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Greg Kroah-Hartman 6ae141718e misc: remove __dev* attributes.
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the last of the __dev* markings from the kernel from
a variety of different, tiny, places.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9977d9b379 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
2012-12-12 12:22:13 -08:00
Al Viro a77cfcb429 fix off-by-one in argument passed by iterate_fd() to callbacks
Noticed by Pavel Roskin; the thing in his patch I disagree with
was compensating for that shite in callbacks instead of fixing
it once in the iterator itself.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-29 23:01:30 -05:00
Al Viro c4144670fd kill daemonize()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28 21:49:02 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 8d938105e4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc VFS fixes from Al Viro:
 "Remove a bogus BUG_ON() that can trigger spuriously + alpha bits of
  do_mount() constification I'd missed during the merge window."

This pull request came in a week ago, I missed it for some reason.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill bogus BUG_ON() in do_close_on_exec()
  missing const in alpha callers of do_mount()
2012-11-18 09:13:48 -10:00
Al Viro 5a8477660d kill bogus BUG_ON() in do_close_on_exec()
It can be legitimately triggered via procfs access.  Now, at least
2 of 3 of get_files_struct() callers in procfs are useless, but
when and if we get rid of those we can always add WARN_ON() here.
BUG_ON() at that spot is simply wrong.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-12 01:19:02 -05:00
Al Viro 08f05c4974 Return the right error value when dup[23]() newfd argument is too large
Jack Lin reports that the error return from dup3() for the RLIMIT_NOFILE
case changed incorrectly after 3.6.

The culprit is commit f33ff9927f ("take rlimit check to callers of
expand_files()") which when it moved the "return -EMFILE" out to the
caller, didn't notice that the dup3() had special code to turn the
EMFILE return into EBADF.

The replace_fd() helper that got added later then inherited the bug too.

Reported-by: Jack Lin <linliangjie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[ Noted more bugs, wrote proper changelog, fixed up typos - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-30 21:27:28 -07:00
Richard W.M. Jones aed976475b dup3: Return an error when oldfd == newfd.
I have tested the attached patch to fix the dup3 regression.

Rich.

From 0944e30e12dec6544b3602626b60ff412375c78f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:42:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dup3: Return an error when oldfd == newfd.

The following commit:

  commit fe17f22d7f
  Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
  Date:   Tue Aug 21 11:48:11 2012 -0400

    take purely descriptor-related stuff from fcntl.c to file.c

was supposed to be just code motion, but it dropped the following two
lines:

  if (unlikely(oldfd == newfd))
          return -EINVAL;

from the dup3 system call.  dup3 is not specified by POSIX, so Linux
can do what it likes.  However the POSIX proposal for dup3 [1] states
that it should return an error if oldfd == newfd.

[1] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=411

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-09 23:33:38 -04:00
Al Viro 4557c669ef export fget_light
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:06 -04:00
Al Viro 864bdb3b6c new helper: daemonize_descriptors()
descriptor-related parts of daemonize, done right.  As the
result we simplify the locking rules for ->files - we
hold task_lock in *all* cases when we modify ->files.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:00 -04:00
Al Viro c3c073f808 new helper: iterate_fd()
iterates through the opened files in given descriptor table,
calling a supplied function; we stop once non-zero is returned.
Callback gets struct file *, descriptor number and const void *
argument passed to iterator.  It is called with files->file_lock
held, so it is not allowed to block.

tty_io, netprio_cgroup and selinux flush_unauthorized_files()
converted to its use.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:59 -04:00
Al Viro ad47bd7252 make expand_files() and alloc_fd() static
no callers outside of fs/file.c left

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:58 -04:00
Al Viro b8318b01a8 take __{set,clear}_{open_fd,close_on_exec}() into fs/file.c
nobody uses those outside anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:58 -04:00
Al Viro 8280d16172 new helper: replace_fd()
analog of dup2(), except that it takes struct file * as source.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:57 -04:00
Al Viro fe17f22d7f take purely descriptor-related stuff from fcntl.c to file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:57 -04:00
Al Viro 6a6d27de34 take close-on-exec logics to fs/file.c, clean it up a bit
... and add cond_resched() there, while we are at it.  We can
get large latencies as is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:09:56 -04:00
Al Viro 483ce1d4b8 take descriptor-related part of close() to file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:56 -04:00
Al Viro 0ee8cdfe6a take fget() and friends to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:56 -04:00
Al Viro f869e8a7f7 expose a low-level variant of fd_install() for binder
Similar situation to that of __alloc_fd(); do not use unless you
really have to.  You should not touch any descriptor table other
than your own; it's a sure sign of a really bad API design.

As with __alloc_fd(), you *must* use a first-class reference to
struct files_struct; something obtained by get_files_struct(some task)
(let alone direct task->files) will not do.  It must be either
current->files, or obtained by get_files_struct(current) by the
owner of that sucker and given to you.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:55 -04:00
Al Viro 56007cae94 move put_unused_fd() and fd_install() to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:55 -04:00
Al Viro 1983e781da trim free_fdtable_rcu()
embedded case isn't hit anymore

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:54 -04:00
Al Viro b9e02af0ae don't bother with call_rcu() in put_files_struct()
At that point nobody can see us anyway; everything that
looks at files_fdtable(files) is separated from the
guts of put_files_struct(files) - either since files is
current->files or because we fetched it under task_lock()
and hadn't dropped that yet, or because we'd bumped
files->count while holding task_lock()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:54 -04:00
Al Viro 7cf4dc3c8d move files_struct-related bits from kernel/exit.c to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:54 -04:00
Al Viro dcfadfa4ec new helper: __alloc_fd()
Essentially, alloc_fd() in a files_struct we own a reference to.
Most of the time wanting to use it is a sign of lousy API
design (such as android/binder).  It's *not* a general-purpose
interface; better that than open-coding its guts, but again,
playing with other process' descriptor table is a sign of bad
design.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:53 -04:00
Al Viro f33ff9927f take rlimit check to callers of expand_files()
... except for one in android, where the check is different
and already done in caller.  No need to recalculate rlimit
many times in alloc_fd() either.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:53 -04:00
Al Viro 1a7bd2265f make get_unused_fd_flags() a function
... and get_unused_fd() a macro around it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:50 -04:00
Linus Torvalds a591afc01d Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
  ...
2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker 630d9c4727 fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-28 19:31:58 -05:00
Bobby Powers f044db4cb4 fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
alloc_fdtable allocates space for the open_fds and close_on_exec
bitfields together, as 2 * nr / BITS_PER_BYTE.  close_on_exec needs to
point to open_fds + nr / BITS_PER_BYTE, not open_fds + nr /
BITS_PER_LONG, as introducted in 1fd36adc: Replace the fd_sets in
struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329888587-3087-1-git-send-email-bobbypowers@gmail.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-02-23 18:28:52 -08:00
David Howells 1fd36adcd9 Replace the fd_sets in struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs
Replace the fd_sets in struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs and then
use the standard non-atomic bit operations rather than the FD_* macros.

This:

 (1) Removes the abuses of struct fd_set:

     (a) Since we don't want to allocate a full fd_set the vast majority of the
     	 time, we actually, in effect, just allocate a just-big-enough array of
     	 unsigned longs and cast it to an fd_set type - so why bother with the
     	 fd_set at all?

     (b) Some places outside of the core fdtable handling code (such as
     	 SELinux) want to look inside the array of unsigned longs hidden inside
     	 the fd_set struct for more efficient iteration over the entire set.

 (2) Eliminates the use of FD_*() macros in the kernel completely.

 (3) Permits the __FD_*() macros to be deleted entirely where not exposed to
     userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174954.23314.48147.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-19 10:30:57 -08:00
David Howells 1dce27c5aa Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable
Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable (for recording open files and
close-on-exec flags) so that we can move away from using fd_sets since we
abuse the fd_set structs by not allocating the full-sized structure under
normal circumstances and by non-core code looking at the internals of the
fd_sets.

The first abuse means that use of FD_ZERO() on these fd_sets is not permitted,
since that cannot be told about their abnormal lengths.

This introduces six wrapper functions for setting, clearing and testing
close-on-exec flags and fd-is-open flags:

	void __set_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt);
	void __clear_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt);
	bool close_on_exec(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt);
	void __set_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt);
	void __clear_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt);
	bool fd_is_open(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt);

Note that I've prepended '__' to the names of the set/clear functions because
they require the caller to hold a lock to use them.

Note also that I haven't added wrappers for looking behind the scenes at the
the array.  Possibly that should exist too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174942.23314.1364.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-19 10:30:52 -08:00
Andrew Morton 6d4831c283 vfs: avoid large kmalloc()s for the fdtable
Azurit reports large increases in system time after 2.6.36 when running
Apache.  It was bisected down to a892e2d7dc ("vfs: use kmalloc()
to allocate fdmem if possible").

That patch caused the vfs to use kmalloc() for very large allocations and
this is causing excessive work (and presumably excessive reclaim) within
the page allocator.

Fix it by falling back to vmalloc() earlier - when the allocation attempt
would have been considered "costly" by reclaim.

Reported-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Tested-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-28 11:28:20 -07:00
Changli Gao a892e2d7dc vfs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible
Use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible.

vmalloc() is used as a fallback solution for fdmem allocation.  A new
helper function __free_fdtable() is introduced to reduce the lines of
code.

A potential bug, vfree() a memory allocated by kmalloc(), is fixed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __GFP_NOWARN, uninline alloc_fdmem() and free_fdmem()]
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b97181f242 fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby d554ed895d fs: use rlimit helpers
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits.  E.g.  fetching them
twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented.

I.e.  either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716ab ("resource:
add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 7dc5215798 vfs: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
Add lockdep-ified RCU primitives to alloc_fd(), files_fdtable()
and fcheck_files().

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 10:34:48 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan d43c36dc6b headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
Al Viro 1027abe882 [PATCH] merge locate_fd() and get_unused_fd()
New primitive: alloc_fd(start, flags).  get_unused_fd() and
get_unused_fd_flags() become wrappers on top of it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 11:25:23 -04:00
Al Viro 4e1e018ecc [PATCH] fix RLIM_NOFILE handling
* dup2() should return -EBADF on exceeded sysctl_nr_open
* dup() should *not* return -EINVAL even if you have rlimit set to 0;
  it should get -EMFILE instead.

Check for orig_start exceeding rlimit taken to sys_fcntl().
Failing expand_files() in dup{2,3}() now gets -EMFILE remapped to -EBADF.
Consequently, remaining checks for rlimit are taken to expand_files().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:45 -04:00
Al Viro eceea0b3df [PATCH] avoid multiplication overflows and signedness issues for max_fds
Limit sysctl_nr_open - we don't want ->max_fds to exceed MAX_INT and
we don't want size calculation for ->fd[] to overflow.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:52 -04:00
Al Viro adbecb128c [PATCH] dup_fd() part 4 - race fix
Parent _can_ be a clone task, contrary to the comment.  Moreover,
more files could be opened while we allocate a copy, in which case
we end up copying only part into new descriptor table.  Since what
we get _is_ affected by all changes in the old range, we can get
rather weird effects - e.g.
	dup2(0, 1024); close(0);
in parallel with fork() resulting in child that sees the effect of
close(), but not that of dup2() done just before that close().

What we need is to recalculate the open_count after having reacquired
->file_lock and if external fdtable we'd just allocated is too small for
it, free the sucker and redo allocation.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:46 -04:00
Al Viro afbec7fff4 [PATCH] dup_fd() - part 3
merge alloc_files() into dup_fd(), leave setting newf->fdt until the end

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:39 -04:00
Al Viro 9dec3c4d30 [PATCH] dup_fd() part 2
use alloc_fdtable() instead of expand_files(), get rid of pointless
grabbing newf->file_lock, kill magic in copy_fdtable() that used to
be there only to skip copying when called from dup_fd().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:33 -04:00
Al Viro 02afc6267f [PATCH] dup_fd() fixes, part 1
Move the sucker to fs/file.c in preparation to the rest

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:26 -04:00
Al Viro f52111b154 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
Al Viro 5c598b3428 [PATCH] fix sysctl_nr_open bugs
* if luser with root sets it to something that is not a multiple of
  BITS_PER_LONG, the system is screwed.
* if it gets decreased at the wrong time, we can get expand_files()
  returning success and _not_ increasing the size of table as asked.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-01 13:08:57 -04:00
Al Viro 9f3acc3140 [PATCH] split linux/file.h
Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 9cfe015aa4 get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
Vadim Lobanov 01b2d93ca4 [PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper
Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes
expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used
fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel.  The trivial patch below
addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable()
calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage.  Since free_fdtable() is a
one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:50 -08:00
Vadim Lobanov 5466b456ed [PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator
This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for
expanding fdtable file descriptor entries.  The main focus is on the fdarray,
as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset.

The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage
increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed
size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for
larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are
considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is
chosen:

    pagesize / 4
    pagesize / 2
    pagesize      <- memory allocator switch point
    pagesize * 2
    pagesize * 4
    ...etc...

Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a
loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient
straightline code.

Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any
of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both
fdsets in a single swoop.  Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller
than the fdarray.  The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the
fdset memory allocation.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00