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2010-09-23rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing modelsPaul E. McKenney3-3/+13
The current tracing data is not sufficient to deduce the average time that a callback spends waiting for a grace period to end. Add three per-CPU counters recording the number of callbacks invoked (ci), the number of callbacks orphaned (co), and the number of callbacks adopted (ca). Given the existing callback queue length (ql), the average wait time in absence of CPU hotplug operations is ql/ci. The units of wait time will be in terms of the duration over which ci was measured. In the presence of CPU hotplug operations, there is room for argument, but ql/(ci-co+ca) won't steer you too far wrong. Also fixes a typo called out by Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-23rcu: fix sparse errors in rcutorture.cPaul E. McKenney1-4/+7
Add the sparse __rcu address-space identifier and make a couple of variables static. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-23kernel: Remove undead ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOCChristian Dietrich1-2/+0
The CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC ifdef isn't necessary at this point, because it is checked in an outer ifdef level already and has no effect here. Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <qy03fugy@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-02rcu: fix _oddness handling of verbose stall warningsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE depends on CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, but rcu_bootup_announce_oddness() complains if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE is not set even in the case of CONFIG_TREE_RCU. This commit therefore fixes rcu_bootup_announce_oddness() to avoid insisting on impossibilities. Reported-by: Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-27rcu: performance fixes to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU callback checkingPaul E. McKenney1-4/+8
This commit tightens up checks in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() to avoid unnecessary special handling at rcu_read_unlock() time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar11-81/+697
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu
2010-08-21workqueue: Add basic tracepoints to track workqueue executionArjan van de Ven1-0/+9
With the introduction of the new unified work queue thread pools, we lost one feature: It's no longer possible to know which worker is causing the CPU to wake out of idle. The result is that PowerTOP now reports a lot of "kworker/a:b" instead of more readable results. This patch adds a pair of tracepoints to the new workqueue code, similar in style to the timer/hrtimer tracepoints. With this pair of tracepoints, the next PowerTOP can correctly report which work item caused the wakeup (and how long it took): Interrupt (43) i915 time 3.51ms wakeups 141 Work ieee80211_iface_work time 0.81ms wakeups 29 Work do_dbs_timer time 0.55ms wakeups 24 Process Xorg time 21.36ms wakeups 4 Timer sched_rt_period_timer time 0.01ms wakeups 1 Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-21mm: make the vma list be doubly linkedLinus Torvalds1-2/+5
It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it doubly linked instead. Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-20kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r()Andrea Righi1-0/+9
kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal helper function. Add it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-20rcu: apply TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedup to TREE_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney1-2/+4
Replace one of the ACCESS_ONCE() calls in each of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock() with barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the potential compiler-optimization-induced bug noted by Mathieu Desnoyers. Located-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney1-9/+0
The CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU kernel configuration parameter was recently re-introduced, but as an indication of the type of RCU (preemptible vs. non-preemptible) instead of as selecting a given implementation. This commit uses CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU to combine duplicate code from include/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h into include/linux/rcupdate.h. This commit also combines a few other pieces of duplicate code that have accumulated. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEsPaul E. McKenney2-7/+0
Combine the duplicate definitions of ULONG_CMP_GE(), ULONG_CMP_LT(), and rcu_preempt_depth() into include/linux/rcupdate.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20rcu: permit suppressing current grace period's CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney3-0/+39
When using a kernel debugger, a long sojourn in the debugger can get you lots of RCU CPU stall warnings once you resume. This might not be helpful, especially if you are using the system console. This patch therefore allows RCU CPU stall warnings to be suppressed, but only for the duration of the current set of grace periods. This differs from Jason's original patch in that it adds support for tiny RCU and preemptible RCU, and uses a slightly different method for suppressing the RCU CPU stall warning messages. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-20rcu: refer RCU CPU stall-warning victims to stallwarn.txtPaul E. McKenney1-2/+10
There is some documentation on RCU CPU stall warnings contained in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt, but it will not be apparent to someone who runs into such a warning while under time pressure. This commit therefore adds comments preceding the printk()s pointing out the location of this documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney3-22/+594
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19rcu: Allow RCU CPU stall warnings to be off at boot, but manually enablablePaul E. McKenney2-1/+7
Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled immediately upon boot. They can be manually disabled via /sys (and also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic. However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time, but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting. For example, someone running a real-time application in production might not want the additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes. This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior (enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at boot time. Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19rcu: allow RCU CPU stall warning messages to be controlled in /sysPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
Set the permissions of the rcu_cpu_stall_suppress to 644 to enable RCU CPU stall warnings to be enabled and disabled at runtime via sysfs. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19rcu: improve kerneldoc for rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and synchronize_rcu()Paul E. McKenney1-3/+5
Make it explicit that new RCU read-side critical sections that start after call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() start might still be running after the end of the relevant grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19rcu: add boot parameter to suppress RCU CPU stall warning messagesPaul E. McKenney1-3/+8
Although the RCU CPU stall warning messages are a very good way to alert people to a problem, once alerted, it is sometimes helpful to shut them off in order to avoid obscuring other messages that might be being used to track down the problem. Although you can rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR=n, this is sometimes inconvenient. This commit therefore adds a boot parameter named "rcu_cpu_stall_suppress" that shuts these messages off without requiring a rebuild (though a reboot might be needed for those not brave enough to patch their kernel while it is running). This message-suppression was already in place for the panic case, so this commit need only rename the variable and export it via module_param(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19rcu: make CPU stall warning timeout configurablePaul E. McKenney1-2/+3
Also set the default to 60 seconds, up from the previous hard-coded timeout of 10 seconds. This allows people who care to set short timeouts, while avoiding people with unusual configurations (make randconfig!!!) from being bothered with spurious CPU stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19Add RCU check for find_task_by_vpid().Tetsuo Handa1-0/+1
find_task_by_vpid() says "Must be called under rcu_read_lock().". But due to commit 3120438 "rcu: Disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitives", we are currently unable to catch "find_task_by_vpid() with tasklist_lock held but RCU lock not held" errors due to the RCU-lockdep checks being suppressed in the RCU variants of the struct list_head traversals. This commit therefore places an explicit check for being in an RCU read-side critical section in find_task_by_pid_ns(). =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/pid.c:386 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by rc.sysinit/1102: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<c1048340>] sys_setpgid+0x40/0x160 stack backtrace: Pid: 1102, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dirty #1 Call Trace: [<c105e714>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x94/0xb0 [<c104b4cd>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x6d/0x70 [<c104b4e8>] find_task_by_vpid+0x18/0x20 [<c1048347>] sys_setpgid+0x47/0x160 [<c1002b50>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36 Commit updated to use a new rcu_lockdep_assert() exported API rather than the old internal __do_rcu_dereference(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19rcu: simplify the usage of percpu dataLai Jiangshan4-31/+19
&percpu_data is compatible with allocated percpu data. And we use it and remove the "->rda[NR_CPUS]" array, saving significant storage on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This does add an additional level of indirection and thus an additional cache line referenced, but because ->rda is not used on the read side, this is OK. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19rcutorture: add random preemptionLai Jiangshan1-0/+6
Add random preemption to help we to torture the preemptable rcu. srcu_read_delay() also calls rcu_read_delay() for shorter delays. Added comment to preempt_schedule() call indicating that no quiescent states happen if preemption is disabled. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19cgroups: __rcu annotationsArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19rculist: avoid __rcu annotationsArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
This avoids warnings from missing __rcu annotations in the rculist implementation, making it possible to use the same lists in both RCU and non-RCU cases. We can add rculist annotations later, together with lockdep support for rculist, which is missing as well, but that may involve changing all the users. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparsePaul E. McKenney1-2/+4
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier. This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(), or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism. There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer() accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock. This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing their age. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+5
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: fs: brlock vfsmount_lock fs: scale files_lock lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks tty: fix fu_list abuse fs: cleanup files_lock locking fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock apparmor: use task path helpers fs: dentry allocation consolidation fs: fix do_lookup false negative mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries hostfs ->follow_link() braino hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy remove SWRITE* I/O types kill BH_Ordered flag vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl cramfs: only unlock new inodes fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
2010-08-18Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds4-68/+163
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len) tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
2010-08-18fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlockNick Piggin1-5/+5
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small. Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a real parallelism increase. Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical path lookup fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-17Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: vt,console,kdb: preserve console_blanked while in kdb vt: fix regression warnings from KMS merge arm,kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used kgdb: add missing __percpu markup in arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c kdb: fix compile error without CONFIG_KALLSYMS
2010-08-17Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()Daniel J Blueman1-3/+2
Using a program like the following: #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main() { id_t id; siginfo_t infop; pid_t res; id = fork(); if (id == 0) { sleep(1); exit(0); } kill(id, SIGSTOP); alarm(1); waitid(P_PID, id, &infop, WCONTINUED); return 0; } to call waitid() on a stopped process results in access to the child task's credentials without the RCU read lock being held - which may be replaced in the meantime - eliciting the following warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/exit.c:1460 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 2 locks held by waitid02/22252: #0: (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [<ffffffff81061ce5>] do_wait+0xc5/0x310 #1: (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810611da>] wait_consider_task+0x19a/0xbe0 stack backtrace: Pid: 22252, comm: waitid02 Not tainted 2.6.35-323cd+ #3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81095da4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa4/0xc0 [<ffffffff81061b31>] wait_consider_task+0xaf1/0xbe0 [<ffffffff81061d15>] do_wait+0xf5/0x310 [<ffffffff810620b6>] sys_waitid+0x86/0x1f0 [<ffffffff8105fce0>] ? child_wait_callback+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff81003282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This is fixed by holding the RCU read lock in wait_task_continued() to ensure that the task's current credentials aren't destroyed between us reading the cred pointer and us reading the UID from those credentials. Furthermore, protect wait_task_stopped() in the same way. We don't need to keep holding the RCU read lock once we've read the UID from the credentials as holding the RCU read lock doesn't stop the target task from changing its creds under us - so the credentials may be outdated immediately after we've read the pointer, lock or no lock. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-17Make do_execve() take a const filename pointerDavid Howells1-1/+3
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-16kdb: fix compile error without CONFIG_KALLSYMSJason Wessel2-2/+9
If CONFIG_KGDB_KDB is set and CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not set the kernel will fail to build with the error: kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_next': kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:237: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms' kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_complete': kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:193: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms' The kdb_walk_kallsyms needs a #ifdef proper header to match the C implementation. This patch also fixes the compiler warnings in kdb_support.c when compiling without CONFIG_KALLSYMS set. The compiler warnings are a result of the kallsyms_lookup() macro not initializing the two of the pass by reference variables. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-08-16Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-3' of ↵Steven Rostedt4-68/+163
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into trace/tip/perf/urgent-4 Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_events.c Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-13tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len)Marcin Slusarz1-3/+8
When userspace code writes non-new-line-terminated string to trace_marker file, write handler appends new-line and returns number of bytes written to trace buffer, so write(fd, "abc", 3) will return 4 That's unexpected and unfortunately it confuses glibc's fprintf function. Example: int main() { fprintf(stderr, "abc"); return 0; } $ gcc test.c -o test $ echo mmiotrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer $ ./test 2>/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker results in infinite loop: write(fd, "abc", 3) = 4 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 (...) ...and kernel trace buffer full of empty markers. Fix it by sanitizing write return value. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100727231801.GB2826@joi.lan> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-13time: Workaround gcc loop optimization that causes 64bit div errorsJohn Stultz1-3/+4
Early 4.3 versions of gcc apparently aggressively optimize the raw time accumulation loop, replacing it with a divide. On 32bit systems, this causes the following link errors: undefined reference to `__umoddi3' undefined reference to `__udivdi3' The gcc issue has been fixed in 4.4 and greater. This patch replaces the accumulation loop with a do_div, as suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> CC: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (and the accompanying commit c1e5c954020e "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at all). The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with f_count handling. Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_fileSteven Rostedt1-67/+141
Two new events were added that broke the current format output. Both from the SCSI system: scsi_dispatch_cmd_done and scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout The reason is that their print_fmt exceeded a page size. Since the output of the format used simple_read_from_buffer and trace_seq, it was limited to a page size in output. This patch converts the printing of the format of an event into seq_file, which allows greater than a page size to be shown. I diffed all event formats comparing the output with and without this patch. All matched except for the above two, which showed just: FORMAT TOO BIG without this patch, but now properly displays the output with this patch. v2: Remove updating *pos in seq start function. [ Thanks to Li Zefan for pointing that out ] Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-12Merge branch 'params' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-72/+161
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits) param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes. param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes. param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters param: remove unnecessary writable charp param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h param: locking for kernel parameters param: make param sections const. param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters) param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops. param: silence .init.text references from param ops Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver. nfs: update for module_param_named API change AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions. ...
2010-08-12timekeeping: Fix overflow in rawtime tv_nsec on 32 bit archsJason Wessel1-4/+7
The tv_nsec is a long and when added to the shifted interval it can wrap and become negative which later causes looping problems in the getrawmonotonic(). The edge case occurs when the system has slept for a short period of time of ~2 seconds. A trace printk of the values in this patch illustrate the problem: ftrace time stamp: log 43.716079: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec d687faa 43.718513: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec da588bd 43.722161: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 3d0913 tv_nsec de291d0 46.349925: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 7a122600 tv_nsec e1f9ae3 46.349930: logarithmic_accumulation: raw: 1e848980 tv_nsec 8831c0e3 The kernel starts looping at 46.349925 in the getrawmonotonic() due to the negative value from adding the raw value to tv_nsec. A simple solution is to accumulate into a u64, and then normalize it to a timespec_t. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> [ Reworked variable names and simplified some of the code. - John ] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printksDavid Howells1-4/+0
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12block: add secure discardAdrian Hunter1-0/+8
Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be erased. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12kernel/kfifo.c: add handling of chained scatterlistsStefani Seibold1-7/+6
The current kfifo scatterlist implementation will not work with chained scatterlists. It assumes that struct scatterlist arrays are allocated contiguously, which is not the case when chained scatterlists (struct sg_table) are in use. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+2
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: isofs: Fix lseek() to position beyond 4 GB vfs: remove unused MNT_STRICTATIME vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc vfs: only add " (deleted)" where necessary vfs: add prepend_path() helper vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry ia64: perfmon: add d_dname method vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems V7: Adjust sanity checks for some volumes Add v7 alias v9fs: fixup for inode_setattr being removed Manual merge to take Al's version of the fs/sysv/super.c file: it merged cleanly, but Al had removed an unnecessary header include, so his side was better.
2010-08-11kfifo: replace the old non generic APIStefani Seibold2-898/+453
Simply replace the whole kfifo.c and kfifo.h files with the new generic version and fix the kerneldoc API template file. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11kfifo: add the new generic kfifo APIStefani Seibold1-0/+602
Add the new version of the kfifo API files kfifo.c and kfifo.h. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11kexec: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() failuresDan Carpenter1-3/+5
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes remaining to be copied. It never returns a negative value. The correct return code is -EFAULT and not -EIO. All the callers check for non-zero returns so that's Ok, but the return code is passed to the user so we should fix this. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> 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>
2010-08-11lib/bug.c: add oops end marker to WARN implementationAnton Blanchard1-1/+1
We are missing the oops end marker for the exception based WARN implementation in lib/bug.c. This is useful for logfile analysis tools. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer modeTAMUKI Shoichi1-32/+26
To keep panic_timeout accuracy when running under a hypervisor, the current implementation only spins on long time (1 second) calls to mdelay. That brings a good effect, but the problem is the keyboard LEDs don't blink at all on that situation. This patch changes to call to panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay and keeps blinking in spite of long spin timer mode. The time to call to mdelay is now 100ms. Even this change will keep panic_timeout accuracy enough when running under a hypervisor. Signed-off-by: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11pids: alloc_pidmap: remove the unnecessary boundary checksOleg Nesterov1-10/+7
alloc_pidmap() calculates max_scan so that if the initial offset != 0 we inspect the first map->page twice. This is correct, we want to find the unused bits < offset in this bitmap block. Add the comment. But it doesn't make any sense to stop the find_next_offset() loop when we are looking into this map->page for the second time. We have already already checked the bits >= offset during the first attempt, it is fine to do this again, no matter if we succeed this time or not. Remove this hard-to-understand code. It optimizes the very unlikely case when we are going to fail, but slows down the more likely case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.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>