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2012-10-06kernel/resource.c: fix stack overflow in __reserve_region_with_split()T Makphaibulchoke1-12/+38
Using a recursive call add a non-conflicting region in __reserve_region_with_split() could result in a stack overflow in the case that the recursive calls are too deep. Convert the recursive calls to an iterative loop to avoid the problem. Tested on a machine containing 135 regions. The kernel no longer panicked with stack overflow. Also tested with code arbitrarily adding regions with no conflict, embedding two consecutive conflicts and embedding two non-consecutive conflicts. Signed-off-by: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on errorJesper Juhl1-0/+1
If prepare_reply() succeeds we have allocated memory for 'rep_skb'. If nla_reserve() then subsequently fails and returns NULL we fail to release the memory we allocated, thus causing a leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06kdump: remove unneeded includeWei Yongjun1-1/+0
The inclusion of <generated/utsrelease.h> is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signrDenys Vlasenko1-1/+1
This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note. With this patch we pass "siginfo_t *siginfo" instead of "int signr" to do_coredump() and put it into coredump_params. It will be used by the next patch. Most changes are simple s/signr/siginfo->si_signo/. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06coredump: update coredump-related headersAlex Kelly1-0/+1
Create a new header file, fs/coredump.h, which contains functions only used by the new coredump.c. It also moves do_coredump to the include/linux/coredump.h header file, for consistency. Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06coredump: make core dump functionality optionalAlex Kelly1-1/+11
Adds an expert Kconfig option, CONFIG_COREDUMP, which allows disabling of core dump. This saves approximately 2.6k in the compiled kernel, and complements CONFIG_ELF_CORE, which now depends on it. CONFIG_COREDUMP also disables coredump-related sysctls, except for suid_dumpable and related functions, which are necessary for ptrace. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix binfmt_aout.c build] Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06poweroff: fix bug in orderly_poweroff()hongfeng1-1/+1
orderly_poweroff is trying to poweroff platform in two steps: step 1: Call user space application to poweroff step 2: If user space poweroff fail, then do a force power off if force param is set. The bug here is, step 1 is always successful with param UMH_NO_WAIT, which obey the design goal of orderly_poweroff. We have two choices here: UMH_WAIT_EXEC which means wait for the exec, but not the process; UMH_WAIT_PROC which means wait for the process to complete. we need to trade off the two choices: If using UMH_WAIT_EXEC, there is potential issue comments by Serge E. Hallyn: The exec will have started, but may for whatever (very unlikely) reason fail. If using UMH_WAIT_PROC, there is potential issue comments by Eric W. Biederman: If the caller is not running in a kernel thread then we can easily get into a case where the user space caller will block waiting for us when we are waiting for the user space caller. Thanks for their excellent ideas, based on the above discussion, we finally choose UMH_WAIT_EXEC, which is much more safe, if the user application really fails, we just complain the application itself, it seems a better choice here. Signed-off-by: Feng Hong <hongfeng@marvell.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06kernel/sys.c: call disable_nonboot_cpus() in kernel_restart()Shawn Guo1-0/+1
As kernel_power_off() calls disable_nonboot_cpus(), we may also want to have kernel_restart() call disable_nonboot_cpus(). Doing so can help machines that require boot cpu be the last alive cpu during reboot to survive with kernel restart. This fixes one reboot issue seen on imx6q (Cortex-A9 Quad). The machine requires that the restart routine be run on the primary cpu rather than secondary ones. Otherwise, the secondary core running the restart routine will fail to come to online after reboot. Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-04Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity: "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups, PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory." * tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits) KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac' KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte() KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access() KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors() ... Conflicts: arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
2012-10-02Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-securityLinus Torvalds2-46/+42
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "Highlights: - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks - Integrity: add digital signature verification - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions) - IBM vTPM support on ppc64 - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels" Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits) Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools ima: change flags container data type Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label Smack: remove task_wait() hook. ima: audit log hashes ima: generic IMA action flag handling ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure audit: export audit_log_task_info tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390 ima: digital signature verification support ima: add support for different security.ima data types ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls ima: add inode_post_setattr call ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock ima: allocating iint improvements ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules ima: integrity appraisal extension vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds4-150/+44
Pull vfs update from Al Viro: - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of that is moved to fs/file.c (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is, we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of struct file we used to have way back). A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives, disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file leak. - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have). - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and switch of fdinfo to seq_file. - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate pile, this was just a mechanical code movement. - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle, there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)." Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file() interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers" vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper usb/gadget: fix misannotations fcntl: fix misannotations ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget new helpers: fdget()/fdput() switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light() proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files make get_file() return its argument vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light() switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light() switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light() ...
2012-10-02Merge tag 'pm-for-3.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds6-2/+33
Pull power management updates from Rafael J Wysocki: - Improved system suspend/resume and runtime PM handling for the SH TMU, CMT and MTU2 clock event devices (also used by ARM/shmobile). - Generic PM domains framework extensions related to cpuidle support and domain objects lookup using names. - ARM/shmobile power management updates including improved support for the SH7372's A4S power domain containing the CPU core. - cpufreq changes related to AMD CPUs support from Matthew Garrett, Andre Przywara and Borislav Petkov. - cpu0 cpufreq driver from Shawn Guo. - cpufreq governor fixes related to the relaxing of limit from Michal Pecio. - OMAP cpufreq updates from Axel Lin and Richard Zhao. - cpuidle ladder governor fixes related to the disabling of states from Carsten Emde and me. - Runtime PM core updates related to the interactions with the system suspend core from Alan Stern and Kevin Hilman. - Wakeup sources modification allowing more helper functions to be called from interrupt context from John Stultz and additional diagnostic code from Todd Poynor. - System suspend error code path fix from Feng Hong. Fixed up conflicts in cpufreq/powernow-k8 that stemmed from the workqueue fixes conflicting fairly badly with the removal of support for hardware P-state chips. The changes were independent but somewhat intertwined. * tag 'pm-for-3.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits) Revert "PM QoS: Use spinlock in the per-device PM QoS constraints code" PM / Runtime: let rpm_resume() succeed if RPM_ACTIVE, even when disabled, v2 cpuidle: rename function name "__cpuidle_register_driver", v2 cpufreq: OMAP: Check IS_ERR() instead of NULL for omap_device_get_by_hwmod_name cpuidle: remove some empty lines PM: Prevent runtime suspend during system resume PM QoS: Use spinlock in the per-device PM QoS constraints code PM / Sleep: use resume event when call dpm_resume_early cpuidle / ACPI : move cpuidle_device field out of the acpi_processor_power structure ACPI / processor: remove pointless variable initialization ACPI / processor: remove unused function parameter cpufreq: OMAP: remove loops_per_jiffy recalculate for smp sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/cpufreq cpufreq: conservative: update frequency when limits are relaxed cpufreq / ondemand: update frequency when limits are relaxed properly __init-annotate pm_sysrq_init() cpufreq: Add a generic cpufreq-cpu0 driver PM / OPP: Initialize OPP table from device tree ARM: add cpufreq transiton notifier to adjust loops_per_jiffy for smp cpufreq: Remove support for hardware P-state chips from powernow-k8 ...
2012-10-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds4-15/+18
Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov. 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman. 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko. 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar. 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy. 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others. 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet. 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for outgoing networking traffic. This benefits processes that have very many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common. From Eric Dumazet. 10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail. Benefits are a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page allocator c) less waste of space. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet. 12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation. From Stephen Hemminger. 13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around. Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user namespace changes. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits) hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message. hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request() hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter() hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1 sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type vxlan: virtual extensible lan igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group netlink: add attributes to fdb interface tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled. Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT" gre: fix sparse warning ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespaceLinus Torvalds15-219/+457
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman: "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review. The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network. Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues. The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int. Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to handle those places with simple trivial patches. Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before. Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts for most of the code size growth in my git tree. Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications. While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty. Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no problems from identical code from different trees showing up in linux-next. After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to win a game of kernel trivial pursuit." Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits) userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing. userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids userns: Add user namespace support to IMA userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds3-1/+26
Pull cgroup hierarchy update from Tejun Heo: "Currently, different cgroup subsystems handle nested cgroups completely differently. There's no consistency among subsystems and the behaviors often are outright broken. People at least seem to agree that the broken hierarhcy behaviors need to be weeded out if any progress is gonna be made on this front and that the fallouts from deprecating the broken behaviors should be acceptable especially given that the current behaviors don't make much sense when nested. This patch makes cgroup emit warning messages if cgroups for subsystems with broken hierarchy behavior are nested to prepare for fixing them in the future. This was put in a separate branch because more related changes were expected (didn't make it this round) and the memory cgroup wanted to pull in this and make changes on top." * 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds1-101/+219
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - xattr support added. The implementation is shared with tmpfs. The usage is restricted and intended to be used to manage per-cgroup metadata by system software. tmpfs changes are routed through this branch with Hugh's permission. - cgroup subsystem ID handling simplified. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Define CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT according the configuration cgroup: Assign subsystem IDs during compile time cgroup: Do not depend on a given order when populating the subsys array cgroup: Wrap subsystem selection macro cgroup: Remove CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT cgroup: net_prio: Do not define task_netpioidx() when not selected cgroup: net_cls: Do not define task_cls_classid() when not selected cgroup: net_cls: Move sock_update_classid() declaration to cls_cgroup.h cgroup: trivial fixes for Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt xattr: mark variable as uninitialized to make both gcc and smatch happy fs: add missing documentation to simple_xattr functions cgroup: add documentation on extended attributes usage cgroup: rename subsys_bits to subsys_mask cgroup: add xattr support cgroup: revise how we re-populate root directory xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2-580/+641
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this round including considerable API and behavior cleanups. * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as expected. * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added. These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface and behave like timer which is executed with process context. * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario the overhead isn't too high. All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished execution of any previous queueing on return. * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU hotplug handling significantly. * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU hotplug. There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them." Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts. Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits) workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active() workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues() workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight() workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback() workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work() workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() ...
2012-10-01Merge tag 'tty-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/ttyLinus Torvalds2-3/+42
Pull TTY changes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "As we skipped the merge window for 3.6-rc1 for the tty tree, everything is now settled down and working properly, so we are ready for 3.7-rc1. Here's the patchset, it's big, but the large changes are removing a firmware file and adding a staging tty driver (it depended on the tty core changes, so it's going through this tree instead of the staging tree.) All of these patches have been in the linux-next tree for a while. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" Fix up more-or-less trivial conflicts in - drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c: tty NULL dereference fix vs tty_port_cts_enabled() helper function - drivers/staging/{Kconfig,Makefile}: add-add conflict (dgrp driver added close to other staging drivers) - drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c: "split ipoctal_channel from iopctal" vs "TTY: use tty_port_register_device" * tag 'tty-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (235 commits) tty/serial: Add kgdb_nmi driver tty/serial/amba-pl011: Quiesce interrupts in poll_get_char tty/serial/amba-pl011: Implement poll_init callback tty/serial/core: Introduce poll_init callback kdb: Turn KGDB_KDB=n stubs into static inlines kdb: Implement disable_nmi command kernel/debug: Mask KGDB NMI upon entry serial: pl011: handle corruption at high clock speeds serial: sccnxp: Make 'default' choice in switch last serial: sccnxp: Remove mask termios caps for SW flow control serial: sccnxp: Report actual baudrate back to core serial: samsung: Add poll_get_char & poll_put_char Powerpc 8xx CPM_UART setting MAXIDL register proportionaly to baud rate Powerpc 8xx CPM_UART maxidl should not depend on fifo size Powerpc 8xx CPM_UART too many interrupts Powerpc 8xx CPM_UART desynchronisation serial: set correct baud_base for EXSYS EX-41092 Dual 16950 serial: omap: fix the reciever line error case 8250: blacklist Winbond CIR port 8250_pnp: do pnp probe before legacy probe ...
2012-10-01Merge tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull arm64 support from Catalin Marinas: "Linux support for the 64-bit ARM architecture (AArch64) Features currently supported: - 39-bit address space for user and kernel (each) - 4KB and 64KB page configurations - Compat (32-bit) user applications (ARMv7, EABI only) - Flattened Device Tree (mandated for all AArch64 platforms) - ARM generic timers" * tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: (35 commits) arm64: ptrace: remove obsolete ptrace request numbers from user headers arm64: Do not set the SMP/nAMP processor bit arm64: MAINTAINERS update arm64: Build infrastructure arm64: Miscellaneous header files arm64: Generic timers support arm64: Loadable modules arm64: Miscellaneous library functions arm64: Performance counters support arm64: Add support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace arm64: Debugging support arm64: Floating point and SIMD arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support arm64: User access library functions arm64: Signal handling support arm64: VDSO support arm64: System calls handling arm64: ELF definitions arm64: SMP support arm64: DMA mapping API ...
2012-10-01Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-11/+0
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar: "The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP: this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug. Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements." * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Unspaghettize do_trap() x86_64: Work around old GAS bug x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64() x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
2012-10-01Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-59/+49
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar: "Timer enhancements, generalizations and cleanups from Tejun Heo, in preparation for workqueue facility enhancements." * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timer: Implement TIMER_IRQSAFE timer: Clean up timer initializers timer: Relocate declarations of init_timer_on_stack_key() timer: Generalize timer->base flags handling
2012-10-01Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds11-705/+686
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features. Other than that, smallish changes." Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer() sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance() sched: Remove useless code in yield_to() sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch sched: Move cputime code to its own file cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover ...
2012-10-01Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds24-407/+1259
Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar: "Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from over 30 contributors. Most of the activity was on the tooling side. Higher level changes: - New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong. - New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool - uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov. - Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from Irina Tirdea - Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its users. It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function entry. The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an ftrace nop. With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going through lots of iterations, we finally came up with a good solution. - Add cpumask for uncore pmu, use it in 'stat', from Yan, Zheng. - Various tracing updates from Steve Rostedt - Clean up and improve 'perf sched' performance by elliminating lots of needless calls to libtraceevent. - Event group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa - UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim - Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang - Add --symbols to 'script', similar to the one in 'report', from Feng Tang. Infrastructure enhancements and fixes: - Convert the trace builtins to use the growing evsel/evlist tracepoint infrastructure, removing several open coded constructs like switch like series of strcmp to dispatch events, etc. Basically what had already been showcased in 'perf sched'. - Add evsel constructor for tracepoints, that uses libtraceevent just to parse the /format events file, use it in a new 'perf test' to make sure the libtraceevent format parsing regressions can be more readily caught. - Some strange errors were happening in some builds, but not on the next, reported by several people, problem was some parser related files, generated during the build, didn't had proper make deps, fix from Eric Sandeen. - Introduce struct and cache information about the environment where a perf.data file was captured, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix handling of unresolved samples when --symbols is used in 'report', from Feng Tang. - Add union member access support to 'probe', from Hyeoncheol Lee. - Fixups to die() removal, from Namhyung Kim. - Render fixes for the TUI, from Namhyung Kim. - Don't enable annotation in non symbolic view, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix pipe mode in 'report', from Namhyung Kim. - Move related stats code from stat to util/, will be used by the 'stat' kvm tool, from Xiao Guangrong. - Remove die()/exit() calls from several tools. - Resolve vdso callchains, from Jiri Olsa - Don't pass const char pointers to basename, so that we can unconditionally use libgen.h and thus avoid ifdef BIONIC lines, from David Ahern - Refactor hist formatting so that it can be reused with the GTK browser, From Namhyung Kim - Fix build for another rbtree.c change, from Adrian Hunter. - Make 'perf diff' command work with evsel hists, from Jiri Olsa. - Use the only field_sep var that is set up: symbol_conf.field_sep, fix from Jiri Olsa. - .gitignore compiled python binaries, from Namhyung Kim. - Get rid of die() in more libtraceevent places, from Namhyung Kim. - Rename libtraceevent 'private' struct member to 'priv' so that it works in C++, from Steven Rostedt - Remove lots of exit()/die() calls from tools so that the main perf exit routine can take place, from David Ahern - Fix x86 build on x86-64, from David Ahern. - {int,str,rb}list fixes from Suzuki K Poulose - perf.data header fixes from Namhyung Kim - Allow user to indicate objdump path, needed in cross environments, from Maciek Borzecki - Fix hardware cache event name generation, fix from Jiri Olsa - Add round trip test for sw, hw and cache event names, catching the problem Jiri fixed, after Jiri's patch, the test passes successfully. - Clean target should do clean for lib/traceevent too, fix from David Ahern - Check the right variable for allocation failure, fix from Namhyung Kim - Set up evsel->tp_format regardless of evsel->name being set already, fix from Namhyung Kim - Oprofile fixes from Robert Richter. - Remove perf_event_attr needless version inflation, from Jiri Olsa - Introduce libtraceevent strerror like error reporting facility, from Namhyung Kim - Add pmu mappings to perf.data header and use event names from cmd line, from Robert Richter - Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings - Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern - Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter - Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt - perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang. - Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker - Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim. - Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa. - Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer. - Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter - Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing tracepoint events. [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per event fields. ] - Don't stop the build if the audit libraries are not installed, fix from Namhyung Kim. - Fix bfd.h/libbfd detection with recent binutils, from Markus Trippelsdorf. - Improve warning message when libunwind devel packages not present, from Jiri Olsa" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits) perf trace: Add aliases for some syscalls perf probe: Print an enum type variable in "enum variable-name" format when showing accessible variables perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin perf hists: Add missing period_* fields when collapsing a hist entry perf trace: New tool perf evsel: Export the event_format constructor perf evsel: Introduce rawptr() method perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser perf evsel: The tracepoint constructor should store sys:name perf evlist: Introduce set_filter() method perf evlist: Renane set_filters method to apply_filters perf test: Add test to check we correctly parse and match syscall open parms perf evsel: Handle endianity in intval method perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed perf tools: Allow handling a NULL cpu_map as meaning "all cpus" perf evsel: Improve tracepoint constructor setup tools lib traceevent: Fix error path on pevent_parse_event perf test: Fix build failure trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall tracing: Add an option for disabling markers ...
2012-10-01Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds2-0/+3
Pull trivial irq core update from Ingo Molnar: "Two symbol exports for modular irq-chip drivers" * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Export dummy_irq_chip genirq: Export irq_set_chip_and_handler_name()
2012-10-01Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds2-40/+102
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar: "It includes a lockdep improvement plus a spinlock inlining Kconfig cleanup." * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking: Adjust spin lock inlining Kconfig options lockdep: Check if nested lock is actually held
2012-10-01Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds2-64/+65
Pull core kernel fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This is a complex task_work series from Oleg that fixes the bug that this VFS commit tried to fix: d35abdb28824 hold task_lock around checks in keyctl but solves the problem without the lockup regression that d35abdb28824 introduced in v3.6. This series came late in v3.6 and I did not feel confident about it so late in the cycle. Might be worth backporting to -stable if it proves itself upstream." * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: task_work: Simplify the usage in ptrace_notify() and get_signal_to_deliver() task_work: Revert "hold task_lock around checks in keyctl" task_work: task_work_add() should not succeed after exit_task_work() task_work: Make task_work_add() lockless
2012-09-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller5-72/+57
Conflicts: drivers/net/team/team.c drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c net/ipv4/route.c net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c The team, fib_frontend, route, and l2tp_netlink conflicts were simply overlapping changes. qmi_wwan and bat_iv_ogm were of the "use HEAD" variety. With help from Antonio Quartulli. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-28Merge tag 'v3.6-rc7' into nextJames Morris16-196/+329
Linux 3.6-rc7 Requested by David Howells so he can merge his key susbsystem work into my tree with requisite -linus changesets.
2012-09-26switch simple cases of fget_light to fdgetAl Viro3-54/+43
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()Al Viro1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26new helper: daemonize_descriptors()Al Viro1-3/+1
descriptor-related parts of daemonize, done right. As the result we simplify the locking rules for ->files - we hold task_lock in *all* cases when we modify ->files. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26move files_struct-related bits from kernel/exit.c to fs/file.cAl Viro1-93/+0
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26events: don't use get_unused_fd_flags() when get_unused_fd() will doAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26kdb: Implement disable_nmi commandAnton Vorontsov1-0/+31
This command disables NMI-entry. If NMI source has been previously shared with a serial console ("debug port"), this effectively releases the port from KDB exclusive use, and makes the console available for normal use. Of course, NMI can be reenabled, enable_nmi modparam is used for that: echo 1 > /sys/module/kdb/parameters/enable_nmi Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-26kernel/debug: Mask KGDB NMI upon entryAnton Vorontsov1-3/+11
The new arch callback should manage NMIs that usually cause KGDB to enter. That is, not all NMIs should be enabled/disabled, but only those that issue kgdb_handle_exception(). We must mask it as serial-line interrupt can be used as an NMI, so if the original KGDB-entry cause was say a breakpoint, then every input to KDB console will cause KGDB to reenter, which we don't want. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Apply micro-optimization and int/bool fixes to RCU's idle handlingPaul E. McKenney1-8/+8
Checking "user" before "is_idle_task()" allows better optimizations in cases where inlining is possible. Also, "bool" should be passed "true" or "false" rather than "1" or "0". This commit therefore makes these changes, as noted in Josh's review. Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftestFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
Provide a config option that enables the userspace RCU extended quiescent state on every CPUs by default. This is for testing purpose. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemptionFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+15
When exceptions or irq are about to resume userspace, if the task needs to be rescheduled, the arch low level code calls schedule() directly. If we call it, it is because we have the TIF_RESCHED flag: - It can be set after random local calls to set_need_resched() (RCU, drm, ...) - A wake up happened and the CPU needs preemption. This can happen in several ways: * Remotely: the remote waking CPU has set TIF_RESCHED and send the wakee an IPI to schedule the new task. * Remotely enqueued: the remote waking CPU sends an IPI to the target and the wake up is made by the target. * Locally: waking CPU == wakee CPU and the wakeup is done locally. set_need_resched() is called without IPI. In the case of local and remotely enqueued wake ups, the tick can be restarted when we enqueue the new task and RCU can exit the extended quiescent state at the same time. Then by the time we reach irq exit path and we call schedule, we are not in RCU user mode. But if we call schedule() only because something called set_need_resched(), RCU may still be in user mode when we reach schedule. Also if a wake up is done remotely, the CPU might see the TIF_RESCHED flag and call schedule while the IPI has not yet happen to restart the tick and exit RCU user mode. We need to manually protect against these corner cases. Create a new API schedule_user() that calls schedule() inside rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() in order to protect it. Archs will need to rely on it now to implement user preemption safely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exceptionFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+1
When an exception or an irq exits, and we are going to resume into interrupted kernel code, the low level architecture code calls preempt_schedule_irq() if there is a need to reschedule. If the interrupt/exception occured between a call to rcu_user_enter() (from syscall exit, exception exit, do_notify_resume exit, ...) and a real resume to userspace (iret,...), preempt_schedule_irq() can be called whereas RCU thinks we are in userspace. But preempt_schedule_irq() is going to run kernel code and may be some RCU read side critical section. We must exit the userspace extended quiescent state before we call it. To solve this, just call rcu_user_exit() in the beginning of preempt_schedule_irq(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switchFrederic Weisbecker2-0/+16
Clear the syscalls hook of a task when it's scheduled out so that if the task migrates, it doesn't run the syscall slow path on a CPU that might not need it. Also set the syscalls hook on the next task if needed. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by defaultFrederic Weisbecker2-1/+5
By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead (eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nestFrederic Weisbecker2-8/+36
Allow calls to rcu_user_enter() even if we are already in userspace (as seen by RCU) and allow calls to rcu_user_exit() even if we are already in the kernel. This makes the APIs more flexible to be called from architectures. Exception entries for example won't need to know if they come from userspace before calling rcu_user_exit(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent stateFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+4
Create a new config option under the RCU menu that put CPUs under RCU extended quiescent state (as in dynticks idle mode) when they run in userspace. This require some contribution from architectures to hook into kernel and userspace boundaries. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticksPaul E. McKenney1-0/+20
The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tries reasonably hard to rid the current CPU of RCU callbacks. This is appropriate when the CPU is entering idle, where it doesn't have much useful to do anyway, but is most definitely not what you want when transitioning to user-mode execution. This commit therefore detects the adaptive-tick case, and refrains from burning CPU time getting rid of RCU callbacks in that case. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: New rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() APIsFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+43
In some cases, it is necessary to enter or exit userspace-RCU-idle mode from an interrupt handler, for example, if some other CPU sends this CPU a resched IPI. In this case, the current CPU would enter the IPI handler in userspace-RCU-idle mode, but would need to exit the IPI handler after having exited that mode. To allow this to work, this commit adds two new APIs to TREE_RCU: - rcu_user_enter_after_irq(). This must be called from an interrupt between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return into an RCU extended quiescent state. In theory, this interrupt is never a nested interrupt, but in practice it might interrupt softirq, which looks to RCU like a nested interrupt. - rcu_user_exit_after_irq(). This must be called from a non-nesting interrupt, interrupting an RCU extended quiescent state, also between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return in an RCU non-quiescent state. [ Combined with "Allow calls to rcu_exit_user_irq from nesting irqs." ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIsFrederic Weisbecker1-34/+101
RCU currently insists that only idle tasks can enter RCU idle mode, which prohibits an adaptive tickless kernel (AKA nohz cpusets), which in turn would mean that usermode execution would always take scheduling-clock interrupts, even when there is only one task runnable on the CPU in question. This commit therefore adds rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit(), which allow non-idle tasks to enter RCU idle mode. These are quite similar to rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), respectively, except that they omit the idle-task checks. [ Updated to use "user" flag rather than separate check functions. ] [ paulmck: Updated to drop exports of new functions based on Josh's patch getting rid of the need for them. ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-25Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/core/rcu' into next.2012.09.25bPaul E. McKenney10-141/+198
Resolved conflict in kernel/sched/core.c using Peter Zijlstra's approach from https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/5/585.
2012-09-25Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/smp/hotplug' into next.2012.09.25bPaul E. McKenney11-636/+606
The conflicts between kernel/rcutree.h and kernel/rcutree_plugin.h were due to adjacent insertions and deletions, which were resolved by simply accepting the changes on both branches.
2012-09-25vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detectionFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+26
Move the code that finds out to which context we account the cputime into generic layer. Archs that consider the whole time spent in the idle task as idle time (ia64, powerpc) can rely on the generic vtime_account() and implement vtime_account_system() and vtime_account_idle(), letting the generic code to decide when to call which API. Archs that have their own meaning of idle time, such as s390 that only considers the time spent in CPU low power mode as idle time, can just override vtime_account(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-09-25cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIsFrederic Weisbecker3-8/+8
Use a naming based on vtime as a prefix for virtual based cputime accounting APIs: - account_system_vtime() -> vtime_account() - account_switch_vtime() -> vtime_task_switch() It makes it easier to allow for further declension such as vtime_account_system(), vtime_account_idle(), ... if we want to find out the context we account to from generic code. This also make it better to know on which subsystem these APIs refer to. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>