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Linus Torvalds e6d5a11dad Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: fix new task startup crash
  sched: fix !SYSFS build breakage
  sched: fix improper load balance across sched domain
  sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
2007-10-17 09:11:18 -07:00
Adrian Bunk cbfee34520 security/ cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups that are now possible:
- remove the unused security_operations->inode_xattr_getsuffix
- remove the no longer used security_operations->unregister_security
- remove some no longer required exit code
- remove a bunch of no longer used exports

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 57c521ce61 ifdef struct task_struct::security
For those who don't care about CONFIG_SECURITY.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d2da272a4e migration_call(CPU_DEAD): use spin_lock_irq() instead of task_rq_lock()
Change migration_call(CPU_DEAD) to use direct spin_lock_irq() instead of
task_rq_lock(rq->idle), rq->idle can't change its task_rq().

This makes the code a bit more symmetrical with migrate_dead_tasks()'s path
which uses spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov f7b4cddcc5 do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(tasklist)
Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under
write_lock_irq(tasklist).  This means it can't use task_lock() which is
needed to improve migrating to take task's ->cpuset into account.

Change the code to call move_task_off_dead_cpu() with irqs enabled, and
change migrate_live_tasks() to use read_lock(tasklist).

This all is a preparation for the futher changes proposed by Cliff Wickman, see
	http://marc.info/?t=117327786100003

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Akinobu Mita d58ae67813 module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
load_module() returns zero when mod_sysfs_init() fails, then the module
loading will succeed accidentally.

This patch makes load_module() return error correctly in that case.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 28e3fed8b7 Compile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels
Compiling handle_percpu_irq only on uniprocessor generates an artificial
special case so a typical use like:

  set_irq_chip_and_handler(irq, &some_irq_type, handle_percpu_irq);

needs to be conditionally compiled only on SMP systems as well and an
alternative UP construct is usually needed - for no good reason.

This fixes uniprocessor configurations for some MIPS SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Andrey Mirkin fd5eea4214 change inotifyfs magic as the same magic is used for futexfs
Right now futexfs and inotifyfs have one magic 0xBAD1DEA, that looks a
little bit confusing.  Use 0xBAD1DEA as magic for futexfs and 0x2BAD1DEA as
magic for inotifyfs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Acked-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>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov db8906da59 Use KMEM_CACHE macro to create the nsproxy cache
The blessed way for standard caches is to use it.  Besides, this may give
this cache a better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 970a8645ca user.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes
For those who deselect POSIX message queues.

Reduces SLAB size of user_struct from 64 to 32 bytes here, SLUB size -- from
40 bytes to 32 bytes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 40aeb400f6 user.c: deinline
Save some space because uid_hash_find() has 3 callsites.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Jan Beulich 22e48eaf58 constify string/array kparam tracking structures
.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Adrian Bunk b012d346c0 make kernel/profile.c:time_hook static
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0732a552cb kernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototype
kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(),
but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Avi Kivity e98c320291 Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k).  On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).

So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.

Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.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>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 42b2dd0a02 Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are
really used if futexes are on.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi bcbba6c10e add-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.  Old vmcoreinfo macros
were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is
impossible to grep for them.  So these names should be changed.  This
discussion is the following:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi 6cfa062f01 add-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data.
  The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed
  the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint.
  So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch
  to let the kernel output them.
  makedumpfile site:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi d768281e97 add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html
- vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that
  the compiler can check its use.
- vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t.
- Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec.
- Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi fd59d231f8 Add vmcoreinfo
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.  It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis.  To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information.  These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.  As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 13fbcb7312 do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()
do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

	* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
	* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.

I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 6db840fa78 exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec
de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks
if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code
to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics.

This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something
better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c17ac85504 Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request.

The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the
preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU.  This patch changes
rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface
(relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader
thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and
also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed
kernel modules such as rcutorture.

Passes several hours of rcutorture.

[ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
john stultz b2d9323d13 Use num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for timer distribution
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the
cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant.  However, I used NR_CPUS,
which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your
kernel config.  This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we
spread it as evenly as possible on every machine.

Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk ba2a631b14 kernel/time/timekeeping.c: cleanups
- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock
- remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - xtime
  - xtime_lock

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 715015e8da wait_task_stopped/continued: remove unneeded p->signal != NULL check
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a
valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children
and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist).

Remove unneeded checks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 18442cf28a __group_complete_signal: eliminate unneeded wakeup of ->group_exit_task
Cleanup.  __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice.  The
second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very
appropriate.

Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill
now unneeded wake_up_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 442a10cf9e wait_task_zombie: don't fight with non-existing race with a dying ptracee
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are
bogus.  We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did
not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need
write_lock(tasklist) to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov ebca4cda11 zap_other_threads: don't optimize thread_group_empty() case
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations,
this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one
line below.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 3ae4cbadf4 exit_notify: don't take tasklist for TIF_SIGPENDING re-targeting
->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 2f4e6e2a81 wait_task_zombie: fix 2/3 races vs forget_original_parent()
Two threads, T1 and T2.  T2 ptraces P, and P is not a child of ptracer's
thread group.  P exits and goes to TASK_ZOMBIE.

T1 does wait_task_zombie(P):

	P->exit_state = TASK_DEAD;
	...
	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

					T2 does exit(), takes tasklist,
					forget_original_parent() does
					__ptrace_unlink(P) but doesn't
					call do_notify_parent(P) because
					p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD.

Now, P is not visible to our process: __ptrace_unlink() removed it from
->children. We should send notification to P->parent and release P if and
only if SIGCHLD is ignored.

And we have 3 bugs:

1. P->parent does do_wait() and gets -ECHILD (P is on ->parent->children,
   but its state is TASK_DEAD).

2. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (put_user(...)) {
		// TODO: is this safe?
		p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
		return;
	}

   we return without notification/release, task_struct leaked.

   Solution: ignore -EFAULT and proceed. It is an application's bug if
   we can't fill infop/stat_addr (in case of VM_FAULT_OOM we have much
   more problems).

3. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (p->real_parent != p->parent) {
		// Not taken, it was untraced'ed
		...
	}

	release_task(p);

   we released the task which we shouldn't.

   Solution: check ->real_parent != ->parent before, under tasklist_lock,
   but use ptrace_unlink() instead of __ptrace_unlink() to check ->ptrace.

This patch hopefully solves 2 and 3, the 1st bug will be fixed later, we need
some cleanups in forget_original_parent/reparent_thread.

However, the first race is very unlikely and not critical, so I hope it makes
sense to fix 1 and 2 for now.

4. Small cleanup: don't "restore" EXIT_ZOMBIE unless we know we are not going
   to realease the child.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 407af46a96 wait_task_zombie: remove unneeded child->signal check
A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and
__exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 84eb646b6e handle the multi-threaded init's exit() properly
With or without this patch, multi-threaded init's are not fully supported,
but do_exit() is completely wrong.  This becomes a real problem when we
support pid namespaces.

1. do_exit() panics when the main thread of /sbin/init exits. It should not
   until the whole thread group exits. Move the code below, under the
   "if (group_dead)" check.

   Note: this means that forget_original_parent() can use an already dead
   child_reaper()'s task_struct. This is OK for /sbin/init because

   	- do_wait() from alive sub-thread still can reap a zombie, we iterate
   	  over all sub-thread's ->children lists

   	- do_notify_parent() will wakeup some alive sub-thread because it sends
   	  the group-wide signal

   However, we should remove choose_new_parent()->BUG_ON(reaper->exit_state)
   for this.

2. We are playing games with ->nsproxy->pid_ns. This code is bogus today, and
   it has to be changed anyway when we really support pid namespaces, just
   remove it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 045f902de5 do_sigaction: remove now unneeded recalc_sigpending()
With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can
never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the
thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d2ee7198cc pi-futex: set PF_EXITING without taking ->pi_lock
It is a bit annoying that do_exit() takes ->pi_lock to set PF_EXITING.  All
we need is to synchronize with lookup_pi_state() which saw this task
without PF_EXITING under ->pi_lock.

Change do_exit() to use spin_unlock_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 0b15d04af3 printk: add interfaces for external access to the log buffer
Add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer.  The intention is for
them to be used by recovery/dump/debug code so the kernel log can be easily
retrieved/parsed in a crash scenario, but they are generic enough for other
people to dream up other fun uses.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: buncha fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
Adrian Bunk a4d63e729e kernel/rtmutex-debug.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the needlessly global variable rt_trace_on static
- remove the unused global function deadlock_trace_off()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
Roland McGrath 6d76013381 Add /sys/module/name/notes
This patch adds the /sys/module/<name>/notes/ magic directory, which has a
file for each allocated SHT_NOTE section that appears in <name>.ko.  This
is the counterpart for each module of /sys/kernel/notes for vmlinux.
Reading this delivers the contents of the module's SHT_NOTE sections.  This
lets userland easily glean any detailed information about that module's
build that was stored there at compile time (e.g.  by ld --build-id).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
David Woodhouse 1d99493b3a Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ trigger on free_irq()
Andy Gospodarek pointed out that because we return in the middle of the
free_irq() function, we never actually do call the IRQ handler that just
got deregistered. This should fix it, although I expect Andrew will want
to convert those 'return's to 'break'. That's a separate change though.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell af49d9248f Remove "unsafe" from module struct
Adrian Bunk points out that "unsafe" was used to mark modules touched by
the deprecated MOD_INC_USE_COUNT interface, which has long gone.  It's time
to remove the member from the module structure, as well.

If you want a module which can't unload, don't register an exit function.

(Vlad Yasevich says SCTP is now safe to unload, so just remove the
__unsafe there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
Avi Kivity bf020cb7b3 time: simplify smp_call_function_single() call sequence
smp_call_function_single() now knows how to call the function on the
current cpu.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Jesper Juhl a9022e9cb9 Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	kernel/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 040b5c6f95 SLAB_PANIC more (proc, posix-timers, shmem)
These aren't modular, so SLAB_PANIC is OK.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai c4f3b63fe1 softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter
Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings.  This is useful for
debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify
possible softlockups earlier.

This patch:
1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s
   (Higher value to disable false positives)
2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"]
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar a5f2ce3c60 softlockup watchdog: style cleanups
kernel/softirq.c grew a few style uncleanlinesses in the past few
months, clean that up. No functional changes:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1126      76       4    1206     4b6 softlockup.o.before
   1129      76       4    1209     4b9 softlockup.o.after

( the 3 bytes .text increase is due to the "<1>" appended to one of
  the printk messages. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 43581a1007 softlockup: improve debug output
Improve the debuggability of kernel lockups by enhancing the debug
output of the softlockup detector: print the task that causes the lockup
and try to print a more intelligent backtrace.

The old format was:

  BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!
   [<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
   [<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
   [<c0105f59>] dump_stack+0x14/0x16
   [<c015f6bc>] softlockup_tick+0xbe/0xd0
   [<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
   [<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
   [<c0145fb8>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
   [<c0140a75>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
   [<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   [<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
   [<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
   =======================

The new format is:

  BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! [prctl:2363]

  Pid: 2363, comm:                prctl
  EIP: 0060:[<c013915f>] CPU: 1
  EIP is at sys_prctl+0x24/0x18c
   EFLAGS: 00000213    Not tainted  (2.6.22-cfs-v20 #26)
  EAX: 00000001 EBX: 000003e7 ECX: 00000001 EDX: f6df0000
  ESI: 000003e7 EDI: 000003e7 EBP: f6df0fb0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: 4d8c3340 CR3: 3731d000 CR4: 000006d0
   [<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
   [<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
   [<c01040be>] show_regs+0x1ab/0x1b3
   [<c015f807>] softlockup_tick+0xef/0x108
   [<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
   [<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
   [<c0145fcc>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
   [<c0140a89>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
   [<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   [<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
   [<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
   =======================

Note that in the old format we only knew that some system call locked
up, we didnt know _which_. With the new format we know that it's at a
specific place in sys_prctl(). [which was where i created an artificial
kernel lockup to test the new format.]

This is also useful if the lockup happens in user-space - the user-space
EIP (and other registers) will be printed too. (such a lockup would
either suggest that the task was running at SCHED_FIFO:99 and looping
for more than 10 seconds, or that the softlockup detector has a
false-positive.)

The task name is printed too first, just in case we dont manage to print
a useful backtrace.

[satyam@infradead.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar a115d5caca fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work
this Xen related commit:

   commit 966812dc98
   Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
   Date:   Tue May 8 00:28:02 2007 -0700

       Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

broke the softlockup watchdog to never report any lockups. (!)

print_timestamp defaults to 0, this makes the following condition
always true:

	if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) ||

and we'll in essence never report soft lockups.

apparently the functionality of the soft lockup watchdog was never
actually tested with that patch applied ...

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar a3b13c23f1 softlockup: use cpu_clock() instead of sched_clock()
sched_clock() is not a reliable time-source, use cpu_clock() instead.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
David Rientjes bbe373f2c6 oom: compare cpuset mems_allowed instead of exclusive ancestors
Instead of testing for overlap in the memory nodes of the the nearest
exclusive ancestor of both current and the candidate task, it is better to
simply test for intersection between the task's mems_allowed in their task
descriptors.  This does not require taking callback_mutex since it is only
used as a hint in the badness scoring.

Tasks that do not have an intersection in their mems_allowed with the current
task are not explicitly restricted from being OOM killed because it is quite
possible that the candidate task has allocated memory there before and has
since changed its mems_allowed.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
David Rientjes fe071d7e8a oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill
the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a
memory-hogging target.  This is helpful for systems with an insanely large
number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades
performance.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00