- 31 Oct, 2005 40 commits
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Paul Jackson authored
Overhaul cpuset locking. Replace single semaphore with two semaphores. The suggestion to use two locks was made by Roman Zippel. Both locks are global. Code that wants to modify cpusets must first acquire the exclusive manage_sem, which allows them read-only access to cpusets, and holds off other would-be modifiers. Before making actual changes, the second semaphore, callback_sem must be acquired as well. Code that needs only to query cpusets must acquire callback_sem, which is also a global exclusive lock. The earlier problems with double tripping are avoided, because it is allowed for holders of manage_sem to nest the second callback_sem lock, and only callback_sem is needed by code called from within __alloc_pages(), where the double tripping had been possible. This is not quite the same as a normal read/write semaphore, because obtaining read-only access with intent to change must hold off other such attempts, while allowing read-only access w/o such intention. Changing cpusets involves several related checks and changes, which must be done while allowing read-only queries (to avoid the double trip), but while ensuring nothing changes (holding off other would be modifiers.) This overhaul of cpuset locking also makes careful use of task_lock() to guard access to the task->cpuset pointer, closing a couple of race conditions noticed while reading this code (thanks, Roman). I've never seen these races fail in any use or test. See further the comments in the code. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove a rather hackish depth counter on cpuset locking. The depth counter was avoiding a possible double trip on the global cpuset_sem semaphore. It worked, but now an improved version of cpuset locking is available, to come in the next patch, using two global semaphores. This patch reverses "cpuset semaphore depth check deadlock fix" The kernel still works, even after this patch, except for some rare and difficult to reproduce race conditions when agressively creating and destroying cpusets marked with the notify_on_release option, on very large systems. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove one more useless line from cpuset_common_file_read(). Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Korotaev authored
This patch fixes incorrect error path in proc_get_inode(), when module can't be get due to being unloaded. When try_module_get() fails, this function puts de(!) and still returns inode with non-getted de. There are still unresolved known bugs in proc yet to be fixed: - proc_dir_entry tree is managed without any serialization - create_proc_entry() doesn't setup de->owner anyhow, so setting it later manually is inatomic. - looks like almost all modules do not care whether it's de->owner is set... Signed-Off-By:
Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By:
Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Remove last remains of NFS exportability support. The code is actually buggy (as reported by Akshat Aranya), since 'alias' will be leaked if it's non-null and alias->d_flags has DCACHE_DISCONNECTED. This is not an active bug, since there will never be any disconnected dentries. But it's better to get rid of the unnecessary complexity anyway. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
In the recent timer rework we lost the check for an add_timer() of an already-pending timer. That check was useful for networking, so put it back. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Nate Diller authored
If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply leaves the queue alone, and returns. However, it forgets to call elevator_put, so 'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler' will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently pinned in memory. Signed-off-by:
Nate Diller <nate@namesys.com> Acked-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
Typo fix: dots appearing after a newline in printk strings. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should. Also move the common prototype to <linux/syscalls.h> Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Make the pid argument a long as on every other arcihtecture. Despite pid_t beeing a 32bit type even on 64bit parisc this is not an ABI change due to the parisc calling conventions. And even if it did it wouldn't matter too much because 64bit userspace on parisc is in an embrionic stage. Acked-by:
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
common_nsleep() reimplements schedule_timeout_interruptible() for unknown reason. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
(akpm: I don't do typo patches, but one of these is in a printk string) Signed-off-by:
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Nate Diller authored
Add a kconfig submenu to select the default I/O scheduler, in case anticipatory is not compiled in or another default is preferred. Also, since no-op is always available, we should use it whenever the selected default is not. Signed-off-by:
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Vadim Lobanov authored
The majority of the sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() function code is duplicated between the two of them. This patch pulls the duplication out into a separate function -- do_tkill() -- and lets sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() be simple wrappers around it. This should make it easier to maintain in light of future changes. Signed-off-by:
Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
This lock is used in sigqueue_free(), but it is always equal to current->sighand->siglock, so we don't need to keep it in the struct sigqueue. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() calls del_timer_sync(->real_timer) under ->sighand->siglock. This is deadlockable, it_real_fn sends a signal and needs this lock too. Also, delete unneeded ->real_timer.data assignment. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead, file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object. The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list becomes f_u.f_list Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add explicit text about - where menuconfig '/' (search) searches for strings, - that substrings are allowed, and - that regular expressions are supported. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Cleanup trailing whitespace, blank lines, CodingStyle issues etc, for lib/idr.c Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
The first two hunks of the patch really belongs in patch 1, but I missed them on the first pass and instead of redoing all 3 patches I stuck them in this one. Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Removes a few pointless register keywords. register is merely a compiler hint that access to the variable should be optimized, but gcc (3.3.6 in my case) generates the exact same code with and without the keyword, and even if gcc did something different with register present I think it is doubtful we would want to optimize access to these variables - especially since this is generic library code and there are supposed to be optimized versions in asm/ for anything that really matters speed wise. (akpm: iirc, keyword register is a gcc no-op unless using -O0) Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Removes some blank lines, removes some trailing whitespace, adds spaces after commas and a few similar changes. Signed-off-by:
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Amos Waterland authored
The only call to ide_cdrom_capacity is in code protected by CONFIG_PROC_FS, so when that is not enabled, the compiler complains: drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:3259: warning: `ide_cdrom_capacity' defined but not used Here is a patch that fixes that. It provides some space savings for embedded systems that are not using procfs, as well: text data bss dec hex filename - 33540 6504 1032 41076 a074 drivers/ide/ide-cd.o + 33468 6480 1032 40980 a014 drivers/ide/ide-cd.o Signed-off-by:Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
lookup_flags() is only called from the non-create case, so it needn't check for O_CREAT|O_EXCL. Signed-off-by:
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Eric W. Biederman authored
task_struct is an internal structure to the kernel with a lot of good information, that is probably interesting in core dumps. However there is no way for user space to know what format that information is in making it useless. I grepped the GDB 6.3 source code and NT_TASKSTRUCT while defined is not used anywhere else. So I would be surprised if anyone notices it is missing. In addition exporting kernel pointers to all the interesting kernel data structures sounds like the very definition of an information leak. I haven't a clue what someone with evil intentions could do with that information, but in any attack against the kernel it looks like this is the perfect tool for aiming that attack. So since NT_TASKSTRUCT is useless as currently defined and is potentially dangerous, let's just not export it. (akpm: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> "would be amazed" if anything was using NT_TASKSTRUCT). Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Remove timer_list.magic and associated debugging code. I originally added this when a spinlock was added to timer_list - this meant that an all-zeroes timer became illegal and init_timer() was required. That spinlock isn't even there any more, although timer.base must now be initialised. I'll keep this debugging code in -mm. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
This patch makes the workqueus use alloc_percpu instead of an array. The workqueues are placed on nodes local to each processor. The workqueue structure can grow to a significant size on a system with lots of processors if this patch is not applied. 64 bit architectures with all debugging features enabled and configured for 512 processors will not be able to boot without this patch. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Garzik authored
Removed some more references to check_region(). I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git The only valid references remaining are in: drivers/scsi/advansys.c drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c sound/oss/pss.c Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region() drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region() Remove outdated and unused references to check_region() [sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront [netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace [netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Try to make the INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT help text more readable and understandable. Signed-off-by:
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Norbert Kiesel authored
The last patch from Jens Axboe for drivers/block/paride/pf.c introduced pf_end_request() which sets pf_req to NULL. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Fix bizarre 4-space coding style in the NTP code. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Create a macro shift_right() that avoids the numerous ugly conditionals in the NTP code that look like: if(a < 0) b = -(-a >> shift); else b = a >> shift; Replacing it with: b = shift_right(a, shift); This should have zero effect on the logic, however it should probably have a bit of testing just to be sure. Also replace open-coded min/max with the macros. Signed-off-by : John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: -
Christoph Hellwig authored
TIOCSTART and TIOCSTOP are defined in asm/ioctls.h and asm/termios.h by various architectures but not actually implemented anywhere but in the IRIX compatibility layer, so remove their COMPATIBLE_IOCTL from parisc, ppc64 and sparc64. Move the TIOCSLTC COMPATIBLE_IOCTL to common code, guided by an ifdef to only show up on architectures that support it (same as the code handling it in tty_ioctl.c), aswell as it's brother TIOCGLTC that wasn't handled so far. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
Enhance the kthread API by adding kthread_stop_sem, for use in stopping threads that spend their idle time waiting on a semaphore. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
We're trying to get rid of as much as possible tasklist walks, or at least moving them to core code. This patch falls into the second category. Instead of walking the tasklist in cfq-iosched move that into elv_unregister. The added benefit is that with this change the as ioscheduler might be might unloadable more easily aswell. The new code uses read_lock instead of read_lock_irq because the tasklist_lock only needs irq disabling for writers. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Every user of init_timer() also needs to initialize ->function and ->data fields. This patch adds a simple setup_timer() helper for that. The schedule_timeout() is patched as an example of usage. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Trivial, saves one 'if' branch in de_thread(). Signed-off-by:
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James Lamanna authored
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James Lamanna <jlamanna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Fix the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in transaction's t_sync_data list. The problem is we need to call filesystem's own invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page(). block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage(). Otherwise following nasty race can happen: proc 1 proc 2 ------ ------ - write some new data to 'offset' => bh gets to the transactions data list - starts truncate => i_size set to new size - mpage_writepages() - ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset' - block_write_full_page() - page->index > end_index+1 - block_invalidatepage() - discard_buffer() - clear_buffer_mapped() - commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM! Signed-off-by: -
Dmitry Torokhov authored
smsc-ircc2 - avoid closing network device when suspending; just release interrupt and disable DMA ourselves. Also make sure to reset chip when resuming. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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