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Linus Torvalds 179475a3b4 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 5f34fe1cfc Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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.
2008-12-30 16:10:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 96faec945f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* 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
  ...
2008-12-28 15:13:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 12d79bafb7 rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
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>
2008-12-25 09:31:28 +01:00
Jan Beulich 9bb482476c allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
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>
2008-12-19 22:47:10 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 64db4cfff9 "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
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>
2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 0b8f1efad3 sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
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>
2008-12-08 14:31:51 +01:00
James Morris ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
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>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Will Newton 1d926f2756 init/main.c: use ktime accessor function in initcall_debug code
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>
2008-11-23 11:10:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9676e73a9e Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c

[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
  tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-19 10:04:25 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8c60bfb066 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
2008-11-18 08:06:21 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers c1df1bd2c4 markers: auto enable tracepoints (new API : trace_mark_tp())
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>
2008-11-16 09:01:29 +01:00
James Morris 2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
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>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
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>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
Simon Arlott 02f5621042 Kconfig: SLUB is the default slab allocator
In 2007, a0acd82080 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>
2008-11-13 20:49:01 +02:00
Adrian Knoth 2fe401e386 sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/Kconfig
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>
2008-11-13 09:32:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 7423907283 tracing/fastboot: Use the ring-buffer timestamp for initcall entries
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>
2008-11-12 10:17:19 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3f5ec13696 tracing/fastboot: move boot tracer structs and funcs into their own header.
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>
2008-11-12 10:17:18 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 71566a0d16 tracing/fastboot: Enable boot tracing only during initcalls
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>
2008-11-04 17:14:02 +01:00
Huang Weiyi d3f15800d5 init/do_mounts_md.c: remove duplicated #include
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:

 - f8b77d3939 ("init/do_mounts_md.c:
   msleep compile fix")

 - 73b4a24f5f ("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>
2008-11-01 10:35:51 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 84ad6d7000 memcg: update menuconfig help text
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>
2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan f8b77d3939 init/do_mounts_md.c: msleep compile fix
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>
2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4403b406d4 Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls."
This reverts commit a802dd0eb5 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>
2008-10-25 19:53:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5ed487bc2c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (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.
  ...
2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a3415dc34f Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* '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
  ...
2008-10-23 10:16:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a534487606 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 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.
2008-10-23 10:00:14 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 94b6da5ab8 memcg: fix page_cgroup allocation
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 08:55:02 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6de24f0ed0 [PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:13 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 61cfc7e442 PCI: PCI_QUIRKS depends on PCI
commit 3d13731024 ("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>
2008-10-22 16:42:46 -07:00
Heiko Carstens a802dd0eb5 Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.
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>
2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
Rusty Russell d0ea3d7d28 Make initcall_debug a core_param
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>
2008-10-22 10:00:24 +11:00
Linus Torvalds a0bfb673dc Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* '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
  ...
2008-10-20 13:40:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni 3d13731024 PCI: allow quirks to be compiled out
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>
2008-10-20 10:53:40 -07:00
Matt Helsley dc52ddc0e6 container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem
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>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Nick Piggin db64fe0225 mm: rewrite vmap layer
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>
2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 73b4a24f5f init/do_mounts_md.c must #include <linux/delay.h>
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by commit
589f800bb1 ("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>
2008-10-16 13:35:34 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni ebf3f09c63 Configure out AIO support
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Nye Liu 889d51a107 initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 93fd85d005 identify_ramdisk_image(): correct typo about return value in comment
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2d51b75370 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastboot
* '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
2008-10-14 12:28:02 -07:00
Tim Bird ca538f6bbe tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
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>
2008-10-14 10:39:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 097d036a2f tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
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>
2008-10-14 10:39:17 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5601020feb tracing/fastboot: get the initcall name before it disappears
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>
2008-10-14 10:39:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cb5ab74204 tracing/fastboot: change the printing of boot tracer according to bootgraph.pl
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>
2008-10-14 10:39:11 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 3bf77af6e1 tracing/ftrace: launch boot tracing after pre-smp initcalls
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>
2008-10-14 10:38:50 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven aa5d9151f7 tracing/fastboot: add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time
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>
2008-10-14 10:38:46 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
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>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
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>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00