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David Howells 9ffc93f203 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
David Howells d550bbd40c Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f1d38e423a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman:

 - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity.

   Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and
   are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing
   network devices.

   sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call
   and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c.  Hopefully
   this means the code is now approachable.

   Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until
   something was found that was usable.

 - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation
   is fixed.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits)
  sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away
  sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
  sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.
  sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
  sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir
  sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
  sysctl: remove an unused variable
  sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users
  sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.
  sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.
  sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header
  sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy
  sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
  sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir
  sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
  sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set
  sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry
  sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.
  sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.
  sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header
  ...
2012-03-23 18:08:58 -07:00
Al Viro 4040153087 security: trim security.h
Trim security.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
Eric W. Biederman 1f87f0b52b sysctl: Move the implementation into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c
into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c.

Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation
being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them.
Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that
it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for
simpler maintenance.

For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove
their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-24 16:37:54 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman de4e83bd6b sysctl: Register the base sysctl table like any other sysctl table.
Simplify the code by treating the base sysctl table like any other
sysctl table and register it with register_sysctl_table.

To ensure this table is registered early enough to avoid problems
call sysctl_init from proc_sys_init.

Rename sysctl_net.c:sysctl_init() to net_sysctl_init() to avoid
name conflicts now that kernel/sysctl.c:sysctl_init() is no longer
static.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-24 16:37:54 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 0ce8974d50 sysctl: Consolidate !CONFIG_SYSCTL handling
- In sysctl.h move functions only available if CONFIG_SYSCL
  is defined inside of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL

- Move the stub function definitions for !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  into sysctl.h and make them static inlines.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-24 16:37:54 -08:00
Mitsuo Hayasaka 55af77969f x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow
Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack
overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a
high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may
corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to
reading them unless systems stop.

This patch adds the sysctl parameter
kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting
the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user
stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 11:37:47 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 094803e0aa Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)
Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...
2011-10-31 17:46:07 -07:00
Dan Ballard 73efc0394e kernel/sysctl.c: add cap_last_cap to /proc/sys/kernel
Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running
kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files
only.  The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now
creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files
which are run on older kernels.  They assume capabilities are available
which actually aren't.  libcap-ng is one example.  And we ran into the
same problem with systemd too.

Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cap_last_cap const, per Ulrich]
Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@akkadia.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:53 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky 638ad34a88 [S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings about missing prototypes
Add prototypes and includes for functions used in different modules.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30 15:16:46 +01:00
Paul Turner ec12cb7f31 sched: Accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against bandwidth
Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
they belong.  Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.

cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
pool as desired.  Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.

This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:26 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney a95cded32d sysctl,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_head) to kfree
The RCU callback free_head just calls kfree(), so we can use kfree_rcu()
instead of call_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-07-20 14:10:18 -07:00
Vince Weaver aa4a221875 perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
Turns out that distro packages use this file as an indicator of
the perf event subsystem - this is easier to check for from scripts
than the existence of the system call.

This is easy enough to keep around for the kernel, so add a
comment to make sure it stays so.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031751170.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-04 12:22:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0798b1dbfb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
  arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
  compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
  arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
  arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
  arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
  arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
  include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
  tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
  arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
  compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
  arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
  tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
  tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
  tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
  audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h>
  arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
  arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
  arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
  arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
  arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
  ...
2011-05-25 15:35:32 -07:00
James Morris 434d42cfd0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2011-05-24 22:55:24 +10:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 586692a5a5 watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero
This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh.

Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog
kthreads to consume a lot of CPU.

In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and
proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23 11:58:59 +02:00
Chris Metcalf 571d76acda arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
This change adds support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace to tile.
Like x86 and sparc, by default it is set to "1", generating a one-line
printk whenever a user process crashes.  By setting it to "2", we get
a much more complete userspace diagnostic at crash time, including
a user-space backtrace, register dump, and memory dump around the
address of the crash.

Some vestiges of the Tilera-internal version of this support are
removed with this patch (the show_crashinfo variable and the
arch_coredump_signal function).  We retain a "crashinfo" boot parameter
which allows you to set the boot-time value of exception-trace.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-05-19 22:55:59 -04:00
Eric Paris 17f60a7da1 capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers
There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem
reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with
cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user
didn't have cap_sys_module.  The reason is because the actual load is done by
a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set.  This patch addes new
sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers.

/proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset
/proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable

You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE  and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are
&= ONLY).  When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these
as the bset and pI.

-v2:	make globals static
	create spinlock to protect globals

-v3:	require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE
-v4:	fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-04-04 10:31:04 +10:00
Richard Weinberger bfdc0b497f sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict
When dmesg_restrict is set to 1 CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to read the kernel
ring buffer.  But a root user without CAP_SYS_ADMIN is able to reset
dmesg_restrict to 0.

This is an issue when e.g.  LXC (Linux Containers) are used and complete
user space is running without CAP_SYS_ADMIN.  A unprivileged and jailed
root user can bypass the dmesg_restrict protection.

With this patch writing to dmesg_restrict is only allowed when root has
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:54 -07:00
Petr Holasek cb16e95fa2 sysctl: add some missing input constraint checks
Add boundaries of allowed input ranges for: dirty_expire_centisecs,
drop_caches, overcommit_memory, page-cluster and panic_on_oom.

Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0f6e0e8448 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: (33 commits)
  AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c
  AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly
  KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE
  KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code
  KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted
  KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
  AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read
  SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook
  LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM
  SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket
  SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute
  SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class
  TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.
  Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"
  selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions
  selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting
  selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer
  selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm
  ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure
  IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
  ...
2011-03-16 09:15:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9620639b7e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
  sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
  sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
  sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
  sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
  sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
  sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
  sched: Fix the group_imb logic
  sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
  sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
  sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
  sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
  sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
  sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
  sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
  sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
  sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
  sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
  softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
  ...
2011-03-15 18:37:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a926021cb1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
  perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
  tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
  tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
  tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
  tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
  ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
  ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
  tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
  tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
  tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
  tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
  tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
  tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
  tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
  perf header: Stop using 'self'
  perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
  perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
  perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
  ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...
2011-03-15 18:31:30 -07:00
James Morris a002951c97 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2011-03-16 09:41:17 +11:00
Al Viro dfef6dcd35 unfuck proc_sysctl ->d_compare()
a) struct inode is not going to be freed under ->d_compare();
however, the thing PROC_I(inode)->sysctl points to just might.
Fortunately, it's enough to make freeing that sucker delayed,
provided that we don't step on its ->unregistering, clear
the pointer to it in PROC_I(inode) before dropping the reference
and check if it's NULL in ->d_compare().

b) I'm not sure that we *can* walk into NULL inode here (we recheck
dentry->seq between verifying that it's still hashed / fetching
dentry->d_inode and passing it to ->d_compare() and there's no
negative hashed dentries in /proc/sys/*), but if we can walk into
that, we really should not have ->d_compare() return 0 on it!
Said that, I really suspect that this check can be simply killed.
Nick?

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-08 02:22:27 -05:00
James Morris fe3fa43039 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux into next 2011-03-08 11:38:10 +11:00
Yong Zhang 1747b21fec sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
sched_autogroup_enabled has min/max value, proc_dointvec_minmax() is
be used for this case.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1298185696-4403-2-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-23 11:33:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 48fa4b8ecf Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16 13:31:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 163ec4354a perf: Optimize throttling code
By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a
multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS >
max_samples_per_tick.

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 13:30:55 +01:00
Rik van Riel ac53db596c sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair.  This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.

We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next.  We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree.  When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 14:20:33 +01:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu 4916ca401e security: remove unused security_sysctl hook
The only user for this hook was selinux. sysctl routes every call
through /proc/sys/. Selinux and other security modules use the file
system checks for sysctl too, so no need for this hook any more.

Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2011-02-01 11:54:02 -05:00
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
Andy Whitcroft 8c6a98b22b Input: sysrq - ensure sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are consistent
Currently sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are initialised separately
and inconsistently, leading to sysrq being actually enabled by reported
as not enabled in sysfs.  The first change to the sysfs configurable
synchronises these two:

    static int __read_mostly sysrq_enabled = 1;
    static int __sysrq_enabled;

Add a common define to carry the default for these preventing them becoming
out of sync again.  Default this to 1 to mirror previous behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-01-24 09:33:36 -08:00
Jovi Zhang e020e742e5 sysctl: remove obsolete comments
ctl_unnumbered.txt have been removed in Documentation directory so just
also remove this invalid comments

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/sysctl/00-INDEX, per Dave]
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:18 -08:00
Jovi Zhang 5561050003 sysctl: fix #ifdef guard comment
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:18 -08:00
Dan Rosenberg 455cd5ab30 kptr_restrict for hiding kernel pointers from unprivileged users
Add the %pK printk format specifier and the /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
sysctl.

The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces.  Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers.  The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.

If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs.  If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
 If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges.  Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: check for IRQ context when !kptr_restrict, save an indent level, s/WARN/WARN_ONCE/]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix kernel/sysctl.c warning]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 65b2074f84 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long
  sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
  sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
  sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
  sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
  sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
  printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending
  sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
  sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
  sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
  sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
  mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
  sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug
  cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON
  cpu: Remove unused variable
  sched: Fix UP build breakage
  sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
  sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
  sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
  sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
  ...
2011-01-06 10:23:33 -08:00
Don Zickus 5dc3055879 x86, NMI: Add back unknown_nmi_panic and nmi_watchdog sysctls
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the
unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file.  Because the old nmi
watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the
unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost.  This re-adds it.

Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its
documentation updated accordingly.

Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-10 00:01:06 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 22a867d817 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e4e91ac410 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:04:47 +01:00
Paul Turner a7a4f8a752 sched: Add sysctl_sched_shares_window
Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from
sched_time_avg.

A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.112173964@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 2069dd75c7 sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up)
By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a
global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be
strictly per-cpu.

This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems
significantly.

[ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Don Zickus 5f2b0ba4d9 x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove the old nmi_watchdog
Now that we have a new nmi_watchdog that is more generic and
sits on top of the perf subsystem, we really do not need the old
nmi_watchdog any more.

In addition, the old nmi_watchdog doesn't really work if you are
using the default clocksource, hpet.  The old nmi_watchdog code
relied on local apic interrupts to determine if the cpu is still
alive.  With hpet as the clocksource, these interrupts don't
increment any more and the old nmi_watchdog triggers false
postives.

This piece removes the old nmi_watchdog code and stubs out any
variables and functions calls.  The stubs are the same ones used
by the new nmi_watchdog code, so it should be well tested.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
LKML-Reference: <1289578944-28564-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 09:08:23 +01:00
Joe Perches df6e61d4ca kernel/sysctl.c: Fix build failure with !CONFIG_PRINTK
Sigh...

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-16 07:56:09 -08:00
Dan Rosenberg eaf06b241b Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 426e1f5cec Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...
2010-10-26 17:58:44 -07:00
Namhyung Kim f5d87d851d printk: declare printk_ratelimit_state in ratelimit.h
Adding declaration of printk_ratelimit_state in ratelimit.h removes
potential build breakage and following sparse warning:

 kernel/printk.c:1426:1: warning: symbol 'printk_ratelimit_state' was not declared. Should it be static?

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdef]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:16 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 518de9b39e fs: allow for more than 2^31 files
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB system and found af_unix was overflowing
a 32bit value :

<quote>

We were seeing a failure which prevented boot.  The kernel was incapable
of creating either a named pipe or unix domain socket.  This comes down
to a common kernel function called unix_create1() which does:

        atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks);
        if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files())
                goto out;

The function get_max_files() is a simple return of files_stat.max_files.
files_stat.max_files is a signed integer and is computed in
fs/file_table.c's files_init().

        n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
        files_stat.max_files = n;

In our case, mempages (total_ram_pages) is approx 3,758,096,384
(0xe0000000).  That leaves max_files at approximately 1,503,238,553.
This causes 2 * get_max_files() to integer overflow.

</quote>

Fix is to let /proc/sys/fs/file-nr & /proc/sys/fs/file-max use long
integers, and change af_unix to use an atomic_long_t instead of atomic_t.

get_max_files() is changed to return an unsigned long.  get_nr_files() is
changed to return a long.

unix_nr_socks is changed from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, while not
strictly needed to address Robin problem.

Before patch (on a 64bit kernel) :
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
-18446744071562067968

After patch:
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
2147483648
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
704     0       2147483648

Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 312d3ca856 fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
The nr_dentry stat is a globally touched cacheline and atomic operation
twice over the lifetime of a dentry. It is used for the benfit of userspace
only. Turn it into a per-cpu counter and always decrement it in d_free instead
of doing various batching operations to reduce lock hold times in the callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:12 -04:00
Dave Chinner cffbc8aa33 fs: Convert nr_inodes and nr_unused to per-cpu counters
The number of inodes allocated does not need to be tied to the
addition or removal of an inode to/from a list. If we are not tied
to a list lock, we could update the counters when inodes are
initialised or destroyed, but to do that we need to convert the
counters to be per-cpu (i.e. independent of a lock). This means that
we have the freedom to change the list/locking implementation
without needing to care about the counters.

Based on a patch originally from Eric Dumazet.

[AV: cleaned up a bit, fixed build breakage on weird configs

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:09 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 7e360c38ab fs: allow for more than 2^31 files
Andrew,

Could you please review this patch, you probably are the right guy to
take it, because it crosses fs and net trees.

Note : /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is a read-only file, so this patch doesnt
depend on previous patch (sysctl: fix min/max handling in
__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax())

Thanks !

[PATCH V4] fs: allow for more than 2^31 files

Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB system and found af_unix was overflowing
a 32bit value :

<quote>

We were seeing a failure which prevented boot.  The kernel was incapable
of creating either a named pipe or unix domain socket.  This comes down
to a common kernel function called unix_create1() which does:

        atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks);
        if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files())
                goto out;

The function get_max_files() is a simple return of files_stat.max_files.
files_stat.max_files is a signed integer and is computed in
fs/file_table.c's files_init().

        n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
        files_stat.max_files = n;

In our case, mempages (total_ram_pages) is approx 3,758,096,384
(0xe0000000).  That leaves max_files at approximately 1,503,238,553.
This causes 2 * get_max_files() to integer overflow.

</quote>

Fix is to let /proc/sys/fs/file-nr & /proc/sys/fs/file-max use long
integers, and change af_unix to use an atomic_long_t instead of
atomic_t.

get_max_files() is changed to return an unsigned long.
get_nr_files() is changed to return a long.

unix_nr_socks is changed from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, while not
strictly needed to address Robin problem.

Before patch (on a 64bit kernel) :
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
-18446744071562067968

After patch:
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
2147483648
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
704     0       2147483648

Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:18:20 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 27b3d80a7b sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()
When proc_doulongvec_minmax() is used with an array of longs, and no
min/max check requested (.extra1 or .extra2 being NULL), we dereference a
NULL pointer for the second element of the array.

Noticed while doing some changes in network stack for the "16TB problem"

Fix is to not change min & max pointers in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(),
so that all elements of the vector share an unique min/max limit, like
proc_dointvec_minmax().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-07 13:31:21 -07:00
Andi Kleen b3bd3de66f gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
No real bugs I believe, just some dead code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8c8946f509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
  fanotify: use both marks when possible
  fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
  fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
  fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
  fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
  fsnotify: remove group->mask
  fsnotify: remove the global masks
  fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
  fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
  audit: use the mark in handler functions
  dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
  inotify: use the mark in handler functions
  fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
  fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
  fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
  fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
  fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
  fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
  vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
  fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
  ...

Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
David Rientjes 8e4228e1ed oom: move sysctl declarations to oom.h
The three oom killer sysctl variables (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks,
sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task, and sysctl_panic_on_oom) are better
declared in include/linux/oom.h rather than kernel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3b7433b8a8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
  workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
  workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
  fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  slow-work: kill it
  gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: drop references to slow-work
  fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
  workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
  workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
  workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
  async: use workqueue for worker pool
  workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
  workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
  workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
  libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
  workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
2010-08-07 12:42:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ab69bcd66f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (28 commits)
  driver core: device_rename's new_name can be const
  sysfs: Remove owner field from sysfs struct attribute
  powerpc/pci: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in PCI bridge init
  regulator: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in regulator core driver
  leds: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in bd2802 driver
  scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in ARCMSR driver
  scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in LPFC driver
  cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on
  Driver core: Add BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER
  driver core: fix memory leak on one error path in bus_register()
  debugfs: no longer needs to depend on SYSFS
  sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs.
  sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentation
  dcdbas: remove a redundant smi_data_buf_free in dcdbas_exit
  dmi-id: fix a memory leak in dmi_id_init error path
  sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be const
  firmware: Update hotplug script
  Driver core: move platform device creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)
  Driver core: reduce duplicated code for platform_device creation
  Driver core: use kmemdup in platform_device_add_resources
  ...
2010-08-06 11:36:30 -07:00
Ian Abbott 94f17cd788 hotplug: Support kernel/hotplug sysctl variable when !CONFIG_NET
The kernel/hotplug sysctl variable (/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file) was
made conditional on CONFIG_NET by commit
f743ca5e10 (applied in 2.6.18) to fix
problems with undefined references in 2.6.16 when CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y &&
!CONFIG_NET, but this restriction is no longer needed.

This patch makes the kernel/hotplug sysctl variable depend only on
CONFIG_HOTPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.COM>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05 13:53:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 61be7fdec2 Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00
Dave Young d14f172948 sysctl extern cleanup: inotify
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be move to their own head file, and
then include them in relavant .c files.

Move inotify_table extern declaration to linux/inotify.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6e006701cc dnotify: move dir_notify_enable declaration
Move dir_notify_enable declaration to where it belongs -- dnotify.h .

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Tejun Heo 181a51f6e0 slow-work: kill it
slow-work doesn't have any user left.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-23 13:14:49 +02:00
Jens Axboe ff9da691c0 pipe: change /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages to byte sized interface
This changes the interface to be based on bytes instead. The API
matches that of F_SETPIPE_SZ in that it rounds up the passed in
size so that the resulting page array is a power-of-2 in size.

The proc file is renamed to /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size to
reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-03 14:54:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b1cdc4670b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits)
  drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast.
  be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.
  proc_dointvec: write a single value
  hso: add support for new products
  Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close()
  ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc
  ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot
  sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning
  cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in
  macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2
  be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe
  net/dccp: expansion of error code size
  ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep
  wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings
  wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings
  iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station()
  ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs()
  ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb()
  rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing.
  rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions.
  ...
2010-05-25 16:59:51 -07:00
J. R. Okajima 563b046710 proc_dointvec: write a single value
The commit 00b7c3395a
"sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code"
modified the behaviour of writing to /proc.
Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But
now it returns EINVAL.

This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry.

Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:10:14 -07:00
Mel Gorman 5e77190580 mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed
The kernel applies some heuristics when deciding if memory should be
compacted or reclaimed to satisfy a high-order allocation.  One of these
is based on the fragmentation.  If the index is below 500, memory will not
be compacted.  This choice is arbitrary and not based on data.  To help
optimise the system and set a sensible default for this value, this patch
adds a sysctl extfrag_threshold.  The kernel will only compact memory if
the fragmentation index is above the extfrag_threshold.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix build errors when proc fs is not configured]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman 76ab0f530e mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction
Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory.  When an arbitrary value is
written to the file, all zones are compacted.  The expected user of such a
trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target
application runs.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6e80e8ed5e Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (86 commits)
  pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array
  pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes
  drbd: This is now equivalent to drbd release 8.3.8rc1
  drbd: Do not free p_uuid early, this is done in the exit code of the receiver
  drbd: Null pointer deref fix to the large "multi bio rewrite"
  drbd: Fix: Do not detach, if a bio with a barrier fails
  drbd: Ensure to not trigger late-new-UUID creation multiple times
  drbd: Do not Oops when C_STANDALONE when uuid gets generated
  writeback: fix mixed up arguments to bdi_start_writeback()
  writeback: fix problem with !CONFIG_BLOCK compilation
  block: improve automatic native capacity unlocking
  block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check code
  block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to ->unlock_native_capacity()
  block: restart partition scan after resizing a device
  buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches
  block: remove all rcu head initializations
  writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs
  writeback: bdi_writeback_task() must set task state before calling schedule()
  writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync
  drivers/block/drbd: Use kzalloc
  ...
2010-05-21 15:25:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 0fc377bd64 sysctl: fix kernel-doc notation and typos
Fix kernel-doc warnings, kernel-doc special characters, and
typos in recent kernel/sysctl.c additions.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21 15:23:12 -07:00
Jens Axboe ee9a3607fb Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	fs/ext3/fsync.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:27:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe b492e95be0 pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array
We need at least two to guarantee proper POSIX behaviour, so
never allow a smaller limit than that.

Also expose a /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages sysctl file that allows
root to define a sane upper limit. Make it default to 16 times the
default size, which is 16 pages.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:12:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f8965467f3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits)
  qlcnic: adding co maintainer
  ixgbe: add support for active DA cables
  ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames
  ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic
  ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled
  ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter
  ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp
  ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer
  ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address
  ipv6: Use POSTDAD state
  ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state
  ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state
  cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load
  cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down
  cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address
  cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown.
  cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops.
  can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems
  bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled
  ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards
  ...

Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/
{pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and
wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal
(Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).

Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting
renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a0fe3cc5d3 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: (40 commits)
  Input: psmouse - small formatting changes to better follow coding style
  Input: synaptics - set dimensions as reported by firmware
  Input: elantech - relax signature checks
  Input: elantech - enforce common prefix on messages
  Input: wistron_btns - switch to using kmemdup()
  Input: usbtouchscreen - switch to using kmemdup()
  Input: do not force selecting i8042 on Moorestown
  Input: Documentation/sysrq.txt - update KEY_SYSRQ info
  Input: 88pm860x_onkey - remove invalid irq number assignment
  Input: i8042 - add a PNP entry to the aux device list
  Input: i8042 - add some extra PNP keyboard types
  Input: wm9712 - fix wm97xx_set_gpio() logic
  Input: add keypad driver for keys interfaced to TCA6416
  Input: remove obsolete {corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd.c
  Input: kbtab - do not advertise unsupported events
  Input: kbtab - simplify kbtab_disconnect()
  Input: kbtab - fix incorrect size parameter in usb_buffer_free
  Input: acecad - don't advertise mouse events
  Input: acecad - fix some formatting issues
  Input: acecad - simplify usb_acecad_disconnect()
  ...

Trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-05-20 10:33:06 -07:00
Heiko Carstens ab3c68ee5f [S390] debug: enable exception-trace debug facility
The exception-trace facility on x86 and other architectures prints
traces to dmesg whenever a user space application crashes.
s390 has such a feature since ages however it is called
userprocess_debug and is enabled differently.
This patch makes sure that whenever one of the two procfs files

/proc/sys/kernel/userprocess_debug
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace

is modified the contents of the second one changes as well.
That way we keep backwards compatibilty but also support the same
interface like other architectures do.
Besides that the output of the traces is improved since it will now
also contain the corresponding filename of the vma (when available)
where the process caused a fault or trap.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-17 10:00:17 +02:00
Octavian Purdila 9f977fb7ae sysctl: add proc_do_large_bitmap
The new function can be used to read/write large bitmaps via /proc. A
comma separated range format is used for compact output and input
(e.g. 1,3-4,10-10).

Writing into the file will first reset the bitmap then update it
based on the given input.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:28:39 -07:00
Amerigo Wang 00b7c3395a sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code
(Based on Octavian's work, and I modified a lot.)

As we are about to add another integer handling proc function a little
bit of cleanup is in order: add a few helper functions to improve code
readability and decrease code duplication.

In the process a bug is also fixed: if the user specifies a number
with more then 20 digits it will be interpreted as two integers
(e.g. 10000...13 will be interpreted as 100.... and 13).

Behavior for EFAULT handling was changed as well. Previous to this
patch, when an EFAULT error occurred in the middle of a write
operation, although some of the elements were set, that was not
acknowledged to the user (by shorting the write and returning the
number of bytes accepted). EFAULT is now treated just like any other
errors by acknowledging the amount of bytes accepted.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:28:38 -07:00
Don Zickus 2508ce1845 lockup_detector: Remove old softlockup code
Now that is no longer compiled or used, just remove it.

Also move some of the code wrapped with DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP to the
LOCKUP_DETECTOR wrappers because that is the code that uses it now.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:45 +02:00
Don Zickus 332fbdbca3 lockup_detector: Touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal
Just some code cleanup to make touch_softlockup clearer and remove the
softlockup_tick function as it is no longer needed.

Also remove the /proc softlockup_thres call as it has been changed to
watchdog_thres.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:43 +02:00
Don Zickus 58687acba5 lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector.  Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.

Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.

To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event.  If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.

To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.

I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.

V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events

V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions

V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes

V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups

TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
  (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period

[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:33 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a9aa1d02de Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into perf/nmi
Merge reason: catch up with latest softlockup detector changes.
2010-05-12 23:20:33 +02:00
Dmitry Torokhov 97f5f0cd8c Input: implement SysRq as a separate input handler
Instead of keeping SysRq support inside of legacy keyboard driver split
it out into a separate input handler (filter). This stops most SysRq input
events from leaking into evdev clients (some events, such as first SysRq
scancode - not keycode - event, are still leaked into both legacy keyboard
and evdev).

[martinez.javier@gmail.com: fix compile error when CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is
 not defined]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-04-13 23:26:02 -07:00
Dave Young 2edf5e4980 sysctl extern cleanup: lockdep
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move lockdep extern declarations to linux/lockdep.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young 4f0e056fde sysctl extern cleanup: rtmutex
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move max_lock_depth extern declaration to linux/rtmutex.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young c55b7c3e82 sysctl extern cleanup: acct
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move acct_parm extern declaration to linux/acct.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young 15485a4682 sysctl extern cleanup: sg
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young 5ed109103d sysctl extern cleanup: module
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h
Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young e5ab67726f sysctl extern cleanup: rcu
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:08 -08:00
Dave Young d33ed52d57 sysctl extern cleanup: signal
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move print_fatal_signals extern declaration to linux/signal.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:44 -08:00
Dave Young eb5572fed5 sysctl extern cleanup: C_A_D
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move C_A_D extern variable declaration to linux/reboot.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 660f6a360b Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke()
  perf probe: Correct probe syntax on command line help
  perf probe: Add lazy line matching support
  perf probe: Show more lines after last line
  perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder
  perf probe: Use libdw callback routines
  perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo
  perf probe: Rename probe finder functions
  perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder
  perf probe: Update perf probe document
  perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support
  kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization
  kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86
  x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code
  kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers
  kprobes/x86: Boost probes when reentering
  kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface
  kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization
  kprobes: Introduce generic insn_slot framework
  kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE
2010-03-05 10:50:22 -08:00
David S. Miller 4b17764737 sparc: Support show_unhandled_signals.
Just faults right now, will add other traps later.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-01 00:02:23 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu b2be84df99 kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface
Add /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization sysctl which enables
and disables kprobes jump optimization on the fly for debugging.

Changes in v7:
 - Remove ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED for upstream compatibility.

Changes in v6:
- Update comments and coding style.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133415.6725.8274.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 17:49:25 +01:00
Don Zickus 504d7cf10e nmi_watchdog: Compile and portability fixes
The original patch was x86_64 centric.  Changed the code to make
it less so.

ested by building and running on a powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-14 09:19:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds efc8e7f4c8 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:
  Keys: KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT needs TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME architecture support
  NOMMU: Optimise away the {dac_,}mmap_min_addr tests
  security/min_addr.c: make init_mmap_min_addr() static
  keys: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in keyctl_get_security()
2009-12-17 16:58:26 -08:00
WANG Cong 3e26120cc7 kernel/sysctl.c: fix the incomplete part of sysctl_max_map_count-should-be-non-negative.patch
It is a mistake that we used 'proc_dointvec', it should be
'proc_dointvec_minmax', as in the original patch.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17 15:45:30 -08:00
David Howells 6e14154676 NOMMU: Optimise away the {dac_,}mmap_min_addr tests
In NOMMU mode clamp dac_mmap_min_addr to zero to cause the tests on it to be
skipped by the compiler.  We do this as the minimum mmap address doesn't make
any sense in NOMMU mode.

mmap_min_addr and round_hint_to_min() can be discarded entirely in NOMMU mode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-12-17 09:25:19 +11:00
Amerigo Wang 70da2340fb 'sysctl_max_map_count' should be non-negative
Jan Engelhardt reported we have this problem:

setting max_map_count to a value large enough results in programs dying at
first try.  This is on 2.6.31.6:

15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31-1] >max_map_count
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count
1073741824
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31] >max_map_count
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count
Killed

This is because we have a chance to make 'max_map_count' negative.  but
it's meaningless.  Make it only accept non-negative values.

Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
Lee Schermerhorn 06808b0827 hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicy
This patch derives a "nodes_allowed" node mask from the numa mempolicy of
the task modifying the number of persistent huge pages to control the
allocation, freeing and adjusting of surplus huge pages when the pool page
count is modified via the new sysctl or sysfs attribute
"nr_hugepages_mempolicy".  The nodes_allowed mask is derived as follows:

* For "default" [NULL] task mempolicy, a NULL nodemask_t pointer
  is produced.  This will cause the hugetlb subsystem to use
  node_online_map as the "nodes_allowed".  This preserves the
  behavior before this patch.
* For "preferred" mempolicy, including explicit local allocation,
  a nodemask with the single preferred node will be produced.
  "local" policy will NOT track any internode migrations of the
  task adjusting nr_hugepages.
* For "bind" and "interleave" policy, the mempolicy's nodemask
  will be used.
* Other than to inform the construction of the nodes_allowed node
  mask, the actual mempolicy mode is ignored.  That is, all modes
  behave like interleave over the resulting nodes_allowed mask
  with no "fallback".

See the updated documentation [next patch] for more information
about the implications of this patch.

Examples:

Starting with:

	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     0
	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     0
	Node 2 HugePages_Total:     0
	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     0

Default behavior [with or without this patch] balances persistent
hugepage allocation across nodes [with sufficient contiguous memory]:

	sysctl vm.nr_hugepages[_mempolicy]=32

yields:

	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     8
	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     8
	Node 2 HugePages_Total:     8
	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8

Of course, we only have nr_hugepages_mempolicy with the patch,
but with default mempolicy, nr_hugepages_mempolicy behaves the
same as nr_hugepages.

Applying mempolicy--e.g., with numactl [using '-m' a.k.a.
'--membind' because it allows multiple nodes to be specified
and it's easy to type]--we can allocate huge pages on
individual nodes or sets of nodes.  So, starting from the
condition above, with 8 huge pages per node, add 8 more to
node 2 using:

	numactl -m 2 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=40

This yields:

	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     8
	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     8
	Node 2 HugePages_Total:    16
	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8

The incremental 8 huge pages were restricted to node 2 by the
specified mempolicy.

Similarly, we can use mempolicy to free persistent huge pages
from specified nodes:

	numactl -m 0,1 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=32

yields:

	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     4
	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     4
	Node 2 HugePages_Total:    16
	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8

The 8 huge pages freed were balanced over nodes 0 and 1.

[rientjes@google.com: accomodate reworked NODEMASK_ALLOC]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 702a7c7609 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: (21 commits)
  sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats
  sched: Fix memory leak in two error corner cases
  sched: Fix build warning in get_update_sysctl_factor()
  sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc
  sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable
  sched: Fix missing sched tunable recalculation on cpu add/remove
  sched: Fix task priority bug
  sched: cgroup: Implement different treatment for idle shares
  sched: Remove unnecessary RCU exclusion
  sched: Discard some old bits
  sched: Clean up check_preempt_wakeup()
  sched: Move update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup() to avoid redundant call
  sched: Sanitize fork() handling
  sched: Clean up ttwu() rq locking
  sched: Remove rq->clock coupling from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Consolidate select_task_rq() callers
  sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features
  sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class
  sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()
  sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c (due to sysctl cleanup)
2009-12-12 11:34:10 -08:00
Christian Ehrhardt acb4a848da sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc
The normalized values are also recalculated in case the scaling factor
changes.

This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are
normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.

Together with patch 2 of this series this allows to let user configured
values scale (or not) to cpu add/remove events taking place later.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-4-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ v2: fix warning ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:04:02 +01:00
Christian Ehrhardt 1983a922a1 sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable
As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user
that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set
values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens.

As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the
interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type.
Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos
us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to
scale the values.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-3-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:04:01 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6b314d0e11 sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features
Since we've had a much saner debugfs interface to this, remove the
sysctl one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ v2: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d0b093a8b5 Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful
  printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.h
  ratelimit: Fix/allow use in atomic contexts
  ratelimit: Use per ratelimit context locking
2009-12-05 09:50:22 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6d4561110a sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler.  Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-18 08:37:40 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 4739a9748e sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
Now that all of the users stopped using ctl_name and strategy it
is safe to remove the fields from struct ctl_table, and it is safe
to remove the stub strategy routines as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 2315ffa0a9 sysctl: Don't look at ctl_name and strategy in the generic code
The ctl_name and strategy fields are unused, now that sys_sysctl
is a compatibility wrapper around /proc/sys.  No longer looking
at them in the generic code is effectively what we are doing
now and provides the guarantee that during further cleanups
we can just remove references to those fields and everything
will work ok.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:53:43 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6fce56ec91 sysctl: Remove references to ctl_name and strategy from the generic sysctl table
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys  .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code.  Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:56 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman a965cf946d sysctl: Neuter the generic sysctl strategy routines.
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatibility layer on top of /proc/sys
these routines are never called but are still put in sysctl
tables so I have reduced them to stubs until they can be
removed entirely.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:51 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman afa588b265 sysctl: Separate the binary sysctl logic into it's own file.
In preparation for more invasive cleanups separate the core
binary sysctl logic into it's own file.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-06 03:20:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Neil Horman a293980c2e exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl.

Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem,
we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the
system simply by running bad applications.

If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can
have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system.

This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption.
core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel,
dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log.
A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may
be handled (this is the default value).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:00 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 2bcd57ab61 headers: utsname.h redux
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
   not needed after kref conversion
 * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it

NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
headers and files alone.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
Dave Young af91322ef3 printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios
When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net
console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages.  For
example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase.

Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some
milliseconds.

Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay

The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 3fff4c42bd printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.h
Decouple kernel.h from ratelimit.h: the global declaration of
printk's ratelimit_state is not needed, and it leads to messy
circular dependencies due to ratelimit.h's (new) adding of a
spinlock_types.h include.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-22 16:18:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Andi Kleen 6a46079cf5 HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
Add the high level memory handler that poisons pages
that got corrupted by hardware (typically by a two bit flip in a DIMM
or a cache) on the Linux level. The goal is to prevent everyone
from accessing these pages in the future.

This done at the VM level by marking a page hwpoisoned
and doing the appropriate action based on the type of page
it is.

The code that does this is portable and lives in mm/memory-failure.c

To quote the overview comment:

High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
failure.

This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
when that happens another machine check will happen.

Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
error handling takes potentially a long time.

Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
to be rare we hope we can get away with this.

There are in principle two strategies to kill processes on poison:
- just unmap the data and wait for an actual reference before
killing
- kill as soon as corruption is detected.
Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used
in different situations. Right now both are implemented and can
be switched with a new sysctl vm.memory_failure_early_kill
The default is early kill.

The patch does some rmap data structure walking on its own to collect
processes to kill. This is unusual because normally all rmap data structure
knowledge is in rmap.c only. I put it here for now to keep
everything together and rmap knowledge has been seeping out anyways

Includes contributions from Johannes Weiner, Chris Mason, Fengguang Wu,
Nick Piggin (who did a lot of great work) and others.

Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe cb684b5bcd block: fix linkage problem with blk_iopoll and !CONFIG_BLOCK
kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x17b0): undefined reference to `blk_iopoll_enabled'

Since the extern declaration makes the compile work, but the actual
symbol is missing when block/blk-iopoll.o isn't linked in.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-15 21:53:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 774a694f8c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
  sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
  sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
  sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
  sched: Turn off child_runs_first
  sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
  sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
  sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
  sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
  sched: Clean up topology.h
  sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
  sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity
  sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
  sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
  sched: Add smt_gain
  sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
  ...
2009-09-11 13:23:18 -07:00
Jens Axboe 5e605b64a1 block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
to interrupt completion mode.

This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
sold separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 2bba22c50b sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off.

It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.

Note, this patch might make existing races in user
applications more prominent than before - so breakages
might be bisected to this commit.

Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
this commit but fix those apps finally ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
  people want to work around broken apps. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:05 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput b6d9c25631 Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  kernel/sysctl.c: linux/security.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07 11:41:03 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra e9e9250bc7 sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use
that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:55 +02:00
Eric Paris 788084aba2 Security/SELinux: seperate lsm specific mmap_min_addr
Currently SELinux enforcement of controls on the ability to map low memory
is determined by the mmap_min_addr tunable.  This patch causes SELinux to
ignore the tunable and instead use a seperate Kconfig option specific to how
much space the LSM should protect.

The tunable will now only control the need for CAP_SYS_RAWIO and SELinux
permissions will always protect the amount of low memory designated by
CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR.

This allows users who need to disable the mmap_min_addr controls (usual reason
being they run WINE as a non-root user) to do so and still have SELinux
controls preventing confined domains (like a web server) from being able to
map some area of low memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-17 15:09:11 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 8326e284f8 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
  x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
  x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
  x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
  x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
  x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
  x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
  x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
  x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
  x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
  x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
  x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
  x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
  percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
  x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-28 11:05:28 -07:00
Kurt Garloff 5211a242d0 x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
This patch introduces a new sysctl:

    /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi

which defaults to 0 (off).

When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI
caused by an IO error.

The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system
condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather
than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice,
so one can figure out what's causing the IO error.

This could be especially important to companies running IO
intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a
bank's databases.

[ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the
  request of a large database vendor, for their users. ]

Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 22:06:11 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj bfdb4d9f0f timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input
Poornima Nayek reported:

| Timer migration interface /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration in
| 2.6.30-git9 accepts any numerical value as input.
|
| Steps to reproduce:
| 1. echo -6666666 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| -6666666
|
| 1. echo 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| -1357789412
|
| Expected behavior: Should 'echo: write error: Invalid argument' while
| setting any value other then 0 & 1

Restrict valid values to 0 and 1.

Reported-by: Poornima Nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Poornima Nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: poornima nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090623043058.GA3249@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-23 10:49:33 +02:00
Sukanto Ghosh 7338f29984 sysctl.c: remove unused variable
Remoce the unused variable 'val' from __do_proc_dointvec()

The integer has been declared and used as 'val = -val' and there is no
reference to it anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto.cse.iitb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto.cse.iitb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 6837765963 mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option
Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off.  Thus this
configurability is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b3fec0fe35 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
  signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
  trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
  net: annotate struct sock bitfield
  c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
  net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
  ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
  ieee1394: annotate bitfield
  net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
  net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
  kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
  kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
  x86: unify pte_hidden
  x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
  kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
  kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
  kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
  kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
  kmemcheck: don't track page tables
  ...
2009-06-16 13:09:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 19035e5b5d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
  timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
  timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
  timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
  timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred

Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
Vegard Nossum dfec072ecd kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core
General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.

Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8a1ca8cedd Merge branch 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits)
  perf_counter: Turn off by default
  perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event
  perf_counter: Better align code
  perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache
  perf_counter: Standardize event names
  perf_counter: Rename enums
  perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
  perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
  perf_counter: More paranoia settings
  perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors
  perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
  perf_counter: Accurate period data
  perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data
  perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
  perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion
  perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
  perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
  perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment
  perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors
  perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors
  ...
2009-06-11 14:01:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 940010c5a3 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/exit.c
2009-06-11 17:55:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra df58ab24bf perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
Rename perf_counter_limit to perf_counter_max_sample_rate and
prohibit creation of counters with a known higher sample
frequency.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 16:48:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0764771dab perf_counter: More paranoia settings
Rename the perf_counter_priv knob to perf_counter_paranoia (because
priv can be read as private, as opposed to privileged) and provide
one more level:

 0 - permissive
 1 - restrict cpu counters to privilidged contexts
 2 - restrict kernel-mode code counting and profiling

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 16:48:38 +02:00
James Morris 73fbad283c Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-06-11 11:03:14 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
Christoph Lameter e0a94c2a63 security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models
This patch removes the dependency of mmap_min_addr on CONFIG_SECURITY.
It also sets a default mmap_min_addr of 4096.

mmapping of addresses below 4096 will only be possible for processes
with CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Looks-ok-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-06-04 12:07:48 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra a78ac32587 perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle
Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle.

This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific
counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided
which can undo the quick disable.

Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 21:41:12 +02:00
James Morris 2c9e703c61 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c

Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 18:40:59 +10:00
Ingo Molnar dc3f81b129 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 07:37:49 +02:00
Jens Axboe cd17cbfda0 Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.

Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj cd1bb94b4a timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch creates the /proc/sys sysctl interface at
/proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Timer migration is enabled by default.

To disable timer migration, when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG = y,

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin 5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
James Morris d254117099 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra c5078f78b4 perf_counter: provide an mlock threshold
Provide a threshold to relax the mlock accounting, increasing usability.

Each counter gets perf_counter_mlock_kb for free.

[ Impact: allow more mmap buffering ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.112113632@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:32 +02:00
Andrea Righi 9e4a5bda89 mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytes
Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to
avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits().

[   49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[   49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
[   49.952195] CPU 1
[   49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr
[   49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1
[   49.952195] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802d39a9>]  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
[   49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98  EFLAGS: 00010202
[   49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3
[   49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
[   49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78
[   49.952195] FS:  00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   49.952195] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[   49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250)
[   49.952195] Stack:
[   49.952195]  ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000
[   49.952195]  00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218
[   49.952195]  0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7
[   49.952195] Call Trace:
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802d3ed7>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80368f8e>] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cc7df>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cce8d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda32>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda49>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80365fa6>] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803034d1>] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80290d1a>] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80280730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8030411b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803042d0>] sys_write+0x50/0x90
[   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8022ff6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02
[   49.952195] RIP  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
[   49.952195]  RSP <ffff88001de03a98>
[   50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]---

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
Ingo Molnar e7fd5d4b3d Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:47:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 4be6f6bb66 mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vm table
vm knobs should go in the vm table.  Probably too late for
randomize_va_space though.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:28 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 1ccd154978 perf_counter: sysctl for system wide perf counters
Impact: add sysctl for paranoid/relaxed perfcounters policy

Allow the use of system wide perf counters to everybody, but provide
a sysctl to disable it for the paranoid security minded.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.514046352@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 1551260d1f Merge branch 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
  softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c
  softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once
  softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
  softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock
  softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task
  softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task
  softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout
  softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK
  softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
2009-04-07 14:11:07 -07:00
Peter W Morreale fafd688e4c mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and
maximum number of pdflush threads.  This allows finer control of pdflush
on both large and small machines.

The rationale is simply one size does not fit all.  Admins on large and/or
small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best
suit their needs.  Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8.  While
probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large
numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit
from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices.

Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is
still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still
desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the
kernel.

The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and
'/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions.

The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is
the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max.  This minimum is required
since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself.

The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of
nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000.

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly]
Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 5e34437840 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07 11:15:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cd5f9a4c31 kernel/sysctl.c: avoid annoying warnings
Some of the limit constants are used only depending on some complex
configuration dependencies, yet it's not worth making the simple
variables depend on those configuration details.  Just mark them as
perhaps not being unused, and avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 13:38:46 -07:00
David Howells 12e22c5e4b Make the slow work pool configurable
Make the slow work pool configurable through /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/min-threads

     The minimum number of threads that should be in the pool as long as it is
     in use.  This may be anywhere between 2 and max-threads.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/max-threads

     The maximum number of threads that should in the pool.  This may be
     anywhere between min-threads and 255 or NR_CPUS * 2, whichever is greater.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/vslow-percentage

     The percentage of active threads in the pool that may be used to execute
     very slow work items.  This may be between 1 and 99.  The resultant number
     is bounded to between 1 and one fewer than the number of active threads.
     This ensures there is always at least one thread that can process very
     slow work items, and always at least one thread that won't.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
Matthew Wilcox 8e654fba4a sysctl: fix suid_dumpable and lease-break-time sysctls
Arne de Bruijn points out that commit
76fdbb25f9 ("coredump masking: bound
suid_dumpable sysctl") mistakenly limits lease-break-time instead of
suid_dumpable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Reported-by: Arne de Bruijn <kernelbt@arbruijn.dds.nl>
Cc: Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:05:01 -07:00
Kees Cook 3d43321b70 modules: sysctl to block module loading
Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since
there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system
bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25.

Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability
checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE.  Given existing /dev/mem protections, this
should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading
after initial boot-time module loading has finished.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-03 11:47:11 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan 704503d836 mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838

On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange
way from the user's point of view:

	# echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
	# cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
	499

So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported
back.

TICK_NSEC = 999848
ACTHZ = 256039

Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue
of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 9f8d979f08 softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c
CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP=y || CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASKS=y is now the only user
of the 'one' constant in kernel/sysctl.c. Move it to the softlockup
block of constants.

This fixes a GCC warning.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-12 17:08:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 871cafcc96 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup 2009-02-12 13:08:57 +01:00
Sven Wegener fc3501d411 mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit arches
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted
to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll
access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum
value.

[rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes']
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 6552ebae25 Merge branch 'core/debugobjects' into core/urgent 2009-01-22 10:03:02 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines e162b39a36 softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
Decoupling allows:

* hung tasks check to happen at very low priority

* hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks
  poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog)

* hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 14:06:04 +01:00
Doug Chapman 88fc241f54 [IA64] dump stack on kernel unaligned warnings
Often the cause of kernel unaligned access warnings is not
obvious from just the ip displayed in the warning.  This adds
the option via proc to dump the stack in addition to the warning.
The default is off (just display the 1 line warning).  To enable
the stack to be shown: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-dump-stack

Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-01-15 10:38:56 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 1e7bfb2134 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:29 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines baf48f6577 softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced
At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value,
touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh.

This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic
is enabled, the system will panic.

The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 11:48:07 +01:00
Paul Mundt dd8632a12e NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to
the nearest power-of-2 number of pages.  Currently it then discards the excess
pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other
things.  This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation.

To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming
behaviour.  The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while
this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular
watermark in order to have finer-grained control.

vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
David Rientjes 2da02997e0 mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctls
This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm:
dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes.

dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and
dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio.

With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer
sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of
dirtyable memory over the entire system.

dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in
bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system.  If either
of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory
that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback.

When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a
function of the written value.  For example, if dirty_bytes is written to
be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback.
dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of
dirtyable memory:

	dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache

	dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory

		AND

	dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory
		-or-
	dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory

Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be
specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be
specified.  When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read.

The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits
are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units.

Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by
get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user
written value between 0 and 100.  This restriction is maintained, but
dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page.

Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or
exceed dirty_ratio.  This restriction is maintained in addition to
restricting dirty_background_bytes.  If either background threshold equals
or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the
dirty threshold.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
David S. Miller e3c6d4ee54 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
2008-12-28 20:19:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Steven Rostedt f38f1d2aa5 trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer

The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)

This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.

A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:56:24 +01:00
David S. Miller 0871420fad sparc64: Add tsb-ratio sysctl.
Add a sysctl to tweak the RSS limit used to decide when to grow
the TSB for an address space.

In order to avoid expensive divides and multiplies only simply
positive and negative powers of two are supported.

The function computed takes the number of TSB translations that will
fit at one time in the TSB of a given size, and either adds or
subtracts a percentage of entries.  This final value is the
RSS limit.

See tsb_size_to_rss_limit().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-04 09:16:59 -08:00
Ingo Molnar b8307db247 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/core 2008-12-04 09:07:19 +01:00
James Morris ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Davide Libenzi 7ef9964e6d epoll: introduce resource usage limits
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface.  Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds.  To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced.  A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:

  max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user

  max_user_watches   = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user

The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM.  As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users.  The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.

This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC).  The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
David Howells 76aac0e9a1 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernel
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:12 +11:00
Peter Zijlstra 3299b4dd11 ftrace: sysctl typo
Impact: fix sysctl name typo

Steve must have needed more coffee ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 13:04:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e1e302d8a9 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-10-31 00:38:21 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 944ac4259e ftrace: ftrace dump on oops control
Impact: add (default-off) dump-trace-on-oops flag

Currently, ftrace is set up to dump its contents to the console if the
kernel panics or oops. This can be annoying if you have trace data in
the buffers and you experience an oops, but the trace data is old or
static.

Usually when you want ftrace to dump its contents is when you are debugging
your system and you have set up ftrace to trace the events leading to
an oops.

This patch adds a control variable called "ftrace_dump_on_oops" that will
enable the ftrace dump to console on oops. This variable is default off
but a developer can enable it either through the kernel command line
by adding "ftrace_dump_on_oops" or at run time by setting (or disabling)
/proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops.

v2:

   Replaced /** with /* as Randy explained that kernel-doc does
    not yet handle variables.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 15:03:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4944dd62de Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-27 10:50:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 133e887f90 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: disable the hrtick for now
  sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime
  sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks
  sched: optimize group load balancer
  sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup
  sched: kill unused scheduler decl.
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len
  sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
2008-10-23 09:37:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar debfcaf93e Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-22 09:08:14 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 606576ce81 ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 18:27:03 +02:00
Lee Schermerhorn af936a1606 vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl
This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable
lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective
zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them.

Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual
nodes' zones.

Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of
these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:31 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra ffda12a17a sched: optimize group load balancer
I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus
in the sched_domain. This hurts.

We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched
entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new
weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value.

This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never
be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance
in semi-stable situations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 14:05:02 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni ebf3f09c63 Configure out AIO support
This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1115067	 119180	 217088	1451335	 162547	vmlinux
1108025	 119048	 217088	1444161	 160941	vmlinux.new
  -7042    -132       0   -7174   -1C06 +/-

This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan f221e726bf sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
Andi Kleen 25ddbb18aa Make the taint flags reliable
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window
between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted
bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion.

Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit
operations on it.

Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it
anymore.

It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit
(since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8acd3a60bc Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (59 commits)
  svcrdma: Fix IRD/ORD polarity
  svcrdma: Update svc_rdma_send_error to use DMA LKEY
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC reply path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC recv path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Add support to svc_rdma_send to handle chained WR
  svcrdma: Modify post recv path to use local dma key
  svcrdma: Add a service to register a Fast Reg MR with the device
  svcrdma: Query device for Fast Reg support during connection setup
  svcrdma: Add FRMR get/put services
  NLM: Remove unused argument from svc_addsock() function
  NLM: Remove "proto" argument from lockd_up()
  NLM: Always start both UDP and TCP listeners
  lockd: Remove unused fields in the nlm_reboot structure
  lockd: Add helper to sanity check incoming NOTIFY requests
  lockd: change nlmclnt_grant() to take a "struct sockaddr *"
  lockd: Adjust nlmsvc_lookup_host() to accomodate AF_INET6 addresses
  lockd: Adjust nlmclnt_lookup_host() signature to accomodate non-AF_INET
  lockd: Support non-AF_INET addresses in nlm_lookup_host()
  NLM: Convert nlm_lookup_host() to use a single argument
  svcrdma: Add Fast Reg MR Data Types
  ...
2008-10-14 12:31:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
Thomas Petazzoni bfcd17a6c5 Configure out file locking features
This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove
support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock()
system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl()
and NFS support are disabled. These features are not necessarly needed
on embedded systems. It allows to save ~11 Kb of kernel code and data:

   text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
1125436        118764  212992 1457192  163c28 vmlinux.old
1114299        118564  212992 1445855  160fdf vmlinux
 -11137    -200       0  -11337   -2C49 +/-

This patch has originally been written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: matthew@wil.cx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-09-29 17:56:57 -04:00
David S. Miller 2e57572a50 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
2008-09-16 14:11:43 -07:00
David S. Miller 17f04fbb0f sysctl: Use header file for sysctl knob declarations on sparc.
This also takes care of a sparse warning as scons_pwroff's definition
point.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 23:33:53 -07:00