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2011-10-17Avoid using variable-length arrays in kernel/sys.cLinus Torvalds
The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is). Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?). That all indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to chase it down. "Just don't do that, then". Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken <henribak@cisco.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-01Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles sched: Fix up wchan borkage sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
2011-09-30posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobblesPeter Zijlstra
David reported: Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or similar. Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread is part of the top-level process's thread group. I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries). For example: [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404) thread: before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739) self: before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698) [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'. I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements are the outer-most ones. --- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> static pthread_barrier_t barrier; static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory"); return NULL; } int main(void) { clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock; struct timespec process_before, process_after; struct timespec me_before, me_after; struct timespec th_before, th_after; struct timespec sleeptime; unsigned long diff; pthread_t th; int err; err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before); if (err) return 1; sleeptime.tv_sec = 0; sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000; nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL); err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after); if (err) return 1; diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec; printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec, process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec; printf("thread: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec, th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec; printf("self: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec, me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff); return 0; } This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks. This also means we can (and must) do away with thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime() is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from thread_group_sched_runtime(). Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a 64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-29Resource: fix wrong resource window calculationRam Pai
__find_resource() incorrectly returns a resource window which overlaps an existing allocated window. This happens when the parent's resource-window spans 0x00000000 to 0xffffffff and is entirely allocated to all its children resource-windows. __find_resource() looks for gaps in resource allocation among the children resource windows. When it encounters the last child window it blindly tries the range next to one allocated to the last child. Since the last child's window ends at 0xffffffff the calculation overflows, leading the algorithm to believe that any window in the range 0x0000000 to 0xfffffff is available for allocation. This leads to a conflicting window allocation. Michal Ludvig reported this issue seen on his platform. The following patch fixes the problem and has been verified by Michal. I believe this bug has been there for ages. It got exposed by git commit 2bbc6942273b ("PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources") Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michal Ludvig <mludvig@logix.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-26sched: Fix up wchan borkageSimon Kirby
Commit c259e01a1ec ("sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemption") contained a boo-boo wrecking wchan output. It forgot to put the new schedule() function in the __sched section and thereby doesn't get properly ignored for things like wchan. Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110923000346.GA25425@hostway.ca Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-25ptrace: PTRACE_LISTEN forgets to unlock ->siglockOleg Nesterov
If PTRACE_LISTEN fails after lock_task_sighand() it doesn't drop ->siglock. Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-20irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_addRob Herring
The sanity check in irq_domain_add() tests desc->irq_data != NULL or irq_data->domain != NULL. This prevents adding an irq_domain to a irq descriptor when irq_data exists, which true when the irq descriptor exists. This went unnoticed so far as the simple domain code did not enter this code path because domain->nr_irqs is always 0 for the simple domains. Split the check for irq_data == NULL out and have a separate warning for it. [ tglx: Made the check for irq_data == NULL separate ] Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com Cc: thomas.abraham@linaro.org Cc: jamie@jamieiles.com Cc: b-cousson@ti.com Cc: shawn.guo@linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316017900-19918-3-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-19Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86, iommu: Mark DMAR IRQ as non-threaded genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup again
2011-09-19Make taskstats round statistics down to nearest 1k bytes/eventsLinus Torvalds
Even with just the interface limited to admin, there really is little to reason to give byte-per-byte counts for taskstats. So round it down to something less intrusive. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-19Make TASKSTATS require root accessLinus Torvalds
Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more. But at the same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level. Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative to checking the capabilities by hand. Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-18sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUsShawn Bohrer
Commit 43fa5460fe60dea5c610490a1d263415419c60f6 ("sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks") also introduced a change in behavior which keeps RT tasks on the same CPU if there is an equal priority RT task currently running even if there are empty CPUs available. This can cause unnecessary wakeup latencies, and can prevent the scheduler from balancing all RT tasks across available CPUs. This change causes an RT task to search for a new CPU if an equal priority RT task is already running on wakeup. Lower priority tasks will still have to wait on higher priority tasks, but the system should still balance out because there is always the possibility that if there are both a high and low priority RT tasks on a given CPU that the high priority task could wakeup while the low priority task is running and force it to search for a better runqueue. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315837684-18733-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-14workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueueThomas Tuttle
Take cwq->gcwq->lock to avoid racing between drain_workqueue checking to make sure the workqueues are empty and cwq_dec_nr_in_flight decrementing and then incrementing nr_active when it activates a delayed work. We discovered this when a corner case in one of our drivers resulted in us trying to destroy a workqueue in which the remaining work would always requeue itself again in the same workqueue. We would hit this race condition and trip the BUG_ON on workqueue.c:3080. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-12genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup againGeert Uytterhoeven
If an irq_chip provides .irq_shutdown(), but neither of .irq_disable() or .irq_mask(), free_irq() crashes when jumping to NULL. Fix this by only trying .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() if there's no .irq_shutdown() provided. This revives the symmetry with irq_startup(), which tries .irq_startup(), .irq_enable(), and irq_unmask(), and makes it consistent with the comment for irq_chip.irq_shutdown() in <linux/irq.h>, which says: * @irq_shutdown: shut down the interrupt (defaults to ->disable if NULL) This is also how __free_irq() behaved before the big overhaul, cfr. e.g. 3b56f0585fd4c02d047dc406668cb40159b2d340 ("genirq: Remove bogus conditional"), where the core interrupt code always overrode .irq_shutdown() to .irq_disable() if .irq_shutdown() was NULL. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315742394-16036-2-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-07Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: rtc: twl: Fix registration vs. init order rtc: Initialized rtc_time->tm_isdst rtc: Fix RTC PIE frequency limit rtc: rtc-twl: Remove lockdep related local_irq_enable() rtc: rtc-twl: Switch to using threaded irq rtc: ep93xx: Fix 'rtc' may be used uninitialized warning alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timers alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_get alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversal
2011-09-07Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free() sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule() sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemption
2011-08-31perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()Eric B Munson
We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and timing information when events were being multiplexing. Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3 times to cause multiplexing on Core 2): $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled 63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns out the bug was introduced by the following commit: commit c4794295917ebeda8013b6cb9c8d71ab4f74a1fa events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled but it would show up in any other scenario. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch codeStephane Eranian
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a simple ping/pong example: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10684.51 ctxsw/s Now start a cgroup perf stat: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 6674.61 ctxsw/s That's a 37% penalty. Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup. The results shown by perf stat are bogus: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles # 0.000 GHz The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock (here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups. The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are in the same cgroup. With this patch the same test now yields: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10775.30 ctxsw/s Start perf stat with cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Run pong outside the cgroup: $ /pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10687.80 ctxsw/s The penalty is now less than 2%. And the results for perf stat are correct: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz Now perf stat reports the correct counts for for the non cgroup event. If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the correct counts: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz 10.001457237 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free()WANG Cong
This patch fixes the following memory leak: unreferenced object 0xffff880107266800 (size 512): comm "sched-powersave", pid 3718, jiffies 4323097853 (age 27495.450s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81133940>] create_object+0x187/0x28b [<ffffffff814ac103>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98 [<ffffffff811232ba>] __kmalloc_node+0x104/0x159 [<ffffffff81044b98>] kzalloc_node.clone.97+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff8104cb90>] build_sched_domains+0xb7/0x7f3 [<ffffffff8104d4df>] partition_sched_domains+0x1db/0x24a [<ffffffff8109ee4a>] do_rebuild_sched_domains+0x3b/0x47 [<ffffffff810a00c7>] rebuild_sched_domains+0x10/0x12 [<ffffffff8104d5ba>] sched_power_savings_store+0x6c/0x7b [<ffffffff8104d5df>] sched_mc_power_savings_store+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff8131322c>] sysdev_class_store+0x20/0x22 [<ffffffff81193876>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144 [<ffffffff81135b10>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x102 [<ffffffff81135d23>] sys_write+0x4d/0x74 [<ffffffff814c8a42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313671017-4112-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule()Thomas Gleixner
There is no real reason to run blk_schedule_flush_plug() with interrupts and preemption disabled. Move it into schedule() and call it when the task is going voluntarily to sleep. There might be false positives when the task is woken between that call and actually scheduling, but that's not really different from being woken immediately after switching away. This fixes a deadlock in the scheduler where the blk_schedule_flush_plug() callchain enables interrupts and thereby allows a wakeup to happen of the task that's going to sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dwfxtra7yg1b5r65m32ywtct@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemptionThomas Gleixner
Block-IO and workqueues call into notifier functions from the scheduler core code with interrupts and preemption disabled. These calls should be made before entering the scheduler core. To simplify this, separate the scheduler core code into __schedule(). __schedule() is directly called from the places which set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and from schedule(). This allows us to add the work checks into schedule(), so they are only called when a task voluntary goes to sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110622174918.813258321@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-26All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system callNeilBrown
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all linkage for it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootconNishanth Aravamudan
It seems that 7bf693951a8e ("console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified. I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees. However, it's more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.39.x, 3.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbersAndi Kleen
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0 version. Some of those were binary only. I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables. For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel. $ uname -a Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ hpacucli ctrl all show Error: No controllers detected. $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli hpacucli-8.75-12.0 Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() == "linux2": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564 It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using '==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken programs. This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a 2.6.40+x version number instead. The x is the x in 3.x. I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and compatibility to existing programs is important. Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease. This can be worked around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace) To use: wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c gcc -o uname26 uname26.c ./uname26 program Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: fix tracing builds inside the source tree xfs: remove subdirectories xfs: don't expect xfs headers to be in subdirectories
2011-08-23Revert "irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit f3637a5f2e2eb391ff5757bc83fb5de8f9726464. It turns out that this breaks several drivers, one example being OMAP boards which use the on-board OMAP UARTs and the omap-serial driver that will not boot to userspace after the commit. Paul Walmsley reports that enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ reveals 'IRQ handler type mismatch' errors: IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 74 current handler: serial idle ... and the reason is that setting IRQF_ONESHOT will now result in those interrupt handlers having different IRQF flags, and thus being unsharable. So the commit log in the reverted commit: "Since it is required for those users and there is no difference for others it makes sense to add this flag unconditionally." is simply not true: there may not be any difference from a "actions at irq time", but there is a *big* difference wrt this flag testing irq management (see __setup_irq() in kernel/irq/manage.c). One solution may be to stop verifying IRQF_ONESHOT in __setup_irq(), but right now the safe course of action is to revert the change. Let's revisit this in a later merge window. Reported-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Requested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags block: improve rq_affinity placement blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH xen/blkback: Make description more obvious. cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse bsg-lib: add module.h include cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index ...
2011-08-18irqdesc: fix new kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning in irqdesc.c: Warning(kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:353): No description found for parameter 'owner' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-17Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset
2011-08-17Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock
2011-08-17Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: Track the owner of irq descriptor irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified genirq: Fix wrong bit operation
2011-08-14PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unsetRafael J. Wysocki
Function genpd_queue_power_off_work() is not defined for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, so pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() causes a build error to happen in that case. Fix the problem by making pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() depend on CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-08-12xfs: remove subdirectoriesChristoph Hellwig
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from kernel/. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-11move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()Vasiliy Kulikov
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and similar functions. Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on rlimit only. But the check created new security threat: many poorly written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it cannot fail if executed with root privileges. So, the check is removed in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to buggy programs. The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons spawning user processes. Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve(). The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues. Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag. With the change only this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve() behaviour is not changed. Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still exceeded at the moment of execve(). If the process was sleeping for days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was exceeded days ago would be unexpected. If the limit is not exceeded anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork(). The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one. Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag). v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user(). Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename perf sched: Do not delete session object prematurely perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership perf, x86: Add model 45 SandyBridge support perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration perf tools: Make clean leaves some files perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier perf probe: Fix coredump introduced by probe module option jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildid
2011-08-11blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA supportNamhyung Kim
Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results look like (other flags might be shown also): - WRITE: W - WRITE_FLUSH: FW - WRITE_FUA: WF - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA: FWF Note that we reuse TC_BARRIER due to lack of bit space of act_mask so that the older versions of blktrace tools will report flush requests as barriers from now on. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timersJohn Stultz
Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box. A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_getJohn Stultz
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversalJohn Stultz
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so correct this. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-09cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warningJonathan Nieder
syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning. Commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now") improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping the WARN_ONCE(). But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a recent kernel. Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever. Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com> Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-09lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lockPeter Zijlstra
match_held_lock() was assuming it was being called on a lock class that had already seen usage. This condition was true for bug-free code using lockdep_assert_held(), since you're in fact holding the lock when calling it. However the assumption fails the moment you assume the assertion can fail, which is the whole point of having the assertion in the first place. Anyway, now that there's more lockdep_is_held() users, notably __rcu_dereference_check(), its much easier to trigger this since we test for a number of locks and we only need to hold any one of them to be good. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312547787.28695.2.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-05jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link orderJason Baron
In the course of testing jump labels for use with the CFS bandwidth controller, Paul Turner, discovered that using jump labels reduced the branch count and the instruction count, but did not reduce the cycle count or wall time. I noticed that having the jump_label.o included in the kernel but not used in any way still caused this increase in cycle count and wall time. Thus, I moved jump_label.o in the kernel/Makefile, thus changing the link order, and presumably moving it out of hot icache areas. This brought down the cycle count/time as expected. In addition to Paul's testing, I've tested the patch using a single 'static_branch()' in the getppid() path, and basically running tight loops of calls to getppid(). Here are my results for the branch disabled case: With jump labels turned on (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL), branch disabled: Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs): 3,969,510,217 instructions # 0.864 IPC ( +-0.000% ) 4,592,334,954 cycles ( +- 0.046% ) 751,634,470 branches ( +- 0.000% ) 1.722635797 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.046% ) Jump labels turned off (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL not set), branch disabled: Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs): 4,009,611,846 instructions # 0.867 IPC ( +-0.000% ) 4,622,210,580 cycles ( +- 0.012% ) 771,662,904 branches ( +- 0.000% ) 1.734341454 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.022% ) Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: rth@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805204040.GG2522@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
2011-08-05Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Include most of the merge window trees, to do fixes on top. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initialization slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slab lockdep: Fix up warning lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller() futex: Fix regression with read only mappings
2011-08-04lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initializationTejun Heo
lockdep_init_map() only initializes parts of lockdep_map and triggers kmemcheck warning when it is copied as a whole. There isn't anything to be gained by clearing selectively. memset() the whole structure and remove loop for ->class_cache[] clearing. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110714131909.GJ3455@htj.dyndns.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04lockdep: Fix up warningPeter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 21:06 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c: In function 'mark_held_locks': > /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c:2471:31: warning: comparison of > distinct pointer types lacks a cast The warning is harmless in this case, but the below makes it go away. Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311588599.2617.56.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller()Peter Zijlstra
Commit dd4e5d3ac4a ("lockdep: Fix trace_[soft,hard]irqs_[on,off]() recursion") made a bit of a mess of the various checks and error conditions. In particular it moved the check for !irqs_disabled() before the spurious enable test, resulting in some warnings. Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311679697.24752.28.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-03Boot up with usermodehelper disabledLinus Torvalds
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode helper binary for all these events very early in the boot. Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in executing. So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers to make the kernel start out with them disabled. We enable them when we've at least initialized stuff a bit. Problems related to an uninitialized init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex reported by various people. Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-04Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgentIngo Molnar
2011-08-03taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listenersOleg Nesterov
When send_cpu_listeners() finds the orphaned listener it marks it as !valid and drops listeners->sem. Before it takes this sem for writing, s->pid can be reused and add_del_listener() can wrongly try to re-use this entry. Change add_del_listener() to check ->valid = T. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03taskstats: add_del_listener() shouldn't use the wrong nodeOleg Nesterov
1. Commit 26c4caea9d69 "don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode" changed add_del_listener(REGISTER) so that "next_cpu:" can reuse the listener allocated for the previous cpu, this doesn't look exactly right even if minor. Change the code to kfree() in the already-registered case, this case is unlikely anyway so the extra kmalloc_node() shouldn't hurt but looke more correct and clean. 2. use the plain list_for_each_entry() instead of _safe() to scan listeners->list. 3. Remove the unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->list), we are going to list_add(&s->list). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>