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2008-08-11lockdep: handle chains involving classes defined in modulesRabin Vincent
Solve this by marking the classes as unused and not printing information about the unused classes. Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Acked-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()Peter Zijlstra
Expose the new lock protection lock. This can be used to annotate places where we take multiple locks of the same class and avoid deadlocks by always taking another (top-level) lock first. NOTE: we're still bound to the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: lock protection locksPeter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > > Taking more than a few locks of the same class at once is bad > > news and it's better to find an alternative method. > > It's not always wrong. > > If you can guarantee that anybody that takes more than one lock of a > particular class will always take a single top-level lock _first_, then > that's all good. You can obviously screw up and take the same lock _twice_ > (which will deadlock), but at least you cannot get into ABBA situations. > > So maybe the right thing to do is to just teach lockdep about "lock > protection locks". That would have solved the multi-queue issues for > networking too - all the actual network drivers would still have taken > just their single queue lock, but the one case that needs to take all of > them would have taken a separate top-level lock first. > > Never mind that the multi-queue locks were always taken in the same order: > it's never wrong to just have some top-level serialization, and anybody > who needs to take <n> locks might as well do <n+1>, because they sure as > hell aren't going to be on _any_ fastpaths. > > So the simplest solution really sounds like just teaching lockdep about > that one special case. It's not "nesting" exactly, although it's obviously > related to it. Do as Linus suggested. The lock protection lock is called nest_lock. Note that we still have the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit to consider, so anything that spills that it still up shit creek. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: map_acquirePeter Zijlstra
Most the free-standing lock_acquire() usages look remarkably similar, sweep them into a new helper. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: shrink held_lock structureDave Jones
struct held_lock { u64 prev_chain_key; /* 0 8 */ struct lock_class * class; /* 8 8 */ long unsigned int acquire_ip; /* 16 8 */ struct lockdep_map * instance; /* 24 8 */ int irq_context; /* 32 4 */ int trylock; /* 36 4 */ int read; /* 40 4 */ int check; /* 44 4 */ int hardirqs_off; /* 48 4 */ /* size: 56, cachelines: 1 */ /* padding: 4 */ /* last cacheline: 56 bytes */ }; struct held_lock { u64 prev_chain_key; /* 0 8 */ long unsigned int acquire_ip; /* 8 8 */ struct lockdep_map * instance; /* 16 8 */ unsigned int class_idx:11; /* 24:21 4 */ unsigned int irq_context:2; /* 24:19 4 */ unsigned int trylock:1; /* 24:18 4 */ unsigned int read:2; /* 24:16 4 */ unsigned int check:2; /* 24:14 4 */ unsigned int hardirqs_off:1; /* 24:13 4 */ /* size: 32, cachelines: 1 */ /* padding: 4 */ /* bit_padding: 13 bits */ /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */ }; [mingo@elte.hu: shrunk hlock->class too] [peterz@infradead.org: fixup bit sizes] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-08-11lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueuesPeter Zijlstra
Instead of using a per-rq lock class, use the regular nesting operations. However, take extra care with double_lock_balance() as it can release the already held rq->lock (and therefore change its nesting class). So what can happen is: spin_lock(rq->lock); // this rq subclass 0 double_lock_balance(rq, other_rq); // release rq // acquire other_rq->lock subclass 0 // acquire rq->lock subclass 1 spin_unlock(other_rq->lock); leaving you with rq->lock in subclass 1 So a subsequent double_lock_balance() call can try to nest a subclass 1 lock while already holding a subclass 1 lock. Fix this by introducing double_unlock_balance() which releases the other rq's lock, but also re-sets the subclass for this rq's lock to 0. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's subclassPeter Zijlstra
this can be used to reset a held lock's subclass, for arbitrary-depth iterated data structures such as trees or lists which have per-node locks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-01lockdep: change scheduler annotationPeter Zijlstra
While thinking about David's graph walk lockdep patch it _finally_ dawned on me that there is no reason we have a lock class per cpu ... Sorry for being dense :-/ The below changes the annotation from a lock class per cpu, to a single nested lock, as the scheduler never holds more that 2 rq locks at a time anyway. If there was code requiring holding all rq locks this would not work and the original annotation would be the only option, but that not being the case, this is a much lighter one. Compiles and boots on a 2-way x86_64. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversalDavid Miller
When we traverse the graph, either forwards or backwards, we are interested in whether a certain property exists somewhere in a node reachable in the graph. Therefore it is never necessary to traverse through a node more than once to get a correct answer to the given query. Take advantage of this property using a global ID counter so that we need not clear all the markers in all the lock_class entries before doing a traversal. A new ID is choosen when we start to traverse, and we continue through a lock_class only if it's ID hasn't been marked with the new value yet. This short-circuiting is essential especially for high CPU count systems. The scheduler has a runqueue per cpu, and needs to take two runqueue locks at a time, which leads to long chains of backwards and forwards subgraphs from these runqueue lock nodes. Without the short-circuit implemented here, a graph traversal on a runqueue lock can take up to (1 << (N - 1)) checks on a system with N cpus. For anything more than 16 cpus or so, lockdep will eventually bring the machine to a complete standstill. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits) x86/PCI: use dev_printk when possible PCI: add D3 power state avoidance quirk PCI: fix bogus "'device' may be used uninitialized" warning in pci_slot PCI: add an option to allow ASPM enabled forcibly PCI: disable ASPM on pre-1.1 PCIe devices PCI: disable ASPM per ACPI FADT setting PCI MSI: Don't disable MSIs if the mask bit isn't supported PCI: handle 64-bit resources better on 32-bit machines PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code PCI: document pci_target_state PCI hotplug: fix typo in pcie hotplug output x86 gart: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages x86, AMD IOMMU: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper function dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces Cris: convert to using generic dma-coherent mem allocator Sh: use generic per-device coherent dma allocator ARM: support generic per-device coherent dma mem Generic dma-coherent: fix DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE x86: use generic per-device dma coherent allocator ...
2008-07-28mmu-notifiers: coreAndrea Arcangeli
With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to pages. There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary tlbs) too. sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say spte in mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte". In GRU case there's no actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb because the GRU secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every secondary tlb miss event in the MMU always generates a page fault that has to be resolved by the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a secondary tlb miss will walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the secondary tlb transparently to software if the corresponding spte is present). The same way zap_page_range has to invalidate the pte before freeing the page, the spte (and secondary tlb) must also be invalidated before any page is freed and reused. Currently we take a page_count pin on every page mapped by sptes, but that means the pages can't be swapped whenever they're mapped by any spte because they're part of the guest working set. Furthermore a spte unmap event can immediately lead to a page to be freed when the pin is released (so requiring the same complex and relatively slow tlb_gather smp safe logic we have in zap_page_range and that can be avoided completely if the spte unmap event doesn't require an unpin of the page previously mapped in the secondary MMU). The mmu notifiers allow kvm/GRU/XPMEM to attach to the tsk->mm and know when the VM is swapping or freeing or doing anything on the primary MMU so that the secondary MMU code can drop sptes before the pages are freed, avoiding all page pinning and allowing 100% reliable swapping of guest physical address space. Furthermore it avoids the code that teardown the mappings of the secondary MMU, to implement a logic like tlb_gather in zap_page_range that would require many IPI to flush other cpu tlbs, for each fixed number of spte unmapped. To make an example: if what happens on the primary MMU is a protection downgrade (from writeable to wrprotect) the secondary MMU mappings will be invalidated, and the next secondary-mmu-page-fault will call get_user_pages and trigger a do_wp_page through get_user_pages if it called get_user_pages with write=1, and it'll re-establishing an updated spte or secondary-tlb-mapping on the copied page. Or it will setup a readonly spte or readonly tlb mapping if it's a guest-read, if it calls get_user_pages with write=0. This is just an example. This allows to map any page pointed by any pte (and in turn visible in the primary CPU MMU), into a secondary MMU (be it a pure tlb like GRU, or an full MMU with both sptes and secondary-tlb like the shadow-pagetable layer with kvm), or a remote DMA in software like XPMEM (hence needing of schedule in XPMEM code to send the invalidate to the remote node, while no need to schedule in kvm/gru as it's an immediate event like invalidating primary-mmu pte). At least for KVM without this patch it's impossible to swap guests reliably. And having this feature and removing the page pin allows several other optimizations that simplify life considerably. Dependencies: 1) mm_take_all_locks() to register the mmu notifier when the whole VM isn't doing anything with "mm". This allows mmu notifier users to keep track if the VM is in the middle of the invalidate_range_begin/end critical section with an atomic counter incraese in range_begin and decreased in range_end. No secondary MMU page fault is allowed to map any spte or secondary tlb reference, while the VM is in the middle of range_begin/end as any page returned by get_user_pages in that critical section could later immediately be freed without any further ->invalidate_page notification (invalidate_range_begin/end works on ranges and ->invalidate_page isn't called immediately before freeing the page). To stop all page freeing and pagetable overwrites the mmap_sem must be taken in write mode and all other anon_vma/i_mmap locks must be taken too. 2) It'd be a waste to add branches in the VM if nobody could possibly run KVM/GRU/XPMEM on the kernel, so mmu notifiers will only enabled if CONFIG_KVM=m/y. In the current kernel kvm won't yet take advantage of mmu notifiers, but this already allows to compile a KVM external module against a kernel with mmu notifiers enabled and from the next pull from kvm.git we'll start using them. And GRU/XPMEM will also be able to continue the development by enabling KVM=m in their config, until they submit all GRU/XPMEM GPLv2 code to the mainline kernel. Then they can also enable MMU_NOTIFIERS in the same way KVM does it (even if KVM=n). This guarantees nobody selects MMU_NOTIFIER=y if KVM and GRU and XPMEM are all =n. The mmu_notifier_register call can fail because mm_take_all_locks may be interrupted by a signal and return -EINTR. Because mmu_notifier_reigster is used when a driver startup, a failure can be gracefully handled. Here an example of the change applied to kvm to register the mmu notifiers. Usually when a driver startups other allocations are required anyway and -ENOMEM failure paths exists already. struct kvm *kvm_arch_create_vm(void) { struct kvm *kvm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm), GFP_KERNEL); + int err; if (!kvm) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages); + kvm->arch.mmu_notifier.ops = &kvm_mmu_notifier_ops; + err = mmu_notifier_register(&kvm->arch.mmu_notifier, current->mm); + if (err) { + kfree(kvm); + return ERR_PTR(err); + } + return kvm; } mmu_notifier_unregister returns void and it's reliable. The patch also adds a few needed but missing includes that would prevent kernel to compile after these changes on non-x86 archs (x86 didn't need them by luck). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/filemap_xip.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/mmu_notifier.c build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-29Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherentIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/stop_machine.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28cpu masks: optimize and clean up cpumask_of_cpu()Linus Torvalds
Clean up and optimize cpumask_of_cpu(), by sharing all the zero words. Instead of stupidly generating all possible i=0...NR_CPUS 2^i patterns creating a huge array of constant bitmasks, realize that the zero words can be shared. In other words, on a 64-bit architecture, we only ever need 64 of these arrays - with a different bit set in one single world (with enough zero words around it so that we can create any bitmask by just offsetting in that big array). And then we just put enough zeroes around it that we can point every single cpumask to be one of those things. So when we have 4k CPU's, instead of having 4k arrays (of 4k bits each, with one bit set in each array - 2MB memory total), we have exactly 64 arrays instead, each 8k bits in size (64kB total). And then we just point cpumask(n) to the right position (which we can calculate dynamically). Once we have the right arrays, getting "cpumask(n)" ends up being: static inline const cpumask_t *get_cpu_mask(unsigned int cpu) { const unsigned long *p = cpu_bit_bitmap[1 + cpu % BITS_PER_LONG]; p -= cpu / BITS_PER_LONG; return (const cpumask_t *)p; } This brings other advantages and simplifications as well: - we are not wasting memory that is just filled with a single bit in various different places - we don't need all those games to re-create the arrays in some dense format, because they're already going to be dense enough. if we compile a kernel for up to 4k CPU's, "wasting" that 64kB of memory is a non-issue (especially since by doing this "overlapping" trick we probably get better cache behaviour anyway). [ mingo@elte.hu: Converted Linus's mails into a commit. See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/27/156 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/320 Also applied a family filter - which also has the side-effect of leaving out the bits where Linus calls me an idio... Oh, never mind ;-) ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: stop_machine: fix up ftrace.c stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run() stop_machine(): stop_machine_run() changed to use cpu mask Hotplug CPU: don't check cpu_online after take_cpu_down Simplify stop_machine stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option module: fix build warning with !CONFIG_KALLSYMS
2008-07-28stop_machine: fix up ftrace.cRusty Russell
Simple conversion. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2008-07-28stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run()Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28stop_machine(): stop_machine_run() changed to use cpu maskRusty Russell
Instead of a "cpu" arg with magic values NR_CPUS (any cpu) and ~0 (all cpus), pass a cpumask_t. Allow NULL for the common case (where we don't care which CPU the function is run on): temporary cpumask_t's are usually considered bad for stack space. This deprecates stop_machine_run, to be removed soon when all the callers are dead. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28Hotplug CPU: don't check cpu_online after take_cpu_downRusty Russell
Akinobu points out that if take_cpu_down() succeeds, the cpu must be offline. Remove the cpu_online() check, and put a BUG_ON(). Quoting Akinobu Mita: Actually the cpu_online() check was necessary before appling this stop_machine: simplify patch. With old __stop_machine_run(), __stop_machine_run() could succeed (return !IS_ERR(p) value) even if take_cpu_down() returned non-zero value. The return value of take_cpu_down() was obtained through kthread_stop().. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Akinobu Mita" <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
2008-07-28Simplify stop_machineRusty Russell
stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads. We can create those threads directly and simplify things a little. Some care must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code seems more robust than it was in the past. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-28stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS optionJason Baron
-allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior. stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> CC: mingo@elte.hu CC: akpm@osdl.org
2008-07-28module: fix build warning with !CONFIG_KALLSYMSWANG Cong
This patch fixed the warning: CC kernel/module.o /home/wangcong/Projects/linux-2.6/kernel/module.c:332: warning: ‘lookup_symbol’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-27task IO accounting: move all IO statistics in struct task_io_accountingAndrea Righi
Simplify the code of include/linux/task_io_accounting.h. It is also more reasonable to have all the task i/o-related statistics in a single struct (task_io_accounting). Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27task IO accounting: improve code readabilityAndrea Righi
Put all i/o statistics in struct proc_io_accounting and use inline functions to initialize and increment statistics, removing a lot of single variable assignments. This also reduces the kernel size as following (with CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y and CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y). text data bss dec hex filename 11651 0 0 11651 2d83 kernel/exit.o.before 11619 0 0 11619 2d63 kernel/exit.o.after 10886 132 136 11154 2b92 kernel/fork.o.before 10758 132 136 11026 2b12 kernel/fork.o.after 3082029 807968 4818600 8708597 84e1f5 vmlinux.o.before 3081869 807968 4818600 8708437 84e155 vmlinux.o.after Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27tracing: remove unused variableAndrea Righi
Remove the following warning with CONFIG_TRACING=y: kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘s_next’: kernel/trace/trace.c:1186: warning: unused variable ‘last_ent’ Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27lost sysctl fixAl Viro
try_attach() should walk into the matching subdirectory, not the first one... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26[PATCH] get rid of indirect users of namei.hAl Viro
fs.h needs path.h, not namei.h; nfs_fs.h doesn't need it at all. Several places in the tree needed direct include. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] kill altrootAl Viro
long overdue... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototypeAl Viro
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask. * kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission() * sanitize ecryptfs_permission() * fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new MAY_... found in mask. The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9) folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctlAl Viro
* keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes * grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to entry if that succeeds * have ->d_compare() check if table should be seen for one who does lookup; that allows us to avoid flipping inodes - if we have the same name resolve to different things, we'll just keep several dentries and ->d_compare() will reject the wrong ones. * have ->lookup() and ->readdir() scan the table of our inode first, then walk all ctl_table_header and scan ->attached_by for those that are attached to our directory. * implement ->getattr(). * get rid of insane amounts of tree-walking * get rid of the need to know dentry in ->permission() and of the contortions induced by that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] sysctl: keep track of tree relationshipsAl Viro
In a sense, that's the heart of the series. It's based on the following property of the trees we are actually asked to add: they can be split into stem that is already covered by registered trees and crown that is entirely new. IOW, if a/b and a/c/d are introduced by our tree, then a/c is also introduced by it. That allows to associate tree and table entry with each node in the union; while directory nodes might be covered by many trees, only one will cover the node by its crown. And that will allow much saner logics for /proc/sys in the next patches. This patch introduces the data structures needed to keep track of that. When adding a sysctl table, we find a "parent" one. Which is to say, find the deepest node on its stem that already is present in one of the tables from our table set or its ancestor sets. That table will be our parent and that node in it - attachment point. Add our table to list anchored in parent, have it refer the parent and contents of attachment point. Also remember where its crown lives. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] allow delayed freeing of ctl_table_headerAl Viro
Refcount the sucker; instead of freeing it by the end of unregistration just drop the refcount and free only when it hits zero. Make sure that we _always_ make ->unregistering non-NULL in start_unregistering(). That allows anybody to get a reference to such puppy, preventing its freeing and reuse. It does *not* block unregistration. Anybody who holds such a reference can * try to grab a "use" reference (ctl_head_grab()); that will succeeds if and only if it hadn't entered unregistration yet. If it succeeds, we can use it in all normal ways until we release the "use" reference (with ctl_head_finish()). Note that this relies on having ->unregistering become non-NULL in all cases when one starts to unregister the sucker. * keep pointers to ctl_table entries; they *can* be freed if the entire thing is unregistered. However, if ctl_head_grab() succeeds, we know that unregistration had not happened (and will not happen until ctl_head_finish()) and such pointers can be used safely. IOW, now we can have inodes under /proc/sys keep references to ctl_table entries, protecting them with references to ctl_table_header and grabbing the latter for the duration of operations that require access to ctl_table. That won't cause deadlocks, since unregistration will not be stopped by mere keeping a reference to ctl_table_header. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] beginning of sysctl cleanup - ctl_table_setAl Viro
New object: set of sysctls [currently - root and per-net-ns]. Contains: pointer to parent set, list of tables and "should I see this set?" method (->is_seen(set)). Current lists of tables are subsumed by that; net-ns contains such a beast. ->lookup() for ctl_table_root returns pointer to ctl_table_set instead of that to ->list of that ctl_table_set. [folded compile fixes by rdd for configs without sysctl] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26Merge 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: ftrace: fix modular build ftrace: disable tracing on acpi idle calls ftrace: remove latency-tracer leftover ftrace: only trace preempt off with preempt tracer ftrace: fix 4d3702b6 (post-v2.6.26): WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2731 check_flags (ftrace)
2008-07-26make cgroup_seqfile_release() staticAdrian Bunk
cgroup_seqfile_release() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: wait_task_inactiveRoland McGrath
This extends wait_task_inactive() with a new argument so it can be used in a "soft" mode where it will check for the task changing state unexpectedly and back off. There is no change to existing callers. This lays the groundwork to allow robust, noninvasive tracing that can try to sample a blocked thread but back off safely if it wakes up. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: force signal_pending()Roland McGrath
This defines a new hook tracehook_force_sigpending() that lets tracing code decide to force TIF_SIGPENDING on in recalc_sigpending(). This is not used yet, so it compiles away to nothing for now. It lays the groundwork for new tracing code that can interrupt a task synthetically without actually sending a signal. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: deathRoland McGrath
This moves the ptrace logic in task death (exit_notify) into tracehook.h inlines. Some code is rearranged slightly to make things nicer. There is no change, only cleanup. There is one hook called with the tasklist_lock write-locked, as ptrace needs. There is also a new hook called after exit_state changes and without locks. This is a better place for tracing work to be in the future, since it doesn't delay the whole system with locking. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: job controlRoland McGrath
This defines the tracehook_notify_jctl() hook to formalize the ptrace effects on the job control notifications. There is no change, only cleanup. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: get_signal_to_deliverRoland McGrath
This defines the tracehook_get_signal() hook to allow tracing code to slip in before normal signal dequeuing. This lays the groundwork for new tracing features that can inject synthetic signals outside the normal queue or control the disposition of delivered signals. The calling convention lets tracehook_get_signal() decide both exactly what will happen and what signal number to report in the handler/exit. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: tracehook_consider_fatal_signalRoland McGrath
This defines tracehook_consider_fatal_signal() has a fine-grained hook for deciding to skip the special cases for a fatal signal, as ptrace does. There is no change, only cleanup. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: tracehook_consider_ignored_signalRoland McGrath
This defines tracehook_consider_ignored_signal() has a fine-grained hook for deciding to prevent the normal short-circuit of sending an ignored signal, as ptrace does. There is no change, only cleanup. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: release_taskRoland McGrath
This moves the ptrace-related logic from release_task into tracehook.h and ptrace.h inlines. It provides clean hooks both before and after locking tasklist_lock, for future tracing logic to do more cleanup without the lock. This also changes release_task() itself in the rare "zap_leader" case to set the leader to EXIT_DEAD before iterating. This maintains the invariant that release_task() only ever handles a task in EXIT_DEAD. This is a common-sense invariant that is already always true except in this one arcane case of zombie leader whose parent ignores SIGCHLD. This change is harmless and only costs one store in this one rare case. It keeps the expected state more consisently sane, which is nicer when debugging weirdness in release_task(). It also lets some future code in the tracehook entry points rely on this invariant for bookkeeping. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: vfork-doneRoland McGrath
This moves the PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE tracing into a tracehook.h inline, tracehook_report_vfork_done(). The change has no effect, just clean-up. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: cloneRoland McGrath
This moves all the ptrace initialization and tracing logic for task creation into tracehook.h and ptrace.h inlines. It reorganizes the code slightly, but should not change any behavior. There are four tracehook entry points, at each important stage of task creation. This keeps the interface from the core fork.c code fairly clean, while supporting the complex setup required for ptrace or something like it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: exitRoland McGrath
This moves the PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT tracing into a tracehook.h inline, tracehook_report_exec(). The change has no effect, just clean-up. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26tracehook: unexport ptrace_notifyRoland McGrath
The ptrace_notify() function should not be called by any modules. It was only ever exported to be called by binfmt exec functions. But that is no longer necessary since fs/exec.c deals with that generically now. There should be no calls to ptrace_notify() from outside the core kernel. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26use WARN() in kernel/irq/chip.cArjan van de Ven
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.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>
2008-07-26Use WARN() in kernel/irq/manage.cArjan van de Ven
Replace a printk+WARN_ON() by a WARN(); this increases the chance of the string making it into the bugreport (ie: it goes inside the ---[ cut here ]--- section) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>