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2008-04-18NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on()Thomas Gleixner
upstream commit: 06d8308c61e54346585b2691c13ee3f90cb6fb2f add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code. To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event. Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the other CPU of the change in the timer wheel. Call this function from add_timer_on(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> -- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/sched.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/timer.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2008-03-24relay: fix subbuf_splice_actor() adding too many pagesJens Axboe
If subbuf_pages was larger than the max number of pages the pipe buffer will hold, subbuf_splice_actor() would happily go beyond the array size. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2008-03-24sched_nr_migrate wrong mode bitsMichal Schmidt
sched_nr_migrate has strange permission bits: $ ls -l /proc/sys/kernel/sched_nr_migrate --w----r-T 1 root root 0 2008-03-17 23:31 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_nr_migrate The bug is an obvious decimal/octal confusion. Fixed (collaterally) in Linus's tree by Peter Zijlstra with commit fa85ae241 "sched: rt time limit" (in 2.6.25-rc1). Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24sched: fix race in schedule()Hiroshi Shimamoto
Fix a hard to trigger crash seen in the -rt kernel that also affects the vanilla scheduler. There is a race condition between schedule() and some dequeue/enqueue functions; rt_mutex_setprio(), __setscheduler() and sched_move_task(). When scheduling to idle, idle_balance() is called to pull tasks from other busy processor. It might drop the rq lock. It means that those 3 functions encounter on_rq=0 and running=1. The current task should be put when running. Here is a possible scenario: CPU0 CPU1 | schedule() | ->deactivate_task() | ->idle_balance() | -->load_balance_newidle() rt_mutex_setprio() | | --->double_lock_balance() *get lock *rel lock * on_rq=0, ruuning=1 | * sched_class is changed | *rel lock *get lock : | : ->put_prev_task_rt() ->pick_next_task_fair() => panic The current process of CPU1(P1) is scheduling. Deactivated P1, and the scheduler looks for another process on other CPU's runqueue because CPU1 will be idle. idle_balance(), load_balance_newidle() and double_lock_balance() are called and double_lock_balance() could drop the rq lock. On the other hand, CPU0 is trying to boost the priority of P1. The result of boosting only P1's prio and sched_class are changed to RT. The sched entities of P1 and P1's group are never put. It makes cfs_rq invalid, because the cfs_rq has curr and no leaf, but pick_next_task_fair() is called, then the kernel panics. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [chrisw@sous-sol.org: backport to 2.6.24.3] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionalityThomas Gleixner
commit: a0c1e9073ef7428a14309cba010633a6cd6719ea Not all architectures implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). The default implementation returns -ENOSYS, which is currently not handled inside of the futex guts. Futex PI calls and robust list exits with a held futex result in an endless loop in the futex code on architectures which have no support. Fixing up every place where futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is called would add a fair amount of extra if/else constructs to the already complex code. It is also not possible to disable the robust feature before user space tries to register robust lists. Compile time disabling is not a good idea either, as there are already architectures with runtime detection of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic support. Detect the functionality at runtime instead by calling cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() with a NULL pointer from the futex initialization code. This is guaranteed to fail, but the call of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() happens with pagefaults disabled. On architectures, which use the asm-generic implementation or have a runtime CPU feature detection, a -ENOSYS return value disables the PI/robust features. On architectures with a working implementation the call returns -EFAULT and the PI/robust features are enabled. The relevant syscalls return -ENOSYS and the robust list exit code is blocked, when the detection fails. Fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/149 Originally reported by: Lennart Buytenhek Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24futex: fix init orderThomas Gleixner
commit: 3e4ab747efa8e78562ec6782b08bbf21a00aba1b When the futex init code fails to initialize the futex pseudo file system it returns early without initializing the hash queues. Should the boot succeed then a futex syscall which tries to enqueue a waiter on the hashqueue will crash due to the unitilialized plist heads. Initialize the hash queues before the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24IRQ_NOPROBE helper functionsRalf Baechle
Probing non-ISA interrupts using the handle_percpu_irq as their handle_irq method may crash the system because handle_percpu_irq does not check IRQ_WAITING. This for example hits the MIPS Qemu configuration. This patch provides two helper functions set_irq_noprobe and set_irq_probe to set rsp. clear the IRQ_NOPROBE flag. The only current caller is MIPS code but this really belongs into generic code. As an aside, interrupt probing these days has become a mostly obsolete if not dangerous art. I think Linux interrupts should be changed to default to non-probing but that's subject of this patch. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-and-tested-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irqThomas Gleixner
commit 89d694b9dbe769ca1004e01db0ca43964806a611 The default_disable() function was changed in commit: 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 genirq: do not mask interrupts by default It removed the mask function in favour of the default delayed interrupt disabling. Unfortunately this also broke the shutdown in free_irq() when the last handler is removed from the interrupt for those architectures which rely on the default implementations. Now we can end up with a enabled interrupt line after the last handler was removed, which can result in spurious interrupts. Fix this by adding a default_shutdown function, which is only installed, when the irqchip implementation does provide neither a shutdown nor a disable function. Pointed-out-by: Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25hrtimer: catch expired CLOCK_REALTIME timers earlyThomas Gleixner
commit 63070a79ba482c274bad10ac8c4b587a3e011f2c A CLOCK_REALTIME timer, which has an absolute expiry time less than the clock realtime offset calls with a negative delta into the clock events code and triggers the WARN_ON() there. This is a false positive and needs to be prevented. Check the result of timer->expires - timer->base->offset right away and return -ETIME right away. Thanks to Frans Pop, who reported the problem and tested the fixes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflowThomas Gleixner
commit: 5a7780e725d1bb4c3094fcc12f1c5c5faea1e988 Various user space callers ask for relative timeouts. While we fixed that overflow issue in hrtimer_start(), the sites which convert relative user space values to absolute timeouts themself were uncovered. Instead of putting overflow checks into each place add a function which does the sanity checking and convert all affected callers to use it. Thanks to Frans Pop, who reported the problem and tested the fixes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25hrtimer: fix *rmtp/restarts handling in compat_sys_nanosleep()Oleg Nesterov
commit 416529374b4793ba2d2e97e736d108a2e0f3ef07 Spotted by Pavel Emelyanov and Alexey Dobriyan. compat_sys_nanosleep() implicitly uses hrtimer_nanosleep_restart(), this can't work. Make a suitable compat_nanosleep_restart() helper. Introduced by commit c70878b4e0b6cf8d2f1e46319e48e821ef4a8aba hrtimer: hook compat_sys_nanosleep up to high res timer code Also, set ->addr_limit = KERNEL_DS before doing hrtimer_nanosleep(), this func was changed by the previous patch and now takes the "__user *" parameter. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for fixing the bug in this patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@sw.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25hrtimer: fix *rmtp handling in hrtimer_nanosleep()Oleg Nesterov
commit 080344b98805553f9b01de0f59a41b1533036d8d Spotted by Pavel Emelyanov and Alexey Dobriyan. hrtimer_nanosleep() sets restart_block->arg1 = rmtp, but this rmtp points to the local variable which lives in the caller's stack frame. This means that if sys_restart_syscall() actually happens and it is interrupted as well, we don't update the user-space variable, but write into the already dead stack frame. Introduced by commit 04c227140fed77587432667a574b14736a06dd7f hrtimer: Rework hrtimer_nanosleep to make sys_compat_nanosleep easier Change the callers to pass "__user *rmtp" to hrtimer_nanosleep(), and change hrtimer_nanosleep() to use copy_to_user() to actually update *rmtp. Small problem remains. man 2 nanosleep states that *rtmp should be written if nanosleep() was interrupted (it says nothing whether it is OK to update *rmtp if nanosleep returns 0), but (with or without this patch) we can dirty *rem even if nanosleep() returns 0. NOTE: this patch doesn't change compat_sys_nanosleep(), because it has other bugs. Fixed by the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@sw.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25AUDIT: Increase skb->truesize in audit_expandHerbert Xu
Upstream commit: 406a1d868001423c85a3165288e566e65f424fe6 The recent UDP patch exposed this bug in the audit code. It was calling pskb_expand_head without increasing skb->truesize. The caller of pskb_expand_head needs to do so because that function is designed to be called in places where truesize is already fixed and therefore it doesn't update its value. Because the audit system is using it in a place where the truesize has not yet been fixed, it needs to update its value manually. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-25hugetlb: add locking for overcommit sysctlNishanth Aravamudan
patch a3d0c6aa1bb342b9b2c7b123b52ac2f48a4d4d0a in mainline. When I replaced hugetlb_dynamic_pool with nr_overcommit_hugepages I used proc_doulongvec_minmax() directly. However, hugetlb.c's locking rules require that all counter modifications occur under the hugetlb_lock. Add a callback into the hugetlb code similar to the one for nr_hugepages. Grab the lock around the manipulation of nr_overcommit_hugepages in proc_doulongvec_minmax(). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-08sched: fix high wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHEDSrivatsa Vaddagiri
patch 296825cbe14d4c95ee9c41ca5824f7487bfb4d9d in mainline. The reason why we are getting better wakeup latencies for !FAIR_USER_SCHED is because of this snippet of code in place_entity(): if (!initial) { /* sleeps upto a single latency don't count. */ if (sched_feat(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS) && entity_is_task(se)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ vruntime -= sysctl_sched_latency; /* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */ vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime); } NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS feature gives credit for sleeping only to tasks and not group-level entities. With the patch attached, I could see that wakeup latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED are restored to the same level as !FAIR_USER_SCHED. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-08sched: let +nice tasks have smaller impactPeter Zijlstra
patch ef9884e6f29bbe1075204f962a00f7533bf7e8f3 in mainline. Michel Dänzr has bisected an interactivity problem with plus-reniced tasks back to this commit: 810e95ccd58d91369191aa4ecc9e6d4a10d8d0c8 is first bad commit commit 810e95ccd58d91369191aa4ecc9e6d4a10d8d0c8 Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200 sched: another wakeup_granularity fix unit mis-match: wakeup_gran was used against a vruntime fix this by assymetrically scaling the vtime of positive reniced tasks. Bisected-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-08vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need it (CVE-2008-0007)Nick Piggin
Drivers that register a ->fault handler, but do not range-check the offset argument, must set VM_DONTEXPAND in the vm_flags in order to prevent an expanding mremap from overflowing the resource. I've audited the tree and attempted to fix these problems (usually by adding VM_DONTEXPAND where it is not obvious). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24lockdep: fix kernel crash on module unloadArjan van de Ven
Michael Wu noticed in his lkml post at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119396182726091&w=2 that certain wireless drivers ended up having their name in module memory, which would then crash the kernel on module unload. The patch he proposed was a bit clumsy in that it increased the size of a lockdep entry significantly; the patch below tries another approach, it checks, on module teardown, if the name of a class is in module space and then zaps the class. This is very similar to what we already do with keys that are in module space. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix
2008-01-22rcu: fix section mismatchRandy Dunlap
rcu_online_cpu() should be __cpuinit instead of __devinit. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4b6d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-22sched: group scheduler, set uid share fixIngo Molnar
setting cpu share to 1 causes hangs, as reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779 as the default share is 1024, the values of 0 and 1 can indeed cause problems. Limit it to 2 or higher values. These values can only be set by the root user - but still it makes sense to protect against nonsensical values. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-21timer: fix section mismatchRandy Dunlap
The caller is __cpuinit. Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4252f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-21hrtimer: fix section mismatchRandy Dunlap
Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock') Noticed by Johannes Berg and confirmed by Sam Ravnborg. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.cNigel Cunningham
call_usermodehelper_exec() has an exit path that can leave the helper_lock() call at the top of the routine unbalanced. The attached patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-16lockdep: fix workqueue creation API lockdep interactionJohannes Berg
Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep. Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic. This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-01-16lockdep: fix internal double unlock during self-testNick Piggin
Lockdep, during self-test (when it was simulating double unlocks) was sometimes unconditionally unlocking a spinlock when it had not been locked. This won't work for ticket locks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-01-14modules: de-mutex more symbol lookup paths in the module codeRusty Russell
Kyle McMartin reports sysrq_timer_list_show() can hit the module mutex from hard interrupt context. These paths don't need to though, since we long ago changed all the module list manipulation to occur via stop_machine(). Disabling preemption is enough. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-13Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: pnpacpi: print resource shortage message only once PM: ACPI and APM must not be enabled at the same time ACPI: apply quirk_ich6_lpc_acpi to more ICH8 and ICH9 ACPICA: fix acpi_serialize hang regression ACPI : Not register gsi for PCI IDE controller in legacy mode ACPI: Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case ACPI: Make sysfs interface in ACPI power optional. ACPI: EC: Enable boot EC before bus_scan increase PNP_MAX_PORT to 40 from 24
2008-01-13remove task_ppid_nr_nsRoland McGrath
task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places. One of these should never have called it. In the other two, using it broke the existing semantics. This was presumably accidental. If the function had not been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those patches were changing the behavior. We don't need this function. In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer. In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid. I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't need it. In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-11Pull bugzilla-9194 into release branchLen Brown
2008-01-11PM: ACPI and APM must not be enabled at the same timeLen Brown
ACPI and APM used "pm_active" to guarantee that they would not be simultaneously active. But pm_active was recently moved under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, so that without CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_active became a NOP -- allowing ACPI and APM to both be simultaneously enabled. This caused unpredictable results, including boot hangs. Further, the code under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY is scheduled for removal. So replace pm_active with pm_flags. pm_flags depends only on CONFIG_PM, which is present for both CONFIG_APM and CONFIG_ACPI. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9194 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2008-01-09show_task: real_parentRoland McGrath
The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the pid and parent's pid of each task. It seems more useful to show the actual process hierarchy here than who is using ptrace on each process. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-08futex: Prevent stale futex owner when interrupted/timeoutThomas Gleixner
Roland Westrelin did a great analysis of a long standing thinko in the return path of futex_lock_pi. While we fixed the lock steal case long ago, which was easy to trigger, we never had a test case which exposed this problem and stupidly never thought about the reverse lock stealing scenario and the return to user space with a stale state. When a blocked tasks returns from rt_mutex_timed_locked without holding the rt_mutex (due to a signal or timeout) and at the same time the task holding the futex is releasing the futex and assigning the ownership of the futex to the returning task, then it might happen that a third task acquires the rt_mutex before the final rt_mutex_trylock() of the returning task happens under the futex hash bucket lock. The returning task returns to user space with ETIMEOUT or EINTR, but the user space futex value is assigned to this task. The task which acquired the rt_mutex fixes the user space futex value right after the hash bucket lock has been released by the returning task, but for a short period of time the user space value is wrong. Detailed description is available at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400541 The fix for this is the same as we do when the rt_mutex was acquired by a higher priority task via lock stealing from the designated new owner. In that case we already fix the user space value and the internal pi_state up before we return. This mechanism can be used to fixup the above corner case as well. When the returning task, which failed to acquire the rt_mutex, notices that it is the designated owner of the futex, then it fixes up the stale user space value and the pi_state, before returning to user space. This happens with the futex hash bucket lock held, so the task which acquired the rt_mutex is guaranteed to be blocked on the hash bucket lock. We can access the rt_mutex owner, which gives us the pid of the new owner, safely here as the owner is not able to modify (release) it while waiting on the hash bucket lock. Rename the "curr" argument of fixup_pi_state_owner() to "newowner" to avoid confusion with current and add the check for the stale state into the failure path of rt_mutex_trylock() in the return path of unlock_futex_pi(). If the situation is detected use fixup_pi_state_owner() to assign everything to the owner of the rt_mutex. Pointed-out-and-tested-by: Roland Westrelin <roland.westrelin@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-08vmcoreinfo: add the array length of "free_list" for filtering free pagesKen'ichi Ohmichi
This patch adds the array length of "free_area.free_list" to the vmcoreinfo data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can exclude all free pages in linux-2.6.24. makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, makedumpfile gets the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering. In 2.6.24-rc1 or later, the free_area.free_list is an array which has one list for each migrate types instead of a single list. makedumpfile needs the array length of "free_area.free_list" and the vmcoreinfo data should contain it. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Tested-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-07acct: real_parent ppidRoland McGrath
The ac_ppid field reported in process accounting records should match what getppid() would have returned to that process, regardless of whether a debugger is attached. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: fix gcc warnings
2008-01-02Fix kernel/ptrace.c compile problem (missing "may_attach()")Linus Torvalds
The previous commit missed one use of "may_attach()" that had been renamed to __ptrace_may_attach(). Tssk, tssk, Al. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace pidAl Viro
Contents of /proc/*/maps is sensitive and may become sensitive after open() (e.g. if target originally shares our ->mm and later does exec on suid-root binary). Check at read() (actually, ->start() of iterator) time that mm_struct we'd grabbed and locked is - still the ->mm of target - equal to reader's ->mm or the target is ptracable by reader. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-30sched: fix gcc warningsIngo Molnar
Meelis Roos reported these warnings on sparc64: CC kernel/sched.o In file included from kernel/sched.c:879: kernel/sched_debug.c: In function 'nsec_high': kernel/sched_debug.c:38: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast the debug check in do_div() is over-eager here, because the long long is always positive in these places. Mark this by casting them to unsigned long long. no change in code output: text data bss dec hex filename 51471 6582 376 58429 e43d sched.o.before 51471 6582 376 58429 e43d sched.o.after md5: 7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049 sched.o.before.asm 7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049 sched.o.after.asm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-29[SERIAL]: Fix section mismatches in Sun serial console drivers.David S. Miller
We're exporting an __init function, oops :-) The core issue here is that add_preferred_console() is marked as __init, this makes it impossible to invoke this thing from a driver probe routine which is what the Sparc serial drivers need to do. There is no harm in dropping the __init marker. This code will actually work properly when invoked from a modular driver, except that init will probably not pick up the console change without some other support code. Then we can drop the __init from sunserial_console_match() and we're no longer exporting an __init function to modules. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-22Modules: fix memory leak of module namesGreg Kroah-Hartman
Due to the change in kobject name handling, the module kobject needs to have a null release function to ensure that the name it previously set will be properly cleaned up. All of this wierdness goes away in 2.6.25 with the rework of the kobject name and cleanup logic, but this is required for 2.6.24. Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding the problem, and to Kay Sievers for pointing out the simple way to fix it after I tried many complex ways. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-20debug: add end-of-oops markerArjan van de Ven
Right now it's nearly impossible for parsers that collect kernel crashes from logs or emails (such as www.kerneloops.org) to detect the end-of-oops condition. In addition, it's not currently possible to detect whether or not 2 oopses that look alike are actually the same oops reported twice, or are truly two unique oopses. This patch adds an end-of-oops marker, and makes the end marker include a very simple 64-bit random ID to be able to detect duplicate reports. Normally, this ID is calculated as a late_initcall() (in the hope that at that time there is enough entropy to get a unique enough ID); however for early oopses the oops_exit() function needs to generate the ID on the fly. We do this all at the _end_ of an oops printout, so this does not impact our ability to get the most important portions of a crash out to the console first. [ Sidenote: the already existing oopses-since-bootup counter we print during crashes serves as the differentiator between multiple oopses that trigger during the same bootup. ] Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Artificially injected very early crashes as well, as expected they result in this constant ID after multiple bootups: ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- because the random pools are still all zero. But it all still works fine and causes no additional problems (which is the main goal of instrumentation code). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-20sched: rt: account the cpu time during the tickPeter Zijlstra
Realtime tasks would not account their runtime during ticks. Which would lead to: struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 10 }; pthread_setschedparam(pthread_self(), SCHED_FIFO, &param); while (1) ; Not showing up in top. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs x86: also define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH x86: kprobes bugfix x86: jprobe bugfix timer: kernel/timer.c section fixes genirq: add unlocked version of set_irq_handler() clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance counters
2007-12-18genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqsSteven Rostedt
In commit 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 lazy irq disabling was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it. Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture would trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the unmasking was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs to begin with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems Remy was seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by devices, and he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue that was uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask. This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-12-18timer: kernel/timer.c section fixesAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41cd3): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41d67): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-18clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcastThomas Gleixner
Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525 A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same. When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event, which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up. The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of those events can be delayed for quite a time. Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs, which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event, and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeupIngo Molnar
measurements by Yanmin Zhang have shown that SCHED_BATCH tasks benefit if they run the same place_entity() logic as SCHED_OTHER tasks - so uniformize behavior in this area. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idlingIngo Molnar
touch softlockup watchdog after idling. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values forEric Dumazet
min_sched_granularity_ns, max_sched_granularity_ns, min_wakeup_granularity_ns and max_wakeup_granularity_ns are declared "unsigned long". This is incorrect since proc_dointvec_minmax() expects plain "int" guard values. This bug only triggers on big endian 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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