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2008-07-25bsdacct: rename acct_gbls to bsd_acct_structPavel Emelyanov
After I fixed access to task->tgid in kernel/acct.c, Oleg pointed out some bad side effects with this accounting vs pid namespaces interaction. I.e. when some task in pid namespace sets this accounting up, this blocks all the others from doing the same. Restricting this to init namespace only could help, but didn't look a graceful solution. So here is the approach to make this accounting work with pid namespaces properly. The idea is simple - when a task dies it accounts itself in each namespace it is visible from and which set the accounting up. For example here are the commands run and the output of lastcomm from init and sub namespaces: init_ns# accton pacct sub_ns# accton pacct (this is a different file - sub ns is run in a chroot-ed environment) init_ns# cat /dev/null sub_ns# ls /dev/null init_ns# accton sub_ns# accton sub_ns# lastcomm -f pacct ls 0 [136,0] 0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30 accton 0 [136,0] 0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30 init_ns# lastcomm -f pacct accton root pts/0 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub cat root pts/1 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 ls root pts/0 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub accton root pts/1 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 That was the summary, the details are in patches. This patch: It will be visible in pid_namespace.h file, so fix its name to look better outside the acct.c file. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25accounting: account for user time when updating memory integralsJonathan Lim
Adapt acct_update_integrals() to include user time when calculating the time difference. The units of acct_rss_mem1 and acct_vm_mem1 are also changed from pages-jiffies to pages-usecs to avoid calling jiffies_to_usecs() in xacct_add_tsk() which might overflow. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25unexport uts_semAdrian Bunk
With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of uts_sem became unused. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> 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>
2008-07-25markers: fix sparse integer as NULL pointer warningHarvey Harrison
kernel/trace/trace_sysprof.c:164:20: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25markers: use rcu_barrier_sched() and call_rcu_sched()Mathieu Desnoyers
rcu_barrier_sched() and call_rcu_sched() were introduced in 2.6.26 for the Markers. Change the marker code to use them. It can be seen as a fix since the marker code was using an ugly, temporary, #ifdef hack to work around CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25aoe: convert emsgs_sema into a completionMatthias Kaehlcke
ATA over Ethernet: The semaphore emsgs_sema is used for signalling an event, convert it in a completion. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net> Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long timePavel Emelyanov
It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after the last caller's death. Anyway - better late, then never. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25pidns: remove now unused find_pid function.Pavel Emelyanov
This one had the only users so far - the kill_proc, which is removed, so drop this (invalid in namespaced world) call too. And of course - erase all references on it from comments. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25pidns: remove now unused kill_proc functionPavel Emelyanov
This function operated on a pid_t to kill a task, which is no longer valid in a containerized system. It has finally lost all its users and we can safely remove it from the tree. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25shrink struct pid by removing padding on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy
When struct pid is built on a 64 bit platform gcc has to insert padding to maintain the correct alignment, by simply reordering its members the memory usage shrinks from 88 bytes to 80. I've successfully run with this patch on my desktop AMD64 machine. There are no significant kernel size changes to a default config.X86_64 on the latest git v2.6.26-rc1 text data bss dec hex filename 5404828 976760 734280 7115868 6c945c vmlinux 5404811 976760 734280 7115851 6c944b vmlinux.pid-patch Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proper pid{hash,map}_init() prototypesAdrian Bunk
This patch adds proper prototypes for pid{hash,map}_init() in include/linux/pid_namespace.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25sysctl: allow override of /proc/sys/net with CAP_NET_ADMINStephen Hemminger
Extend the permission check for networking sysctl's to allow modification when current process has CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and is not root. This version uses the until now unused permissions hook to override the mode value for /proc/sys/net if accessed by a user with capabilities. Found while working with Quagga. It is impossible to turn forwarding on/off through the command interface because Quagga uses secure coding practice of dropping privledges during initialization and only raising via capabilities when necessary. Since the dameon has reset real/effective uid after initialization, all attempts to access /proc/sys/net variables will fail. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> 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>
2008-07-25sysctl: check for bogus modesAlexey Dobriyan
Catch, e. g., 644/0644 typo. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@parallels.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proc: misplaced export of find_get_pidDavid Sterba
Move EXPORT_SYMBOL right after the func Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proc: move Kconfig to fs/proc/KconfigAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proc: remove pathetic remount codeAlexey Dobriyan
MS_RMT_MASK will unmask changes in do_remount_sb() anyway. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proc: always do ->releaseAlexey Dobriyan
Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc: open rmmod remove_proc_entry close ->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared. In simple cases it's small memory leak. For every ->open, ->release has to be done. List of openers is introduced which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded. Discussions with Al long ago (sigh). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25move proc_kmsg_operations to fs/proc/internal.hAdrian Bunk
This patch moves the extern of struct proc_kmsg_operations to fs/proc/internal.h and adds an #include "internal.h" to fs/proc/kmsg.c so that the latter sees the former. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25unexport proc_clear_ttyAdrian Bunk
With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of proc_clear_tty became unused. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25dell_rbu: use memory_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25fs/partitions/efi: convert to pr_debugThomas Gleixner
convert the local Dprintk() compile time debug printk wrappers to the generic pr_debug() wrapper. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25block/ioctl.c and fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition()Abdel Benamrouche
Now that add_partition() has been aught to propagate errors, let's check them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25fs/partition/check.c: fix return value warningAbdel Benamrouche
fs/partitions/check.c:381: warning: ignoring return value of ___device_add___, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [akpm@linux-foundation.org: multiple-return-statements-per-function are evil] Signed-off-by: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25dcdbas: use memory_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25firmware: use memory_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25drivers/misc/phantom: note PCIJiri Slaby
Tell users that the driver is only for PCI devices to stop asking for support of firewire and parallel devices. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, various cleanupsJiri Slaby
- remove unused macro - some whitespace cleanup - useless debug prints removal Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, remove predefined isa supportJiri Slaby
Remove a support of ISA addresses predefined at compile time. It is unused (filled by zeroes) and prolongs the code. Don't initialize global array and add `ioaddr' module param description. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, prints cleanupJiri Slaby
- use dev_* for printing in pci probe function - move ISA p[rints directly into isa find function, do not postpone it. Remove macros bound to it then. - prepend some prints by "mxser: " to know what it belongs to Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, update documentationJiri Slaby
Update Documentation/moxa-smartio to the later document from the mxser package. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, globals cleanupJiri Slaby
- remove unused mxvar_diagflag - move mxser_msr into the only user/function - GMStatus, hmm, fix race-prone access to it. We need only one instance for real, not MXSER_PORTS. Move it to MOXA_GETMSTATUS ioctl. - mxser_mon_ext, almost the same, but alloc it on heap, since it has more than 2 kilos. - fix indexing, `i' is not the index value, `i * MXSER_PORTS_PER_BOARD + j' is Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25Char: mxser, ioctl cleanupJiri Slaby
- remove break ctl from ioctl handler, it's never reached, since tty_ops->break_ctl is defined (mxser break handling is done in software) - mark MOXA_GET_MAJOR as deprecated - fix TIOCGICOUNT (some retval non-checks of put_user). Use copy_to_user to whole structure instead. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25nwflash: use simple_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25dsp56k: BKL pushdownAlan Cox
Push the BKL down into the driver ioctl methods Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ds1302: push down the BKL into the driver ioctl codeAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ppdev: wrap ioctl handler in driver and push lock downAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ixj: push BKL into driver and wrap ioctlsAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25sx: push BKL down into the firmware ioctl handlerAlan Cox
Also fix the capability checking for firmware load. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25rio: push down the BKL into the firmware ioctl handlerAlan Cox
TTY side is already done. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25mwave: ioctl BKL pushdownAlan Cox
Push the BKL down to the point it wraps the actual mwave method handlers Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ip2: push BKL down for the firmware interfaceAlan Cox
(The tty side is already done) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25efirtc: push down the BKLAlan Cox
Push it down as far as the EFI method calls. Someone who knows EFI can do the other bits. Also fix another wrong unknown ioctl return. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25#if 0 hpet_unregister()Adrian Bunk
This patch #if 0's the unused hpet_unregister(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25proper extern for mwave_s_mddAdrian Bunk
This patch adds a proper extern for mwave_s_mdd in drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25elf: use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flagsEdgar E. Iglesias
ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore dumps as well. At the moment, this affects the CRIS and the H8300 arch. Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar@axis.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25pty: remove unused UNIX98_PTY_COUNT optionsAdrian Bunk
The h8300 and sparc options somehow survived when the code stopped using CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT. Reviewed-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> 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>
2008-07-25ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputingNadia Derbey
This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418. This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount of lowmem. With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/ removal. When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e. value written to the proc file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file. This is the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick". To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni. This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing. With this patch, the process is the following: 1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode" /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends on lowmem) /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1" 2) echo <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni . sets msg_ctlmni to <val> . de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added msgmni won't be recomputed anymore) . /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0" 3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni . de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays blocked at its current value) 3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni . recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size and number of ipc namespaces . re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ipc: use simple_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Also this patch kills unneccesary trailing NULL character. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list lockingManfred Spraul
The attached patch: - reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock: Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock. Now it's the other way around. - converts the undo structure to rcu. Benefits: - With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures. The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later. - The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock, then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25ipc/sem.c: convert sem_array.sem_pending to struct list_headManfred Spraul
sem_array.sem_pending is a double linked list, the attached patch converts it to struct list_head. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>