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Paul E. McKenney
c9336643e1 rcu: Clarify help text for RCU_BOOST_PRIO
The old text confused real-time applications with real-time threads, so
that you pretty much needed to understand how this kernel configuration
parameter worked to understand the help text.  This commit therefore
attempts to make the help text human-readable.

Reported-by: Jörn Engel <joern@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-24 20:54:50 -07:00
David Daney
1dbdc6f177 kbuild/extable: Hook up sortextable into the build system.
Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.

Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-04-19 15:06:56 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
5673a94c14 userns: Add a Kconfig option to enforce strict kuid and kgid type checks
Make it possible to easily switch between strong mandatory
type checks and relaxed type checks so that the code can
easily be tested with the type checks and then built
with the strong type checks disabled so the resulting
code can be used.

Require strong mandatory type checks when enabling the user namespace.
It is very simple to make a typo and use the wrong type allowing
conversions to/from userspace values to be bypassed by accident,
the strong type checks prevent this.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-04-07 17:11:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
deb74f5ca1 Autogenerated GPG tag for Rusty D1ADB8F1: 15EE 8D6C AB0E 7F0C F999 BFCB D920 0E6C D1AD B8F1
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux

Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
 "(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
  if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"

I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98a ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").

* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
  documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
2012-04-02 08:53:24 -07:00
Tejun Heo
959d851caa Merge branch 'for-3.5' of ../cgroup into block/for-3.5/core-merged
cgroup/for-3.5 contains the following changes which blk-cgroup needs
to proceed with the on-going cleanup.

* Dynamic addition and removal of cftypes to make config/stat file
  handling modular for policies.

* cgroup removal update to not wait for css references to drain to fix
  blkcg removal hang caused by cfq caching cfqgs.

Pull in cgroup/for-3.5 into block/for-3.5/core.  This causes the
following conflicts in block/blk-cgroup.c.

* 761b3ef50e "cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks"
  conflicts with blkiocg_pre_destroy() addition and blkiocg_attach()
  removal.  Resolved by removing @subsys from all subsys methods.

* 676f7c8f84 "cgroup: relocate cftype and cgroup_subsys definitions in
  controllers" conflicts with ->pre_destroy() and ->attach() updates
  and removal of modular config.  Resolved by dropping forward
  declarations of the methods and applying updates to the relocated
  blkio_subsys.

* 4baf6e3325 "cgroup: convert all non-memcg controllers to the new
  cftype interface" builds upon the previous item.  Resolved by adding
  ->base_cftypes to the relocated blkio_subsys.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-04-01 12:55:00 -07:00
Al Viro
39429c5e4a new helper: ext2_image_size()
... implemented that way since the next commit will leave it
almost alone in ext2_fs.h - most of the file (including
struct ext2_super_block) is going to move to fs/ext2/ext2.h.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31 16:03:16 -04:00
Al Viro
2f99c36986 get rid of pointless includes of ext2_fs.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31 16:03:15 -04:00
Rusty Russell
5f054e31c6 documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
misc comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-29 15:38:31 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
0195c00244 Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...
2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
David Howells
49a7f04a4b Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h so that there's only one
and it's used by everything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Pawel Moll
026cee0086 params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed.  We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level.  It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.

Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26 12:50:51 +10:30
Bernhard Walle
0e0cb892a8 init/do_mounts.c: print error code on mount failure
Printing the error code makes it easier to debug the cause of a mount
failure.  For example I had the problem that the root file system could
not be mounted read-writeable because my SD card was write-protected.
Without an error code it looks like the SD card was not detected at all.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
Diwakar Tundlam
8595c539f0 init: check printed flag to skip printing message
Otherwise the 'Calibration skipped' message gets printed everytime a CPU
is hotplugged in, cluttering console for systems that frequently hotplug
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@nvidia.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5375871d43 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window.  It is going to be a
  bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
  arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
  rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
  maintain and that nobody really used anymore.

  Here are some of the highlights:

   - Legacy iSeries is gone.  Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
     and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
     they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
     hopefully.

   - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
     previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"...  it's a rewrite of a
     mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
     new implementation hopefully being much more reliable.  Thanks
     Mahesh Salgaonkar.

   - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big
     spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
     new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.

     The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
     there.  Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
     not very nice and which Grant objects to.  I will have a patch soon
     that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
     before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
     getting rid of the need for that pointer completely).  Thanks Gavin
     Shan.

   - I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the
     way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
     "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed
     a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
     fault retry & fatal signals on page faults.

   - Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch
     of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."

I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
  powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
  powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
  powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
  init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
  powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
  tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
  powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
  powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
  powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
  powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
  powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
  Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
  powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
  powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
  powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
  powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
  powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
  ...
2012-03-21 18:55:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
69a7aebcf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
2012-03-20 21:12:50 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
bc58450b02 init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
It is no longer selectable, so remove the check for it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-03-21 11:16:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
2ba68940c8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
  sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
  sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
  sched: Update yield() docs
  printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
  sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
  sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
  sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
  sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
  sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
  sched: Rename load-balancing fields
  sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
  sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
  sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
  sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
  sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
  sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
  sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
  ...
2012-03-20 10:31:44 -07:00
Jim Cromie
7fa87ce726 init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
s/countinuous/contiguous/, reword sentence.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-15 15:54:58 +01:00
Tejun Heo
32e380aedc blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool
Block cgroup core can be built as module; however, it isn't too useful
as blk-throttle can only be built-in and cfq-iosched is usually the
default built-in scheduler.  Scheduled blkcg cleanup requires calling
into blkcg from block core.  To simplify that, disallow building blkcg
as module by making CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool.

If building blkcg core as module really matters, which I doubt, we can
revisit it after blkcg API cleanup.

-v2: Vivek pointed out that IOSCHED_CFQ was incorrectly updated to
     depend on BLK_CGROUP.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
bd2f55361f sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-01 10:28:03 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
5c8806a037 rcu: Move RCU_TRACE to lib/Kconfig.debug
The RCU_TRACE kernel parameter has always been intended for debugging,
not for production use.  Formalize this by moving RCU_TRACE from
init/Kconfig to lib/Kconfig.debug.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:03:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f429ee3b80 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
  audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
  audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
  audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
  audit: comparison on interprocess fields
  audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
  audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
  audit: complex interfield comparison helper
  audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
  Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
  audit: do not call audit_getname on error
  audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
  audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
  audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
  audit: allow matching on obj_uid
  audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
  audit: reject entry,always rules
  audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
  audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
  audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
  audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
  ...

Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.

Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
Nathaniel Husted
29ef73b7a8 Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
This patch provides functionality to audit system call events on the
ARM platform. The implementation was based off the structure of the
MIPS platform and information in this
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2009-October/000382.html)
mailing list thread. The required audit_syscall_exit and
audit_syscall_entry checks were added to ptrace using the standard
registers for system call values (r0 through r3). A thread information
flag was added for auditing (TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT) and a meta-flag was
added (_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK) to simplify modifications to the syscall
entry/exit. Now, if either the TRACE flag is set or the AUDIT flag is
set, the syscall_trace function will be executed. The prober changes
were made to Kconfig to allow CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL to be enabled.

Due to platform availability limitations, this patch was only tested
on the Android platform running the modified "android-goldfish-2.6.29"
kernel. A test compile was performed using Code Sourcery's
cross-compilation toolset and the current linux-3.0 stable kernel. The
changes compile without error. I'm hoping, due to the simple modifications,
the patch is "obviously correct".

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Husted <nhusted@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:17:01 -05:00
Eric Paris
633b454545 audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
At the moment we allow tasks to set their loginuid if they have
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.  In reality we want tasks to set the loginuid when they
log in and it be impossible to ever reset.  We had to make it mutable even
after it was once set (with the CAP) because on update and admin might have
to restart sshd.  Now sshd would get his loginuid and the next user which
logged in using ssh would not be able to set his loginuid.

Systemd has changed how userspace works and allowed us to make the kernel
work the way it should.  With systemd users (even admins) are not supposed
to restart services directly.  The system will restart the service for
them.  Thus since systemd is going to loginuid==-1, sshd would get -1, and
sshd would be allowed to set a new loginuid without special permissions.

If an admin in this system were to manually start an sshd he is inserting
himself into the system chain of trust and thus, logically, it's his
loginuid that should be used!  Since we have old systems I make this a
Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:17:00 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
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* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool.
  intelfbdrv.c: bailearly is an int module_param
  paride/pcd: fix bool verbose module parameter.
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch)
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
  kernel/async: remove redundant declaration.
  printk: fix unnecessary module_param_name.
  lirc_parallel: fix module parameter description.
  module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.
  module_param: check type correctness for module_param_array
  modpost: use linker section to generate table.
  modpost: use a table rather than a giant if/else statement.
  modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize
  kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
  module: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
  module: struct module_ref should contains long fields
  module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables
  module: Add comments describing how the "strmap" logic works

Fix up conflicts in scripts/mod/file2alias.c due to the new linker-
generated table approach to adding __mod_*_device_table entries.  The
ARM sa11x0 mcp bus needed to be converted to that too.
2012-01-14 12:32:16 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
067bce1a06 c/r: introduce CHECKPOINT_RESTORE symbol
For checkpoint/restore we need auxilary features being compiled into the
kernel, such as additional prctl codes, /proc/<pid>/map_files and etc...
but same time these features are not mandatory for a regular kernel so
CHECKPOINT_RESTORE config symbol should bring a way to disable them all at
once if one wish to get rid of additional functionality.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.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>
2012-01-12 20:13:12 -08:00
Rusty Russell
2329abfa34 module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-13 09:32:18 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
b8bf17d311 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-break
  sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
  sched: Remove empty #ifdefs
2012-01-11 22:52:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9fc5c3e323 Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel config: Fix the APB_TIMER selection
  x86/mrst: Add additional debug prints for pb_keys
  x86/intel config: Revamp configuration to allow for Moorestown and Medfield
  x86/intel/scu/ipc: Match the changes in the x86 configuration
  x86/apb: Fix configuration constraints
  x86: Fix INTEL_MID silly
  x86/Kconfig: Cyclone-timer depends on x86-summit
  x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
  x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devices
  x86/sfi: Kill the IRQ as id hack
2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d0b9706c20 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
  mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
  x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
  x86: Fix mmap random address range
  x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
  x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
  x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
  x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
  x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
2012-01-11 19:12:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
57eccf1c2a Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
  NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
  NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
  pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
  pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
  NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
  NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
  nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
  NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
  NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
  NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
  NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
  nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
  NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
  NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
  SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
2012-01-10 14:57:40 -08:00
Fabio Estevam
6db9dc150e sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
The dependency bug was pointed out by this build warning:

 warning: (SCHED_AUTOGROUP) selects CGROUP_SCHED which has unmet direct dependencies (CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL)

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326192383-5113-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-10 13:44:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro
d8c9584ea2 vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
9753dfe19a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1958 commits)
  net: pack skb_shared_info more efficiently
  net_sched: red: split red_parms into parms and vars
  net_sched: sfq: extend limits
  cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices
  cnic: Re-init dev->stats_addr after chip reset
  net_sched: Bug in netem reordering
  bna: fix sparse warnings/errors
  bna: make ethtool_ops and strings const
  xgmac: cleanups
  net: make ethtool_ops const
  vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const
  xen-netback: make ops structs const
  virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers.
  ixgbe: FCoE: Add support for ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  netdev: FCoE: Add new ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  igb: reset PHY after recovering from PHY power down
  igb: add basic runtime PM support
  igb: Add support for byte queue limits.
  e1000: cleanup CE4100 MDIO registers access
  e1000: unmap ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt in e1000_remove
  ...
2012-01-06 17:22:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
423d091dfe Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  cpu: Export cpu_up()
  rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
  Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
  docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
  rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
  rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
  rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
  driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
  rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
  rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
  rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
  rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
  rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
  rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
  rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
  rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
  rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
  rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
  rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
  rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
  ...
2012-01-06 08:02:40 -08:00
Chuck Lever
43717c7dae NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> reports that on his SPARC system,
booting with an NFS root file system stopped working after commit
56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing."

We found that the network switch to which Lukas' client was attached
was delaying access to the LAN after the client's NIC driver reported
that its link was up.  The delay was longer than the timeouts used in
the NFS client during mounting.

NFSROOT worked for Lukas before commit 56463e50 because in those
kernels, the client's first operation was an rpcbind request to
determine which port the NFS server was listening on.  When that
request failed after a long timeout, the client simply selected the
default NFS port (2049).  By that time the switch was allowing access
to the LAN, and the mount succeeded.

Neither of these client behaviors is desirable, so reverting 56463e50
is really not a choice.  Instead, introduce a mechanism that retries
the NFSROOT mount request several times.  This is the same tactic that
normal user space NFS mounts employ to overcome server and network
delays.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
[ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ]
[ cel: add exponential back-off ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # > 2.6.38
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-05 10:42:39 -05:00
Al Viro
685dd2d5be init/initramfs.c: should use umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:14 -05:00
Glauber Costa
e5671dfae5 Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller
This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component
of the Memory Controller.

As of today, I am only laying down the following files:

 * memory.independent_kmem_limit
 * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored)
 * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero)

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12 19:03:55 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney
b807fbff31 rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
The new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is compatible with preemptible
RCU, so this commit removes the Kconfig restriction that previously
prohibited this.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:45 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
54c29c635a mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.

To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
Ming Lei
73839c5b2e init/main.c: Execute lockdep_init() as early as possible
This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:

  [    0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
  [    0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
  [    0.000000]  [<c00164bc>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

The warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().

It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:16:53 +01:00
Jack Steiner
b565201cf7 x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
Reduce the startup time for slave cpus.

Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration.
These hooks are used on x86.  If a newly started cpu has the
same phys_proc_id as a core already active, uses the TSC for the
delay loop and has a CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated
value of loops_per_jiffy.

This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a
4096 cpu system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW

This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes.
Nice...

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
[fix CONFIG_SMP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 17:12:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b32fc0a062 Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
2011-11-06 20:20:46 -08:00
WANG Cong
c736de60ae sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to
keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely.  Then
just make it default to n and remove the doc from
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.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>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
Will Drewry
79975f1327 init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d support
Expand root=PARTUUID=UUID syntax to support selecting a root partition by
integer offset from a known, unique partition.  This approach provides
similar properties to specifying a device and partition number, but using
the UUID as the unique path prior to evaluating the offset.

For example,
  root=PARTUUID=99DE9194-FC15-4223-9192-FC243948F88B/PARTNROFF=1
selects the partition with UUID 99DE.. then select the next
partition.

This change is motivated by a particular usecase in Chromium OS where the
bootloader can easily determine what partition it is on (by UUID) but
doesn't perform general partition table walking.

That said, support for this model provides a direct mechanism for the user
to modify the root partition to boot without specifically needing to
extract each UUID or update the bootloader explicitly when the root
partition UUID is changed (if it is recreated to be larger, for instance).
 Pinning to a /boot-style partition UUID allows the arbitrary root
partition reconfiguration/modifications with slightly less ambiguity than
just [dev][partition] and less stringency than the specific root partition
UUID.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix init sections warning]
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Neil Armstrong
f919b9235f init/do_mounts_rd.c: fix ramdisk identification for padded cramfs
When a cramfs ramdisk padded with 512 bytes is given to the kernel, the
current identify_ramdisk_image function fails to identify it.

Tested with a padded cramfs image on an ARM based board.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@neotion.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
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>
2011-11-02 16:06:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8a4a8918ed Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
  ...
2011-10-26 17:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
19b4a8d520 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
2011-10-26 16:26:53 +02:00
Michal Schmidt
b1e4d20cbf params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
2011-10-26 13:10:39 +10:30
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
97ce2c88f9 jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-10-25 11:55:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
22f92bacbe Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:09:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
048b718029 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://github.com/paulmckrcu/linux into core/rcu 2011-10-01 14:21:36 +02:00
wangyanqing
b0f84374b6 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier
Commit d5767c5353 ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-29 19:21:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
8008e129dc rcu: Drive configuration directly from SMP and PREEMPT
This commit eliminates the possibility of running TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
when SMP=n and of running TINY_RCU when PREEMPT=y.  People who really
want these combinations can hand-edit init/Kconfig, but eliminating
them as choices for production systems reduces the amount of testing
required.  It will also allow cutting out a few #ifdefs.

Note that running TREE_RCU and TINY_RCU on single-CPU systems using
SMP-built kernels is still supported.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:36:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d5767c5353 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()
Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec8: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec8 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-28 10:23:44 -07:00
Alexander Sverdlin
808bf29b91 init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline.
When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-21 13:18:52 -07:00
Paul Turner
ab84d31e15 sched: Introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth tracking
In this patch we introduce the notion of CFS bandwidth, partitioned into
globally unassigned bandwidth, and locally claimed bandwidth.

 - The global bandwidth is per task_group, it represents a pool of unclaimed
   bandwidth that cfs_rqs can allocate from.
 - The local bandwidth is tracked per-cfs_rq, this represents allotments from
   the global pool bandwidth assigned to a specific cpu.

Bandwidth is managed via cgroupfs, adding two new interfaces to the cpu subsystem:
 - cpu.cfs_period_us : the bandwidth period in usecs
 - cpu.cfs_quota_us : the cpu bandwidth (in usecs) that this tg will be allowed
   to consume over period above.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.972636699@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
288d5abec8 Boot up with usermodehelper disabled
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
Hugh Dickins
41ffe5d5ce tmpfs: miscellaneous trivial cleanups
While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming.  Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".

And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:23 -10:00
Sameer Nanda
7afe1845dd init: skip calibration delay if previously done
For each CPU, do the calibration delay only once.  For subsequent calls,
use the cached per-CPU value of loops_per_jiffy.

This saves about 200ms of resume time on dual core Intel Atom N5xx based
systems.  This helps bring down the kernel resume time on such systems
from about 500ms to about 300ms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cpu_loops_per_jiffy static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up message text]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things up after upstream rmk changes]
Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:17 -07:00
WANG Cong
00a66d2974 mm: remove the leftovers of noswapaccount
In commit a2c8990aed ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"),
Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree,
this patch removes them all.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c0c463d34a Merge branches 'x86-urgent-for-linus', 'core-debug-for-linus', 'irq-core-for-linus' and 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  um: Make rwsem.S depend on CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM

* 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debug: Make CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to unhide debug options

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Remove unused CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU()

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system
2011-07-23 10:33:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a99a7d1436 Merge branch 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mips: Fix i8253 clockevent fallout
  i8253: Cleanup outb/inb magic
  arm: Footbridge: Use common i8253 clockevent
  mips: Use common i8253 clockevent
  x86: Use common i8253 clockevent
  i8253: Create common clockevent implementation
  i8253: Export i8253_lock unconditionally
  pcpskr: MIPS: Make config dependencies finer grained
  pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies
  i8253: Move remaining content and delete asm/i8253.h
  i8253: Consolidate definitions of PIT_LATCH
  x86: i8253: Consolidate definitions of global_clock_event
  i8253: Alpha, PowerPC: Remove unused asm/8253pit.h
  alpha: i8253: Cleanup remaining users of i8253pit.h
  i8253: Remove I8253_LOCK config
  i8253: Make pcsp sound driver use the shared i8253_lock
  i8253: Make pcspkr input driver use the shared i8253_lock
  i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock
  i8253: Unify all kernel declarations of i8253_lock
  i8253: Create linux/i8253.h and use it in all 8253 related files
2011-07-22 16:51:56 -07:00
Russell King
1b19ca9f0b Fix CPU spinlock lockups on secondary CPU bringup
Secondary CPU bringup typically calls calibrate_delay() during its
initialization.  However, calibrate_delay() modifies a global variable
(loops_per_jiffy) used for udelay() and __delay().

A side effect of 71c696b1 ("calibrate: extract fall-back calculation
into own helper") introduced in the 2.6.39 merge window means that we
end up with a substantial period where loops_per_jiffy is zero.  This
causes the spinlock debugging code to malfunction:

	u64 loops = loops_per_jiffy * HZ;
	for (;;) {
		for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
			if (arch_spin_trylock(&lock->raw_lock))
				return;
			__delay(1);
		}
		...
	}

by never calling arch_spin_trylock() - resulting in the CPU locking
up in an infinite loop inside __spin_lock_debug().

Work around this by only writing to loops_per_jiffy only once we have
completed all the calibration decisions.

Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.39-stable)
--
Better solutions (such as omitting the calibration for secondary CPUs,
or arranging for calibrate_delay() to return the LPJ value and leave
it to the caller to decide where to store it) are a possibility, but
would be much more invasive into each architecture.

I think this is the best solution for -rc and stable, but it should be
revisited for the next merge window.

 init/calibrate.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-23 08:59:38 -07:00
Takao Indoh
d8ad7d1123 generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.

To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.

The details of the crash are:

 (1) 2nd kernel boots up

 (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
     in start_kernel().

 (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
     is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
     generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
     dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
     &q->list.next.

Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-17 10:17:12 +02:00
Josh Triplett
d2c3225879 gcov: disable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS when not needed by CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time.  According to commit b99b87f70c ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this.  However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it.  Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.

Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
de695e159e init/calibrate.c: remove annoying printk
Remove calibrate_delay_direct()'s KERN_DEBUG printk related to bogomips
calculation as it appears when booting every core on setups with
'ignore_loglevel' which dmesg people scan for possible issues.  As the
message doesn't show very useful information to the widest audience of
kernel boot message gazers, it should be removed.

Introduced by commit d2b463135f ("init/calibrate.c: fix for critical
bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failure").

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Josh Triplett
bd5dc17be8 uts: make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)"
The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
/etc/hostname does not exist.  Distribution init scripts have the same
fallback.  However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts ("root@(none):~#")
and logs.  Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically resolve to anything
useful.

Make the default hostname configurable.  This removes the need for the
standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never call
sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with less
configuration.  Distributions could choose to use "localhost" here to
avoid the fallback, while embedded systems may wish to use a specific
target hostname.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
8761f1ab71 pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies
Lenghty lists of the kind "depends on ARCH1 || ARCH2 ... || ARCH123" are
usually either wrong or too coarse grained.  Or plain an ugly sin.

[ tglx: Fixed up amigaone ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601180610.984881988@duck.linux-mips.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-09 15:01:41 +02:00
Ralf Baechle
15f304b664 i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock
Move them to drivers/clocksource/i8253.c and remove the
implementations in arch/

[ tglx: Avoid the extra file in lib - folded arch patches in. The
  export will become conditional in a later step ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601180610.221426078@duck.linux-mips.net
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-09 15:01:38 +02:00
Josh Triplett
f505c553db debug: Make CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to unhide debug options
Several debugging options currently default to y, such as
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE and CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.  Embedded users
might want to turn those options off to save space; however,
turning them off requires turning on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to
unhide them.  Since CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL exists specifically to
unhide debugging options, and CONFIG_EXPERT exists specifically
to unhide options potentially needed by experts and/or embedded
users, make CONFIG_EXPERT automatically imply
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110606012358.GA1909@leaf
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 00:05:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6345d24daf mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfc ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
a77aea9201 cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b4 ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Mike Travis
162a7e7500 printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlier
On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages,
the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the
log_buf_len param is allocated.  Minimize the overflow by allocating the
new log buffer as soon as possible.

On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from
kernel/init.c is the fallback.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:48 -07:00
Andrew Worsley
d2b463135f init/calibrate.c: fix for critical bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failure
A fix to the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) based bogoMIPS calculation used on
secondary CPUs which has two faults:

1: Not handling wrapping of the lower 32 bits of the TSC counter on
   32bit kernel - perhaps TSC is not reset by a warm reset?

2: TSC and Jiffies are no incrementing together properly.  Either
   jiffies increment too quickly or Time Stamp Counter isn't incremented
   in during an SMI but the real time clock is and jiffies are
   incremented.

Case 1 can result in a factor of 16 too large a value which makes udelay()
values too small and can cause mysterious driver errors.  Case 2 appears
to give smaller 10-15% errors after averaging but enough to cause
occasional failures on my own board

I have tested this code on my own branch and attach patch suitable for
current kernel code.  See below for examples of the failures and how the
fix handles these situations now.

I reported this issue earlier here:
     Intermittent problem with BogoMIPs calculation on Intel AP CPUs -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129947246316875&w=4

I suspect this issue has been seen by others but as it is intermittent and
bogoMIPS for secondary CPUs are no longer printed out it might have been
difficult to identify this as the cause.  Perhaps these unresolved issues,
although quite old, might be relevant as possibly this fault has been
around for a while.  In particular Case 1 may only be relevant to 32bit
kernels on newer HW (most people run 64bit kernels?).  Case 2 is less
dramatic since the earlier fix in this area and also intermittent.

   Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118929277524298&w=4
   slow system and bogus bogomips  -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116791286716107&w=4
   Re: Re: [RFC-PATCH] clocksource: update lpj if clocksource has -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128952775819467&w=4

This issue is masked a little by commit feae3203d7 ("timers, init:
Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages") which only
prints out the first bogoMIPS value making it much harder to notice other
values differing.  Perhaps it should be changed to only suppress them when
they are similar values?

Here are some outputs showing faults occurring and the new code handling
them properly.  See my earlier message for examples of the original
failure.

    Case 1:   A Time Stamp Counter wrap:
...
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
frequency.. 6332.70 BogoMIPS (lpj=31663540)
....
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666493
timer_rate_min=31666151 pre_start=4170369255 pre_end=4202035539
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=2425955274
timer_rate_min=2425954941 pre_start=4265368533 pre_end=2396356387
calibrate_delay_direct() ignoring timer_rate as we had a TSC wrap
around start=4265368581 >=post_end=2396356511
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666274
timer_rate_min=31665942 pre_start=2440373374 pre_end=2472039515
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666492
timer_rate_min=31666160 pre_start=2535372139 pre_end=2567038422
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666455
timer_rate_min=31666207 pre_start=2630371084 pre_end=2662037415
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666428)
Total of 2 processors activated (12665.99 BogoMIPS).
....

    Case 2:  Some thing (presumably the SMM interrupt?) causing the
very low increase in TSC counter for the DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS
increase in jiffies
...
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
frequency.. 6333.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666270)
...
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483
timer_rate_min=31666074 pre_start=4199536526 pre_end=4231202809
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=864348 timer_rate_min=864016
pre_start=2405343672 pre_end=2406207897
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483
timer_rate_min=31666179 pre_start=2469540464 pre_end=2501206823
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666511
timer_rate_min=31666122 pre_start=2564539400 pre_end=2596205712
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666084
timer_rate_min=31665685 pre_start=2659538782 pre_end=2691204657
calibrate_delay_direct() dropping min bogoMips estimate 1 = 864348
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666390)
Total of 2 processors activated (12666.53 BogoMIPS).
...

After 70 boots I saw 2 variations <1% slip through

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix straggly printk mess]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:46 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
de03c72cfc mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position.
It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio.

This patch has two change.
1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask
   is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability
2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory
   footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future.

In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var.
It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2bb732cdb4 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o
  scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault
  scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Convert to a /bin/sh script
  kbuild: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility
  kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+
  kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c
  kbuild: Fix Makefile.asm-generic for um
  kbuild: Allow to combine multiple W= levels
  kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0
  Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name
  kbuild: asm-generic support
  kbuild: implement several W= levels
  kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
  initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
  kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
  kbuild: Drop unused LINUX_COMPILE_TIME and LINUX_COMPILE_DOMAIN macros
  kbuild: Use the deterministic mode of ar
  kbuild: Call gzip with -n
  kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
  Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation

Fix up trivial conflict in Makefile
2011-05-24 13:31:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e98bae7592 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (28 commits)
  sparc32: fix build, fix missing cpu_relax declaration
  SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPI
  sparc32,leon: Remove unnecessary page_address calls in LEON DMA API.
  sparc: convert old cpumask API into new one
  sparc32, sun4d: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4D machines
  sparc32, sun4m: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4M machines
  sparc32,leon: Implemented SMP IPIs for LEON CPU
  sparc32: implement SMP IPIs using the generic functions
  sparc32,leon: SMP power down implementation
  sparc32,leon: added some SMP comments
  sparc: add {read,write}*_be routines
  sparc32,leon: don't rely on bootloader to mask IRQs
  sparc32,leon: operate on boot-cpu IRQ controller registers
  sparc32: always define boot_cpu_id
  sparc32: removed unused code, implemented by generic code
  sparc32: avoid build warning at mm/percpu.c:1647
  sparc32: always register a PROM based early console
  sparc32: probe for cpu info only during startup
  sparc: consolidate show_cpuinfo in cpu.c
  sparc32,leon: implement genirq CPU affinity
  ...
2011-05-22 22:06:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
281dc5c5ec Give up on pushing CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
I still happen to believe that I$ miss costs are a major thing, but
sadly, -Os doesn't seem to be the solution.  With or without it, gcc
will miss some obvious code size improvements, and with it enabled gcc
will sometimes make choices that aren't good even with high I$ miss
ratios.

For example, with -Os, gcc on x86 will turn a 20-byte constant memcpy
into a "rep movsl".  While I sincerely hope that x86 CPU's will some day
do a good job at that, they certainly don't do it yet, and the cost is
higher than a L1 I$ miss would be.

Some day I hope we can re-enable this.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-22 14:30:36 -07:00
Daniel Hellstrom
17d9f311ec SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPI
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-20 13:10:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eb04f2f04e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits)
  Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree()
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()
  perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu()
  security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
  ...
2011-05-19 18:14:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
80fe02b5da Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
  sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
  sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
  sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
  sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
  sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()
  sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
  sched: Get rid of lock_depth
  sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
  sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
  sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path
  sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities
  sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
  sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
  sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
  sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
  sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat()
  sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
  sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec()
  ...

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
2011-05-19 17:41:22 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
9b090f2da8 kmemleak: Initialise kmemleak after debug_objects_mem_init()
Kmemleak frees objects via RCU and when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
is enabled, the RCU callback triggers a call to free_object() in
lib/debugobjects.c. Since kmemleak is initialised before debug objects
initialisation, it may result in a kernel panic during booting. This
patch moves the kmemleak_init() call after debug_objects_mem_init().

Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-05-19 17:36:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9cb5baba5e Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into sched/core 2011-05-12 09:36:18 +02:00
David Rientjes
21a43e397e slub: Revert "[PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM"
This reverts commit 4a5fa3590f, which did not allow SLUB to be used
on architectures that use DISCONTIGMEM without compiling NUMA support
without CONFIG_BROKEN also set.

The slub panic that it was intended to prevent is addressed by
d9b41e0b54 ("[PARISC] set memory ranges in N_NORMAL_MEMORY when
onlined") on parisc so there is no further slub issues with such a
configuration.

The reverts allows SLUB now to be used on such architectures since
there haven't been any reports of additional errors.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-10 17:37:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
27f4d28057 rcu: priority boosting for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Add priority boosting for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, similar to that for
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.  This is enabled by the default-off RCU_BOOST
kernel parameter.  The priority to which to boost preempted
RCU readers is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_PRIO kernel parameter
(defaulting to real-time priority 1) and the time to wait before
boosting the readers who are blocking a given grace period is
controlled by the RCU_BOOST_DELAY kernel parameter (defaulting to
500 milliseconds).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-05 23:16:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e8dad69408 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6:
  [PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM
  [PARISC] set memory ranges in N_NORMAL_MEMORY when onlined
2011-04-27 15:20:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6befe5f69b init/Kconfig: fix EXPERT menu list
The EXPERT menu list was recently broken by the insertion of a
kconfig symbol (EMBEDDED) at the beginning of the EXPERT list of
kconfig items.  Broken by:

  commit 6a108a14fa
  Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
  Date:   Thu Jan 20 14:44:16 2011 -0800
    kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

Restore the EXPERT menu list -- don't inject a symbol (EMBEDDED)
that does not depend on EXPERT into the list.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-26 20:48:37 -07:00
James Bottomley
4a5fa3590f [PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM
Slub makes assumptions about page_to_nid() which are violated by
DISCONTIGMEM and !NUMA.  This violation results in a panic because
page_to_nid() can be non-zero for pages in the discontiguous ranges and
this leads to a null return by get_node().  The assertion by the
maintainer is that DISCONTIGMEM should only be allowed when NUMA is also
defined.  However, at least six architectures: alpha, ia64, m32r, m68k,
mips, parisc violate this.  The panic is a regression against slab, so
just mark slub broken in the problem configuration to prevent users
reporting these panics.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-04-22 15:42:46 -05:00
Artem Bityutskiy
1e2795a119 kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
At the moment we have the CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS Kconfig switch,
which users can enable or disable while configuring the kernel. This
option is then used by 'make' to determine whether an extra kallsyms
pass is needed or not.

However, this approach is not nice and confusing, and this patch moves
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile instead. The
rationale is below.

1. CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is really about the build time, not
   run-time. There is no real need for it to be in Kconfig. It is
   just an additional work-around which should be used only in rare
   cases, when someone breaks kallsyms, so Kbuild/Makefile is much
   better place for this option.
2. Grepping CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS shows that many defconfigs have
   it enabled, probably not because they try to work-around a kallsyms
   bug, but just because the Kconfig help text is confusing and does
   not really make it clear that this option should not be used unless
   except when kallsyms is broken.
3. And since many people have CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS enabled in
   their Kconfig, we do might fail to notice kallsyms bugs in time. E.g.,
   many testers use "make allyesconfig" to test builds, which will enable
   CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS and kallsyms breakage will not be noticed.

To address that, this patch:

1. Kills CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
2. Changes Makefile so that people can use "make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1"
   to enable the extra pass if needed. Additionally, they may define
   KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS as an environment variable.
3. By default KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is disabled and if kallsyms has issues,
   "make" should print a warning and suggest using KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
[mmarek: Removed make help text, is not necessary]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-15 15:56:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
71a83ec7da Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation
Dumb users like myself are not able to grasp from the existing KALLSYMS_ALL
documentation that this option is not what they need. Improve the help
message and make it clearer that KALLSYMS is enough in the majority of
use cases, and KALLSYMS_ALL should really be used very rarely.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-15 15:48:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
317f394160 sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
Now that we've removed the rq->lock requirement from the first part of
ttwu() and can compute placement without holding any rq->lock, ensure
we execute the second half of ttwu() on the actual cpu we want the
task to run on.

This avoids having to take rq->lock and doing the task enqueue
remotely, saving lots on cacheline transfers.

As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

  $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done
  $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
  $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

  unpatched: run time 30 seconds 647278 worker burns per second
  patched:   run time 30 seconds 816715 worker burns per second

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.515897185@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:41 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Serge E. Hallyn
59607db367 userns: add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace
The expected course of development for user namespaces targeted
capabilities is laid out at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserNamespace.

Goals:

- Make it safe for an unprivileged user to unshare namespaces.  They
  will be privileged with respect to the new namespace, but this should
  only include resources which the unprivileged user already owns.

- Provide separate limits and accounting for userids in different
  namespaces.

Status:

  Currently (as of 2.6.38) you can clone with the CLONE_NEWUSER flag to
  get a new user namespace if you have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and
  CAP_SETGID capabilities.  What this gets you is a whole new set of
  userids, meaning that user 500 will have a different 'struct user' in
  your namespace than in other namespaces.  So any accounting information
  stored in struct user will be unique to your namespace.

  However, throughout the kernel there are checks which

  - simply check for a capability.  Since root in a child namespace
    has all capabilities, this means that a child namespace is not
    constrained.

  - simply compare uid1 == uid2.  Since these are the integer uids,
    uid 500 in namespace 1 will be said to be equal to uid 500 in
    namespace 2.

  As a result, the lxc implementation at lxc.sf.net does not use user
  namespaces.  This is actually helpful because it leaves us free to
  develop user namespaces in such a way that, for some time, user
  namespaces may be unuseful.

Bugs aside, this patchset is supposed to not at all affect systems which
are not actively using user namespaces, and only restrict what tasks in
child user namespace can do.  They begin to limit privilege to a user
namespace, so that root in a container cannot kill or ptrace tasks in the
parent user namespace, and can only get world access rights to files.
Since all files currently belong to the initila user namespace, that means
that child user namespaces can only get world access rights to *all*
files.  While this temporarily makes user namespaces bad for system
containers, it starts to get useful for some sandboxing.

I've run the 'runltplite.sh' with and without this patchset and found no
difference.

This patch:

copy_process() handles CLONE_NEWUSER before the rest of the namespaces.
So in the case of clone(CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWUTS) the new uts namespace
will have the new user namespace as its owner.  That is what we want,
since we want root in that new userns to be able to have privilege over
it.

Changelog:
	Feb 15: don't set uts_ns->user_ns if we didn't create
		a new uts_ns.
	Feb 23: Move extern init_user_ns declaration from
		init/version.c to utsname.h.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:59 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
45a68628d3 pid: remove the child_reaper special case in init/main.c
This patchset is a cleanup and a preparation to unshare the pid namespace.
These prerequisites prepare for Eric's patchset to give a file descriptor
to a namespace and join an existing namespace.

This patch:

It turns out that the existing assignment in copy_process of the
child_reaper can handle the initial assignment of child_reaper we just
need to generalize the test in kernel/fork.c

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:57 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
ea611b2699 init: return proper error code in do_mounts_rd()
In do_mounts_rd() if memory cannot be allocated, return -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
Phil Carmody
b1b5f65e53 calibrate: retry with wider bounds when converge seems to fail
Systems with unmaskable interrupts such as SMIs may massively
underestimate loops_per_jiffy, and fail to converge anywhere near the real
value.  A case seen on x86_64 was an initial estimate of 256<<12, which
converged to 511<<12 where the real value should have been over 630<<12.
This admitedly requires bypassing the TSC calibration (lpj_fine), and a
failure to settle in the direct calibration too, but is physically
possible.  This failure does not depend on my previous calibration
optimisation, but by luck is easy to fix with the optimisation in place
with a trivial retry loop.

In the context of the optimised converging method, as we can no longer
trust the starting estimate, enlarge the search bounds exponentially so
that the number of retries is logarithmically bounded.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention x86_64 SMIs in comment]
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
Phil Carmody
191e56880a calibrate: home in on correct lpj value more quickly
Binary chop with a jiffy-resync on each step to find an upper bound is
slow, so just race in a tight-ish loop to find an underestimate.

If done with lots of individual steps, sometimes several hundreds of
iterations would be required, which would impose a significant overhead,
and make the initial estimate very low.  By taking slowly increasing steps
there will be less overhead.

E.g.  an x86_64 2.67GHz could have fitted in 613 individual small delays,
but in reality should have been able to fit in a single delay 644 times
longer, so underestimated by 31 steps.  To reach the equivalent of 644
small delays with the accelerating scheme now requires about 130
iterations, so has <1/4th of the overhead, and can therefore be expected
to underestimate by only 7 steps.

As now we have a better initial estimate we can binary chop over a smaller
range.  With the loop overhead in the initial estimate kept low, and the
step sizes moderate, we won't have under-estimated by much, so chose as
tight a range as we can.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Phil Carmody
71c696b1d0 calibrate: extract fall-back calculation into own helper
The motivation for this patch series is that currently our OMAP calibrates
itself using the trial-and-error binary chop fallback that some other
architectures no longer need to perform.  This is a lengthy process,
taking 0.2s in an environment where boot time is of great interest.

Patch 2/4 has two optimisations.  Firstly, it replaces the initial
repeated- doubling to find the relevant power of 2 with a tight loop that
just does as much as it can in a jiffy.  Secondly, it doesn't binary chop
over an entire power of 2 range, it choses a much smaller range based on
how much it squeezed in, and failed to squeeze in, during the first stage.
 Both are significant optimisations, and bring our calibration down from
23 jiffies to 5, and, in the process, often arrive at a more accurate lpj
value.

The 'bands' and 'sub-logarithmic' growth may look over-engineered, but
they only cost a small level of inaccuracy in the initial guess (for all
architectures) in order to avoid the very large inaccuracies that appeared
during testing (on x86_64 architectures, and presumably others with less
metronomic operation).  Note that due to the existence of the TSC and
other timers, the x86_64 will not typically use this fallback routine, but
I wanted to code defensively, able to cope with all kinds of processor
behaviours and kernel command line options.

Patch 3/4 is an additional trap for the nightmare scenario where the
initial estimate is very inaccurate, possibly due to things like SMIs.
It simply retries with a larger bound.

Stephen said:

I tried this patch set out on an MSM7630.
:
: Before:
:
: Calibrating delay loop... 681.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=3407872)
:
: After:
:
: Calibrating delay loop... 680.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=3403776)
:
: But the really good news is calibration time dropped from ~247ms to ~56ms.
:  Sadly we won't be able to benefit from this should my udelay patches make
: it into ARM because we would be using calibrate_delay_direct() instead (at
: least on machines who choose to).  Can we somehow reapply the logic behind
: this to calibrate_delay_direct()?  That would be even better, but this is
: definitely a boot time improvement.
:
: Or maybe we could just replace calibrate_delay_direct() with this fallback
: calculation?  If __delay() is a thin wrapper around read_current_timer()
: it should work just as well (plus patch 3 makes it handle SMIs).  I'll try
: that out.

This patch:

... so that it can be modified more clinically.

This is almost entirely cosmetic. The only change to the operation
is that the global variable is only set once after the estimation is
completed, rather than taking on all the intermediate values. However,
there are no readers of that variable, so this change is unimportant.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00