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Oleg Nesterov 81dabb4641 exit.c: unexport __set_special_pids()
Move __set_special_pids() from exit.c to sys.c close to its single caller
and make it static.

And rename it to set_special_pids(), another helper with this name has
gone away.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:02 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 207bc1181b Merge branch 'freezer'
* freezer:
  af_unix: use freezable blocking calls in read
  sigtimedwait: use freezable blocking call
  nanosleep: use freezable blocking call
  futex: use freezable blocking call
  select: use freezable blocking call
  epoll: use freezable blocking call
  binder: use freezable blocking calls
  freezer: add new freezable helpers using freezer_do_not_count()
  freezer: convert freezable helpers to static inline where possible
  freezer: convert freezable helpers to freezer_do_not_count()
  freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set
  freezer: shorten freezer sleep time using exponential backoff
  lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time
  lockdep: remove task argument from debug_check_no_locks_held
  freezer: add unsafe versions of freezable helpers for CIFS
  freezer: add unsafe versions of freezable helpers for NFS
2013-06-28 13:00:53 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 8aac62706a move exit_task_namespaces() outside of exit_notify()
exit_notify() does exit_task_namespaces() after
forget_original_parent(). This was needed to ensure that ->nsproxy
can't be cleared prematurely, an exiting child we are going to
reparent can do do_notify_parent() and use the parent's (ours) pid_ns.

However, after 32084504 "pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in
do_notify_parent" ->nsproxy != NULL is no longer needed, we rely
on task_active_pid_ns().

Move exit_task_namespaces() from exit_notify() to do_exit(), after
exit_fs() and before exit_task_work().

This solves the problem reported by Andrey, free_ipc_ns()->shm_destroy()
does fput() which needs task_work_add().

Note: this particular problem can be fixed if we change fput(), and
that change makes sense anyway. But there is another reason to move
the callsite. The original reason for exit_task_namespaces() from
the middle of exit_notify() was subtle and it has already gone away,
now this looks confusing. And this allows us do simplify exit_notify(),
we can avoid unlock/lock(tasklist) and we can use ->exit_state instead
of PF_EXITING in forget_original_parent().

Reported-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-15 05:39:08 +04:00
Colin Cross 1b1d2fb444 lockdep: remove task argument from debug_check_no_locks_held
The only existing caller to debug_check_no_locks_held calls it
with 'current' as the task, and the freezer needs to call
debug_check_no_locks_held but doesn't already have a current
task pointer, so remove the argument.  It is already assuming
that the current task is relevant by dumping the current stack
trace as part of the warning.

This was originally part of 6aa9707099 (lockdep: check that
no locks held at freeze time) which was reverted in
dbf520a9d7.

Original-author: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-05-12 14:16:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 20b4fb4852 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 08d7676083 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
Al Viro 4b8a8f1e4f get rid of the last free_pipe_info() callers
and rename __free_pipe_info() to free_pipe_info()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-09 14:13:02 -04:00
Paul Walmsley dbf520a9d7 Revert "lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time"
This reverts commit 6aa9707099.

Commit 6aa9707099 ("lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time")
causes problems with NFS root filesystems.  The failures were noticed on
OMAP2 and 3 boards during kernel init:

  [ BUG: swapper/0/1 still has locks held! ]
  3.9.0-rc3-00344-ga937536 #1 Not tainted
  -------------------------------------
  1 lock held by swapper/0/1:
   #0:  (&type->s_umount_key#13/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<c011e84c>] sget+0x248/0x574

  stack backtrace:
    rpc_wait_bit_killable
    __wait_on_bit
    out_of_line_wait_on_bit
    __rpc_execute
    rpc_run_task
    rpc_call_sync
    nfs_proc_get_root
    nfs_get_root
    nfs_fs_mount_common
    nfs_try_mount
    nfs_fs_mount
    mount_fs
    vfs_kern_mount
    do_mount
    sys_mount
    do_mount_root
    mount_root
    prepare_namespace
    kernel_init_freeable
    kernel_init

Although the rootfs mounts, the system is unstable.  Here's a transcript
from a PM test:

  http://www.pwsan.com/omap/testlogs/test_v3.9-rc3/20130317194234/pm/37xxevm/37xxevm_log.txt

Here's what the test log should look like:

  http://www.pwsan.com/omap/testlogs/test_v3.8/20130218214403/pm/37xxevm/37xxevm_log.txt

Mailing list discussion is here:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/4/221

Deal with this for v3.9 by reverting the problem commit, until folks can
figure out the right long-term course of action.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-31 11:38:33 -07:00
Al Viro 2cf0966683 make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS, killing open-coded
uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-03 22:58:33 -05:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 80d26af89a coredump: use a freezable_schedule for the coredump_finish wait
Prevents hung_task detector from panicing the machine. This is also
needed to prevent this wait from blocking suspend.

(It doesnt' currently block suspend but it would once the next
patch in this series is applied.)

[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: kernel/exit.c: remove duplicated include]
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:11 -08:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 6aa9707099 lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time
We shouldn't try_to_freeze if locks are held.  Holding a lock can cause a
deadlock if the lock is later acquired in the suspend or hibernate path
(e.g.  by dpm).  Holding a lock can also cause a deadlock in the case of
cgroup_freezer if a lock is held inside a frozen cgroup that is later
acquired by a process outside that group.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export debug_check_no_locks_held]
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:11 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 6fac4829ce cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While
remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full
dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This
way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace
since its last cputime snapshot.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-01-27 19:23:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6a2b60b17b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to
  containers in general and user namespaces in particular.  The user
  space interface is now complete.

  This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user
  namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces.
  The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from
  using cool new kernel features is broken.

  This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for
  the pid, user, mount namespaces.

  This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace
  cleanups/simplifications.  Of particular significance is the rework of
  the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out
  tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation.  At
  least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been converted from regular files
  to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS,
  ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is
  currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission
  checks are always applied.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been given stable inode numbers
  so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same
  namespaces.

  Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the
  permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user
  namespace root to usefully use the networking stack.  Similar changes
  for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my
  tree.

  Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn
  in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the
  /proc/<pid>/ns/ files in this tree.

  Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs,
  ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the
  Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from
  being built when any of those filesystems are enabled.

  Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial
  user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits)
  proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
  proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks.
  proc: Generalize proc inode allocation
  userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs
  userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file
  procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file
  userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
  userns: Implent proc namespace operations
  userns: Kill task_user_ns
  userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter
  userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
  userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.
  userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces.
  userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped
  userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure
  vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.
  vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces
  vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace
  ...
2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9977d9b379 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
2012-12-12 12:22:13 -08:00
Al Viro c4144670fd kill daemonize()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28 21:49:02 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker e80d0a1ae8 cputime: Rename thread_group_times to thread_group_cputime_adjusted
We have thread_group_cputime() and thread_group_times(). The naming
doesn't provide enough information about the difference between
these two APIs.

To lower the confusion, rename thread_group_times() to
thread_group_cputime_adjusted(). This name better suggests that
it's a version of thread_group_cputime() that does some stabilization
on the raw cputime values. ie here: scale on top of CFS runtime
stats and bound lower value for monotonicity.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-11-28 17:07:57 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman af4b8a83ad pidns: Wait in zap_pid_ns_processes until pid_ns->nr_hashed == 1
Looking at pid_ns->nr_hashed is a bit simpler and it works for
disjoint process trees that an unshare or a join of a pid_namespace
may create.

Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-11-19 05:59:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds aab174f0df Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs update from Al Viro:

 - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
   that is moved to fs/file.c

   (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c.  As it is,
   we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
   file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
   are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
   struct file we used to have way back).

   A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
   disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
   doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore.  A bunch of
   relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
   leak.

 - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
   there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).

 - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
   that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
   switch of fdinfo to seq_file.

 - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
   take that commit than mess with conflicts.  The rest is a separate
   pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.

 - a few misc patches all over the place.  Not all for this cycle,
   there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."

Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
/proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
  MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
  compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
  fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
  btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
  coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
  coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
  usb/gadget: fix misannotations
  fcntl: fix misannotations
  ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
  hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
  vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
  switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
  new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
  switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
  proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
  make get_file() return its argument
  vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
  switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
  ...
2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
Al Viro 864bdb3b6c new helper: daemonize_descriptors()
descriptor-related parts of daemonize, done right.  As the
result we simplify the locking rules for ->files - we
hold task_lock in *all* cases when we modify ->files.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:00 -04:00
Al Viro 7cf4dc3c8d move files_struct-related bits from kernel/exit.c to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:54 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 5640f76858 net: use a per task frag allocator
We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg()
operations.

This page is used to build fragments for skbs.

Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into
single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent)

But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly
idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page

Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need
about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit
page allocator more than wanted.

This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages,
if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure.

(up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86)

This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device,
but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are
mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck
mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled.

Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments,
but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a
fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536

Successfully tested on various ethernet devices.
(ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-24 16:31:37 -04:00
Josh Boyer 8ded2bbc18 posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions
Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1).  This uncovered an issue with the
kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
<linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>.  A build failure would
be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
flags to gcc.

It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely.  The current in-kernel
uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines.  Given that, we'll
continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f
("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
macros.

Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.

Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
[ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-26 13:36:43 -07:00
Al Viro ed3e694d78 move exit_task_work() past exit_files() et.al.
... and get rid of PF_EXITING check in task_work_add().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:57 +04:00
Oleg Nesterov 50d75f8dae pidns: find_new_reaper() can no longer switch to init_pid_ns.child_reaper
find_new_reaper() changes pid_ns->child_reaper, see add0d4df ("pid_ns:
zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing").

The original reason has gone away after the previous patch, ->children
list must be empty after zap_pid_ns_processes().

However now we can not switch to init_pid_ns.child_reaper.
__unhash_process() relies on the "->child_reaper == parent" check, but
this check does not work if the last exiting task is also the child
reaper.

As Eric sugested, we can change __unhash_process() to use the parent's
pid_ns and remove this code.

Also, with this change we can move detach_pid(PIDTYPE_PID) back, where it
was before the previous fix.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 6347e90091 pidns: guarantee that the pidns init will be the last pidns process reaped
Today we have a twofold bug.  Sometimes release_task on pid == 1 in a pid
namespace can run before other processes in a pid namespace have had
release task called.  With the result that pid_ns_release_proc can be
called before the last proc_flus_task() is done using upid->ns->proc_mnt,
resulting in the use of a stale pointer.  This same set of circumstances
can lead to waitpid(...) returning for a processes started with
clone(CLONE_NEWPID) before the every process in the pid namespace has
actually exited.

To fix this modify zap_pid_ns_processess wait until all other processes in
the pid namespace have exited, even EXIT_DEAD zombies.

The delay_group_leader and related tests ensure that the thread gruop
leader will be the last thread of a process group to be reaped, or to
become EXIT_DEAD and self reap.  With the change to zap_pid_ns_processes
we get the guarantee that pid == 1 in a pid namespace will be the last
task that release_task is called on.

With pid == 1 being the last task to pass through release_task
pid_ns_release_proc can no longer be called too early nor can wait return
before all of the EXIT_DEAD tasks in a pid namespace have exited.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov 4fe7efdbdf mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
do_exit() and exec_mmap() call sync_mm_rss() before mm_release() does
put_user(clear_child_tid) which can update task->rss_stat and thus make
mm->rss_stat inconsistent.  This triggers the "BUG:" printk in check_mm().

Let's fix this bug in the safest way, and optimize/cleanup this later.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 48d212a2ee Revert "mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec"
This reverts commit 40af1bbdca.

It's horribly and utterly broken for at least the following reasons:

 - calling sync_mm_rss() from mmput() is fundamentally wrong, because
   there's absolutely no reason to believe that the task that does the
   mmput() always does it on its own VM.  Example: fork, ptrace, /proc -
   you name it.

 - calling it *after* having done mmdrop() on it is doubly insane, since
   the mm struct may well be gone now.

 - testing mm against NULL before you call it is insane too, since a
NULL mm there would have caused oopses long before.

.. and those are just the three bugs I found before I decided to give up
looking for me and revert it asap.  I should have caught it before I
even took it, but I trusted Andrew too much.

Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 17:54:07 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov 40af1bbdca mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
mm->rss_stat counters have per-task delta: task->rss_stat.  Before
changing task->mm pointer the kernel must flush this delta with
sync_mm_rss().

do_exit() already calls sync_mm_rss() to flush the rss-counters before
committing the rss statistics into task->signal->maxrss, taskstats,
audit and other stuff.  Unfortunately the kernel does this before
calling mm_release(), which can call put_user() for processing
task->clear_child_tid.  So at this point we can trigger page-faults and
task->rss_stat becomes non-zero again.  As a result mm->rss_stat becomes
inconsistent and check_mm() will print something like this:

| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:1 val:-1
| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:2 val:1

This patch moves sync_mm_rss() into mm_release(), and moves mm_release()
out of do_exit() and calls it earlier.  After mm_release() there should
be no pagefaults.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[3.4.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fb21affa49 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull second pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro:
 "This one is just task_work_add() series + remaining prereqs for it.

  There probably will be another pull request from that tree this
  cycle - at least for helpers, to get them out of the way for per-arch
  fixes remaining in the tree."

Fix trivial conflict in kernel/irq/manage.c: the merge of Andrew's pile
had brought in commit 97fd75b7b8 ("kernel/irq/manage.c: use the
pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks") which changed one of the
pr_err() calls that this merge moves around.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  keys: kill task_struct->replacement_session_keyring
  keys: kill the dummy key_replace_session_keyring()
  keys: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add()
  genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add()
  task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks
  avr32: missed _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME on one of do_notify_resume callers
  parisc: need to check NOTIFY_RESUME when exiting from syscall
  move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()
  TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is defined on all targets now
2012-05-31 18:47:30 -07:00
Tim Bird 168eeccbc9 stack usage: add pid to warning printk in check_stack_usage
In embedded systems, sometimes the same program (busybox) is the cause of
multiple warnings.  Outputting the pid with the program name in the
warning printk helps distinguish which instances of a program are using
the stack most.

This is a small patch, but useful.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 43e13cc107 cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation
Commit 8f92054e7c ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner
comment"):

    add the following validation condition:

        task->exit_state >= 0

    to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore
    unable to change its own credentials.

OK, but afaics currently this can only help wait_task_zombie() which calls
__task_cred() without rcu lock.

Remove this validation and change wait_task_zombie() to use task_uid()
instead.  This means we do rcu_read_lock() only to shut up the lockdep,
but we already do the same in, say, wait_task_stopped().

task_is_dead() should die, task->exit_state != 0 means that this task has
passed exit_notify(), only do_wait-like code paths should use this.

Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already
acquired buggy users in drivers/staging.  The fix already exists.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 4d1d61a6b2 genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add()
exit_irq_thread() and task->irq_thread are needed to handle the unexpected
(and unlikely) exit of irq-thread.

We can use task_work instead and make this all private to
kernel/irq/manage.c, cleanup plus micro-optimization.

1. rename exit_irq_thread() to irq_thread_dtor(), make it
   static, and move it up before irq_thread().

2. change irq_thread() to do task_work_add(irq_thread_dtor)
   at the start and task_work_cancel() before return.

   tracehook_notify_resume() can never play with kthreads,
   only do_exit()->exit_task_work() can call the callback
   and this is what we want.

3. remove task_struct->irq_thread and the special hook
   in do_exit().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-23 22:11:12 -04:00
Oleg Nesterov e73f8959af task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks
Provide a simple mechanism that allows running code in the (nonatomic)
context of the arbitrary task.

The caller does task_work_add(task, task_work) and this task executes
task_work->func() either from do_notify_resume() or from do_exit().  The
callback can rely on PF_EXITING to detect the latter case.

"struct task_work" can be embedded in another struct, still it has "void
*data" to handle the most common/simple case.

This allows us to kill the ->replacement_session_keyring hack, and
potentially this can have more users.

Performance-wise, this adds 2 "unlikely(!hlist_empty())" checks into
tracehook_notify_resume() and do_exit().  But at the same time we can
remove the "replacement_session_keyring != NULL" checks from
arch/*/signal.c and exit_creds().

Note: task_work_add/task_work_run abuses ->pi_lock.  This is only because
this lock is already used by lookup_pi_state() to synchronize with
do_exit() setting PF_EXITING.  Fortunately the scope of this lock in
task_work.c is really tiny, and the code is unlikely anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-23 22:09:21 -04:00
Sasha Levin 8ca937a668 cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
Commit "userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use
kuid and kgid has modified the accessors in wait_task_continued() and
wait_task_stopped() to use __task_cred() instead of task_uid().

__task_cred() assumes that we're inside a rcu read lock, which is untrue
for these two functions.

Modify it to use task_uid() instead.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-17 16:50:06 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman a29c33f4e5 userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
Convert setregid, setgid, setreuid, setuid,
setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setfsuid, setfsgid,
getuid, geteuid, getgid, getegid,
waitpid, waitid, wait4.

Convert userspace uids and gids into kuids and kgids before
being placed on struct cred.  Convert struct cred kuids and
kgids into userspace uids and gids when returning them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-03 03:28:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a591afc01d Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
  ...
2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko 397a21f24d kernel/exit.c: if init dies, log a signal which killed it, if any
I just received another user's pleas for help when their init
mysteriously died.  I again explained that they need to check whether it
died because of bad instruction, a segv, or something else.  Which was
an annoying detour into writing a trivial C program to spawn his init
and print its exit code:

  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-January/077172.html

I hear you saying "just test it under /bin/sh".  Well, the crashing init
_was_ /bin/sh.

Which prompted me to make kernel do this first step automatically.  We can
print exit code, which makes it possible to see that death was from e.g.
SIGILL without writing test programs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add 0x to hex number output]
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
Lennart Poettering ebec18a6d3 prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision
Userspace service managers/supervisors need to track their started
services.  Many services daemonize by double-forking and get implicitly
re-parented to PID 1.  The service manager will no longer be able to
receive the SIGCHLD signals for them, and is no longer in charge of
reaping the children with wait().  All information about the children is
lost at the moment PID 1 cleans up the re-parented processes.

With this prctl, a service manager process can mark itself as a sort of
'sub-init', able to stay as the parent for all orphaned processes
created by the started services.  All SIGCHLD signals will be delivered
to the service manager.

Receiving SIGCHLD and doing wait() is in cases of a service-manager much
preferred over any possible asynchronous notification about specific
PIDs, because the service manager has full access to the child process
data in /proc and the PID can not be re-used until the wait(), the
service-manager itself is in charge of, has happened.

As a side effect, the relevant parent PID information does not get lost
by a double-fork, which results in a more elaborate process tree and
'ps' output:

before:
  # ps afx
  253 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork
  294 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
  328 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager
  608 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/colord
  658 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/upowerd
  819 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon
  916 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
  917 ?        S      0:00  \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices

after:
  # ps afx
  294 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork
  426 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
  449 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/modem-manager
  635 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/colord
  705 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/upowerd
  959 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
  960 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices
  977 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/packagekitd

This prctl is orthogonal to PID namespaces.  PID namespaces are isolated
from each other, while a service management process usually requires the
services to live in the same namespace, to be able to talk to each
other.

Users of this will be the systemd per-user instance, which provides
init-like functionality for the user's login session and D-Bus, which
activates bus services on-demand.  Both need init-like capabilities to
be able to properly keep track of the services they start.

Many thanks to Oleg for several rounds of review and insights.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout and spelling]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lengthy code comment from Oleg]
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 95211279c5 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and all the MM queue"

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (92 commits)
  memcg: avoid THP split in task migration
  thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  memcg: clean up existing move charge code
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read()
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
  mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/
  memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
  memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED
  memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
  memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup
  memcg: simplify move_account() check
  memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat)
  memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs
  memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag
  memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock()
  cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock
  idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock()
  memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting
  memcg: remove redundant returns
  memcg: enum lru_list lru
  ...
2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
David Rientjes 05af2e104a mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat()
sync_mm_rss() can only be used for current to avoid race conditions in
iterating and clearing its per-task counters.  Remove the task argument
for it and its helper function, __sync_task_rss_stat(), to avoid thinking
it can be used safely for anything other than current.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-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>
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3556485f15 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in <net/sock.h> due to the jumo_label->static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
2012-03-21 13:25:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c7c66c0cb0 Power management updates for 3.4
Assorted extensions and fixes including:
 
 * Introduction of early/late suspend/hibernation device callbacks.
 * Generic PM domains extensions and fixes.
 * devfreq updates from Axel Lin and MyungJoo Ham.
 * Device PM QoS updates.
 * Fixes of concurrency problems with wakeup sources.
 * System suspend and hibernation fixes.
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Merge tag 'pm-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management updates for 3.4 from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Assorted extensions and fixes including:

  * Introduction of early/late suspend/hibernation device callbacks.
  * Generic PM domains extensions and fixes.
  * devfreq updates from Axel Lin and MyungJoo Ham.
  * Device PM QoS updates.
  * Fixes of concurrency problems with wakeup sources.
  * System suspend and hibernation fixes."

* tag 'pm-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (43 commits)
  PM / Domains: Check domain status during hibernation restore of devices
  PM / devfreq: add relation of recommended frequency.
  PM / shmobile: Make MTU2 driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on()
  PM / shmobile: Make CMT driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on()
  PM / shmobile: Make TMU driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on()
  PM / Domains: Introduce "always on" device flag
  PM / Domains: Fix hibernation restore of devices, v2
  PM / Domains: Fix handling of wakeup devices during system resume
  sh_mmcif / PM: Use PM QoS latency constraint
  tmio_mmc / PM: Use PM QoS latency constraint
  PM / QoS: Make it possible to expose PM QoS latency constraints
  PM / Sleep: JBD and JBD2 missing set_freezable()
  PM / Domains: Fix include for PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS=n case
  PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments
  PM / Sleep: Add more wakeup source initialization routines
  PM / Hibernate: Enable usermodehelpers in hibernate() error path
  PM / Sleep: Make __pm_stay_awake() delete wakeup source timers
  PM / Sleep: Fix race conditions related to wakeup source timer function
  PM / Sleep: Fix possible infinite loop during wakeup source destruction
  PM / Hibernate: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel
  ...
2012-03-21 10:15:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov b6e238dcee exit_signal: fix the "parent has changed security domain" logic
exit_notify() changes ->exit_signal if the parent already did exec.
This doesn't really work, we are not going to send the signal now
if there is another live thread or the exiting task is traced. The
parent can exec before the last dies or the tracer detaches.

Move this check into do_notify_parent() which actually sends the
signal.

The user-visible change is that we do not change ->exit_signal,
and thus the exiting task is still "clone children" for
do_wait()->eligible_child(__WCLONE). Hopefully this is fine, the
current logic is racy anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20 14:16:50 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov e636825346 exit_signal: simplify the "we have changed execution domain" logic
exit_notify() checks "tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id"
to handle the "we have changed execution domain" case.

We can change do_thread() to always set ->exit_signal = SIGCHLD
and remove this check to simplify the code.

We could change setup_new_exec() instead, this looks more logical
because it increments ->self_exec_id. But note that de_thread()
already resets ->exit_signal if it changes the leader, let's keep
both changes close to each other.

Note that we change ->exit_signal lockless, this changes the rules.
Thereafter ->exit_signal is not stable under tasklist but this is
fine, the only possible change is OLDSIG -> SIGCHLD. This can race
with eligible_child() but the race is harmless. We can race with
reparent_leader() which changes our ->exit_signal in parallel, but
it does the same change to SIGCHLD.

The noticeable user-visible change is that the execing task is not
"visible" to do_wait()->eligible_child(__WCLONE) right after exec.
To me this looks more logical, and this is consistent with mt case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20 14:16:50 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 5234ffb9f7 genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag
Currently IRQTF_DIED flag is set when a IRQ thread handler calls do_exit()
But also PF_EXITING per process flag gets set when a thread exits. This
fix eliminates the duplicate by using PF_EXITING flag.

Also, there is a race condition in exit_irq_thread(). In case a thread's
bit is cleared in desc->threads_oneshot (and the IRQ line gets unmasked),
but before IRQTF_DIED flag is set, a new interrupt might come in and set
just cleared bit again, this time forever. This fix throws IRQTF_DIED flag
away, eliminating the race as a result.

[ tglx: Test THREAD_EXITING first as suggested by Oleg ]

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135958.GD2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09 17:19:09 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 643161ace2 Merge branch 'pm-sleep'
* pm-sleep:
  PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments
  PM / Sleep: Add more wakeup source initialization routines
  PM / Hibernate: Enable usermodehelpers in hibernate() error path
  PM / Sleep: Make __pm_stay_awake() delete wakeup source timers
  PM / Sleep: Fix race conditions related to wakeup source timer function
  PM / Sleep: Fix possible infinite loop during wakeup source destruction
  PM / Hibernate: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel
  PM: Add comment describing relationships between PM callbacks to pm.h
  PM / Sleep: Drop suspend_stats_update()
  PM / Sleep: Make enter_state() in kernel/power/suspend.c static
  PM / Sleep: Unify kerneldoc comments in kernel/power/suspend.c
  PM / Sleep: Remove unnecessary label from suspend_freeze_processes()
  PM / Sleep: Do not check wakeup too often in try_to_freeze_tasks()
  PM / Sleep: Initialize wakeup source locks in wakeup_source_add()
  PM / Hibernate: Refactor and simplify freezer_test_done
  PM / Hibernate: Thaw kernel threads in hibernation_snapshot() in error/test path
  PM / Freezer / Docs: Document the beauty of freeze/thaw semantics
  PM / Suspend: Avoid code duplication in suspend statistics update
  PM / Sleep: Introduce generic callbacks for new device PM phases
  PM / Sleep: Introduce "late suspend" and "early resume" of devices
2012-03-04 23:11:14 +01:00
Marcos Paulo de Souza 37f08be11b PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments
This patch removes all the references in the code about the TIF_FREEZE
flag removed by commit a3201227f8

    freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE

There still are some references to TIF_FREEZE in
Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt, but it looks like that
documentation needs more thorough work to reflect how the new
freezer works, and hence merely removing the references to TIF_FREEZE
won't really help. So I have not touched that part in this patch.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-03-04 23:08:54 +01:00
David Howells 1fd36adcd9 Replace the fd_sets in struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs
Replace the fd_sets in struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs and then
use the standard non-atomic bit operations rather than the FD_* macros.

This:

 (1) Removes the abuses of struct fd_set:

     (a) Since we don't want to allocate a full fd_set the vast majority of the
     	 time, we actually, in effect, just allocate a just-big-enough array of
     	 unsigned longs and cast it to an fd_set type - so why bother with the
     	 fd_set at all?

     (b) Some places outside of the core fdtable handling code (such as
     	 SELinux) want to look inside the array of unsigned longs hidden inside
     	 the fd_set struct for more efficient iteration over the entire set.

 (2) Eliminates the use of FD_*() macros in the kernel completely.

 (3) Permits the __FD_*() macros to be deleted entirely where not exposed to
     userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174954.23314.48147.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-19 10:30:57 -08:00
Al Viro 4040153087 security: trim security.h
Trim security.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
Yasunori Goto b5740f4b2c sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
try_to_wake_up() has a problem which may change status from TASK_DEAD to
TASK_RUNNING in race condition with SMI or guest environment of virtual
machine. As a result, exited task is scheduled() again and panic occurs.

Here is the sequence how it occurs:

 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------
                                   |
            CPU A                  |             CPU B
 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------

TASK A calls exit()....

do_exit()

  exit_mm()
    down_read(mm->mmap_sem);

    rwsem_down_failed_common()

      set TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
      set waiter.task <= task A
      list_add to sem->wait_list
           :
      raw_spin_unlock_irq()
      (I/O interruption occured)

                                      __rwsem_do_wake(mmap_sem)

                                        list_del(&waiter->list);
                                        waiter->task = NULL
                                        wake_up_process(task A)
                                          try_to_wake_up()
                                             (task is still
                                               TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
                                              p->on_rq is still 1.)

                                              ttwu_do_wakeup()
                                                 (*A)
                                                   :
     (I/O interruption handler finished)

      if (!waiter.task)
          schedule() is not called
          due to waiter.task is NULL.

      tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING

          :
                                              check_preempt_curr();
                                                  :
  task->state = TASK_DEAD
                                              (*B)
                                        <---    set TASK_RUNNING (*C)

     schedule()
     (exit task is running again)
     BUG_ON() is called!
 --------------------------------------------------------

The execution time between (*A) and (*B) is usually very short,
because the interruption is disabled, and setting TASK_RUNNING at (*C)
must be executed before setting TASK_DEAD.

HOWEVER, if SMI is interrupted between (*A) and (*B),
(*C) is able to execute AFTER setting TASK_DEAD!
Then, exited task is scheduled again, and BUG_ON() is called....

If the system works on guest system of virtual machine, the time
between (*A) and (*B) may be also long due to scheduling of hypervisor,
and same phenomenon can occur.

By this patch, do_exit() waits for releasing task->pi_lock which is used
in try_to_wake_up(). It guarantees the task becomes TASK_DEAD after
waking up.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120117174031.3118.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-27 11:55:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f429ee3b80 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
  audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
  audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
  audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
  audit: comparison on interprocess fields
  audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
  audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
  audit: complex interfield comparison helper
  audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
  Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
  audit: do not call audit_getname on error
  audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
  audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
  audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
  audit: allow matching on obj_uid
  audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
  audit: reject entry,always rules
  audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
  audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
  audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
  audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
  ...

Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.

Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
Eric Paris a4ff8dba7d audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
make the conditional a static inline instead of doing it in generic code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:16:58 -05:00
Joe Perches 9402c95f34 treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses
It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it.

Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 001a541ea9 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c
  writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth
  writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
  writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals
  writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time
  writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
  btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
  writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback
2012-01-10 16:59:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds eb59c505f8 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
  PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
  PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
  PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
  PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
  PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
  PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
  PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
  PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
  PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
  PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
  PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
  PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
  PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
  PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
  PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
  PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
  ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
  PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
2012-01-08 13:10:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0db49b72bc Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
  sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
  sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period()
  sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
  sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
  sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
  sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage
  [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
  [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
  sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
  sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
  sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
  sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
  sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat
  sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field
  sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting
  sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup
  ...

Fix up conflicts in
 - arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h
	usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups
 - kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c
	scheduler changes in multiple branches
2012-01-06 08:44:54 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 50b8d25748 ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
Test-case:

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		pid = fork();
		if (!pid) {
			for (;;) {
				if (!fork())
					return 0;
				if (waitpid(-1, &status, 0) < 0) {
					printf("ERR!! wait: %m\n");
					return 0;
				}
			}
		}

		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		assert(waitpid(-1, NULL, 0) == pid);

		assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0,
					PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK) == 0);

		do {
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0);
			pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, 0);
		} while (pid > 0);

		return 1;
	}

It fails because ->real_parent sees its child in EXIT_DEAD state
while the tracer is going to change the state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE
in wait_task_zombie().

The offending commit is 823b018e which moved the EXIT_DEAD check,
but in fact we should not blame it. The original code was not
correct as well because it didn't take ptrace_reparented() into
account and because we can't really trust ->ptrace.

This patch adds the additional check to close this particular
race but it doesn't solve the whole problem. We simply can't
rely on ->ptrace in this case, it can be cleared if the tracer
is multithreaded by the exiting ->parent.

I think we should kill EXIT_DEAD altogether, we should always
remove the soon-to-be-reaped child from ->children or at least
we should never do the DEAD->ZOMBIE transition. But this is too
complex for 3.2.

Reported-and-tested-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Lukasz Michalik <lmi@ift.uni.wroc.pl>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-04 15:01:59 -08:00
Wu Fengguang 54848d73f9 writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
It's a years long problem that a large number of short-lived dirtiers
(eg. gcc instances in a fast kernel build) may starve long-run dirtiers
(eg. dd) as well as pushing the dirty pages to the global hard limit.

The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the
other random dirtying tasks. It sounds not perfect, however should
behave good enough in practice, seeing as that throttled tasks aren't
actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up
and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread.

Randy: fix compile error: 'dirty_throttle_leaks' undeclared in exit.c

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-18 14:20:20 +08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 648616343c [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
Tejun Heo a585042f7b freezer: remove racy clear_freeze_flag() and set PF_NOFREEZE on dead tasks
clear_freeze_flag() in exit_mm() is racy.  Freezing can start
afterwards.  Remove it.  Skipping freezer for exiting task will be
properly implemented later.

Also, freezable() was testing exit_state directly to make system
freezer ignore dead tasks.  Let the exiting task set PF_NOFREEZE after
entering TASK_DEAD instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
David Rientjes c9f01245b6 oom: remove oom_disable_count
This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and
currently buggy.  The counter was intended to be per-process but it's
currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing
it to underflow.

The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that
share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to
future memory freeing.  The counter could be fixed to represent all
threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since:

 - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the
   victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause
   future memory freeing, and

 - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just
   because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
Vasiliy Kulikov b34a6b1da3 ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl
Add support for the shm_rmid_forced sysctl.  If set to 1, all shared
memory objects in current ipc namespace will be automatically forced to
use IPC_RMID.

The POSIX way of handling shmem allows one to create shm objects and
call shmdt(), leaving shm object associated with no process, thus
consuming memory not counted via rlimits.

With shm_rmid_forced=1 the shared memory object is counted at least for
one process, so OOM killer may effectively kill the fat process holding
the shared memory.

It obviously breaks POSIX - some programs relying on the feature would
stop working.  So set shm_rmid_forced=1 only if you're sure nobody uses
"orphaned" memory.  Use shm_rmid_forced=0 by default for compatability
reasons.

The feature was previously impemented in -ow as a configure option.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation, per Randy]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability/conventionality tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shm_rmid_forced/shm_forced_rmid confusion, use standard comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d3ec4844d4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8209f53d79 Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits)
  ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever
  ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction
  connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers
  ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED
  ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()
  ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly
  has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/
  ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop
  ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/
  ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented()
  ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group()
  redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0
  do not change dead_task->exit_signal
  kill task_detached()
  reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached()
  make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
  __ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent()
  kill tracehook_notify_death()
  make do_notify_parent() return bool
  ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/
  ...
2011-07-22 15:06:50 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 961c4675c7 has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/
has_stopped_jobs() naively checks task_is_stopped(group_leader). This
was always wrong even without ptrace, group_leader can be dead. And
given that ptrace can change the state to TRACED this is wrong even
in the single-threaded case.

Change the code to check SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED and simplify the code,
retval + break/continue doesn't make this trivial code more readable.

We could probably add the usual "|| signal->group_stop_count" check
but I don't think this makes sense, the task can start the group-stop
right after the check anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-07-17 20:23:50 +02:00
Justin TerAvest 4aede84b33 fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
Jiri Kosina b7e9c223be Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that
are based on newer code already present upstream.
2011-07-11 14:15:55 +02:00
Michal Hocko d8bf4ca9ca rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse)
rcu_dereference_check use rcu_read_lock_held as a part of condition
automatically so callers do not have to do that as well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-08 22:21:58 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 479bf98c1c ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/
wait_consider_task() checks same_thread_group(parent, real_parent),
this is the open-coded ptrace_reparented().

__ptrace_detach() remains the only function which has to check this by
hand, although we could reorganize the code to delay __ptrace_unlink.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:11 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov e550f14dc6 kill task_detached()
Upadate the last user of task_detached(), wait_task_zombie(), to
use thread_group_leader() and kill task_detached().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 0976a03e5c reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached()
Change reparent_leader() to check ->exit_state instead of ->exit_signal,
this matches the similar EXIT_DEAD check in wait_consider_task() and
allows us to cleanup the do_notify_parent/task_detached logic.

task_detached() was really needed during reparenting before 9cd80bbb
"do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on ->children list"
to filter out the sub-threads. After this change task_detached(p) can
only be true if p is the dead group_leader and its parent ignores
SIGCHLD, in this case the caller of do_notify_parent() is going to
reap this task and it should set EXIT_DEAD.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 8677347378 make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
Change other callers of do_notify_parent() to check the value it
returns, this makes the subsequent task_detached() unnecessary.
Mark do_notify_parent() as __must_check.

Use thread_group_leader() instead of !task_detached() to check
if we need to notify the real parent in wait_task_zombie().

Remove the stale comment in release_task(). "just for sanity" is
no longer true, we have to set EXIT_DEAD to avoid the races with
do_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 45cdf5cc07 kill tracehook_notify_death()
Kill tracehook_notify_death(), reimplement the logic in its caller,
exit_notify().

Also, change the exec_id's check to use thread_group_leader() instead
of task_detached(), this is more clear. This logic only applies to
the exiting leader, a sub-thread must never change its exit_signal.

Note: when the traced group leader exits the exit_signal-or-SIGCHLD
logic looks really strange:

	- we notify the tracer even if !thread_group_empty() but
	   do_wait(WEXITED) can't work until all threads exit

	- if the tracer is real_parent, it is not clear why can't
	  we use ->exit_signal event if !thread_group_empty()

-v2: do not try to fix the 2nd oddity to avoid the subtle behavior
     change mixed with reorganization, suggested by Tejun.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:08 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 53c8f9f199 make do_notify_parent() return bool
- change do_notify_parent() to return a boolean, true if the task should
  be reaped because its parent ignores SIGCHLD.

- update the only caller which checks the returned value, exit_notify().

This temporary uglifies exit_notify() even more, will be cleanuped by
the next change.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo a288eecce5 ptrace: kill trivial tracehooks
At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly
just add an extra layer of obfuscation.  Although they have comments,
without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their
assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve.  To mainline
kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around.

This patch kills the following trivial tracehooks.

* Ones testing whether task is ptraced.  Replace with ->ptrace test.

	tracehook_expect_breakpoints()
	tracehook_consider_ignored_signal()
	tracehook_consider_fatal_signal()

* ptrace_event() wrappers.  Call directly.

	tracehook_report_exec()
	tracehook_report_exit()
	tracehook_report_vfork_done()

* ptrace_release_task() wrapper.  Call directly.

	tracehook_finish_release_task()

* noop

	tracehook_prepare_release_task()
	tracehook_report_death()

This doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-22 19:26:28 +02:00
Tejun Heo d21142ece4 ptrace: kill task_ptrace()
task_ptrace(task) simply dereferences task->ptrace and isn't even used
consistently only adding confusion.  Kill it and directly access
->ptrace instead.

This doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-22 19:26:27 +02:00
Tejun Heo 544b2c91a9 ptrace: implement PTRACE_LISTEN
The previous patch implemented async notification for ptrace but it
only worked while trace is running.  This patch introduces
PTRACE_LISTEN which is suggested by Oleg Nestrov.

It's allowed iff tracee is in STOP trap and puts tracee into
quasi-running state - tracee never really runs but wait(2) and
ptrace(2) consider it to be running.  While ptracer is listening,
tracee is allowed to re-enter STOP to notify an async event.
Listening state is cleared on the first notification.  Ptracer can
also clear it by issuing INTERRUPT - tracee will re-trap into STOP
with listening state cleared.

This allows ptracer to monitor group stop state without running tracee
- use INTERRUPT to put tracee into STOP trap, issue LISTEN and then
wait(2) to wait for the next group stop event.  When it happens,
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO provides information to determine the current state.

Test program follows.

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE		0x4206
  #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT	0x4207
  #define PTRACE_LISTEN		0x4208

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL	0x80000000

  static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  int i;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (!tracee)
		  while (1)
			  pause();

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (!tracer) {
		  siginfo_t si;

		  ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL,
			 (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL);
		  ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
	  repeat:
		  waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED);

		  ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, tracee, NULL, &si);
		  if (!si.si_code) {
			  printf("tracer: SIG %d\n", si.si_signo);
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
				 (void *)(unsigned long)si.si_signo);
			  goto repeat;
		  }
		  printf("tracer: stopped=%d signo=%d\n",
			 si.si_signo != SIGTRAP, si.si_signo);
		  if (si.si_signo != SIGTRAP)
			  ptrace(PTRACE_LISTEN, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  else
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  goto repeat;
	  }

	  for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGSTOP\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGSTOP);
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGCONT\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGCONT);
	  }
	  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);

	  kill(tracer, SIGKILL);
	  kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
	  return 0;
  }

This is identical to the program to test TRAP_NOTIFY except that
tracee is PTRACE_LISTEN'd instead of PTRACE_CONT'd when group stopped.
This allows ptracer to monitor when group stop ends without running
tracee.

  # ./test-listen
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18

-v2: Moved JOBCTL_LISTENING check in wait_task_stopped() into
     task_stopped_code() as suggested by Oleg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 21:41:54 +02:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 733eda7ac3 memcg: clear mm->owner when last possible owner leaves
The following crash was reported:

> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81139792>] mem_cgroup_from_task+0x15/0x17
> [<ffffffff8113a75a>] __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x148/0x4b4
> [<ffffffff810493f3>] ? need_resched+0x23/0x2d
> [<ffffffff814cbf43>] ? preempt_schedule+0x46/0x4f
> [<ffffffff8113afe8>] mem_cgroup_charge_common+0x9a/0xce
> [<ffffffff8113b6d1>] mem_cgroup_newpage_charge+0x5d/0x5f
> [<ffffffff81134024>] khugepaged+0x5da/0xfaf
> [<ffffffff81078ea0>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x4b/0x4b
> [<ffffffff81133a4a>] ? add_mm_counter.constprop.5+0x13/0x13
> [<ffffffff81078625>] kthread+0xa8/0xb0
> [<ffffffff814d13e8>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xa1/0xb4
> [<ffffffff814d5664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [<ffffffff814ce858>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [<ffffffff8107857d>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a

What happens is that khugepaged tries to charge a huge page against an mm
whose last possible owner has already exited, and the memory controller
crashes when the stale mm->owner is used to look up the cgroup to charge.

mm->owner has never been set to NULL with the last owner going away, but
nobody cared until khugepaged came along.

Even then it wasn't a problem because the final mmput() on an mm was
forced to acquire and release mmap_sem in write-mode, preventing an
exiting owner to go away while the mmap_sem was held, and until "692e0b3
mm: thp: optimize memcg charge in khugepaged", the memory cgroup charge
was protected by mmap_sem in read-mode.

Instead of going back to relying on the mmap_sem to enforce lifetime of a
task, this patch ensures that mm->owner is properly set to NULL when the
last possible owner is exiting, which the memory controller can handle
just fine.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3ed4c0583d Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (41 commits)
  signal: trivial, fix the "timespec declared inside parameter list" warning
  job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
  ptrace: fix signal->wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping()
  signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: cleanup sys_sigprocmask()
  signal: rename signandsets() to sigandnsets()
  signal: do_sigtimedwait() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code
  signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic
  signal: cleanup sys_rt_sigprocmask()
  x86: signal: sys_rt_sigreturn() should use set_current_blocked()
  x86: signal: handle_signal() should use set_current_blocked()
  signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of ->siglock
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only
  signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending()
  ptrace: ptrace_check_attach() should not do s/STOPPED/TRACED/
  signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED
  signal: do_signal_stop: Remove the unneeded task_clear_group_stop_pending()
  ...
2011-05-20 13:33:21 -07:00
Tejun Heo 19e274630c job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
wait_task_stopped() tested task_stopped_code() without acquiring
siglock and, if stop condition existed, called wait_task_stopped() and
directly returned the result.  This patch moves the initial
task_stopped_code() testing into wait_task_stopped() and make
wait_consider_task() fall through to wait_task_continue() on 0 return.

This is for the following two reasons.

* Because the initial task_stopped_code() test is done without
  acquiring siglock, it may race against SIGCONT generation.  The
  stopped condition might have been replaced by continued state by the
  time wait_task_stopped() acquired siglock.  This may lead to
  unexpected failure of WNOHANG waits.

  This reorganization addresses this single race case but there are
  other cases - TASK_RUNNING -> TASK_STOPPED transition and EXIT_*
  transitions.

* Scheduled ptrace updates require changes to the initial test which
  would fit better inside wait_task_stopped().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-05-13 18:56:02 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker bf26c01849 ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
2011-04-25 17:28:24 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov e46bc9b6fd Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into ptrace 2011-04-07 20:44:11 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Tejun Heo 45cb24a1da job control: Allow access to job control events through ptracees
Currently a real parent can't access job control stopped/continued
events through a ptraced child.  This utterly breaks job control when
the children are ptraced.

For example, if a program is run from an interactive shell and then
strace(1) attaches to it, pressing ^Z would send SIGTSTP and strace(1)
would notice it but the shell has no way to tell whether the child
entered job control stop and thus can't tell when to take over the
terminal - leading to awkward lone ^Z on the terminal.

Because the job control and ptrace stopped states are independent,
there is no reason to prevent real parents from accessing the stopped
state regardless of ptrace.  The continued state isn't separate but
ptracers don't have any use for them as ptracees can never resume
without explicit command from their ptracers, so as long as ptracers
don't consume it, it should be fine.

Although this is a behavior change, because the previous behavior is
utterly broken when viewed from real parents and the change is only
visible to real parents, I don't think it's necessary to make this
behavior optional.

One situation to be careful about is when a task from the real
parent's group is ptracing.  The parent group is the recipient of both
ptrace and job control stop events and one stop can be reported as
both job control and ptrace stops.  As this can break the current
ptrace users, suppress job control stopped events for these cases.

If a real parent ptracer wants to know about both job control and
ptrace stops, it can create a separate process to serve the role of
real parent.

Note that this only updates wait(2) side of things.  The real parent
can access the states via wait(2) but still is not properly notified
(woken up and delivered signal).  Test case polls wait(2) with WNOHANG
to work around.  Notification will be updated by future patches.

Test case follows.

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/ptrace.h>
  #include <sys/wait.h>

  int main(void)
  {
	  const struct timespec ts100ms = { .tv_nsec = 100000000 };
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  siginfo_t si;
	  int i;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (tracee == 0) {
		  while (1) {
			  printf("tracee: SIGSTOP\n");
			  raise(SIGSTOP);
			  nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL);
			  printf("tracee: SIGCONT\n");
			  raise(SIGCONT);
			  nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL);
		  }
	  }

	  waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED | WNOHANG | WNOWAIT);

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (tracer == 0) {
		  nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL);
		  ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, NULL, NULL);

		  for (i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
			  si.si_pid = 0;
			  waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED);
			  if (si.si_pid && si.si_code == CLD_TRAPPED)
				  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
					 (void *)(long)si.si_status);
		  }
		  printf("tracer: EXITING\n");
		  return 0;
	  }

	  while (1) {
		  si.si_pid = 0;
		  waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si,
			 WSTOPPED | WCONTINUED | WEXITED | WNOHANG);
		  if (si.si_pid)
			  printf("mommy : WAIT status=%02d code=%02d\n",
				 si.si_status, si.si_code);
		  nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL);
	  }
	  return 0;
  }

Before the patch, while ptraced, the parent can't see any job control
events.

  tracee: SIGSTOP
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  tracee: SIGCONT
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  tracee: SIGCONT
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  tracee: SIGCONT
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  tracer: EXITING
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  ^C

After the patch,

  tracee: SIGSTOP
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  tracee: SIGCONT
  mommy : WAIT status=18 code=06
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  tracee: SIGCONT
  mommy : WAIT status=18 code=06
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  tracee: SIGCONT
  mommy : WAIT status=18 code=06
  tracee: SIGSTOP
  tracer: EXITING
  mommy : WAIT status=19 code=05
  ^C

-v2: Oleg pointed out that wait(2) should be suppressed for the real
     parent's group instead of only the real parent task itself.
     Updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:01 +01:00
Tejun Heo 9b84cca256 job control: Fix ptracer wait(2) hang and explain notask_error clearing
wait(2) and friends allow access to stopped/continued states through
zombies, which is required as the states are process-wide and should
be accessible whether the leader task is alive or undead.
wait_consider_task() implements this by always clearing notask_error
and going through wait_task_stopped/continued() for unreaped zombies.

However, while ptraced, the stopped state is per-task and as such if
the ptracee became a zombie, there's no further stopped event to
listen to and wait(2) and friends should return -ECHILD on the tracee.

Fix it by clearing notask_error only if WCONTINUED | WEXITED is set
for ptraced zombies.  While at it, document why clearing notask_error
is safe for each case.

Test case follows.

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <pthread.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/ptrace.h>
  #include <sys/wait.h>

  static void *nooper(void *arg)
  {
	  pause();
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  siginfo_t si;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (tracee == 0) {
		  pthread_t thr;

		  pthread_create(&thr, NULL, nooper, NULL);
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("tracee exiting\n");
		  pthread_exit(NULL);	/* let subthread run */
	  }

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (tracer == 0) {
		  ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  while (1) {
			  if (waitid(P_PID, tracee, &si, WSTOPPED) < 0) {
				  perror("waitid");
				  break;
			  }
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
				 (void *)(long)si.si_status);
		  }
		  return 0;
	  }

	  waitid(P_PID, tracer, &si, WEXITED);
	  kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
	  return 0;
  }

Before the patch, after the tracee becomes a zombie, the tracer's
waitid(WSTOPPED) never returns and the program doesn't terminate.

  tracee exiting
  ^C

After the patch, tracee exiting triggers waitid() to fail.

  tracee exiting
  waitid: No child processes

-v2: Oleg pointed out that exited in addition to continued can happen
     for ptraced dead group leader.  Clear notask_error for ptraced
     child on WEXITED too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:01 +01:00
Tejun Heo 823b018e5b job control: Small reorganization of wait_consider_task()
Move EXIT_DEAD test in wait_consider_task() above ptrace check.  As
ptraced tasks can't be EXIT_DEAD, this change doesn't cause any
behavior change.  This is to prepare for further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:01 +01:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 42776163e1 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  perf session: Fix infinite loop in __perf_session__process_events
  perf evsel: Support perf_evsel__open(cpus > 1 && threads > 1)
  perf sched: Use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN to avoid pthread_attr_setstacksize() fail
  perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
  perf stat: better error message for unsupported events
  perf sched: Fix allocation result check
  perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling
  dynamic debug: Fix build issue with older gcc
  tracing: Fix TRACE_EVENT power tracepoint creation
  tracing: Fix preempt count leak
  tracepoint: Add __rcu annotation
  tracing: remove duplicate null-pointer check in skb tracepoint
  tracing/trivial: Add missing comma in TRACE_EVENT comment
  tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h
  x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry
  x86, dumpstack: Fix unused variable warning
  x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi()
  x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
  x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI
  x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers
  ...
2011-01-11 11:02:13 -08:00
Stephane Eranian 0b3fcf178d perf_events: Move code around to prepare for cgroup
In particular this patch move perf_event_exit_task() before
cgroup_exit() to allow for cgroup support. The cgroup_exit()
function detaches the cgroups attached to a task.

Other movements include hoisting some definitions and inlines
at the top of perf_event.c

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d22058b.cdace30a.4657.ffff95b1@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:08:50 +01:00
Christoph Lameter 909ea96468 core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a
single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the
correct per cpu instance.

However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read()
cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through
segment prefixes).  Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var
where the address of the variable is not used.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
Nelson Elhage 33dd94ae1c do_exit(): make sure that we run with get_fs() == USER_DS
If a user manages to trigger an oops with fs set to KERNEL_DS, fs is not
otherwise reset before do_exit().  do_exit may later (via mm_release in
fork.c) do a put_user to a user-controlled address, potentially allowing
a user to leverage an oops into a controlled write into kernel memory.

This is only triggerable in the presence of another bug, but this
potentially turns a lot of DoS bugs into privilege escalations, so it's
worth fixing.  I have proof-of-concept code which uses this bug along
with CVE-2010-3849 to write a zero to an arbitrary kernel address, so
I've tested that this is not theoretical.

A more logical place to put this fix might be when we know an oops has
occurred, before we call do_exit(), but that would involve changing
every architecture, in multiple places.

Let's just stick it in do_exit instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update code comment]
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02 14:51:16 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov e0a7021710 posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec
posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD
timers from signal->cpu_timers list.

But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group
leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group.

This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader.
After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems.

It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think
that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct.
Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular,
tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of
nontrivial and hard-to-test changes.

Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when
the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the
temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW,
this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway:
cpu timers do not work after mt exec.

In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can
detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However,
the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we
can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-05 14:16:03 -07:00
Namhyung Kim d16e15f5b0 exit: add lock context annotation on find_new_reaper()
find_new_reaper() releases and regrabs tasklist_lock but was missing
proper annotations.  Add it.  This remove following sparse warning:

 warning: context imbalance in 'find_new_reaper' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
Ying Han 3d5992d2ac oom: add per-mm oom disable count
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
killed to allow future memory freeing.  A subsequent patch will prevent
kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
function.

This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
oom conditions.

This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
operation is atomic.

[rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
[rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
[rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 4e231c7962 perf: Fix up delayed_put_task_struct()
I missed a perf_event_ctxp user when converting it to an array. Pull this
last user into perf_event.c as well and fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 21:07:09 +02:00
Daniel J Blueman f362b73244 Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()
Using a program like the following:

	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>

	int main() {
		id_t id;
		siginfo_t infop;
		pid_t res;

		id = fork();
		if (id == 0) { sleep(1); exit(0); }
		kill(id, SIGSTOP);
		alarm(1);
		waitid(P_PID, id, &infop, WCONTINUED);
		return 0;
	}

to call waitid() on a stopped process results in access to the child task's
credentials without the RCU read lock being held - which may be replaced in the
meantime - eliciting the following warning:

	===================================================
	[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
	---------------------------------------------------
	kernel/exit.c:1460 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

	other info that might help us debug this:

	rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
	2 locks held by waitid02/22252:
	 #0:  (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [<ffffffff81061ce5>] do_wait+0xc5/0x310
	 #1:  (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810611da>]
	wait_consider_task+0x19a/0xbe0

	stack backtrace:
	Pid: 22252, comm: waitid02 Not tainted 2.6.35-323cd+ #3
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81095da4>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa4/0xc0
	 [<ffffffff81061b31>] wait_consider_task+0xaf1/0xbe0
	 [<ffffffff81061d15>] do_wait+0xf5/0x310
	 [<ffffffff810620b6>] sys_waitid+0x86/0x1f0
	 [<ffffffff8105fce0>] ? child_wait_callback+0x0/0x70
	 [<ffffffff81003282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is fixed by holding the RCU read lock in wait_task_continued() to ensure
that the task's current credentials aren't destroyed between us reading the
cred pointer and us reading the UID from those credentials.

Furthermore, protect wait_task_stopped() in the same way.

We don't need to keep holding the RCU read lock once we've read the UID from
the credentials as holding the RCU read lock doesn't stop the target task from
changing its creds under us - so the credentials may be outdated immediately
after we've read the pointer, lock or no lock.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov c7e49c1488 ptrace: optimize exit_ptrace() for the likely case
exit_ptrace() takes tasklist_lock unconditionally.  We need this lock to
avoid the race with ptrace_traceme(), it acts as a barrier.

Change its caller, forget_original_parent(), to call exit_ptrace() under
tasklist_lock.  Change exit_ptrace() to drop and reacquire this lock if
needed.

This allows us to add the fastpath list_empty(ptraced) check.  In the
likely no-tracees case exit_ptrace() just returns and we avoid the lock()
+ unlock() sequence.

"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> suggested to add this
check, and he reports that this change adds about 11% improvement in some
tests.

Suggested-and-tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:19 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov b3ac022cb9 proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"
No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/.

With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads()
And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not
to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit.  It is only used to
report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid
the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case.

It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps
we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using
signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 97101eb41d exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()
Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct().

This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats
lockless.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00