fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification. fsnotify does
not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis
needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify. fsnotify
can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming
fanotify. fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for
some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to
those groups for processing.
fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size
of an inode. Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode had
unsigned long i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
struct mutex inotify_mutex; /* protects the watches list
But with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just
__u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */
struct hlist_head i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */
That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits. We used that
much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set.
fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today.
inotify locking is incredibly complex. See 8f7b0ba1c8 as an example of
what's been busted since inception. inotify needs to know internal semantics
of superblock destruction and unmounting to function. The inode pinning and
vfs contortions are horrible.
no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks. This means things like
f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_NOFS can be reverted. There are no longer any allocation rules when using
or implementing your own fsnotify listener.
fsnotify paves the way for fanotify. In brief fanotify is a notification
mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor
to the object in question. This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic.
Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for
TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in
mind. The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used
to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system. The desktop
search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number
of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more
than a limited number of specific files are of interest. fanotify can provide
for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV
vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table,
LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today. With this patch series
fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code.
Almost all of which is the socket based user interface.
This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement
dnotify and inotify_user. Patches exist and will be sent soon after
acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement
fanotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
slow_work_thread() sleeps on slow_work_thread_wq without WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE,
this means that slow_work_enqueue()->__wake_up(nr_exclusive => 1) wakes up all
kslowd threads. This is not what we want, so we change slow_work_thread() to
use prepare_to_wait_exclusive() instead.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] ata_piix: Enable parallel scan
sata_nv: use hardreset only for post-boot probing
[libata] ahci: Restore SB600 SATA controller 64 bit DMA
ata_piix: Remove stale comment
ata_piix: Turn on hotplugging support for older chips
ahci: misc cleanups for EM stuff
[libata] get rid of ATA_MAX_QUEUE loop in ata_qc_complete_multiple() v2
sata_sil: enable 32-bit PIO
sata_sx4: speed up ECC initialization
libata-sff: avoid byte swapping in ata_sff_data_xfer()
[libata] ahci: use less error-prone array initializers
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: Prevent overflow in largepages calculation
KVM: Disable large pages on misaligned memory slots
KVM: Add VT-x machine check support
KVM: VMX: Rename rmode.active to rmode.vm86_active
KVM: Move "exit due to NMI" handling into vmx_complete_interrupts()
KVM: Disable CR8 intercept if tpr patching is active
KVM: Do not migrate pending software interrupts.
KVM: inject NMI after IRET from a previous NMI, not before.
KVM: Always request IRQ/NMI window if an interrupt is pending
KVM: Do not re-execute INTn instruction.
KVM: skip_emulated_instruction() decode instruction if size is not known
KVM: Remove irq_pending bitmap
KVM: Do not allow interrupt injection from userspace if there is a pending event.
KVM: Unprotect a page if #PF happens during NMI injection.
KVM: s390: Verify memory in kvm run
KVM: s390: Sanity check on validity intercept
KVM: s390: Unlink vcpu on destroy - v2
KVM: s390: optimize float int lock: spin_lock_bh --> spin_lock
KVM: s390: use hrtimer for clock wakeup from idle - v2
KVM: s390: Fix memory slot versus run - v3
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: remove never-used in6_addr option
cifs: add addr= mount option alias for ip=
[CIFS] Add mention of new mount parm (forceuid) to cifs readme
cifs: make overriding of ownership conditional on new mount options
cifs: fix IPv6 address length check
cifs: clean up set_cifs_acl interfaces
cifs: reorganize get_cifs_acl
[CIFS] Update readme to indicate change to default mount (serverino)
cifs: make serverino the default when mounting
cifs: rename cifs_iget to cifs_root_iget
cifs: make cnvrtDosUnixTm take a little-endian args and an offset
cifs: have cifs_NTtimeToUnix take a little-endian arg
cifs: tighten up default file_mode/dir_mode
cifs: fix artificial limit on reading symlinks
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (49 commits)
ext4: Avoid corrupting the uninitialized bit in the extent during truncate
ext4: Don't treat a truncation of a zero-length file as replace-via-truncate
ext4: fix dx_map_entry to support 256k directory blocks
ext4: truncate the file properly if we fail to copy data from userspace
ext4: Avoid leaking blocks after a block allocation failure
ext4: Change all super.c messages to print the device
ext4: Get rid of EXTEND_DISKSIZE flag of ext4_get_blocks_handle()
ext4: super.c whitespace cleanup
jbd2: Fix minor typos in comments in fs/jbd2/journal.c
ext4: Clean up calls to ext4_get_group_desc()
ext4: remove unused function __ext4_write_dirty_metadata
ext2: Fix memory leak in ext2_fill_super() in case of a failed mount
ext3: Fix memory leak in ext3_fill_super() in case of a failed mount
ext4: Fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super() in case of a failed mount
ext4: down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for fiemap
ext4: Add a comprehensive block validity check to ext4_get_blocks()
ext4: Clean up ext4_get_blocks() so it does not depend on bh_result->b_state
ext4: Merge ext4_da_get_block_write() into mpage_da_map_blocks()
ext4: Add BUG_ON debugging checks to noalloc_get_block_write()
ext4: Add documentation to the ext4_*get_block* functions
...
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (28 commits)
ide-tape: fix debug call
alim15x3: Remove historical hacks, re-enable init_hwif for PowerPC
ide-dma: don't reset request fields on dma_timeout_retry()
ide: drop rq->data handling from ide_map_sg()
ide-atapi: kill unused fields and callbacks
ide-tape: simplify read/write functions
ide-tape: use byte size instead of sectors on rw issue functions
ide-tape: unify r/w init paths
ide-tape: kill idetape_bh
ide-tape: use standard data transfer mechanism
ide-tape: use single continuous buffer
ide-atapi,tape,floppy: allow ->pc_callback() to change rq->data_len
ide-tape,floppy: fix failed command completion after request sense
ide-pm: don't abuse rq->data
ide-cd,atapi: use bio for internal commands
ide-atapi: convert ide-{floppy,tape} to using preallocated sense buffer
ide-cd: convert to using generic sense request
ide: add helpers for preparing sense requests
ide-cd: don't abuse rq->buffer
ide-atapi: don't abuse rq->buffer
...
Slab is initialized before the console subsystem so use the slab allocator in
vgacon_scrollback_startup().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Lets not use the bootmem allocator in cpupri_init() as slab is already up when
it is run.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Slab is initialized when sched_init() runs now so lets use alloc_cpumask_var().
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
The bootmem allocator is no longer available for page_cgroup_init() because we
set up the kernel slab allocator much earlier now.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Don't hardcode to node zero for early boot IRQ setup memory allocations.
[ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: minor cleanups ]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Now that we set up the slab allocator earlier, we can get rid of some
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() calls in boot code.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before console_init(), we should use
kzalloc() and not the bootmem allocator.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before sched_init(), we should use kzalloc()
and not the bootmem allocator.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
As suggested by Christoph Lameter, introduce mm_init() now that we initialize
all the kernel memory allocations together.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
We can call vmalloc_init() after kmem_cache_init() and use kzalloc() instead of
the bootmem allocator when initializing vmalloc data structures.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get
rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to
kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some
changes to allocator boostrap code.
Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps
before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar:
We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code:
[ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000
[ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c
[ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001
[ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002
[ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc
[ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0
[ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003
[ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16
[ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23
[ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64
[ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8
[ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7
[ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c
[ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
If the user requested bootmem allocation on a specific node, we should use
kzalloc_node() for the fallback allocation.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
As a preparation for initializing the slab allocator early, make sure the
bootmem allocator does not crash and burn if someone calls it after slab is up;
otherwise we'd need a flag day for switching to early slab.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch adds a loadable module that deliberately leaks memory. It
is used for testing various memory leaking scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but
they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more
information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch handles the kmemleak operations needed for modules loading so
that memory allocations from inside a module are properly tracked.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The alloc_large_system_hash function is called from various places in
the kernel and it contains pointers to other allocated structures. It
therefore needs to be traced by kmemleak.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the
slub allocator.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the
slob allocator.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from
the slab allocator. The patch also adds the SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE flag to
avoid recursive calls to kmemleak when it allocates its own data
structures.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some
information about how kmemleak works.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* frv:
FRV: Implement new-style ptrace
FRV: Don't turn on TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE unconditionally in syscall prologue
FRV: Implement TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
FRV: Remove in-kernel strace code
FRV: BUG to BUG_ON changes
FRV: bitops: Change the bitmap index from int to unsigned long
* mn10300:
MN10300: Add utrace/tracehooks support
MN10300: Don't set the dirty bit in the DTLB entries in the TLB-miss handler
Add utrace/tracehooks support to MN10300.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the special handling for the Data TLB entry dirty bit in the TLB-miss
handler. As the code stands, all that it does is to cause us to take a second
data address exception to set the dirty bit. Instead, we can just let
pte_mkdirty() set the bit.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement the new-style ptrace for FRV, including adding appropriate
tracehooks.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't turn on TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE unconditionally in syscall prologue in FRV's
entry.S. This was originally for debugging stuff and should have been removed
a long time ago.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME thread flag, making it call do_notify_resume()
which then clears it. This will be made use of later by tracehooks in the
new-style ptrace implementation
Also discard TIF_IRET as that's not used by FRV.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove in-kernel strace code from the FRV arch as it's not really needed any
more.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the index to unsigned long in all bitops for [frv]
Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justin.chen@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* serial-from-alan: (79 commits)
moxa: prevent opening unavailable ports
imx: serial: use tty_encode_baud_rate to set true rate
imx: serial: add IrDA support to serial driver
imx: serial: use rational library function
lib: isolate rational fractions helper function
imx: serial: handle initialisation failure correctly
imx: serial: be sure to stop xmit upon shutdown
imx: serial: notify higher layers in case xmit IRQ was not called
imx: serial: fix one bit field type
imx: serial: fix whitespaces (no changes in functionality)
tty: use prepare/finish_wait
tty: remove sleep_on
sierra: driver interface blacklisting
sierra: driver urb handling improvements
tty: resolve some sierra breakage
timbuart: Fix the termios logic
serial: Added Timberdale UART driver
tty: Add URL for ttydev queue
devpts: unregister the file system on error
tty: Untangle termios and mm mutex dependencies
...
Eric Paris