Recent libcs have gotten a bit more strict, so we actually need to
include the right headers and use the right types. This enables UML to
compile again.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
1. Removes the need to walk the IRQ/Device list to determine
who triggered the IRQ.
2. Improves scalability (up to several times performance
improvement for cases with 10s of devices).
3. Improves UML baseline IO performance for one disk + one NIC
use case by up to 10%.
4. Introduces write poll triggered IRQs.
5. Prerequisite for introducing high performance mmesg family
of functions in network IO.
6. Fixes RNG shutdown which was leaking a file descriptor
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
glibc 2.26 removed the 'struct ucontext' to "improve" POSIX compliance
and break programs, including User Mode Linux. Fix User Mode Linux
by using POSIX ucontext_t.
This fixes:
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c: In function 'hard_handler':
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c:163:22: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct ucontext'
mcontext_t *mc = &uc->uc_mcontext;
arch/x86/um/stub_segv.c: In function 'stub_segv_handler':
arch/x86/um/stub_segv.c:16:13: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct ucontext'
&uc->uc_mcontext);
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The intention is to return negative error codes. "pid" is already
negative but we accidentally negate it again back to positive.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Also use correct function name spelling (stub_segv_handler) for better grepping
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
When ptrace fails to set GP/FP regs for the target process,
log the error before crashing the UML kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Use os_warn() instead of printf/fprintf to print out
pre-boot warning/error messages to stderr.
Note that the help message and version message are
kept to print out to stdout, because user explicitly
specifies those options to get such information.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Add os_warn() for printing out pre-boot warning/error
messages in stderr. The messages via os_warn() are not
suppressed by quiet option.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Use os_info() for printing out the messages on the
normal execution path.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Add os_info() for printing out pre-boot information
level messages in stderr. The messages via os_info()
are suppressed by "quiet" kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Since this function will be called after printk buffer
initialized, use printk as other functions do.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Define NR_CPUS required by the timer subsystem.
Fixes this make warning:
scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig arch/x86/um/Kconfig
kernel/time/Kconfig:155:warning: range is invalid
Signed-off-by: Nikola Kotur <kotnick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
This adds support for kcov to UML.
There is a small problem where UML will randomly segfault during boot;
this is because current_thread_info() occasionally returns an invalid
(non-NULL) pointer and we try to dereference it in
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(). I consider this a bug in UML itself and this
patch merely exposes it.
[v2: disable instrumentation in UML-specific code]
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
We are in atomic context and must not sleep.
Sleeping here is possible since malloc() maps
to kmalloc() with GFP_KERNEL.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b6024b21 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support YMM registers")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Extends fpstate to _xstate, in order to hold AVX/YMM registers.
To avoid oversized stack frame, the following functions have been
refactored by using malloc.
- sig_handler_common
- timer_real_alarm_handler
Signed-off-by: Eli Cooper <elicooper@gmx.com>
Open the memory mapped file with the O_TMPFILE flag when available.
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Remove the insecure 0777 mode for temporary file to prohibit other users
to change the executable mapped code.
An attacker could gain access to the mapped file descriptor from the
temporary file (before it is unlinked) in a read-only mode but it should
not be accessible in write mode to avoid arbitrary code execution.
To not change the hostfs behavior, the temporary file creation
permission now depends on the current umask(2) and the implementation of
mkstemp(3).
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
This fix two related bugs:
* PTRACE_GETREGS doesn't get the right orig_ax (syscall) value
* PTRACE_SETREGS can't set the orig_ax value (erased by initial value)
Get rid of the now useless and error-prone get_syscall().
Fix inconsistent behavior in the ptrace implementation for i386 when
updating orig_eax automatically update the syscall number as well. This
is now updated in handle_syscall().
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
The existing IRQ handler design in UML does not prevent reentrancy
This is mitigated by fd-enable/fd-disable semantics for the IO
portion of the UML subsystem. The timer, however, can and is
re-entered resulting in very deep stack usage and occasional
stack exhaustion.
This patch prevents this by checking if there is a timer
interrupt in-flight before processing any pending timer interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:
$ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
OK
Core dump limits :
soft - 0
hard - NONE
This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.
A simple workaround is to flush before forking.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.
This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.
Fixes:
- crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
- broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
are relayed instead.
- kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
- tcp behaviour especially under load
- various timer related corner cases
Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
[rw: massaged commit message]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
If UML is executing a helper program it is using
waitpid() with the __WCLONE flag to wait for the program
as the helper is executed from a clone()'ed thread.
While using __WCLONE is perfectly fine for clone()'ed
childs it won't detect terminated childs if the helper
has issued an execve().
We have to use __WALL to wait for both clone()'ed and
regular childs to detect the termination before and
after an execve().
Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:
- remove hppfs ("HonePot ProcFS")
- initial support for musl libc
- uaccess cleanup
- random cleanups and bug fixes all over the place
* 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (21 commits)
um: Don't pollute kernel namespace with uapi
um: Include sys/types.h for makedev(), major(), minor()
um: Do not use stdin and stdout identifiers for struct members
um: Do not use __ptr_t type for stack_t's .ss pointer
um: Fix mconsole dependency
um: Handle tracehook_report_syscall_entry() result
um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h
um: Stop abusing __KERNEL__
um: Catch unprotected user memory access
um: Fix warning in setup_signal_stack_si()
um: Rework uaccess code
um: Add uaccess.h to ldt.c
um: Add uaccess.h to syscalls_64.c
um: Add asm/elf.h to vma.c
um: Cleanup mem_32/64.c headers
um: Remove hppfs
um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h
um: kernel: ksyms: Export symbol syscall() for fixing modpost issue
um/os-Linux: Use char[] for syscall_stub declarations
um: Use char[] for linker script address declarations
...
The functions in question are not part of the POSIX standard,
documentation however hints that the corresponding header shall
be sys/types.h. C libraries other than glibc, namely musl, did
not include that header via other ways and complained.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse <hwhilse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
stdin, stdout and stderr are macros according to C89/C99.
Thus do not use them as struct member identifiers to avoid
bad results from macro expansion.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse <hwhilse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
__ptr_t type is a glibc-specific type, while the generally
documented type is a void*. That's what other C libraries use,
too.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse <hwhilse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
When declaring __syscall_stub_start, use the same type in UML userspace
code as in arch/um/include/asm/sections.h.
While at it, also declare batch_syscall_stub as char[].
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
[um maintainers appear to be vanished]
I can't prove the case pointed out in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82341
is correct so let us play safe.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
atomic_notifier_chain_register() and uml_postsetup() do call kernel code
that rely on the "current" kernel macro and a valid task_struct resp.
thread_info struct. Give those functions a valid stack by moving
uml_postsetup() in the init_thread stack. This moves enables a panic()
call in this early code to generate a valid stacktrace, instead of
crashing.
E.g. when an UML kernel is started with an initrd but too few physical
memory the panic() call get's actually processed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.
With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
This reverts commit 0974a9cadc.
The real for for that issue is to release current->mm->mmap_sem in
fix_range_common().
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.
It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <antivano@cisco.com>
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
UML does not handle sigpipe. As a result when running it under
expect or redirecting the IO from the console to an external program
it will crash if the program stops or exits.
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <antivano@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Inferring the mount hierarchy correctly from /proc/mounts is hard when MS_MOVE
may have been used, and the previous code did it wrongly. This change simplifies
the logic to only require that /dev/shm be _on_ tmpfs (which can be checked
trivially with statfs) rather than that it be a _mountpoint_ of tmpfs, since
there isn't a compelling reason to be that strict. We also now check for tmpfs
on whatever directory we ultimately use so that the user is better informed.
This change also moves the more standard TMPDIR environment variable check ahead
of the others.
Applies to 3.12.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
If UML is not run by a shell it can happen that UML
will kill unrelated proceses upon a fatal exit because
it issues a kill(0, ...).
To prevent such oddities we create a new session in main().
Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.
Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.
Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.
This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.
Cc: <stian@nixia.no>
Cc: <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Currently we use both struct siginfo and siginfo_t.
Let's use struct siginfo internally to avoid ongoing
compiler warning. We are allowed to do so because
struct siginfo and siginfo_t are equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
which_tmpdir did the wrong thing if /dev/shm was a symlink (e.g., to /run/shm),
if there were multiple mounts on top of each other, if the mount(s) were
obscured by a later mount, or if /dev/shm was a prefix of another mount point.
This fixes these cases. Applies to 3.9.6.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
If we die within a stub handler we only way to reliable
kill the (obviously) dying uml guest process is killing
it's host twin on the host side.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.
As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.
It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.
On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.
But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:
1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE
We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.
So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.
Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
