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2007-07-16Use write_trylock_irqsave in ptrace_attachSripathi Kodi
This patch makes ptrace_attach use write_trylock_irqsave(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded initialisation] Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGEJeff Dike
Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE. This also adds UML support. Tested on UML and i386. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, speedups, tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: fix improper .init-type section referencesJan Beulich
.. which modpost started warning about. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logicKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6. This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable. Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based. [Default Order] The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically. [Node-based Order] This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones (ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist. current 2.6.21 kernel uses this. Pros. * A user can expect local memory as much as possible. Cons. * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL. Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. [Zone-based order] This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist. Pros. * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted. Cons. * memory locality may not be best. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd. command: %echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order. command: %echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16console: console handover to preferred consoleYinghai Lu
for earlyprintk=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 the handover will happen from earlyser0 to tty0. but what we want is to hand over to ttyS0. Later with serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250.patch, console=tty0 console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 will handover to ttyS0 instead of tty0. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16console: more buf for index parsingYinghai Lu
Change name to buf according to the usage as name + index Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult tableThomas Gleixner
Roman Zippel noticed another inconsistency of the wmult table. wmult[16] has a missing digit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13Merge branch 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: splice: fix offset mangling with direct splicing (sendfile) security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmsplice relay: fixup kerneldoc comment relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()
2007-07-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: [PATCH] sched: small topology.h cleanup [PATCH] sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output [PATCH] sched: remove stale version info from kernel/sched_debug.c [PATCH] sched: allow larger granularity [PATCH] sched: fix prio_to_wmult[] for nice 1 [ I re-did the commits to get rid of some bogus merge commit that Ingo had. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() outputIngo Molnar
fix show_task()/show_tasks() output: - there's no sibling info anymore - the fields were not aligned properly with the description - get rid of the lazy-TLB output: it's been quite some time since we last had a bug there, and when we had a bug it wasnt helped a bit by this debug output. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: remove stale version info from kernel/sched_debug.cIngo Molnar
kernel/sched_debug.c referred to CFS -v20, but there's no CFS versioning needed within the upstream kernel. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: allow larger granularityIngo Molnar
Allow granularity up to 100 msecs, instead of 10 msecs. (needed on larger boxes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13[PATCH] sched: fix prio_to_wmult[] for nice 1Mike Galbraith
There's a typo in the values in prio_to_wmult[] for nice level 1. While it did not cause bad CPU distribution, but caused more rescheduling between nice-0 and nice-1 tasks than necessary. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13relay: fixup kerneldoc commentTom Zanussi
Change comment from kerneldoc to normal. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-13relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()Tom Zanussi
The current code that sets the read position in subbuf_splice_actor may give erroneous results if the buffer size isn't a power of 2. This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: security: unexport mmap_min_addr SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy() selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter. selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage. selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
2007-07-11security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmapEric Paris
Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting to mmap to low area of the address space. The amount of space protected is indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to 0, preserving existing behavior. This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect." Policy already contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea) Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-10pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()Jens Axboe
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh Dickins a bit. A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really there, and that the contents are good. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loopJens Axboe
It cleans up the relay splice implementation a lot, and gets rid of a lot of internal pipe knowledge that should not be in there. Plus fixes for padding and partial first page (and lots more) from Tom Zanussi. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe headerJens Axboe
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header file finally. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10splice: relay supportTom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-09sched: add CFS creditsIngo Molnar
add credits for recent major scheduler contributions: Con Kolivas, for pioneering the fair-scheduling approach Peter Williams, for smpnice Mike Galbraith, for interactivity tuning of CFS Srivatsa Vaddagiri, for group scheduling enhancements Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: clean up sleep_on() APIsIngo Molnar
clean up the sleep_on() APIs: - do not use fastcall - replace fragile macro magic with proper inline functions Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: style cleanupsIngo Molnar
4 small style cleanups to sched.c: checkpatch.pl is now happy about the totality of sched.c [ignoring false positives] - yay! ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: do not set softirqs to nice +19Ingo Molnar
do not set softirqs to nice +19. _If_ for whatever reason we missed to process some high-prio softirq and woke up ksoftirqd, we should give it a fair chance to actually get some work done, even if the system is under load. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: scheduler debugging, coreIngo Molnar
scheduler debugging core: implement /proc/sched_debug and /proc/<PID>/sched files for scheduler debugging. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: add CFS debug sysctlsIngo Molnar
add CFS debug sysctls: only tweakable if SCHED_DEBUG is enabled. This allows for faster debugging of scheduler problems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove unused rq types from sched.cIngo Molnar
remove unused rq types from sched.c, now that we switched over to CFS. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove interactivity typesIngo Molnar
remove now unused interactivity-heuristics related defined and types of the old scheduler. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: clean up include files in sched.cIngo Molnar
clean up include files in sched.c, they were still old-style <asm/>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise statsBalbir Singh
update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: turn on the use of unstable eventsIngo Molnar
make use of sched-clock-unstable events. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: x86, track TSC-unstable eventsIngo Molnar
track TSC-unstable events and propagate it to the scheduler code. Also allow sched_clock() to be used when the TSC is unstable, the rq_clock() wrapper creates a reliable clock out of it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cfs core codeIngo Molnar
apply the CFS core code. this change switches over the scheduler core to CFS's modular design and makes use of kernel/sched_fair/rt/idletask.c to implement Linux's scheduling policies. thanks to Andrew Morton and Thomas Gleixner for lots of detailed review feedback and for fixlets. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-07-09sched: remove the sleep-bonus interactivity codeIngo Molnar
remove the sleep-bonus interactivity code from the core scheduler. scheduling policy is implemented in the policy modules, and CFS does not need such type of heuristics. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove expired_starving()Ingo Molnar
remove the expired_starving() heuristics from the core scheduler. CFS does not need it, and this did not really work well in practice anyway, due to the rq->nr_running multiplier to STARVATION_LIMIT. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: remove sleep_typeIngo Molnar
remove the sleep_type heuristics from the core scheduler - scheduling policy is implemented in the scheduling-policy modules. (and CFS does not use this type of sleep-type heuristics) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cfs, add load-calculation methodsIngo Molnar
add the new load-calculation methods of CFS. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: clean up __normal_prio() positionIngo Molnar
clean up: move __normal_prio() in head of normal_prio(). no code changed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cleanup: move dequeue/enqueue_task()Ingo Molnar
cleanup: move dequeue/enqueue_task() to a more logical place, to not split up __normal_prio()/normal_prio(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: move around resched_task()Ingo Molnar
move resched_task()/resched_cpu() into the 'public interfaces' section of sched.c, for use by kernel/sched_fair/rt/idletask.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: clean up the rt priority macrosIngo Molnar
clean up the rt priority macros, pointed out by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: add cfs_rq opsIngo Molnar
add the set_task_cfs_rq() abstraction needed by CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED. (not activated yet) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting informationIngo Molnar
update the posix-cpu-timers code to use CFS's CPU accounting information. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: add rq_clock()/__rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
add rq_clock()/__rq_clock(), a robust wrapper around sched_clock(), used by CFS. It protects against common type of sched_clock() problems (caused by hardware): time warps forwards and backwards. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cfs rq data typesIngo Molnar
add the CFS rq data types to sched.c. (the old scheduler fields are still intact, they are removed by a later patch) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_idletask.cIngo Molnar
add kernel/sched_idletask.c - which implements the idle thread scheduling class. This further simplifies sched.c (under CFS), for example a number of 'if (p == rq->idle)' type of special-cases can be removed from sched.c, and schedule() gets simpler too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_rt.cIngo Molnar
add kernel/sched_rt.c: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR support. The behavior and semantics of SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR tasks is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>