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2008-12-02Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
2008-12-01taint: add missing commentArjan van de Ven
The description for 'D' was missing in the comment... (causing me a minute of WTF followed by looking at more of the code) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01epoll: introduce resource usage limitsDavide Libenzi
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30Merge 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: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
2008-11-30Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug irq: fix typo x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
2008-11-30Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: consistent alignement for lockdep info
2008-11-30Merge 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: prevent recursion tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentation x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
2008-11-30remove __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACEChristoph Hellwig
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another). Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30cpuinit fixes in kernel/*Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-29sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, updateIngo Molnar
Regarding the bug addressed in: 4cd4262: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task Linus points out that the fix is not complete: > There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload > rq->nr_running. > > Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides > that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will > literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to > reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and > it even has a name (rematerialization). > > So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the > fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point. > > We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler > doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify > the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock. So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change after we check it for nonzero. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-29sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.cIngo Molnar
this warning: kernel/cpuset.c: In function ‘generate_sched_domains’: kernel/cpuset.c:588: warning: ‘ndoms’ may be used uninitialized in this function triggers because GCC does not recognize that ndoms stays uninitialized only if doms is NULL - but that flow is covered at the end of generate_sched_domains(). Help out GCC by initializing this variable to 0. (that's prudent anyway) Also, this function needs a splitup and code flow simplification: with 160 lines length it's clearly too long. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_taskSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [...] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>] [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f [...] Call Trace: <IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa [<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21 [<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6 [<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f [<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232 [<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e [<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd [<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e [<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff [<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has: if (rq->nr_running) rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running; The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition. The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger. This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that for both the condition and the division. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27ftrace: prevent recursionLai Jiangshan
Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu, fixRusty Russell
Impact: locking fix We can't call cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the rq lock held. However, the rq lock merely protects us from (1) cpu_online_mask changing and (2) someone else changing p->cpus_allowed. The first can't happen because we're being called from a cpu hotplug notifier. The second doesn't really matter: we are forcing the task off a CPU it was affine to, so we're not doing very well anyway. So we remove the rq lock from this path, and all is good. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t, fixRusty Russell
Impact: build fix for !CONFIG_SMP Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26sched: convert nohz struct to cpumask_var_t, fixRusty Russell
Impact: build fix Fix the !CONFIG_SMP case. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operatorsRusty Russell
Impact: Trivial API conversion NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids cpumask_t -> struct cpumask sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size() cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b) cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu() first_cpu() -> cpumask_first() cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of() cpus_* -> cpumask_* There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure (patches have been sent): cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of 'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask. This will be fixed in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert check_preempt_equal_prio to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack reduction for large NR_CPUS Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves stack space. We simply return if the allocation fails: since we don't use it we could just pass NULL to cpupri_find and have it handle that. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert struct cpupri_vec cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. The fact cpupro_init is called both before and after the slab is available makes for an ugly parameter unfortunately. We also use cpumask_any_and to get rid of a temporary in cpupri_find. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert falback_doms to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert cpu_isolated_map to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction, cleanup Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. We can also use cpulist_parse() instead of doing it manually in isolated_cpu_setup. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert sched_domain_debug to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves stack space. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. In this case, we always alloced, but we don't need to any more. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert struct (sys_)sched_setaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space on the stack. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Note the removal of the initializer of new_mask: since the first thing we did was "cpus_and(new_mask, new_mask, cpus_allowed)" I just changed that to "cpumask_and(new_mask, in_mask, cpus_allowed);". Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpuRusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction With some care, we can avoid needing a temporary cpumask (we can't really allocate here, since we can't fail). This version calls cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the task_rq_lock held. I'm fairly sure this works, but there might be a deadlock hiding. And of course, we can't get rid of the last cpumask on stack until we can use cpumask_of_node instead of node_to_cpumask. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert sys_sched_getaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space in the stack. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Some jiggling here to make sure we always exit at the bottom (so we hit the free_cpumask_var there). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert rebalance_domains() to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space in the stack. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert idle_balance() to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: stack usage reduction Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space in the stack. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert nohz struct to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert struct root_domain to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. def_root_domain is static, and so its masks are initialized with alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var. After that, alloc_cpumask_var is used. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert struct sched_group/sched_domain cpumask_ts to variable bitmapsRusty Russell
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. We move the 'cpumask' member of sched_group to the end, so when we kmalloc it we can do a minimal allocation: saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Similar trick for 'span' in sched_domain. This isn't quite as good as converting to a cpumask_var_t, as some sched_groups are actually static, but it's safer: we don't have to figure out where to call alloc_cpumask_var/free_cpumask_var. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses.Rusty Russell
Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses This eases the transition in the next patch. We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before setting sd to NULL. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: remove any_online_cpu()Rusty Russell
Impact: use new API any_online_cpu() is a good name, but it takes a cpumask_t, not a pointer. There are several places where any_online_cpu() doesn't really want a mask arg at all. Replace all callers with cpumask_any() and cpumask_any_and(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: get rid of boutique sched.c allocations, use cpumask_var_t.Rusty Russell
Impact: use new general API Using lots of allocs rather than one big alloc is less efficient, but who cares for this setup function? Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: convert sched.c from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu.Rusty Russell
Impact: trivial API conversion This is a simple conversion, but note that for_each_cpu() terminates with i >= nr_cpu_ids, not i == NR_CPUS like for_each_cpu_mask() did. I don't convert all of them: sd->span changes in a later patch, so change those iterators there rather than here. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24sched: reduce stack size requirements in kernel/sched.cMike Travis
Impact: cleanup * use node_to_cpumask_ptr in place of node_to_cpumask to reduce stack requirements in sched.c Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24Merge branches 'sched/core', 'core/core' and 'tracing/core' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
2008-11-24Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/fastboot', ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/power-tracer', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
2008-11-24Merge branches 'core/debug', 'core/futexes', 'core/locking', 'core/rcu', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/signal', 'core/urgent' and 'core/xen' into core/core
2008-11-24Merge branch 'sched/rt' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2008-11-24mutex: __used is needed for function referenced only from inline asmTörök Edwin
Impact: fix build failure on llvm-gcc-4.2 According to the gcc manual, the 'used' attribute should be applied to functions referenced only from inline assembly. This fixes a build failure with llvm-gcc-4.2, which deleted __mutex_lock_slowpath, __mutex_unlock_slowpath. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/function-return-tracer: free the return stack on free_task()Frederic Weisbecker
Impact: avoid losing some traces when a task is freed do_exit() is not the last function called when a task finishes. There are still some functions which are to be called such as ree_task(). So we delay the freeing of the return stack to the last moment. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detectionPekka Paalanen
Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit | commit 3928a8a2d98081d1bc3c0a84a2d70e29b90ecf1c | Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | Date: Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400 | | ftrace: make work with new ring buffer | | This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer. The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API. When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was missed, otherwise the data may not make sense. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/function-return-tracer: don't trace kfree while it frees the return ↵Frederic Weisbecker
stack Impact: fix a crash While I killed the cat process, I got sometimes the following (but rare) crash: [ 65.689027] Pid: 2969, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.28-rc6-tip #83) AMILO Li 2727 [ 65.689027] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010082 CPU: 1 [ 65.689027] EIP is at 0x0 [ 65.689027] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f66cd780 ECX: c019a64a EDX: f66cd780 [ 65.689027] ESI: 00000286 EDI: f66cd780 EBP: f630be2c ESP: f630be24 [ 65.689027] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 65.689027] Process cat (pid: 2969, ti=f630a000 task=f66cd780 task.ti=f630a000) [ 65.689027] Stack: [ 65.689027] 00000012 f630bd54 f630be7c c012c853 00000000 c0133cc9 f66cda54 f630be5c [ 65.689027] f630be68 f66cda54 f66cd88c f66cd878 f7070000 00000001 f630be90 c0135dbc [ 65.689027] f614a614 f630be68 f630be68 f65ba200 00000002 f630bf10 f630be90 c012cad6 [ 65.689027] Call Trace: [ 65.689027] [<c012c853>] ? do_exit+0x603/0x850 [ 65.689027] [<c0133cc9>] ? next_signal+0x9/0x40 [ 65.689027] [<c0135dbc>] ? dequeue_signal+0x8c/0x180 [ 65.689027] [<c012cad6>] ? do_group_exit+0x36/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c013709c>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x20c/0x390 [ 65.689027] [<c0102b69>] ? do_notify_resume+0x99/0x8b0 [ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [<c014db9b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [<c02e39b0>] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x340 [ 65.689027] [<c02e1812>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x82/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c019ee99>] ? vfs_write+0x99/0xd0 [ 65.689027] [<c02e1790>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c019f342>] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70 [ 65.689027] [<c01035ca>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x19 [ 65.689027] Code: Bad EIP value. [ 65.689027] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f630be24 This is because on do_exit(), kfree is called to free the return addresses stack but kfree is traced and stored its return address in this stack. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/stack-tracer: avoid races accessing fileTörök Edwin
Impact: fix race vma->vm_file reference is only stable while holding the mmap_sem, so move usage of it to within the critical section. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/stack-tracer: introduce CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORTTörök Edwin
Impact: cleanup User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific. Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86. When other arches implement it, they will have to SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/stack-tracer: fix locking and refcountsTörök Edwin
Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma. Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/stack-tracer: fix style issuesTörök Edwin
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23trace: fix compiler warning in branch profilerSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix compiler warning The ftrace_pointers used in the branch profiler are constant values. They should never change. But the compiler complains when they are passed into the debugfs_create_file as a data pointer, because the function discards the qualifier. This patch typecasts the parameter to debugfs_create_file back to a void pointer. To remind the callbacks that they are pointing to a constant value, I also modified the callback local pointers to be const struct ftrace_pointer * as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>