linux-toradex.git/kernel/sys.c, branch v2.6.23.12

Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-10-01T14:52:23+00:00

We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before
attempting to power-off modern SMP machines.  This fixes the
hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's
new toybox.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread

2007-08-31T08:42:22+00:00

Spotted by Marcin Kowalczyk .

sys_setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread.

Fix the "is it our child" check. The previous commit
ee0acf90d320c29916ba8c5c1b2e908d81f5057d was not complete.

(this patch asks for the new same_thread_group() helper, but mainline doesn't
 have it yet).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: 
Tested-by: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-07-29T23:45:38+00:00

Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION to avoid
confusion (among other things, with CONFIG_SUSPEND introduced in the
next patch).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix ThinkPad T42 poweroff failure introduced by by "PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare"

2007-07-26T19:13:06+00:00

Commit bd804eba1c8597cbb7cd5a5f9fe886aae16a079a ("PM: Introduce
pm_power_off_prepare") caused problems in the poweroff path, as reported by
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明.

Generally, sysdev_shutdown() should be called after the ACPI preparation for
powering the system off.  To make it happen, we can separate sysdev_shutdown()
from device_shutdown() and call it directly wherever necessary.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Tested-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flags

2007-07-19T17:04:46+00:00

This patch changes mm_struct.dumpable to a pair of bit flags.

set_dumpable() converts three-value dumpable to two flags and stores it into
lower two bits of mm_struct.flags instead of mm_struct.dumpable.
get_dumpable() behaves in the opposite way.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export set_dumpable]
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare

2007-07-19T17:04:42+00:00

Introduce the pm_power_off_prepare() callback that can be registered by the
interested platforms in analogy with pm_idle() and pm_power_off(), used for
preparing the system to power off (needed by ACPI).

This allows us to drop acpi_sysclass and device_acpi that are only defined in
order to register the ACPI power off preparation callback, which is needed by
pm_power_off() registered in a much different way.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting

2007-07-18T15:47:40+00:00

Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: David Howells

Add common orderly_poweroff()

2007-07-18T15:47:40+00:00

Various pieces of code around the kernel want to be able to trigger an
orderly poweroff.  This pulls them together into a single
implementation.

By default the poweroff command is /sbin/poweroff, but it can be set
via sysctl: kernel/poweroff_cmd.  This is split at whitespace, so it
can include command-line arguments.

This patch replaces four other instances of invoking either "poweroff"
or "shutdown -h now": two sbus drivers, and acpi thermal
management.

sparc64 has its own "powerd"; still need to determine whether it should
be replaced by orderly_poweroff().

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Acked-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: David S. Miller

move seccomp from /proc to a prctl

2007-07-16T16:05:50+00:00

This reduces the memory footprint and it enforces that only the current
task can enable seccomp on itself (this is a requirement for a
strightforward [modulo preempt ;) ] TIF_NOTSC implementation).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

user namespace: add the framework

2007-07-16T16:05:47+00:00

Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table,
resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated
accounting.

A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation.
Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges
should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?)

The unshare is not included in this patch.

Changes since [try #4]:
	- Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and
	  get_user_ns to return the namespace.

Changes since [try #3]:
	- moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h}

Changes since [try #2]:
	- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()

Changes since [try #1]:
	- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()
	- added a root_user per user namespace

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater 
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Andrew Morgan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds