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Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Tao Ma 2d3a8497f8 blktrace: Remove blk_fill_rwbs_rq.
If we enable trace events to trace block actions, We use
blk_fill_rwbs_rq to analyze the corresponding actions
in request's cmd_flags, but we only choose the minor 2 bits
from it, so most of other flags(e.g, REQ_SYNC) are missing.
For example, with a sync write we get:
write_test-2409  [001]   160.013869: block_rq_insert: 3,64 W 0 () 258135 + =
8 [write_test]

Since now we have integrated the flags of both bio and request,
it is safe to pass rq->cmd_flags directly to blk_fill_rwbs and
blk_fill_rwbs_rq isn't needed any more.

With this patch, after a sync write we get:
write_test-2417  [000]   226.603878: block_rq_insert: 3,64 WS 0 () 258135 +=
 8 [write_test]

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-03 10:53:20 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner 3a142a0672 clockevents: Prevent oneshot mode when broadcast device is periodic
When the per cpu timer is marked CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP, then we only
can switch into oneshot mode, when the backup broadcast device
supports oneshot mode as well. Otherwise we would try to switch the
broadcast device into an unsupported mode unconditionally. This went
unnoticed so far as the current available broadcast devices support
oneshot mode. Seth unearthed this problem while debugging and working
around an hpet related BIOS wreckage.

Add the necessary check to tick_is_oneshot_available().

Reported-and-tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102252231200.2701@localhost6.localdomain6>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .21 ->
2011-02-26 09:45:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 571020df6f Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Disable the SHIRQ_DEBUG call in request_threaded_irq for now
  genirq: Prevent access beyond allocated_irqs bitmap
2011-02-22 09:26:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ee88347755 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix throttle logic
  perf, x86: P4 PMU: Fix spurious NMI messages
2011-02-22 09:25:55 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 6d83f94db9 genirq: Disable the SHIRQ_DEBUG call in request_threaded_irq for now
With CONFIG_SHIRQ_DEBUG=y we call a newly installed interrupt handler
in request_threaded_irq().

The original implementation (commit a304e1b8) called the handler
_BEFORE_ it was installed, but that caused problems with handlers
calling disable_irq_nosync(). See commit 377bf1e4.

It's braindead in the first place to call disable_irq_nosync in shared
handlers, but ....

Moving this call after we installed the handler looks innocent, but it
is very subtle broken on SMP.

Interrupt handlers rely on the fact, that the irq core prevents
reentrancy.

Now this debug call violates that promise because we run the handler
w/o the IRQ_INPROGRESS protection - which we cannot apply here because
that would result in a possibly forever masked interrupt line.

A concurrent real hardware interrupt on a different CPU results in
handler reentrancy and can lead to complete wreckage, which was
unfortunately observed in reality and took a fricking long time to
debug.

Leave the code here for now. We want this debug feature, but that's
not easy to fix. We really should get rid of those
disable_irq_nosync() abusers and remove that function completely.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .28 -> .37
2011-02-19 12:11:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner c1ee626428 genirq: Prevent access beyond allocated_irqs bitmap
Lars-Peter Clausen pointed out:

   I stumbled upon this while looking through the existing archs using
   SPARSE_IRQ.  Even with SPARSE_IRQ the NR_IRQS is still the upper
   limit for the number of IRQs.

   Both PXA and MMP set NR_IRQS to IRQ_BOARD_START, with
   IRQ_BOARD_START being the number of IRQs used by the core.

   In various machine files the nr_irqs field of the ARM machine
   defintion struct is then set to "IRQ_BOARD_START + NR_BOARD_IRQS".

   As a result "nr_irqs" will greater then NR_IRQS which then again
   causes the "allocated_irqs" bitmap in the core irq code to be
   accessed beyond its size overwriting unrelated data.

The core code really misses a sanity check there.

This went unnoticed so far as by chance the compiler/linker places
data behind that bitmap which gets initialized later on those affected
platforms.

So the obvious fix would be to add a sanity check in early_irq_init()
and break all affected platforms. Though that check wants to be
backported to stable as well, which will require to fix all known
problematic platforms and probably some more yet not known ones as
well. Lots of churn.

A way simpler solution is to allocate a slightly larger bitmap and
avoid the whole churn w/o breaking anything. Add a few warnings when
an arch returns utter crap.

Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37
Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-02-19 12:10:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds bc3adfc670 Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long
  workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
  workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwq
2011-02-18 12:36:06 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 2e725a065b PM / Hibernate: Return error code when alloc_image_page() fails
Currently we return 0 in swsusp_alloc() when alloc_image_page() fails.
Fix that.  Also remove unneeded "error" variable since the only
useful value of error is -ENOMEM.

[rjw: Fixed up the changelog and changed subject.]

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-02-16 21:53:52 +01:00
Tejun Heo 3233cdbd9f workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long
MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is defined as HZ / 100 and depending on
configuration may end up 0 or 1.  Even when it's 1, depending on when
the mayday timer is added in the current jiffy interval, it may expire
way before a jiffy has passed.

Make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least two to guarantee that at
least a full jiffy has passed before calling rescuers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-02-16 18:10:19 +01:00
Tejun Heo 58a69cb47e workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'.  The former is the more prominent one.  The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places.  Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 17:48:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 4fe757dd48 perf: Fix throttle logic
It was possible to call pmu::start() on an already running event. In
particular this lead so some wreckage as the hrtimer events would
re-initialize active timers.

This was due to throttled events being activated again by scheduling.
Scheduling in a context would add and force start events, resulting in
running events with a possible throttle status. The next tick to hit
that task will then try to unthrottle the event and call ->start() on
an already running event.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16 13:25:29 +01:00
Linus Torvalds a1213b091c Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list
2011-02-15 10:19:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1cecd791f2 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
  perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
  watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
  ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
  oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
2011-02-15 10:18:48 -08:00
Tejun Heo 7576958a9d workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwq
After executing the matching works, a rescuer leaves the gcwq whether
there are more pending works or not.  This may decrease the
concurrency level to zero and stall execution until a new work item is
queued on the gcwq.

Make rescuer wake up a regular worker when it leaves a gcwq if there
are more works to execute, so that execution isn't stalled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-02-14 14:04:46 +01:00
Kees Cook f590308536 timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list
In the continuing effort to avoid kernel addresses leaking to
unprivileged users, this patch switches to %pK for
/proc/timer_list reporting.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110212032125.GA23571@outflux.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-12 14:11:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f7909fb835 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read
  security: add cred argument to security_capable()
  tpm_tis: Use timeouts returned from TPM
2011-02-11 16:16:03 -08:00
Tejun Heo 01e05e9a90 ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()
The wake_up_process() call in ptrace_detach() is spurious and not
interlocked with the tracee state.  IOW, the tracee could be running or
sleeping in any place in the kernel by the time wake_up_process() is
called.  This can lead to the tracee waking up unexpectedly which can be
dangerous.

The wake_up is spurious and should be removed but for now reduce its
toxicity by only waking up if the tracee is in TRACED or STOPPED state.

This bug can possibly be used as an attack vector.  I don't think it
will take too much effort to come up with an attack which triggers oops
somewhere.  Most sleeps are wrapped in condition test loops and should
be safe but we have quite a number of places where sleep and wakeup
conditions are expected to be interlocked.  Although the window of
opportunity is tiny, ptrace can be used by non-privileged users and with
some loading the window can definitely be extended and exploited.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11 16:12:19 -08:00
Chris Wright 6037b715d6 security: add cred argument to security_capable()
Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a
wider range of call sites.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-02-11 17:41:58 +11:00
Linus Torvalds ee24aebffb cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now
In commit ce6ada35bd ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).

Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated.  There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.

(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-10 17:53:55 -08:00
Don Zickus 5651f7f47d watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it
complains very loudly.  Some failures should be expected under
certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use.  Tone
those error messages down a bit.  Keep the rest at a high level.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-10 13:21:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds aceb91cd35 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed
  cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
  blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
  cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
  cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily.
  drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
  drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
2011-02-09 11:45:21 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 7ff207928e Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"
Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for
del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings),
so revert the commit for this release:

  f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation

and try again later.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-08 16:18:39 +01:00
Tetsuo Handa fb2b2a1d37 CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure
In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error.  As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1.

Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-07 14:04:00 -08:00
Tetsuo Handa 2edeaa34a6 CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failure
In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error.  As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred->magic == 0.  Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL.  This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().

Fix these bugs by

(1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().

(2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-07 14:04:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f0adc82064 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
  RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
2011-02-06 12:05:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 862b6f62bf Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2011-02-04 19:02:53 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra f266a5110d lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing
softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs
disabled.

Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing
softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from
happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled.

Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-04 10:31:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds aba99437f5 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Prevent irq storm on migration
2011-02-03 09:17:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 49abda9892 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix update_curr_rt()
  sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
2011-02-03 08:55:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds eb487ab4d5 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()
  watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl
  watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency
  watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic
  perf: Fix Pentium4 raw event validation
  perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
2011-02-03 08:52:05 -08:00
Steven Rostedt 3d56e331b6 tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:29:06 -05:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 6549864629 tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.

History:

commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.

One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.

The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.

(this patch applies on top of -tip)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:28:46 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra 06c3bc6556 sched: Fix update_curr_rt()
cpu_stopper_thread()
  migration_cpu_stop()
    __migrate_task()
      deactivate_task()
        dequeue_task()
          dequeue_task_rq()
            update_curr_rt()

Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is
rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and
thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task.

Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 12:21:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 542e72fc90 perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()
It is quite possible for the event to have been disabled between
perf_event_read() sending the IPI and the CPU servicing the IPI and
calling __perf_event_read(), hence revalidate the state.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 12:15:46 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e4a9ea5ee7 tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-02 21:37:13 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner f1a06390d0 genirq: Prevent irq storm on migration
move_native_irq() masks and unmasks the interrupt line
unconditionally, but the interrupt line might be masked due to a
threaded oneshot handler in progress. Unmasking the line in that case
can lead to interrupt storms. Observed on PREEMPT_RT.

Originally-from: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-02-02 22:15:08 +01:00
Marcin Slusarz 9ffdc6c37d watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
[ add {}'s to fix a warning ]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31 13:22:43 +01:00
Marcin Slusarz 397357666d watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency
If it was not possible to enable watchdog for any cpu, switch
watchdog_enabled back to 0, because it's visible via
kernel.watchdog sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31 13:22:43 +01:00
Marcin Slusarz 4135038a58 watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic
Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of
watchdog threads AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer.
As hrtimers are initialized only at boot it's not possible to
enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog threads started to
eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash.

Additionally, even if these threads would start properly,
watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so
you couldn't disable watchdog.

To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already
existing watchdog_enabled variable.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
[ removed another no_watchdog instance ]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31 13:22:42 +01:00
Kacper Kornet aa5bd67dcf Fix prlimit64 for suid/sgid processes
Since check_prlimit_permission always fails in the case of SUID/GUID
processes, such processes are not able to read or set their own limits.
This commit changes this by assuming that process can always read/change
its own limits.

Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-31 13:01:27 +10:00
Linus Torvalds bffb276fff Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
  sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
  sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine
2011-01-28 06:45:04 +10:00
Eric Dumazet 88d4f0db7f perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
Commit 927c7a9e92 ("perf: Fix race in callchains") introduced
a mismatch in the sizing of struct callchain_cpus_entries.

nr_cpu_ids must be used instead of num_possible_cpus(), or we
might get out of bound memory accesses on some machines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1295980851.3588.351.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-27 19:21:50 +01:00
Paul Turner 05ca62c6ca sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
The delta in clock_task is a more fair attribution of how much time a tg has
been contributing load to the current cpu.

While not really important it also means we're more in sync (by magnitude)
with respect to periodic updates (since __update_curr deltas are clock_task
based).

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.007092349@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:03 +01:00
Paul Turner b815f1963e sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
Since updates are against an entity's queuing cfs_rq it's not possible to
enter update_cfs_{shares,load} with a NULL cfs_rq.  (Indeed, update_cfs_load
would crash prior to the check if we did anyway since we load is examined
during the initializers).

Also, in the update_cfs_load case there's no point
in maintaining averages for rq->cfs_rq since we don't perform shares
distribution at that level -- NULL check is replaced accordingly.

Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the deference before NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.825284940@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:02 +01:00
Paul Turner e37b6a7b27 sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine
While care is taken around the zero-point in effective_load to not exceed
the instantaneous rq->weight, it's still possible (e.g. using wake_idx != 0)
for (load + effective_load) to underflow.

In this case the comparing the unsigned values can result in incorrect balanced
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.734245014@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6fb1b30425 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: wacom - pass touch resolution to clients through input_absinfo
  Input: wacom - add 2 Bamboo Pen and touch models
  Input: sysrq - ensure sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are consistent
  Input: sparse-keymap - fix KEY_VSW handling in sparse_keymap_setup
  Input: tegra-kbc - add tegra keyboard driver
  Input: gpio_keys - switch to using request_any_context_irq
  Input: serio - allow registered drivers to get status flag
  Input: ct82710c - return proper error code for ct82c710_open
  Input: bu21013_ts - added regulator support
  Input: bu21013_ts - remove duplicate resolution parameters
  Input: tnetv107x-ts - don't treat NULL clk as an error
  Input: tnetv107x-keypad - don't treat NULL clk as an error

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/input/keyboard/Makefile due to
additions of tc3589x/Tegra drivers
2011-01-26 16:31:44 +10:00
Torben Hohn ac751efa6a console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock()
The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex.  As a
result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all
acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex()

This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make
implications about the underlying lock.

The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is
inverted from try_acquire_console_sem()

This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to
a mutex.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:50:06 +10:00