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2009-06-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2009-06-10Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: spinlock: Add missing __raw_spin_lock_flags() stub for UP mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(), fix locking, rtmutex.c: Documentation cleanup mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock()
2009-06-10Merge branch 'futexes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: fix restart in wait_requeue_pi futex: fix restart for early wakeup in futex_wait_requeue_pi() futex: cleanup error exit futex: remove the wait queue futex: add requeue-pi documentation futex: remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI (non CMP) futex: fix futex_wait_setup key handling sparc64: extend TI_RESTART_BLOCK space by 8 bytes futex: fixup unlocked requeue pi case futex: add requeue_pi functionality futex: split out futex value validation code futex: distangle futex_requeue() futex: add FUTEX_HAS_TIMEOUT flag to restart.futex.flags rt_mutex: add proxy lock routines futex: split out fixup owner logic from futex_lock_pi() futex: split out atomic logic from futex_lock_pi() futex: add helper to find the top prio waiter of a futex futex: separate futex_wait_queue_me() logic from futex_wait()
2009-06-10Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits) xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0 xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls xen: honour VCPU availability on boot xen: add "capabilities" file xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features xen: add /sys/hypervisor support xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices xen: remove suspend_cancel hook xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn xen: export ioctl headers to userspace xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver xen: add irq_from_evtchn xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction ...
2009-06-10Merge branch 'sched-docs-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
2009-06-10Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file. sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler sched: Don't export sched_mc_power_savings on multi-socket single core system sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule() sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus()) wait: don't use __wake_up_common() sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer() sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package. sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeup
2009-06-10Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits) x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB x86: document new bzImage fields x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S ... Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10Merge branch 'irq-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (76 commits) x86, apic: Fix dummy apic read operation together with broken MP handling x86, apic: Restore irqs on fail paths x86: Print real IOAPIC version for x86-64 x86: enable_update_mptable should be a macro sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocation x86, io-apic: Don't mark pin_programmed early x86, irq: don't call mp_config_acpi_gsi() if update_mptable is not enabled x86, irq: update_mptable needs pci_routeirq x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic x86, apic: introduce io_apic_irq_attr x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector(), fix x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: apic: Fixmap apic address even if apic disabled x86: display extended apic registers with print_local_APIC and cpu_debug code x86: read apic ID in the !acpi_lapic case x86: clean up and fix setup_clear/force_cpu_cap handling x86: apic: Check rev 3 fadt correctly for physical_apic bit x86/pci: update pirq_enable_irq() to setup io apic routing x86/acpi: move setup io apic routing out of CONFIG_ACPI scope x86/pci: add 4 more return parameters to IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector() ...
2009-06-09cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_tsYinghai Lu
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used, they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-09Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
2009-06-08async: Fix lack of boot-time console due to insufficient synchronizationLinus Torvalds
Our async work synchronization was broken by "async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangle" (commit d5a877e8dd409d8c702986d06485c374b705d340), because it would report the wrong lowest active async ID when there was both running and pending async work. This caused things like no being able to read the root filesystem, resulting in missing console devices and inability to run 'init', causing a boot-time panic. This fixes it by properly returning the lowest pending async ID: if there is any running async work, that will have a lower ID than any pending work, and we should _not_ look at the pending work list. There were alternative patches from Jaswinder and James, but this one also cleans up the code by removing the pointless 'ret' variable and the unnecesary testing for an empty list around 'for_each_entry()' (if the list is empty, the for_each_entry() thing just won't execute). Fixes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474 Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04ptrace: revert "ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic"Oleg Nesterov
Commit 95a3540da9c81a5987be810e1d9a83640a366bd5 ("ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic") removed the "extra" wake_up_process() from ptrace_detach(), but as Jan pointed out this breaks the compatibility. I believe the changelog is right and this wake_up() is wrong in many ways, but GDB assumes that ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, child, 0, 0) always wakes up the tracee. Despite the fact this breaks SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/group_stop_count logic, and despite the fact this wake_up_process() can break another assumption: PTRACE_DETACH with SIGSTOP should leave the tracee in TASK_STOPPED case. Because the untraced child can dequeue SIGSTOP and call do_signal_stop() before ptrace_detach() calls wake_up_process(). Revert this change for now. We need some fixes even if we we want to keep the current behaviour, but these fixes are not for 2.6.30. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04ptrace: tracehook_report_clone: fix false positivesOleg Nesterov
The "trace || CLONE_PTRACE" check in tracehook_report_clone() is not right, - If the untraced task does clone(CLONE_PTRACE) the new child is not traced, we must not queue SIGSTOP. - If we forked the traced task, but the tracer exits and untraces both the forking task and the new child (after copy_process() drops tasklist_lock), we should not queue SIGSTOP too. Change the code to check task_ptrace() != 0 instead. This is still racy, but the race is harmless. We can race with another tracer attaching to this child, or the tracer can exit and detach in parallel. But giwen that we didn't do wake_up_new_task() yet, the child must have the pending SIGSTOP anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security modelsChristoph Lameter
This patch removes the dependency of mmap_min_addr on CONFIG_SECURITY. It also sets a default mmap_min_addr of 4096. mmapping of addresses below 4096 will only be possible for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Looks-ok-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-06-01Merge branch 'linus' into irq/numaIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-26kmod: Release sub_info on cred allocation failure.Tetsuo Handa
call_usermodehelper_setup() forgot to kfree(sub_info) when prepare_usermodehelper_creds() failed. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM: Do not hold dpm_list_mtx while disabling/enabling nonboot CPUs
2009-05-24async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangleJames Bottomley
The problem occurs when async_synchronize_full_domain() is called when the async_pending list is not empty. This will cause lowest_running() to return the cookie of the first entry on the async_pending list, which might be nothing at all to do with the domain being asked for and thus cause the domain synchronization to wait for an unrelated domain. This can cause a deadlock if domain synchronization is used from one domain to wait for another. Fix by running over the async_pending list to see if any pending items actually belong to our domain (and return their cookies if they do). Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-24PM: Do not hold dpm_list_mtx while disabling/enabling nonboot CPUsRafael J. Wysocki
We shouldn't hold dpm_list_mtx while executing [disable|enable]_nonboot_cpus(), because theoretically this may lead to a deadlock as shown by the following example (provided by Johannes Berg): CPU 3 CPU 2 CPU 1 suspend/hibernate something: rtnl_lock() device_pm_lock() -> mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx) mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx) linkwatch_work -> rtnl_lock() disable_nonboot_cpus() -> flush CPU 3 workqueue Fortunately, device drivers are supposed to stop any activities that might lead to the registration of new device objects way before disable_nonboot_cpus() is called, so it shouldn't be necessary to hold dpm_list_mtx over the entire late part of device suspend and early part of device resume. Thus, during the late suspend and the early resume of devices acquire dpm_list_mtx only when dpm_list is going to be traversed and release it right after that. This patch is reported to fix the regressions tracked as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13245. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
2009-05-23sparseirq: Allow early irq_desc allocationPaul Mundt
Presently non-legacy IRQs have their irq_desc allocated with kzalloc_node(). This assumes that all callers of irq_to_desc_node_alloc() will be sufficiently late in the boot process that kmalloc is available. While porting sparseirq support to sh this blew up immediately, as at the time that we register the CPU's interrupt vector map only bootmem is available. Check slab_is_available() to work out which path to use. [ Impact: fix SH early boot crash with sparseirq enabled ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> LKML-Reference: <20090522014008.GA2806@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: fs/exec.c Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-20futex: fix restart in wait_requeue_piThomas Gleixner
If the waiter has been requeued to the outer PI futex and is interrupted by a signal and the thread handles the signal then ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK is changed to EINTR and the restart block is discarded. That way we return an unexcpected EINTR to user space instead of ending up in futex_lock_pi_restart. But we do not need to restart the syscall because we know that the condition has changed since we have been requeued. If we would simply restart the syscall then we would drop out via the comparison of the user space value with EWOULDBLOCK. The user space side needs to handle EWOULDBLOCK anyway as the enqueueing on the inner futex can race with a requeue/wake. So we can simply return EWOULDBLOCK to user space which also signals that we did not take the outer futex and let user space handle it in the same way it has to handle the requeue/wake race. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-20futex: fix restart for early wakeup in futex_wait_requeue_pi()Thomas Gleixner
The futex_wait_requeue_pi op should restart unconditionally like futex_lock_pi. The user of that function e.g. pthread_cond_wait can not be interrupted so we do not care about the SA_RESTART flag of the signal. Clean up the FIXMEs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-20futex: cleanup error exitThomas Gleixner
Reuse the put_key_ref(key2) call in the exit path. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-20Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/futexesThomas Gleixner
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+ to get the latest upstream fixes. Conflicts: kernel/futex.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-19futex: setup writeable mapping for futex ops which modify user space dataThomas Gleixner
The futex code installs a read only mapping via get_user_pages_fast() even if the futex op function has to modify user space data. The eventual fault was fixed up by futex_handle_fault() which walked the VMA with mmap_sem held. After the cleanup patches which removed the mmap_sem dependency of the futex code commit 4dc5b7a36a49eff97050894cf1b3a9a02523717 (futex: clean up fault logic) removed the private VMA walk logic from the futex code. This change results in a stale RO mapping which is not fixed up. Instead of reintroducing the previous fault logic we set up the mapping in get_user_pages_fast() read/write for all operations which modify user space data. Also handle private futexes in the same way and make the current unconditional access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE) depend on the futex op. Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org
2009-05-19sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fieldsIngo Molnar
Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC extension instead of defining a vla array. Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus. [ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ] Reported-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905180850110.3301@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18Merge branches 'sched-fixes-for-linus-2' and 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffies * 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES and MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS
2009-05-18Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file x86/function-graph: fix constraint for recording old return value
2009-05-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM: check sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) return value
2009-05-16Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_nullLinus Torvalds
Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2dbf968fdbe516359688094eef4d46581) all WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg: WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20() because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the __builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that caused the warning. Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently, using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the right place. This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up. Make the function name printout use %pS while at it. Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-15PM: check sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) return valueBjorn Helgaas
Check the return value of sysdev_suspend(). I think this was a typo. Without this change, the following "if" check is always false. I also changed the error message so it's distinguishable from the similar message a few lines above. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-05-15tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README fileGeunSik Lim
append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file. This is trivial issue. Fix typo Mini Howto file(README) for ftrace. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: williams <williams@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1242289418.31161.45.camel@centos51> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: gdb documentation fix kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
2009-05-15sched, timers: cleanup avenrun usersThomas Gleixner
avenrun is an rough estimate so we don't have to worry about consistency of the three avenrun values. Remove the xtime lock dependency and provide a function to scale the values. Cleanup the users. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15sched, timers: move calc_load() to schedulerThomas Gleixner
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15futex: remove the wait queueThomas Gleixner
The waitqueue which is used in struct futex_q is a leftover from the futexfd implementation. There is no need to use a waitqueue at all, as the waiting task is the only user of it. The waitqueue just adds additional locking and a loop in the wake up path which both can be avoided. We have already a task reference in struct futex_q which is used for PI futexes. Use it for normal futexes as well and just wake up the task directly. The logic of signalling the futex wakeup via setting q->lock_ptr to NULL is kept with the difference that we set it NULL before doing the wakeup. This opens an exit race window vs. a non futex wake up of the to be woken up task, which we prevent with get_task_struct / put_task_struct on the waiter. [ Impact: simplification ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-15sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collisionJason Wessel
Commit 79e539453b34e35f39299a899d263b0a1f1670bd introduced a regression where you cannot use sysrq 'g' to enter kgdb. The solution is to move the intel fb sysrq over to V for video instead of G for graphics. The SMP VOYAGER code to register for the sysrq-v is not anywhere to be found in the mainline kernel, so the comments in the code were cleaned up as well. This patch also cleans up the sysrq definitions for kgdb to make it generic for the kernel debugger, such that the sysrq 'g' can be used in the future to enter a gdbstub or another kernel debugger. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-15Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-12lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES and MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINSIngo Molnar
Now that lockdep coverage has increased it has become easier to run out of entries: [ 21.401387] BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low! [ 21.402007] turning off the locking correctness validator. [ 21.402007] Pid: 1555, comm: S99local Not tainted 2.6.30-rc5-tip #2 [ 21.402007] Call Trace: [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff81069789>] add_lock_to_list+0x53/0xba [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff810eb615>] ? lookup_mnt+0x19/0x53 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106be14>] check_prev_add+0x14b/0x1c7 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c304>] validate_chain+0x474/0x52a [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c6fc>] __lock_acquire+0x342/0x3c7 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8106c842>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff810eb615>] ? lookup_mnt+0x19/0x53 [ 21.402007] [<ffffffff8153aedc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66 Double the size - as we've done in the past. [ Impact: allow lockdep to cover more locks ] Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12Merge branch 'x86/apic' into irq/numaIngo Molnar
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so merge them to avoid the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and versionH. Peter Anvin
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor. There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain, but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields. Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB extension. Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing (type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version number. [ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: sched/core was on .30-rc1 before, update to latest fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against ptraceDavid Howells
Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace(). The attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-09Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09sched: Fix fallback sched_clock()'s offset when using jiffiesRon
Account for the initial offset to the jiffy count. [ Impact: fix printk timestamps on architectures using fallback sched_clock() ] Signed-off-by: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08kprobes: fix to use text_mutex around arm/disarm kprobeMasami Hiramatsu
Fix kprobes to lock text_mutex around some arch_arm/disarm_kprobe() which are newly added by commit de5bd88d5a5cce3cacea904d3503e5ebdb3852a2. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-08Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xenIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h arch/x86/xen/mmu.c Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve conflicts Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
2009-05-07sched: emit thread info flags with stack traceDavid Rientjes
When a thread is oom killed and fails to exit, it's helpful to know which threads have access to memory reserves if the machine livelocks. This is done by testing for the TIF_MEMDIE thread info flag and should be displayed alongside stack traces to identify tasks that have access to such reserves but are still stuck allocating pages, for instance. It would probably be helpful in other cases as well, so all thread info flags are emitted when showing a task. ( v2: fix warning reported by Stephen Rothwell ) [ Impact: extend debug printout info ] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905040136390.15831@chino.kir.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>