linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v2.6.36-rc8

Un-inline the core-dump helper functions

2010-10-14T21:32:06+00:00

Tony Luck reports that the addition of the access_ok() check in commit
0eead9ab41da ("Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps") broke the
ia64 compile due to missing the necessary header file includes.

Rather than add yet another include () to make everything
happy, just uninline the silly core dump helper functions and move the
bodies to fs/exec.c where they make a lot more sense.

dump_seek() in particular was too big to be an inline function anyway,
and none of them are in any way performance-critical.  And we really
don't need to mess up our include file headers more than they already
are.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps

2010-10-14T17:57:40+00:00

akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct
dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes
back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping
code).  Just remove it.

Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write().  It probably doesn't
matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he
points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ...

[ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of
  calling ->write directly.  That also does the whole fsnotify and write
  statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ]

And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation
code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even
compile)

Reported-by: akiphie 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: disable fanotify syscalls

2010-10-12T01:15:28+00:00

This patch disables the fanotify syscalls by just not building them and
letting the cond_syscall() statements in kernel/sys_ni.c redirect them
to sys_ni_syscall().

It was pointed out by Tvrtko Ursulin that the fanotify interface did not
include an explicit prioritization between groups.  This is necessary
for fanotify to be usable for hierarchical storage management software,
as they must get first access to the file, before inotify-like notifiers
see the file.

This feature can be added in an ABI compatible way in the next release
(by using a number of bits in the flags field to carry the info) but it
was suggested by Alan that maybe we should just hold off and do it in
the next cycle, likely with an (new) explicit argument to the syscall.
I don't like this approach best as I know people are already starting to
use the current interface, but Alan is all wise and noone on list backed
me up with just using what we have.  I feel this is needlessly ripping
the rug out from under people at the last minute, but if others think it
needs to be a new argument it might be the best way forward.

Three choices:
Go with what we got (and implement the new feature next cycle).  Add a
new field right now (and implement the new feature next cycle).  Wait
till next cycle to release the ABI (and implement the new feature next
cycle).  This is number 3.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

elevator: fix oops on early call to elevator_change()

2010-10-07T07:35:16+00:00

2.6.36 introduces an API for drivers to switch the IO scheduler
instead of manually calling the elevator exit and init functions.
This API was added since q->elevator must be cleared in between
those two calls. And since we already have this functionality
directly from use by the sysfs interface to switch schedulers
online, it was prudent to reuse it internally too.

But this API needs the queue to be in a fully initialized state
before it is called, or it will attempt to unregister elevator
kobjects before they have been added. This results in an oops
like this:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000051
IP: [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
PGD 47ddfc067 PUD 47c6a1067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:04:00.1/irq
CPU 2
Modules linked in: t(+) loop hid_apple usbhid ahci ehci_hcd uhci_hcd libahci usbcore nls_base igb

Pid: 7319, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6+ #132 QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R
RIP: 0010:[]  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
RSP: 0018:ffff88027da25d08  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88047c68c528 RBX: 00000000fffffffe RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 000000000000002f RDI: ffff88047e196c88
RBP: ffff88027da25d38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: d84156c5635688c0
R10: d84156c5635688c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88047e196c88
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88047c68c528
FS:  00007fcb0b26f6e0(0000) GS:ffff880287400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000051 CR3: 000000047e76e000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 7319, threadinfo ffff88027da24000, task ffff88027d377090)
Stack:
 ffff88027da25d58 ffff88047c68c528 00000000fffffffe ffff88047e196c88
<0> ffff88047c68c528 ffff88047e05bd90 ffff88027da25d78 ffffffff8123fb77
<0> ffff88047e05bd90 0000000000000000 ffff88047e196c88 ffff88047c68c528
Call Trace:
 [] kobject_add_internal+0xe7/0x1f0
 [] kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60
 [] kobject_add+0x69/0x90
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xe0
 [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x50
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x34/0xa0
 [] elv_register_queue+0x34/0xa0
 [] elevator_change+0xfd/0x250
 [] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [] t_init+0xa8/0x361 [t]
 [] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x170
 [] sys_init_module+0xbd/0x220
 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 10 48 85 ff 74 52 48 8b 47 18 49 c7 c5 00 46 61 81 48 85 c0 74 04 4c 8b 68 30 45 31 f6 <41> 80 7d 51 00 74 0e 49 8b 44 24 28 4c 89 e7 ff 50 20 49 89 c6
RIP  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
 RSP 
CR2: 0000000000000051
---[ end trace a6541d3bf07945df ]---

Fix this by adding a registered bit to the elevator queue, which is
set when the sysfs kobjects have been registered.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-10-05T20:07:43+00:00

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(): disabling irqs also disables bh
  generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single

wait: using uninitialized member of wait queue

2010-10-05T18:47:18+00:00

The "flags" member of "struct wait_queue_t" is used in several places in
the kernel code without beeing initialized by init_wait().  "flags" is
used in bitwise operations.

If "flags" not initialized then unexpected behaviour may take place.
Incorrect flags might used later in code.

Added initialization of "wait_queue_t.flags" with zero value into
"init_wait".

Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kuznetsov 
[ The bit we care about does end up being initialized by both
   prepare_to_wait() and add_to_wait_queue(), so this doesn't seem to
   cause actual bugs, but is definitely the right thing to do -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race

2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00

With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6

2010-10-01T17:53:45+00:00

* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  intel_idle: Voluntary leave_mm before entering deeper
  acpi_idle: add missing \n to printk
  intel_idle: add missing __percpu markup
  intel_idle: Change mode 755 => 644
  cpuidle: Fix typos
  intel_idle: PCI quirk to prevent Lenovo Ideapad s10-3 boot hang

intel_idle: Voluntary leave_mm before entering deeper

2010-10-01T01:19:22+00:00

Avoid TLB flush IPIs for the cores in deeper c-states by voluntary leave_mm()
before entering into that state. CPUs tend to flush TLB in those c-states
anyways.

acpi_idle does this with C3-type states, but it was not caried over
when intel_idle was introduced.  intel_idle can apply it
to C-states in addition to those that ACPI might export as C3...

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx

2010-09-30T01:41:19+00:00

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx:
  dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor
  missing inline keyword for static function in linux/dmaengine.h
  dma/shdma: move dereference below the NULL check