linux-toradex.git/ipc, branch v3.4-rc2-rt1

ipc/sem: Rework semaphore wakeups

2012-04-10T21:41:02+00:00

Current sysv sems have a weird ass wakeup scheme that involves keeping
preemption disabled over a potential O(n^2) loop and busy waiting on
that on other CPUs.

Kill this and simply wake the task directly from under the sem_lock.

This was discovered by a migrate_disable() debug feature that
disallows:

  spin_lock();
  preempt_disable();
  spin_unlock()
  preempt_enable();

Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315994224.5040.1.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

ipc/mqueue: Add a critical section to avoid a deadlock

2012-04-10T21:40:26+00:00

(Repost for v3.0-rt1 and changed the distination addreses)
I have tested the following patch on v3.0-rt1 with PREEMPT_RT_FULL.
In POSIX message queue, if a sender process uses SCHED_FIFO and
has a higher priority than a receiver process, the sender will
be stuck at ipc/mqueue.c:452

  452                 while (ewp->state == STATE_PENDING)
  453                         cpu_relax();

Description of the problem
 (receiver process)
   1. receiver changes sender's state to STATE_PENDING (mqueue.c:846)
   2. wake up sender process and "switch to sender" (mqueue.c:847)
      Note: This context switch only happens in PREEMPT_RT_FULL kernel.
 (sender process)
   3. sender check the own state in above loop (mqueue.c:452-453)
   *. receiver will never wake up and cannot change sender's state to
      STATE_READY because sender has higher priority


Signed-off-by: Yoshitake Kobayashi 
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: dchinner@redhat.com
Cc: npiggin@kernel.dk
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E2A38A0.1090601@toshiba.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

ipc: Make the ipc code -rt aware

2012-04-10T21:40:26+00:00

RT serializes the code with the (rt)spinlock but keeps preemption
enabled. Some parts of the code need to be atomic nevertheless.

Protect it with preempt_disable/enable_rt pairts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile

2012-03-29T21:49:45+00:00

Pull arch/tile (really asm-generic) update from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are a couple of asm-generic changes that apply to tile."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  compat: use sys_sendfile64() implementation for sendfile syscall
  [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-03-22T16:04:48+00:00

Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and all the MM queue"

* emailed from Andrew Morton : (92 commits)
  memcg: avoid THP split in task migration
  thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  memcg: clean up existing move charge code
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read()
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
  mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/
  memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
  memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED
  memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
  memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup
  memcg: simplify move_account() check
  memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat)
  memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs
  memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag
  memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock()
  cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock
  idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock()
  memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting
  memcg: remove redundant returns
  memcg: enum lru_list lru
  ...

hugetlbfs: fix alignment of huge page requests

2012-03-22T00:54:59+00:00

When calling shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB, shmget aligns the request size to
PAGE_SIZE, but this is not sufficient.

Modify hugetlb_file_setup() to align requests to the huge page size, and
to accept an address argument so that all alignment checks can be
performed in hugetlb_file_setup(), rather than in its callers.  Change
newseg() and mmap_pgoff() to match the new prototype and eliminate a now
redundant alignment check.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-03-21T20:36:41+00:00

Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
  yet."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
  debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
  hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
  hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
  hfsplus: initialise userflags
  qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
  qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
  take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
  trim includes in inode.c
  um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
  um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
  gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
  ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
  ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
  ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
  logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
  configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
  configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
  ...

switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper

2012-03-21T01:29:35+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2012-03-15T17:13:38+00:00

When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls.

However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC
syscalls do not do this.  semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth
argument, instead of the fourth argument itself.  msgsnd(), msgrcv()
and shmat() expect arguments in different order.

This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be
set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc,
s390, and mips).  No actual semantics are changed for those architectures,
and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c.

Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such
as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can
avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific
compat layer.  In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64
mode is assumed, since that's what the  headers expect.

The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed
with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were
not being properly handled.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

security: trim security.h

2012-02-13T23:45:42+00:00

Trim security.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: James Morris