to run with interrupts disabled
2010-04-06hrtimers: Provide schedule_hrtimeout for CLOCK_REALTIMECarsten Emde
The current version of schedule_hrtimeout() always uses the monotonic clock. Some system calls such as mq_timedsend() and mq_timedreceive(), however, require the use of the wall clock due to the definition of the system call. This patch provides the infrastructure to use schedule_hrtimeout() with a CLOCK_REALTIME timer. Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> Tested-by: Pradyumna Sampath <pradysam@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100402204331.167439615@osadl.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timersArjan van de Ven
While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with round_jiffies() and friends. Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption. This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following pieces: * A slack field in the timer struct * An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack * A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set any explicit slack * Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two' (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06sched: Fix sched_getaffinity()Anton Blanchard
taskset on 2.6.34-rc3 fails on one of my ppc64 test boxes with the following error: sched_getaffinity(0, 16, 0x10029650030) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) This box has 128 threads and 16 bytes is enough to cover it. Commit cd3d8031eb4311e516329aee03c79a08333141f1 (sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length) is comparing this 16 bytes agains nr_cpu_ids. Fix it by comparing nr_cpu_ids to the number of bits in the cpumask we pass in. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100406070218.GM5594@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-05Fix up possibly racy module refcountingNick Piggin
Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed. However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may be taken by one CPU and released by another. Reference count summation may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment, leading to lower than expected count. A module which never has its actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to this race. Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules. However there are other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine. Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements. The increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will always have its corresponding increment counted. The final refcount is the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a low-refcount from being returned. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-06lockstat: Make lockstat counting per cpuFrederic Weisbecker
Locking statistics are implemented using global atomic variables. This is usually fine unless some path write them very often. This is the case for the function and function graph tracers that disable irqs for each entry saved (except if the function tracer is in preempt disabled only mode). And calls to local_irq_save/restore() increment hardirqs_on_events and hardirqs_off_events stats (or similar stats for redundant versions). Incrementing these global vars for each function ends up in too much cache bouncing if lockstats are enabled. To solve this, implement the debug_atomic_*() operations using per cpu vars. -v2: Use per_cpu() instead of get_cpu_var() to fetch the desired cpu vars on debug_atomic_read() -v3: Store the stats in a structure. No need for local_t as we are NMI/irq safe. -v4: Fix tons of build errors. I thought I had tested it but I probably forgot to select the relevant config. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1270505417-8144-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-05audit: preface audit printk with auditEric Paris
There have been a number of reports of people seeing the message: "name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=3185" in dmesg. These usually lead to people reporting problems to the filesystem group who are in turn clueless what they mean. Eventually someone finds me and I explain what is going on and that these come from the audit system. The basics of the problem is that the audit subsystem never expects a single syscall to 'interact' (for some wish washy meaning of interact) with more than 20 inodes. But in fact some operations like loading kernel modules can cause changes to lots of inodes in debugfs. There are a couple real fixes being bandied about including removing the fixed compile time limit of 20 or not auditing changes in debugfs (or both) but neither are small and obvious so I am not sending them for immediate inclusion (I hope Al forwards a real solution next devel window). In the meantime this patch simply adds 'audit' to the beginning of the crap message so if a user sees it, they come blame me first and we can talk about what it means and make sure we understand all of the reasons it can happen and make sure this gets solved correctly in the long run. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/miscLinus Torvalds
* 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc: eeepc-wmi: include slab.h staging/otus: include slab.h from usbdrv.h percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h iwlwifi: don't include iwl-dev.h from iwl-devtrace.h x86: don't include slab.h from arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h due to is_kernel_percpu_address() having been introduced since the slab.h cleanup with the percpu_up.c splitup.
2010-04-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: module: add stub for is_module_percpu_address percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address() module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_size