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Linus Torvalds cea8f46c36 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "First ARM push of this merge window, post me coming back from holiday.
  This is what has been in linux-next for the last few weeks.  Not much
  to say which isn't described by the commit summaries."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 7463/1: topology: Update cpu_power according to DT information
  ARM: 7462/1: topology: factorize the update of sibling masks
  ARM: 7461/1: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function
  ARM: 7456/1: ptrace: provide separate functions for tracing syscall {entry,exit}
  ARM: 7455/1: audit: move syscall auditing until after ptrace SIGTRAP handling
  ARM: 7454/1: entry: don't bother with syscall tracing on ret_from_fork path
  ARM: 7453/1: audit: only allow syscall auditing for pure EABI userspace
  ARM: 7452/1: delay: allow timer-based delay implementation to be selected
  ARM: 7451/1: arch timer: implement read_current_timer and get_cycles
  ARM: 7450/1: dcache: select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS for little-endian ARMv6+ CPUs
  ARM: 7449/1: use generic strnlen_user and strncpy_from_user functions
  ARM: 7448/1: perf: remove arm_perf_pmu_ids global enumeration
  ARM: 7447/1: rwlocks: remove unused branch labels from trylock routines
  ARM: 7446/1: spinlock: use ticket algorithm for ARMv6+ locking implementation
  ARM: 7445/1: mm: update CONTEXTIDR register to contain PID of current process
  ARM: 7444/1: kernel: add arch-timer C3STOP feature
  ARM: 7460/1: remove asm/locks.h
  ARM: 7439/1: head.S: simplify initial page table mapping
  ARM: 7437/1: zImage: Allow DTB command line concatenation with ATAG_CMDLINE
  ARM: 7436/1: Do not map the vectors page as write-through on UP systems
  ...
2012-07-27 15:14:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43a1141b9f Trivial comment changes to cpumask code. I guess it's getting boring.
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Merge tag 'cpumask-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus

Pull cpumask changes from Rusty Russell:
 "Trivial comment changes to cpumask code.  I guess it's getting boring."

Boring is good.

* tag 'cpumask-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  cpumask: cpulist_parse() comments correction
  init: add comments to keep initcall-names in sync with initcall levels
  cpumask: add a few comments of cpumask functions
2012-07-27 08:34:16 -07:00
Jim Cromie 96263d2863 init: add comments to keep initcall-names in sync with initcall levels
main.c has initcall_level_names[] for parse_args to print in debug messages,
add comments to keep them in sync with initcalls defined in init.h.

Also add "loadable" into comment re not using *_initcall macros in
modules, to disambiguate from kernel/params.c and other builtins.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-07-27 09:29:42 +09:30
Linus Torvalds 0a2fe19ccc Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pul x86/efi changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds an EFI bootloader handover protocol, which, once
  supported on the bootloader side, will make bootup faster and might
  result in simpler bootloaders.

  The other change activates the EFI wall clock time accessors on x86-64
  as well, instead of the legacy RTC readout."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: Handover Protocol
  x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
2012-07-26 13:13:25 -07:00
Al Viro 4a9d4b024a switch fput to task_work_add
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
(and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).

We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return
to userland (or exit).  Note that for fput() from a kernel
thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but
sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before
you do anything else.  There are two mechanisms for that -
a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit
__fput_sync().  Both should be used with care (as was the
case for fput() from kernel threads all along).  See comments
in fs/file_table.c for details.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:58 +04:00
Will Deacon 8f827a1468 ARM: 7453/1: audit: only allow syscall auditing for pure EABI userspace
The audit tools support only EABI userspace and, since there are no
AUDIT_ARCH_* defines for the ARM OABI, it makes sense to allow syscall
auditing on ARM only for EABI at the moment.

Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-09 17:44:12 +01:00
Borislav Petkov 19efb72fdc init: Drop initcall level output
9fb48c744b ("params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback
signature") added similar lines to dmesg:

initlevel:0=early, 4 registered initcalls
initlevel:1=core, 31 registered initcalls
initlevel:2=postcore, 11 registered initcalls
initlevel:3=arch, 7 registered initcalls
initlevel:4=subsys, 40 registered initcalls
initlevel:5=fs, 30 registered initcalls
initlevel:6=device, 250 registered initcalls
initlevel:7=late, 35 registered initcalls

but they don't contain any info for the general user staring at dmesg.
I'm very doubtful the count of initcalls registered per level helps
anyone so drop that output completely.

Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-06-08 14:58:14 +09:30
Rusty Russell ae82fdb140 module_param: stop double-calling parameters.
Commit 026cee0086 "params:
<level>_initcall-like kernel parameters" set old-style module
parameters to level 0.  And we call those level 0 calls where we used
to, early in start_kernel().

We also loop through the initcall levels and call the levelled
module_params before the corresponding initcall.  Unfortunately level
0 is early_init(), so we call the standard module_param calls twice.

(Turns out most things don't care, but at least ubi.mtd does).

Change the level to -1 for standard module_param calls.

Reported-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-06-08 14:58:13 +09:30
Jan Beulich bacef661ac x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
Other than ix86, x86-64 on EFI so far didn't set the
{g,s}et_wallclock accessors to the EFI routines, thus
incorrectly using raw RTC accesses instead.

Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't
enough, however: While so far early get-time calls were done in
physical mode, this doesn't work properly for x86-64, as virtual
addresses would still need to be set up for all runtime regions
(which wasn't the case on the system I have access to), so
instead the patch moves the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode()
ahead (which in turn allows to drop all code related to calling
efi-get-time in physical mode).

Additionally the earlier calling of efi_set_executable()
requires the CPA code to cope, i.e. during early boot it must be
avoided to call cpa_flush_array(), as the first thing this
function does is a BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()).

Also make the two EFI functions in question here static -
they're not being referenced elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBFBF5F020000780008637F@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 11:48:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 08615d7d85 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map

 - checkpatch updates

 - fatfs

 - kmod changes

 - procfs

 - cpumask

 - UML

 - kexec

 - mqueue

 - rapidio

 - pidns

 - some checkpoint-restore feature work.  Reluctantly.  Most of it
   delayed a release.  I'm still rather worried that we don't have a
   clear roadmap to completion for this work.

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 patches)
  kconfig: update compression algorithm info
  c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
  c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries
  c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat
  syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
  fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry
  sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()
  eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal()
  fs/nls: add Apple NLS
  pidns: make killed children autoreap
  pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
  rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support
  rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers
  ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support
  tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests
  ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation
  ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test
  ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv
  selftests: add mq_open_tests
  ...
2012-05-31 18:10:18 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 0a4dd35c67 kconfig: update compression algorithm info
There have been new compression algorithms added without updating nearby
relevant descriptive text that refers to (a) the number of compression
algorithms and (b) the most recent one.  Fix these inconsistencies.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Reported-by: <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com>
Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:33 -07:00
H Hartley Sweeten c67e5382fb init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files
The init/mount.o source files produce a number of sparse warnings of the
type:

warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
   expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*dev_name
   got char *name

This is due to the syscalls expecting some of the arguments to be user
pointers but they are being passed as kernel pointers.  This is harmless
but adds a lot of noise to a sparse build.

To limit the noise just disable the sparse checking in the relevant source
files, but still display a warning so that the user knows this has been
done.

Since the sparse checking has been disabled we can also remove the __user
__force casts that are scattered thru the source.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0d167518e0 Merge branch 'for-3.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Merge block/IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
 "This is a bit bigger on the core side than usual, but that is purely
  because we decided to hold off on parts of Tejun's submission on 3.4
  to give it a bit more time to simmer.  As a consequence, it's seen a
  long cycle in for-next.

  It contains:

   - Bug fix from Dan, wrong locking type.
   - Relax splice gifting restriction from Eric.
   - A ton of updates from Tejun, primarily for blkcg.  This improves
     the code a lot, making the API nicer and cleaner, and also includes
     fixes for how we handle and tie policies and re-activate on
     switches.  The changes also include generic bug fixes.
   - A simple fix from Vivek, along with a fix for doing proper delayed
     allocation of the blkcg stats."

Fix up annoying conflict just due to different merge resolution in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

* 'for-3.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (92 commits)
  blkcg: tg_stats_alloc_lock is an irq lock
  vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT
  blkcg: use radix tree to index blkgs from blkcg
  blkcg: fix blkcg->css ref leak in __blkg_lookup_create()
  block: fix elvpriv allocation failure handling
  block: collapse blk_alloc_request() into get_request()
  blkcg: collapse blkcg_policy_ops into blkcg_policy
  blkcg: embed struct blkg_policy_data in policy specific data
  blkcg: mass rename of blkcg API
  blkcg: style cleanups for blk-cgroup.h
  blkcg: remove blkio_group->path[]
  blkcg: blkg_rwstat_read() was missing inline
  blkcg: shoot down blkgs if all policies are deactivated
  blkcg: drop stuff unused after per-queue policy activation update
  blkcg: implement per-queue policy activation
  blkcg: add request_queue->root_blkg
  blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation
  blkcg: make sure blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassing
  blkcg: make blkg_conf_prep() take @pol and return with queue lock held
  blkcg: remove static policy ID enums
  ...
2012-05-30 08:52:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c7523a7c88 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner.

Various trivial conflict fixups in arch Kconfig due to addition of
unrelated entries nearby.  And one slightly more subtle one for sparc32
(new user of GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS), fixed up as per Thomas.

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
  timekeeping: Fix a few minor newline issues.
  time: remove obsolete declaration
  ntp: Fix a stale comment and a few stray newlines.
  ntp: Correct TAI offset during leap second
  timers: Fixup the Kconfig consolidation fallout
  x86: Use generic time config
  unicore32: Use generic time config
  um: Use generic time config
  tile: Use generic time config
  sparc: Use: generic time config
  sh: Use generic time config
  score: Use generic time config
  s390: Use generic time config
  openrisc: Use generic time config
  powerpc: Use generic time config
  mn10300: Use generic time config
  mips: Use generic time config
  microblaze: Use generic time config
  m68k: Use generic time config
  m32r: Use generic time config
  ...
2012-05-24 13:29:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 644473e9c6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can
  reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete
  implementation.

  Highlights:
   - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and
     code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe.

   - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the
     config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable
     user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission
     checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe.

   - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial
     user namespace before they are processed.  Removing the need to add
     an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared
     uids remains the same.

   - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or
     better than it is today.

   - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or
     operationally with the user namespace enabled.

   - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1
     billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code
     enabled.  This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to
     164ns per stat operation).

   - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value.
     Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially
     anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause
     entertaining failures in userspace.

   - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails.
     I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I
     could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and
     handle the case where setuid fails.

   - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which
     we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid.  The LFS
     experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be
     better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I
     can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we
     can't map.

   - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it
     safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities.

  My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core
  kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
  userns:  Silence silly gcc warning.
  cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
  userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
  userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
  userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
  userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
  userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
  userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
  userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns
  userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
  userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace.
  userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids
  userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid
  userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs
  ...
2012-05-23 17:42:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 269af9a1a0 Merge branch 'x86-extable-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull exception table generation updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change here is to allow the build-time sorting of the
  exception table, to speed up booting.  This is achieved by the
  architecture enabling BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT.  This option is enabled
  for x86 and MIPS currently.

  On x86 a number of fixes and changes were needed to allow build-time
  sorting of the exception table, in particular a relocation invariant
  exception table format was needed.  This required the abstracting out
  of exception table protocol and the removal of 20 years of accumulated
  assumptions about the x86 exception table format.

  While at it, this tree also cleans up various other aspects of
  exception handling, such as early(er) exception handling for
  rdmsr_safe() et al.

  All in one, as the result of these changes the x86 exception code is
  now pretty nice and modern.  As an added bonus any regressions in this
  code will be early and violent crashes, so if you see any of those,
  you'll know whom to blame!"

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{mips,x86}/Kconfig files due to nearby
modifications of other core architecture options.

* 'x86-extable-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
  Revert "x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now"
  scripts/sortextable: Handle relative entries, and other cleanups
  x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries
  x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now
  x86, extable: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_EX() macro
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
  x86, extable: Remove the now-unused __ASM_EX_SEC macros
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/um/checksum_32.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/putuser.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_nocache_64.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/test_rodata.c
  x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
  ...
2012-05-23 10:44:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2ff2b289a6 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes:

   - (much) improved assembly annotation support in perf report, with
     jump visualization, searching, navigation, visual output
     improvements and more.

    - kernel support for AMD IBS PMU hardware features.  Notably 'perf
      record -e cycles:p' and 'perf top -e cycles:p' should work without
      skid now, like PEBS does on the Intel side, because it takes
      advantage of IBS transparently.

    - the libtracevents library: it is the first step towards unifying
      tracing tooling and perf, and it also gives a tracing library for
      external tools like powertop to rely on.

    - infrastructure: various improvements and refactoring of the UI
      modules and related code

    - infrastructure: cleanup and simplification of the profiling
      targets code (--uid, --pid, --tid, --cpu, --all-cpus, etc.)

    - tons of robustness fixes all around

    - various ftrace updates: speedups, cleanups, robustness
      improvements.

    - typing 'make' in tools/ will now give you a menu of projects to
      build and a short help text to explain what each does.

    - ... and lots of other changes I forgot to list.

  The perf record make bzImage + perf report regression you reported
  should be fixed."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (166 commits)
  tracing: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  tracing: Fix initial buffer_size_kb state
  ring-buffer: Merge separate resize loops
  perf evsel: Create events initially disabled -- again
  perf tools: Split term type into value type and term type
  perf hists: Fix callchain ip printf format
  perf target: Add uses_mmap field
  ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER
  ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code()
  ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use
  ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location()
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved()
  ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address
  ftrace: Remove extra helper functions
  ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page
  tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask
  tracing: Check return value of tracing_dentry_percpu()
  ring-buffer: Reset head page before running self test
  ring-buffer: Add integrity check at end of iter read
  ring-buffer: Make addition of pages in ring buffer atomic
  ...
2012-05-22 18:18:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d4e2d08e7 Driver core pull for 3.5-rc1
Here's the driver core, and other driver subsystems, pull request for
 the 3.5-rc1 merge window.
 
 Outside of a few minor driver core changes, we ended up with the
 following different subsystem and core changes as well, due to
 interdependancies on the driver core:
  - hyperv driver updates
  - drivers/memory being created and some drivers moved into it
  - extcon driver subsystem created out of the old Android staging switch
    driver code
  - dynamic debug updates
  - printk rework, and /dev/kmsg changes
 
 All of this has been tested in the linux-next releases for a few weeks
 with no reported problems.
 
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the driver core, and other driver subsystems, pull request for
  the 3.5-rc1 merge window.

  Outside of a few minor driver core changes, we ended up with the
  following different subsystem and core changes as well, due to
  interdependancies on the driver core:
   - hyperv driver updates
   - drivers/memory being created and some drivers moved into it
   - extcon driver subsystem created out of the old Android staging
     switch driver code
   - dynamic debug updates
   - printk rework, and /dev/kmsg changes

  All of this has been tested in the linux-next releases for a few weeks
  with no reported problems.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

Fix up conflicts in drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c where git noticed
that a patch to the deleted drivers/misc/max8997-muic.c driver needs to
be applied to this one.

* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (90 commits)
  uio_pdrv_genirq: get irq through platform resource if not set otherwise
  memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Remove empty *_remove()
  printk() - isolate KERN_CONT users from ordinary complete lines
  sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
  Drivers: hv: util: Properly handle version negotiations.
  Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp()
  memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Use dev_err_ratelimited()
  driver core: Add dev_*_ratelimited() family
  Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device()
  printk() - restore prefix/timestamp printing for multi-newline strings
  printk: add stub for prepend_timestamp()
  ARM: tegra30: Make MC optional in Kconfig
  ARM: tegra20: Make MC optional in Kconfig
  ARM: tegra30: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
  ARM: tegra20: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
  printk: correctly align __log_buf
  ARM: tegra30: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
  ARM: tegra20: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
  printk() - restore timestamp printing at console output
  printk() - do not merge continuation lines of different threads
  ...
2012-05-22 16:02:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bf67f3a5c4 Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
  not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet.  I wish I'd had
  something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
  horror..."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
  task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
  sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  score: Use common threadinfo allocator
  sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
  mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
  powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
  hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
  m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
  frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
  cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
  x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
  c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
  tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
  fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
  fork: Remove the weak insanity
  sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
  ...
2012-05-21 19:43:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 226da0dbc8 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E.  McKenney:

 1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with
    more on the way for 3.6).  Posted to LKML:
       https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
       https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
       https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
       https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
       the other commits for the convenience of the tester).

 2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
    that have no RCU callbacks.  Posted to LKML:
       https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.

 3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
    between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that
    survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
    __rcu_read_lock() to be inlined.  The full set was posted to LKML at
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches
    of that set remain.

 4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
    call_srcu() and srcu_barrier().  A major feature of this new
    implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the
    execution of other CPUs.  This work is based on earlier
    implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E.  McKenney.  Posted to
    LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.

 5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
    posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
    subsequent updates posted to LKML."

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive
  rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables
  rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration
  rcu: Update RCU maintainership
  rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate
  rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation
  rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU
  rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu()
  rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine
  rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods
  rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality
  rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier()
  rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm
  rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments
  rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period
  rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()
  rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu()
  rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
  rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()
  timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment
  ...
2012-05-21 19:26:51 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 764e0da14f timers: Fixup the Kconfig consolidation fallout
Sigh, I missed to check which architecture Kconfig files actually
include the core Kconfig file. There are a few which did not. So we
broke them.

Instead of adding the includes to those, we are better off to move the
include to init/Kconfig like we did already with irqs and others.

This does not change anything for the architectures using the old
style periodic timer mode. It just solves the build wreckage there.

For those architectures which use the clock events infrastructure it
moves the include of the core Kconfig file to "General setup" which is
a way more logical place than having it at random locations specified
by the architecture specific Kconfigs.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@glx-um.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-21 23:43:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 31a67102f4 Fix blocking allocations called very early during bootup
During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up,
we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious)
configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in
scheduling events.

We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the
code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the
scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the
initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody.

And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason:
it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow
blocking allocations much too early.

So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()'
(which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption
disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'.  kernel_init() is run
in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as
opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what
will be the first idle thread.

So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must
be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle
thread into the init thread.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-21 12:52:42 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 16ee6576e2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch:

"perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object"

That depends on:

commit e7c72d8
perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the
result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope
with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits
were not used.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-18 13:13:33 -03:00
Eric W. Biederman b38a86eb19 userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:30 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 14a590c3f9 userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:30 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 8751e03958 userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:29 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman ab27b91b9f userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:29 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 091bd3ea4e userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:28 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman dcb0f22282 userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:28 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 08cefc7ab8 userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:27 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 1523299d58 userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:27 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman b8a9f9e183 userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman f04c6ce2cf userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman ebc887b278 userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:25 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman e1c972b681 userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
Add a new internal Kconfig option UIDGID_CONVERTED that is true when the selected
Kconfig options have been converted to be user namespace safe, and guard
USER_NS and guard the UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECK options with it.

This keeps innocent kernel users from having the choice to enable
the user namespace in the cases where it is known not to work.

Most of the rest of the conversions are simple and straight forward but
their sheer number means it is good not to count on having them all done
and reviwed before thinking of merging this code.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 2d84e023cb Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:

 1)	A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature
	(with more on the way for 3.6).  Posted to LKML:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
	the other commits for the convenience of the tester).

 2)	Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
	that have no RCU callbacks.  Posted to LKML:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.

 3)	A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
	between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all
	that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
	__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined.  The full set was posted to
	LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and
	third patches of that set remain.

 4)	Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
	call_srcu() and srcu_barrier().  A major feature of this new
	implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs
	the execution of other CPUs.  This work is based on earlier
	implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney.  Posted to
	LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.

 5)	A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
	posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
	subsequent updates posted to LKML.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-14 08:41:46 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 67ba5293f7 Merge branch 'smp/threadalloc' into smp/hotplug
Reason: Pull in the separate branch which was created so arch/tile can
base further work on it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-08 14:07:48 +02:00
Sasha Levin 377485f624 init: don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matches
Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is
UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root.  This would happen for non-NFS devices as
well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since
mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to
doing the proper mount:

       [  101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
       [  101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18.

Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries
when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail
and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying,
which has revealed the issue this patch fixes.

This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when
we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS.

This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be
'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR
major.  This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through
the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root
("/dev/nfs").

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-05 10:04:40 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner a6359d1eec init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK
Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and
let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASK

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.867948914@linutronix.de
2012-05-05 13:00:46 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner a4a2eb490e init_task: Create generic init_task instance
All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is
no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a
generic instance so all archs can be converted over.

The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are
converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de
2012-05-05 13:00:21 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman eb1574270a Merge 3.4-rc5 into driver-core-next
This was done to resolve a merge issue with the init/main.c file.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-02 14:33:37 -07:00
Jens Axboe 0b7877d4ee Linux 3.4-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.4-rc5' into for-3.5/core

The core branch is behind driver commits that we want to build
on for 3.5, hence I'm pulling in a later -rc.

Linux 3.4-rc5

Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-05-01 14:29:55 +02:00
Jim Cromie 9fb48c744b params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signature
Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked
from parse_args(). The arg is passed as:

  "Booting kernel" from start_kernel(),
  initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(),
  mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one()

parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to
"doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above.  parse_args() passes
it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the
unknown option handler callbacks.

The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules,
since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a
"$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is
called, the module name is not otherwise available.

Minor tweaks:

Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt
identify the param being handled, add it.

Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall,
and number of registered initcalls at that level.  This adds 7 lines
to dmesg output, like:

   initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls

Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the
pr_info() added above.  This array is passed into parse_args() by
do_initcall_level().

CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-30 14:05:27 -04:00
Robert Richter 392d65a9ad perf: Remove PERF_COUNTERS config option
Renaming remaining PERF_COUNTERS options into PERF_EVENTS.

Think we can get rid of PERF_COUNTERS now.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643084-26776-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-26 13:52:52 +02:00
Chris Metcalf a99cd11251 init: fix bug where environment vars can't be passed via boot args
Commit 026cee0086 had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from
the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment
variables.  This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string
where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers
to the parsing subfunctions.  Previously, unknown_bootoption() was
the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back
the '=' character.  Now the ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last
one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the
envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer
seen as valid environment variables by init.

Tested-by: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2012-04-25 11:47:29 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney 8932a63d5e rcu: Reduce cache-miss initialization latencies for large systems
Commit #0209f649 (rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout) set an upper
limit of 16 on the leaf-level fanout for the rcu_node tree.  This was
needed to reduce lock contention that was induced by the synchronization
of scheduling-clock interrupts, which was in turn needed to improve
energy efficiency for moderate-sized lightly loaded servers.

However, reducing the leaf-level fanout means that there are more
leaf-level rcu_node structures in the tree, which in turn means that
RCU's grace-period initialization incurs more cache misses.  This is
not a problem on moderate-sized servers with only a few tens of CPUs,
but becomes a major source of real-time latency spikes on systems with
many hundreds of CPUs.  In addition, the workloads running on these large
systems tend to be CPU-bound, which eliminates the energy-efficiency
advantages of synchronizing scheduling-clock interrupts.  Therefore,
these systems need maximal values for the rcu_node leaf-level fanout.

This commit addresses this problem by introducing a new kernel parameter
named RCU_FANOUT_LEAF that directly controls the leaf-level fanout.
This parameter defaults to 16 to handle the common case of a moderate
sized lightly loaded servers, but may be set higher on larger systems.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-24 20:54:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c9336643e1 rcu: Clarify help text for RCU_BOOST_PRIO
The old text confused real-time applications with real-time threads, so
that you pretty much needed to understand how this kernel configuration
parameter worked to understand the help text.  This commit therefore
attempts to make the help text human-readable.

Reported-by: Jörn Engel <joern@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-24 20:54:50 -07:00
David Daney 1dbdc6f177 kbuild/extable: Hook up sortextable into the build system.
Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.

Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-04-19 15:06:56 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 5673a94c14 userns: Add a Kconfig option to enforce strict kuid and kgid type checks
Make it possible to easily switch between strong mandatory
type checks and relaxed type checks so that the code can
easily be tested with the type checks and then built
with the strong type checks disabled so the resulting
code can be used.

Require strong mandatory type checks when enabling the user namespace.
It is very simple to make a typo and use the wrong type allowing
conversions to/from userspace values to be bypassed by accident,
the strong type checks prevent this.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-04-07 17:11:01 -07:00
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux

Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
 "(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
  if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"

I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98a ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").

* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
  documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
2012-04-02 08:53:24 -07:00