linux-toradex.git/ipc, branch v2.6.22-rc7

shm: fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory

2007-06-16T20:16:16+00:00

Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when examining
/proc//maps.  To do so they look for a block device with major zero, a
dentry named SYSV, and having the minor of the internal sysv
shared memory kernel mount.

To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing
/proc//maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to use the
SYSV dentry naming convention.

User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv shared
memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so has a different
block device minor number from the rest of sysv shared memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" 
Cc: Albert Cahalan 
Cc: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: fix get_policy for stacked shared memory files

2007-06-16T20:16:16+00:00

Here's another breakage as a result of shared memory stacked files :(

The NUMA policy for a VMA is determined by checking the following (in the
order given):

1) vma->vm_ops->get_policy() (if defined)
2) vma->vm_policy (if defined)
3) task->mempolicy (if defined)
4) Fall back to default_policy

By switching to stacked files for shared memory, get_policy() is now always
set to shm_get_policy which is a wrapper function.  This causes us to stop
at step 1, which yields NULL for hugetlb instead of task->mempolicy which
was the previous (and correct) result.

This patch modifies the shm_get_policy() wrapper to maintain steps 1-3 for
the wrapped vm_ops.

(akpm: the refcounting of mempolicies is busted and this patch does nothing to
improve it)

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke 
Acked-by: William Irwin 
Cc: dean gaudet 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Restore shmid as inode# to fix /proc/pid/maps ABI breakage

2007-06-16T20:16:15+00:00

shmid used to be stored as inode# for shared memory segments. Some of
the proc-ps tools use this from /proc/pid/maps.  Recent cleanups
to newseg() changed it.  This patch sets inode number back to shared
memory id to fix breakage.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Cc: "Albert Cahalan" 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

2007-05-17T12:23:04+00:00

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] complete message queue auditing

2007-05-11T09:38:26+00:00

Handle the edge cases for POSIX message queue auditing. Collect inode
info when opening an existing mq, and for send/receive operations. Remove
audit_inode_update() as it has really evolved into the equivalent of
audit_inode().

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00

Remove includes of  where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge sys_clone()/sys_unshare() nsproxy and namespace handling

2007-05-08T18:15:00+00:00

sys_clone() and sys_unshare() both makes copies of nsproxy and its associated
namespaces.  But they have different code paths.

This patch merges all the nsproxy and its associated namespace copy/clone
handling (as much as possible).  Posted on container list earlier for
feedback.

- Create a new nsproxy and its associated namespaces and pass it back to
  caller to attach it to right process.

- Changed all copy_*_ns() routines to return a new copy of namespace
  instead of attaching it to task->nsproxy.

- Moved the CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks out of copy_*_ns() routines.

- Removed unnessary !ns checks from copy_*_ns() and added BUG_ON()
  just incase.

- Get rid of all individual unshare_*_ns() routines and make use of
  copy_*_ns() instead.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, warning fix]
[clg@fr.ibm.com: remove dup_namespaces() declaration]
[serue@us.ibm.com: fix CONFIG_IPC_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWIPC) retval]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_SYSVIPC=n]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Cedric Le Goater 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Cap shmmax at INT_MAX in compat shminfo

2007-05-08T18:15:00+00:00

The value of shmmax may be larger than will fit in the struct used by
the 32bit compat version of sys_shmctl. This change mirrors what the
normal sys_shmctl does when called with the old IPC_INFO command.

Signed-off-by: Guy Streeter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

2007-05-07T19:12:57+00:00

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ipcns: fix !CONFIG_IPC_NS behavior

2007-03-27T16:05:16+00:00

When CONFIG_IPC_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWIPC) claims success, but did not actually
clone a new IPC namespace.

Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds