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2008-12-30Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+11
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2 locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2 x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7 proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[] irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
2008-12-30Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-3/+83
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds1-0/+7
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits) allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko kbuild: simplify use of genksyms kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh kbuild: fix make tags/cscope kbuild: fix make incompatibility kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE setlocalversion: add git-svn support setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision scripts: improve the decodecode script scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes genksyms: track symbol checksum changes tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent ...
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds2-15/+21
* '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.
2008-12-25rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures tooIngo Molnar1-0/+74
Impact: build fix Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the moving of the RCU options there broke their build: In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81, from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69, from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9: /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration" Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture includes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALLJan Beulich1-0/+7
Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y. Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64) kernels I tested with. The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms- internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking stage. While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure here is. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-18"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementationPaul E. McKenney1-6/+12
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended to replace classic RCU. This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree. Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be most welcome. Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny (which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing detailed line-by-line documentation. Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334): o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough, including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization, and removing redundant local variables. I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl in case the machine is smarter than I am. A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or masochism: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time ago by Lai Jiangshan. o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated documentation to suit. Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139): o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs. o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch. o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global variables. o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it). o Apply checkpatch fixes. Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291): o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty convincing me was real. ;-) o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo Molnar. o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/). The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below. o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON() condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers in dynticks interface functions. o Add more data to tracing. o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure. o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting. o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough CPUs... Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448): o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints. o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan on the stall-detection code. o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds. o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces at boot time if stall detection is configured. o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters, which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly. Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line): o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting this option). o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect totals to be printed. o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be on the people reading it as well, but so it goes. o A number of optimizations and usability improvements: o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when there is no grace period in progress. o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global lock in the case where there is no grace period in progress. o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout. o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling clock interrupt. o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't completely trust this change, and might back it out. o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior confusion. o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt and rcutree. Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line: o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-) o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure, avoiding the duplicated accounting. o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU out of dynticks-idle mode. o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!). For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-) o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes. Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy, greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines. This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on 128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where "sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the 2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion. See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from 2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2). We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said, I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas. This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on 64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted (in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs. If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.) In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on very large systems. Some shortcomings: o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing line-by-line code inspection. Patches will be provided as required. o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than mainline. Patches will be provided as required. o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger than rcuclassic. A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing, and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic. Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not worth it", so am putting it aside. Credits: o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted, as well as some good friendly competition. ;-) o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers, Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton for reviews and comments. o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues (see patches below). o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos, Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changesYinghai Lu1-0/+11
Impact: new feature Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case. To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of irq_desc pointers. When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc, this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls request_irq()). This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris1-1/+1
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>
2008-11-23init/main.c: use ktime accessor function in initcall_debug codeWill Newton1-1/+1
Impact: fix initcall debug output on non-scalar ktime platforms (32-bit embedded) The initcall_debug code access the tv64 member of ktime. This won't work correctly for large deltas on platforms that don't use the scalar ktime implementation. Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar1-4/+4
Conflicts: kernel/trace/ftrace.c [ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-18Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers sched: fix kernel warning on /proc/sched_debug access sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/Kconfig
2008-11-16markers: auto enable tracepoints (new API : trace_mark_tp())Mathieu Desnoyers1-0/+1
Impact: new API Add a new API trace_mark_tp(), which declares a marker within a tracepoint probe. When the marker is activated, the tracepoint is automatically enabled. No branch test is used at the marker site, because it would be a duplicate of the branch already present in the tracepoint. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-14Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris1-3/+3
Conflicts: security/keys/internal.h security/keys/process_keys.c security/keys/request_key.c Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Inaugurate COW credentialsDavid Howells1-0/+1
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks. A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to access or modify its own credentials. A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to execve(). With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified and committed using something like the following sequence of events: struct cred *new = prepare_creds(); int ret = blah(new); if (ret < 0) { abort_creds(new); return ret; } return commit_creds(new); There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter the keys in a keyring in use by another task. To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be modified, except under special circumstances: (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented. (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced. The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be added by a later patch). This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux testsuite. This patch makes several logical sets of alteration: (1) execve(). This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the security code rather than altering the current creds directly. (2) Temporary credential overrides. do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex on the thread being dumped. This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering the task's objective credentials. (3) LSM interface. A number of functions have been changed, added or removed: (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check() (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set() Removed in favour of security_capset(). (*) security_capset(), ->capset() New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the new creds, are now const. (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds() Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be killed if it's an error. (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security() Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds(). (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free() New. Free security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare() New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit() New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new security by commit_creds(). (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid() Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid(). (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid() Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid(). (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init() Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred directly to init's credentials. NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no longer records the sid of the thread that forked it. (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc() (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission() Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to refer to the security context. (4) sys_capset(). This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it calls have been merged. (5) reparent_to_kthreadd(). This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using commit_thread() to point that way. (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid() __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if successful. switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting __sigqueue_alloc(). (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups. The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying it. security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished. The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds(). Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into commit_creds(). The get functions all simply access the data directly. (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl(). security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly rather than through an argument. Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even if it doesn't end up using it. (9) Keyrings. A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code: (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly. They may want separating out again later. (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer rather than a task pointer to specify the security context. (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread keyring. (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them. (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for process or session keyrings (they're shared). (10) Usermode helper. The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process after it has been cloned. call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call. call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the supplied keyring as the new session keyring. (11) SELinux. SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM interface changes mentioned above: (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the lock. (12) is_single_threaded(). This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now wants to use it too. The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD). (13) nfsd. The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches in this series have been applied. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-13Kconfig: SLUB is the default slab allocatorSimon Arlott1-3/+3
In 2007, a0acd820807680d2ccc4ef3448387fcdbf152c73 changed the default slab allocator to SLUB, but the SLAB help text still says SLAB is the default. This change fixes that. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-13sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/KconfigAdrian Knoth1-1/+1
init/Kconfig directs the user to Documentation/sched-rt-group.txt, but the file is actually in Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt. This patch corrects the pathname mentioned in init/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12tracing/fastboot: Use the ring-buffer timestamp for initcall entriesFrederic Weisbecker1-15/+17
Impact: Split the boot tracer entries in two parts: call and return Now that we are using the sched tracer from the boot tracer, we want to use the same timestamp than the ring-buffer to have consistent time captures between sched events and initcall events. So we get rid of the old time capture by the boot tracer and split the initcall events in two parts: call and return. This way we have the ring buffer timestamp of both. An example trace: [ 27.904149584] calling net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 @ 1 [ 27.904429624] initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.904575926] calling reboot_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1 [ 27.904655399] initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.904800228] calling sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.905142914] initcall sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.905287211] calling ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 @ 1 ##### CPU 0 buffer started #### init-1 [000] 27.905395: 1:120:R + [001] 11:115:S ##### CPU 1 buffer started #### <idle>-0 [001] 27.905425: 0:140:R ==> [001] 11:115:R init-1 [000] 27.905426: 1:120:D ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905431: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905451: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905456: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905458: 11:115:R + [001] 14:115:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905459: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905462: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905462: 11:115:R ==> [001] 14:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905467: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905470: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905473: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905476: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905479: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905482: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905486: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-14 [001] 27.905499: 14:120:X ==> [001] 11:115:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905506: 11:115:R + [000] 1:120:D <idle>-0 [000] 27.905515: 0:140:R ==> [000] 1:120:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905517: 11:115:S ==> [001] 0:140:R [ 27.905557107] initcall ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 returned 0 after 3906 msecs [ 27.905705736] calling init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 27.905779239] initcall init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.906769814] calling pm_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.906853627] initcall pm_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.906997803] calling pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1 [ 27.907076946] initcall pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907222556] calling swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.907294325] initcall swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907439620] calling stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 @ 1 init-1 [000] 27.907485: 1:120:R + [000] 2:115:S init-1 [000] 27.907490: 1:120:D ==> [000] 2:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907507: 2:115:R + [001] 15:115:R <idle>-0 [001] 27.907517: 0:140:R ==> [001] 15:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907517: 2:115:D ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.907521: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.907524: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R udevd-15 [001] 27.907527: 15:115:D + [000] 2:115:D ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.907537: 4:115:S ==> [000] 2:115:R udevd-15 [001] 27.907537: 15:115:D ==> [001] 0:140:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907546: 2:115:R + [000] 1:120:D kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907550: 2:115:S ==> [000] 1:120:R init-1 [000] 27.907584: 1:120:R + [000] 15: 0:D init-1 [000] 27.907589: 1:120:R + [000] 2:115:S init-1 [000] 27.907593: 1:120:D ==> [000] 15: 0:R udevd-15 [000] 27.907601: 15: 0:S ==> [000] 2:115:R ##### CPU 0 buffer started #### kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907616: 2:115:R + [001] 16:115:R ##### CPU 1 buffer started #### <idle>-0 [001] 27.907620: 0:140:R ==> [001] 16:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907621: 2:115:D ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-16 [001] 27.907625: 16:115:D + [000] 2:115:D <idle>-0 [000] 27.907628: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S udevd-16 [001] 27.907629: 16:115:D ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.907631: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.907636: 4:115:S ==> [000] 2:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907644: 2:115:R + [000] 1:120:D kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907647: 2:115:S ==> [000] 1:120:R init-1 [000] 27.907657: 1:120:R + [001] 16: 0:D <idle>-0 [001] 27.907666: 0:140:R ==> [001] 16: 0:R [ 27.907703862] initcall stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907850704] calling filelock_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.907926573] initcall filelock_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.908071327] calling init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 27.908165195] initcall init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.908309461] calling init_elf_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12tracing/fastboot: move boot tracer structs and funcs into their own header.Frederic Weisbecker1-0/+1
Impact: Cleanups on the boot tracer and ftrace This patch bring some cleanups about the boot tracer headers. The functions and structures of this tracer have nothing related to ftrace and should have so their own header file. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04tracing/fastboot: Enable boot tracing only during initcallsFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+3
Impact: modify boot tracer We used to disable the initcall tracing at a specified time (IE: end of builtin initcalls). But we don't need it anymore. It will be stopped when initcalls are finished. However we want two things: _Start this tracing only after pre-smp initcalls are finished. _Since we are planning to trace sched_switches at the same time, we want to enable them only during the initcall execution. For this purpose, this patch introduce two functions to enable/disable the sched_switch tracing during boot. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-01init/do_mounts_md.c: remove duplicated #includeHuang Weiyi1-1/+0
Removed duplicated #include <linux/delay.h> in init/do_mounts_md.c. The same compile error ("error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep'") got fixed twice: - f8b77d39397e1510b1a3bcfd385ebd1a45aae77f ("init/do_mounts_md.c: msleep compile fix") - 73b4a24f5ff09389ba6277c53a266b142f655ed2 ("init/do_mounts_md.c must #include <linux/delay.h>") by people adding the <linux/delay.h> include in two slightly different places. Andrew's quilt scripts happily ignore the fuzz, and will re-apply the patch even though they had conflicts. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30memcg: update menuconfig help textKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-6/+10
page_cgroup is now allocated at boot and memmap doesn't includes pointer for page_cgroup. Fix the menu help text. Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: 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>
2008-10-30init/do_mounts_md.c: msleep compile fixAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
init/do_mounts_md.c:285: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep' Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-25Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls."Linus Torvalds1-2/+1
This reverts commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635 by moving the call to init_workqueues() back where it belongs - after SMP has been initialized. It also moves stop_machine_init() - which needs workqueues - to a later phase using a core_initcall() instead of early_initcall(). That should satisfy all ordering requirements, and was apparently the reason why init_workqueues() was moved to be too early. Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (46 commits) [PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free [PATCH] i_version: remount support [patch] vfs: make security_inode_setattr() calling consistent [patch 1/3] FS_MBCACHE: don't needlessly make it built-in [PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission() [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: update comment of d_validate() [RFC PATCH] touch_mnt_namespace when the mount flags change [PATCH] reiserfs: add missing llseek method [PATCH] fix ->llseek for more directories [PATCH vfs-2.6 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent [PATCH vfs-2.6 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup [PATCH vfs-2.6 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate() [PATCH vfs-2.6 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper [PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor() [PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT() [PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in udf [PATCH 2/2] anondev: switch to IDA [PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically [JFFS2] Use d_splice_alias() not d_add() in jffs2_lookup() [PATCH] Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly. ...
2008-10-23Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (32 commits) PCI hotplug: fix logic in Compaq hotplug controller bus speed setup PCI: don't export linux/io.h from pci.h PCI: PCI_QUIRKS depends on PCI PCI hotplug: pciehp: poll data link layer link active PCI hotplug: pciehp: fix possible memory leak in pcie_init PCI: Workaround invalid P2P bridge bus numbers PCI Hotplug: fakephp: add duplicate slot name debugging PCI: Hotplug core: remove 'name' PCI: shcphp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: SGI Hotplug: stop managing bss_hotplug_slot->name PCI: rpaphp: kmalloc/kfree slot->name directly PCI: pciehp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: ibmphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: fakephp: remove 'name' parameter PCI, PCI Hotplug: introduce slot_name helpers PCI: cpqphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: cpci_hotplug: stop managing hotplug_slot->name PCI: acpiphp: remove 'name' parameter PCI: prevent duplicate slot names PCI Hotplug: serialize pci_hp_register and pci_hp_deregister ...
2008-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds1-9/+3
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: stop_machine: fix error code handling on multiple cpus stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threads workqueue: introduce create_rt_workqueue Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls. Make panic= and panic_on_oops into core_params Make initcall_debug a core_param core_param() for genuinely core kernel parameters param: Fix duplicate module prefixes module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtime Remove stop_machine during module load v2 module: simplify load_module.
2008-10-23memcg: fix page_cgroup allocationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-0/+2
page_cgroup_init() is called from mem_cgroup_init(). But at this point, we cannot call alloc_bootmem(). (and this caused panic at boot.) This patch moves page_cgroup_init() to init/main.c. Time table is following: == parse_args(). # we can trust mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled bit after this. .... cgroup_init_early() # "early" init of cgroup. .... setup_arch() # memmap is allocated. ... page_cgroup_init(); mem_init(); # we cannot call alloc_bootmem after this. .... cgroup_init() # mem_cgroup is initialized. == Before page_cgroup_init(), mem_map must be initialized. So, I added page_cgroup_init() to init/main.c directly. (*) maybe this is not very clean but - cgroup_init_early() is too early - in cgroup_init(), we have to use vmalloc instead of alloc_bootmem(). use of vmalloc area in x86-32 is important and we should avoid very large vmalloc() in x86-32. So, we want to use alloc_bootmem() and added page_cgroup_init() directly to init/main.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded/bad mem_cgroup_subsys declaration] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: 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>
2008-10-23[PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR staticallyAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-22PCI: PCI_QUIRKS depends on PCIGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+2
commit 3d137310245e4cdc3e8c8ba1bea2e145a87ae8e3 ("PCI: allow quirks to be compiled out") introduced CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS, which now shows up in each and every .config. Fix this by making it depend on PCI. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-22Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.Heiko Carstens1-2/+2
This allows to create workqueues from within the context of a pre smp initcall (aka early_initcall). Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22Make initcall_debug a core_paramRusty Russell1-7/+1
This is the one I really wanted: now it effects module loading, it makes sense to be able to flip it after boot. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-20Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+8
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (41 commits) PCI: fix pci_ioremap_bar() on s390 PCI: fix AER capability check PCI: use pci_find_ext_capability everywhere PCI: remove #ifdef DEBUG around dev_dbg call PCI hotplug: fix get_##name return value problem PCI: document the pcie_aspm kernel parameter PCI: introduce an pci_ioremap(pdev, barnr) function powerpc/PCI: Add legacy PCI access via sysfs PCI: Add ability to mmap legacy_io on some platforms PCI: probing debug message uniformization PCI: support PCIe ARI capability PCI: centralize the capabilities code in probe.c PCI: centralize the capabilities code in pci-sysfs.c PCI: fix 64-vbit prefetchable memory resource BARs PCI: replace cfg space size (256/4096) by macros. PCI: use resource_size() everywhere. PCI: use same arg names in PCI_VDEVICE comment PCI hotplug: rpaphp: make debug var unique PCI: use %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor_symbol() in quirks.c PCI: fix hotplug get_##name return value problem ...
2008-10-20Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds2-14/+27
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits) tracing/fastboot: improve help text tracing/stacktrace: improve help text tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer ftrace: make some tracers reentrant ring-buffer: make reentrant ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace ... Manually fix conflicts: - init/main.c: initcall tracing - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20PCI: allow quirks to be compiled outThomas Petazzoni1-0/+8
This patch adds the CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS option which allows to remove all the PCI quirks, which are not necessarily used on embedded systems when PCI is working properly. As this is a size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save almost 12 kilobytes of kernel code: text data bss dec hex filename 1287806 123596 212992 1624394 18c94a vmlinux.old 1275854 123596 212992 1612442 189a9a vmlinux -11952 0 0 -11952 -2EB0 +/- This patch has originally been written by Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> and is part of the Linux Tiny project. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystemMatt Helsley1-0/+7
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem. The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in the cgroup. Reading will return the current state. * Examples of usage : # mkdir /containers/freezer # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers # mkdir /containers/0 # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks to get status of the freezer subsystem : # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING to freeze all tasks in the container : # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FREEZING # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FROZEN to unfreeze all tasks in the container : # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space task in a simple scenario. It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain "FREEZING" until one of these things happens: 1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to the freezer.state file 2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal and returns EIO) 3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN" state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20mm: rewrite vmap layerNick Piggin1-0/+2
Rewrite the vmap allocator to use rbtrees and lazy tlb flushing, and provide a fast, scalable percpu frontend for small vmaps (requires a slightly different API, though). The biggest problem with vmap is actually vunmap. Presently this requires a global kernel TLB flush, which on most architectures is a broadcast IPI to all CPUs to flush the cache. This is all done under a global lock. As the number of CPUs increases, so will the number of vunmaps a scaled workload will want to perform, and so will the cost of a global TLB flush. This gives terrible quadratic scalability characteristics. Another problem is that the entire vmap subsystem works under a single lock. It is a rwlock, but it is actually taken for write in all the fast paths, and the read locking would likely never be run concurrently anyway, so it's just pointless. This is a rewrite of vmap subsystem to solve those problems. The existing vmalloc API is implemented on top of the rewritten subsystem. The TLB flushing problem is solved by using lazy TLB unmapping. vmap addresses do not have to be flushed immediately when they are vunmapped, because the kernel will not reuse them again (would be a use-after-free) until they are reallocated. So the addresses aren't allocated again until a subsequent TLB flush. A single TLB flush then can flush multiple vunmaps from each CPU. XEN and PAT and such do not like deferred TLB flushing because they can't always handle multiple aliasing virtual addresses to a physical address. They now call vm_unmap_aliases() in order to flush any deferred mappings. That call is very expensive (well, actually not a lot more expensive than a single vunmap under the old scheme), however it should be OK if not called too often. The virtual memory extent information is stored in an rbtree rather than a linked list to improve the algorithmic scalability. There is a per-CPU allocator for small vmaps, which amortizes or avoids global locking. To use the per-CPU interface, the vm_map_ram / vm_unmap_ram interfaces must be used in place of vmap and vunmap. Vmalloc does not use these interfaces at the moment, so it will not be quite so scalable (although it will use lazy TLB flushing). As a quick test of performance, I ran a test that loops in the kernel, linearly mapping then touching then unmapping 4 pages. Different numbers of tests were run in parallel on an 4 core, 2 socket opteron. Results are in nanoseconds per map+touch+unmap. threads vanilla vmap rewrite 1 14700 2900 2 33600 3000 4 49500 2800 8 70631 2900 So with a 8 cores, the rewritten version is already 25x faster. In a slightly more realistic test (although with an older and less scalable version of the patch), I ripped the not-very-good vunmap batching code out of XFS, and implemented the large buffer mapping with vm_map_ram and vm_unmap_ram... along with a couple of other tricks, I was able to speed up a large directory workload by 20x on a 64 CPU system. I believe vmap/vunmap is actually sped up a lot more than 20x on such a system, but I'm running into other locks now. vmap is pretty well blown off the profiles. Before: 1352059 total 0.1401 798784 _write_lock 8320.6667 <- vmlist_lock 529313 default_idle 1181.5022 15242 smp_call_function 15.8771 <- vmap tlb flushing 2472 __get_vm_area_node 1.9312 <- vmap 1762 remove_vm_area 4.5885 <- vunmap 316 map_vm_area 0.2297 <- vmap 312 kfree 0.1950 300 _spin_lock 3.1250 252 sn_send_IPI_phys 0.4375 <- tlb flushing 238 vmap 0.8264 <- vmap 216 find_lock_page 0.5192 196 find_next_bit 0.3603 136 sn2_send_IPI 0.2024 130 pio_phys_write_mmr 2.0312 118 unmap_kernel_range 0.1229 After: 78406 total 0.0081 40053 default_idle 89.4040 33576 ia64_spinlock_contention 349.7500 1650 _spin_lock 17.1875 319 __reg_op 0.5538 281 _atomic_dec_and_lock 1.0977 153 mutex_unlock 1.5938 123 iget_locked 0.1671 117 xfs_dir_lookup 0.1662 117 dput 0.1406 114 xfs_iget_core 0.0268 92 xfs_da_hashname 0.1917 75 d_alloc 0.0670 68 vmap_page_range 0.0462 <- vmap 58 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0604 57 memset 0.0540 52 rb_next 0.1625 50 __copy_user 0.0208 49 bitmap_find_free_region 0.2188 <- vmap 46 ia64_sn_udelay 0.1106 45 find_inode_fast 0.1406 42 memcmp 0.2188 42 finish_task_switch 0.1094 42 __d_lookup 0.0410 40 radix_tree_lookup_slot 0.1250 37 _spin_unlock_irqrestore 0.3854 36 xfs_bmapi 0.0050 36 kmem_cache_free 0.0256 35 xfs_vn_getattr 0.0322 34 radix_tree_lookup 0.1062 33 __link_path_walk 0.0035 31 xfs_da_do_buf 0.0091 30 _xfs_buf_find 0.0204 28 find_get_page 0.0875 27 xfs_iread 0.0241 27 __strncpy_from_user 0.2812 26 _xfs_buf_initialize 0.0406 24 _xfs_buf_lookup_pages 0.0179 24 vunmap_page_range 0.0250 <- vunmap 23 find_lock_page 0.0799 22 vm_map_ram 0.0087 <- vmap 20 kfree 0.0125 19 put_page 0.0330 18 __kmalloc 0.0176 17 xfs_da_node_lookup_int 0.0086 17 _read_lock 0.0885 17 page_waitqueue 0.0664 vmap has gone from being the top 5 on the profiles and flushing the crap out of all TLBs, to using less than 1% of kernel time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, section fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build on alpha] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16init/do_mounts_md.c must #include <linux/delay.h>Adrian Bunk1-0/+1
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by commit 589f800bb12c5cd6c9167bbf9bf3cb70cd8e422c ("fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init"): CC init/do_mounts_md.o init/do_mounts_md.c: In function 'autodetect_raid': init/do_mounts_md.c:285: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep' make[2]: *** [init/do_mounts_md.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Configure out AIO supportThomas Petazzoni1-0/+8
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>
2008-10-16initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio imagesNye Liu1-0/+53
When unpacking the cpio into the initramfs, mtimes are not preserved by default. This patch adds an INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option that allows mtimes stored in the cpio image to be used when constructing the initramfs. For embedded applications that run exclusively out of the initramfs, this is invaluable: When building embedded application initramfs images, its nice to know when the files were actually created during the build process - that makes it easier to see what files were modified when so we can compare the files that are being used on the image with the files used during the build process. This might help (for example) to determine if the target system has all the updated files you expect to see w/o having to check MD5s etc. In our environment, the whole system runs off the initramfs partition, and seeing the modified times of the shared libraries (for example) helps us find bugs that may have been introduced by the build system incorrectly propogating outdated shared libraries into the image. Similarly, many of the initializion/configuration files in /etc might be dynamically built by the build system, and knowing when they were modified helps us sanity check whether the target system has the "latest" files etc. Finally, we might use last modified times to determine whether a hot fix should be applied or not to the running ramfs. Signed-off-by: Nye Liu <nyet@nyet.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16identify_ramdisk_image(): correct typo about return value in commentGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+1
identify_ramdisk_image() returns 0 (not -1) if a gzipped ramdisk is found: if (buf[0] == 037 && ((buf[1] == 0213) || (buf[1] == 0236))) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block %d\n", start_block); nblocks = 0; ^^^^^^^^^^^ goto done; } ... done: sys_lseek(fd, start_block * BLOCK_SIZE, 0); kfree(buf); return nblocks; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hence correct the typo in the comment, which has existed since the addition of compressed ramdisk support in 1.3.48. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastbootLinus Torvalds2-10/+32
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastboot: raid, fastboot: hide RAID autodetect option if MD is compiled as a module raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option warning: fix init do_mounts_md c fastboot: make the RAID autostart code print a message just before waiting fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init fastboot: Fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl Add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time
2008-10-14tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracingTim Bird1-2/+2
Change the time resolution for initcall_debug to microseconds, from milliseconds. This is handy to determine which initcalls you want to work on for faster booting. One one of my test machines, over 90% of the initcalls are less than a millisecond and (without this patch) these are all reported as 0 msecs. Working on the 900 us ones is more important than the 4 us ones. With 'quiet' on the kernel command line, this adds no significant overhead to kernel boot time. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcallsFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+1
At this time, only built-in initcalls interest us. We can't really produce a relevant graph if we include the modules initcall too. I had good results after this patch (see svg in attachment). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing/fastboot: get the initcall name before it disappearsFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+1
After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent. That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section and also their name from the symbols table. So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing/fastboot: change the printing of boot tracer according to bootgraph.plFrederic Weisbecker1-11/+9
Change the boot tracer printing to make it parsable for the scripts/bootgraph.pl script. We have now to output two lines for each initcall, according to the printk in do_one_initcall() in init/main.c We need now the call's time and the return's time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing/ftrace: launch boot tracing after pre-smp initcallsFrédéric Weisbecker1-6/+10
Launch the boot tracing inside the initcall_debug area. Old printk have not been removed to keep the old way of initcall tracing for backward compatibility. [ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing/fastboot: add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / timeArjan van de Ven1-1/+2
When optimizing the kernel boot time, it's very valuable to visualize what is going on at which time. In addition, with the fastboot asynchronous initcall level, it's very valuable to see which initcall gets run where and when. This patch adds a script to turn a dmesg into a SVG graph (that can be shown with tools such as InkScape, Gimp or Firefox) and a small change to the initcall code to print the PID of the thread calling the initcall (so that the script can work out the parallelism). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-14ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops coreSteven Rostedt1-0/+3
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled. This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table. This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structureIngo Molnar1-4/+5
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it just fine. update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>