- 17 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Ken'ichi Ohmichi authored
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system. makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is hard to install it into each system. To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html) Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html) And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models. (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html) Signed-off-by:
Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by:
Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Fix this lot: fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `decompress_exec': fs/binfmt_flat.c:293: warning: label `out' defined but not used fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_file': fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3) fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 4) fs/binfmt_flat.c:518: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c:549: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c:601: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_binary': fs/binfmt_flat.c:116: warning: 'dummy' might be used uninitialized in this function Acked-by:
Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Frysinger authored
Simply fill out the bits in checkstack.pl for Blackfin. I thought I already sent this, but I don't see it in -mm anywhere ... Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says: * If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple * threads, make sure we take it before changing the action. I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case, bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction. Kill this special case. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics. This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something better. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Now that we don't pre-allocate the new ->sighand, we can kill the first fast path, it doesn't make sense any longer. At best, it can save one "list_empty()" check but leads to the code duplication. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() pre-allocates newsighand to make sure that exec() can't fail after killing all sub-threads. Imho, this buys nothing, but complicates the code: - this is (mostly) needed to handle CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_THREAD tasks, this is very unlikely (if ever used) case - unless we already have some serious problems, GFP_KERNEL allocation should not fail - ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last object we have to allocate Change the code to allocate the new ->sighand on demand. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
There is no any reason to do recalc_sigpending() after changing ->sighand. To begin with, recalc_sigpending() does not take ->sighand into account. This means we don't need to take newsighand->siglock while changing sighands. rcu_assign_pointer() provides a necessary barrier, and if another process reads the new ->sighand it should either take tasklist_lock or it should use lock_task_sighand() which has a corresponding smp_read_barrier_depends(). Signed-off-by:
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Fix f_version type: should be u64 instead of long There is a type inconsistency between struct inode i_version and struct file f_version. fs.h: struct inode u64 i_version; and struct file unsigned long f_version; Users do: fs/ext3/dir.c: if (filp->f_version != inode->i_version) { So why isn't f_version a u64 ? It becomes a problem if versions gets higher than 2^32 and we are on an architecture where longs are 32 bits. This patch changes the f_version type to u64, and updates the users accordingly. It applies to 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by:Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Moyer authored
Some months back I proposed changing the schedule() call in read_events to an io_schedule(): http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.aio.general/2006-10/msg00024.html This was rejected as there are AIO operations that do not initiate disk I/O. I've had another look at the problem, and the only AIO operation that will not initiate disk I/O is IOCB_CMD_NOOP. However, this command isn't even wired up! Given that it doesn't work, and hasn't for *years*, I'm going to suggest again that we do proper I/O accounting when using AIO. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request. The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU. This patch changes rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface (relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed kernel modules such as rcutorture. Passes several hours of rcutorture. [ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()] Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant. However, I used NR_CPUS, which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your kernel config. This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we spread it as evenly as possible on every machine. Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention. Signed-off-by:
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wright authored
Lomesh reported poll returning EINTR during suspend/resume cycle. This is caused by the STOP/CONT cycle that the freezer uses, generating a pending signal for what in effect is an ignored signal. In general poll is a little eager in returning EINTR, when it could try not bother userspace and simply restart the syscall. Both select and ppoll do use ERESTARTNOHAND to restart the syscall. Oleg points out that simply using ERESTARTNOHAND will cause poll to restart with original timeout value. which could ultimately lead to process never returning to userspace. Instead use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK, and restart poll with updated timeout value. Inspired by Manfred's use ERESTARTNOHAND in poll patch. [bunk@kernel.org: do_restart_poll() can become static] Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Allow disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n. I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks without dnotify support in the kernel? Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults to "y", and the help text recommends enabling it. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
simple_commit_write() can now become static. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock - remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - xtime - xtime_lock Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058 first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry, etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back under control. Make the message a bit more informative while we're here. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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vignesh babu authored
Replace n & (n - 1) with is_power_of_2(n) Signed-off-by:
vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
oomkilladj is int, but values which can be assigned to it are -17, [-16, 15], thus fitting into s8. While patch itself doesn't help in making task_struct smaller, because of natural alignment of ->link_count, it will make picture clearer wrt futher task_struct reduction patches. My plan is to move ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj after ->ioprio filling hole on i386 and x86_64. But that's for later, because bloated distro configs need looking at as well. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on 32bit targets. GCC can be made to warn about usage of long long types with ISO C90 (-ansi), but only with -pedantic. You can write this in a way that even then it doesn't cause warnings, namely by: #ifdef __GNUC__ __extension__ typedef __signed__ long long __s64; __extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64; #endif The __extension__ keyword in front of this switches off any pedantic warnings for this expression. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Drebes authored
The README file in the cramfs subdirectory says: "All data is currently in host-endian format; neither mkcramfs nor the kernel ever do swabbing." If somebody tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess, cramfs only complains about a wrong magic but doesn't inform the user that only the endianess isn't right. The following patch adds an error message to the cramfs sources. If a user tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess using the patched sources, cramfs will display the message "cramfs: wrong endianess". Signed-off-by:
Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
include/linux/if_fddi.h is an exported header. It uses __be16. Include linux/types.h to get this prototype. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed. So remove unused code and function arguments. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
vfs_permission(MAY_EXEC) checks if the filesystem is mounted with "noexec", so there's no need to repeat this check in sys_uselib() and open_exec(). Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
permission() checks that MAY_EXEC is only allowed on regular files if at least one execute bit is set in the file mode. generic_permission() already ensures this, so the extra check in permission() is superfluous. If the filesystem defines it's own ->permission() the check may still be needed. In this case move it after ->permission(). This is needed because filesystems such as FUSE may need to refresh the inode attributes before checking permissions. This check should be moved inside ->permission(), but that's another story. Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
utimensat() (and possibly other callers of do_utimes()) didn't check if the nanosecond value was within the allowed range. Signed-off-by:
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Subbaiah Venkata authored
Hello, I fixed and tested a small bug in lib/sort.c file, heap sort function. The fix avoids unnecessary swap of contents when i is 0 (saves few loads and stores), which happens every time sort function is called. I felt the fix is worth bringing it to your attention given the importance and frequent use of the sort function. Acked-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
Remove linux/consolemap.h from make headers_install It contains no user interfaces. The defines in this file are used only for kernel internal state. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Remove some remaining vestiges of the old hacks jsm had to work around the old tty buffering. With the new tty buffering it simply doesn't matter any more. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Scott Kilau <scottk@digi.com> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
We simply define it to the same value. Nowdays the TTY flip value is irrelevant but the value it used is as good as any so why risk breaking it Signed-off-by:
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Samuel Thibault authored
There have been issues with non-latin1 diacritics and unicode. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 Git 759448f4 `Kernel utf-8 handling' partly resolved it by adding conversion between diacritics and unicode. The patch below goes further by just turning diacritics into unicode, hence providing better future support. The kbd support can be fetched from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12313 This was tested in all of latin1, latin9, latin2 and unicode with french and czech dead keys. Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR. New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit _input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially sparse and large. Signed-off-by:
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ed L. Cashin authored
We can just use skb_mac_header now, and we don't need a wrapper function to perform the cast. Instead of requiring the reader to check aoe.h to look up what an aoe_hdr function does, I'd rather do without it. Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
When a new block bitmap is read from disk in read_block_bitmap() there are a few bits that should ALWAYS be set. In particular, the blocks given by ext4_blk_bitmap, ext4_inode_bitmap and ext4_inode_table. Validate the block bitmap against these blocks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Acked-by:
Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS option to /proc/pid/coredump_filter. This dumps the first page (only) of a private file mapping if it appears to be a mapping of an ELF file. Including these pages in the core dump may give sufficient identifying information to associate the original DSO and executable file images and their debugging information with a core file in a generic way just from its contents (e.g. when those binaries were built with ld --build-id). I expect this to become the default behavior eventually. Existing versions of gdb can be confused by the core dumps it creates, so it won't enabled by default for some time to come. Soon many people will have systems with a gdb that handle these dumps, so they can arrange to set the bit at boot and have it inherited system-wide. This also cleans up the checking of the MMF_DUMP_* flag bits, which did not need to be using atomic macros. Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
/usr/include/scsi is provided by glibc. Remove the scsi export from make headers_install target. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist). Remove unneeded checks. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cleanup. __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice. The second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very appropriate. Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill now unneeded wake_up_process(). Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are bogus. We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need write_lock(tasklist) to be changed. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations, this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one line below. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group. Signed-off-by:
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