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Peter Zijlstra bcd5cff721 cputimer: Cure lock inversion
There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock;
notably the two callchains involved are:

 update_rlimit_cpu()
   sighand->siglock
   set_process_cpu_timer()
     cpu_timer_sample_group()
       thread_group_cputimer()
         cputimer->lock
         thread_group_cputime()
           task_sched_runtime()
             ->pi_lock
             rq->lock

 scheduler_tick()
   rq->lock
   task_tick_fair()
     update_curr()
       account_group_exec()
         cputimer->lock

Where the first one is enabling a CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID timer, and
the second one is keeping up-to-date.

This problem was introduced by e8abccb719 ("posix-cpu-timers: Cure
SMP accounting oddities").

Cure the problem by removing the cputimer->lock and rq->lock nesting,
this leaves concurrent enablers doing duplicate work, but the time
wasted should be on the same order otherwise wasted spinning on the
lock and the greater-than assignment filter should ensure we preserve
monotonicity.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318928713.21167.4.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-10-18 11:36:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a84a79e4d3 Avoid using variable-length arrays in kernel/sys.c
The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).

Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.

"Just don't do that, then".

Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken <henribak@cisco.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-17 08:24:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f72a209a3e Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add
  irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
  sched: Fix up wchan borkage
  sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
2011-10-01 08:37:25 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra d670ec1317 posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
David reported:

  Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from
  GLIBC.  Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or
  similar.

  Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread
  will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep
  which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock
  difference.  This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread
  is part of the top-level process's thread group.

  I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and
  64-bit binaries).

  For example:

  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test
  process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404)
  thread:  before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739)
  self:    before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698)
  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ 

  The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'.

  I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly
  around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements
  are the outer-most ones.

  ---
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <fcntl.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <pthread.h>

  static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

  static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
  {
	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
	  while (1)
		  __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory");
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock;
	  struct timespec process_before, process_after;
	  struct timespec me_before, me_after;
	  struct timespec th_before, th_after;
	  struct timespec sleeptime;
	  unsigned long diff;
	  pthread_t th;
	  int err;

	  err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);
	  err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  sleeptime.tv_sec = 0;
	  sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
	  nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL);

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec,
		 process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("thread:  before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec,
		 th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("self:    before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec,
		 me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff);

	  return 0;
  }

This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in
thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all
data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick
or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using
task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks.

This also means we can (and must) do away with
thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime()
is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from
thread_group_sched_runtime().

Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old
code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a
64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-30 14:07:06 +02:00
Ram Pai 47ea91b405 Resource: fix wrong resource window calculation
__find_resource() incorrectly returns a resource window which overlaps
an existing allocated window.  This happens when the parent's
resource-window spans 0x00000000 to 0xffffffff and is entirely allocated
to all its children resource-windows.

__find_resource() looks for gaps in resource allocation among the
children resource windows.  When it encounters the last child window it
blindly tries the range next to one allocated to the last child.  Since
the last child's window ends at 0xffffffff the calculation overflows,
leading the algorithm to believe that any window in the range 0x0000000
to 0xfffffff is available for allocation.  This leads to a conflicting
window allocation.

Michal Ludvig reported this issue seen on his platform.  The following
patch fixes the problem and has been verified by Michal.  I believe this
bug has been there for ages.  It got exposed by git commit 2bbc694227
("PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources")

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michal Ludvig <mludvig@logix.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-29 20:04:34 -07:00
Simon Kirby 6ebbe7a07b sched: Fix up wchan borkage
Commit c259e01a1e ("sched: Separate the scheduler entry for
preemption") contained a boo-boo wrecking wchan output. It forgot to
put the new schedule() function in the __sched section and thereby
doesn't get properly ignored for things like wchan.

Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110923000346.GA25425@hostway.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-26 12:51:08 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov f9d81f61c8 ptrace: PTRACE_LISTEN forgets to unlock ->siglock
If PTRACE_LISTEN fails after lock_task_sighand() it doesn't drop ->siglock.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-25 11:02:00 -07:00
Rob Herring eef24afb28 irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add
The sanity check in irq_domain_add() tests desc->irq_data != NULL or
irq_data->domain != NULL. This prevents adding an irq_domain to a irq
descriptor when irq_data exists, which true when the irq descriptor
exists.

This went unnoticed so far as the simple domain code did not enter
this code path because domain->nr_irqs is always 0 for the simple domains.

Split the check for irq_data == NULL out and have a separate warning
for it.

[ tglx: Made the check for irq_data == NULL separate ]

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com
Cc: thomas.abraham@linaro.org
Cc: jamie@jamieiles.com
Cc: b-cousson@ti.com
Cc: shawn.guo@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316017900-19918-3-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-20 12:16:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9d037a7776 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, iommu: Mark DMAR IRQ as non-threaded
  genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup again
2011-09-19 17:23:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 58c3c3aa01 Make taskstats round statistics down to nearest 1k bytes/events
Even with just the interface limited to admin, there really is little to
reason to give byte-per-byte counts for taskstats.  So round it down to
something less intrusive.

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-19 17:10:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1a51410abe Make TASKSTATS require root access
Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin
capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more.  But at the
same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read
anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level.

Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative
to checking the capabilities by hand.

Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-19 17:04:37 -07:00
Shawn Bohrer 3be209a8e2 sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
Commit 43fa5460fe ("sched: Try not to
migrate higher priority RT tasks") also introduced a change in behavior
which keeps RT tasks on the same CPU if there is an equal priority RT
task currently running even if there are empty CPUs available.

This can cause unnecessary wakeup latencies, and can prevent the
scheduler from balancing all RT tasks across available CPUs.

This change causes an RT task to search for a new CPU if an equal
priority RT task is already running on wakeup.  Lower priority tasks
will still have to wait on higher priority tasks, but the system should
still balance out because there is always the possibility that if there
are both a high and low priority RT tasks on a given CPU that the high
priority task could wakeup while the low priority task is running and
force it to search for a better runqueue.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315837684-18733-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-18 13:48:56 +02:00
Thomas Tuttle fa2563e41c workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueue
Take cwq->gcwq->lock to avoid racing between drain_workqueue checking to
make sure the workqueues are empty and cwq_dec_nr_in_flight decrementing
and then incrementing nr_active when it activates a delayed work.

We discovered this when a corner case in one of our drivers resulted in
us trying to destroy a workqueue in which the remaining work would
always requeue itself again in the same workqueue.  We would hit this
race condition and trip the BUG_ON on workqueue.c:3080.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14 18:09:38 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven ed585a6516 genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup again
If an irq_chip provides .irq_shutdown(), but neither of .irq_disable() or
.irq_mask(), free_irq() crashes when jumping to NULL.
Fix this by only trying .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() if there's no
.irq_shutdown() provided.

This revives the symmetry with irq_startup(), which tries .irq_startup(),
.irq_enable(), and irq_unmask(), and makes it consistent with the comment for
irq_chip.irq_shutdown() in <linux/irq.h>, which says:

 * @irq_shutdown:	shut down the interrupt (defaults to ->disable if NULL)

This is also how __free_irq() behaved before the big overhaul, cfr. e.g.
3b56f0585f ("genirq: Remove bogus conditional"),
where the core interrupt code always overrode .irq_shutdown() to
.irq_disable() if .irq_shutdown() was NULL.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315742394-16036-2-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-12 09:38:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 79016f6488 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  rtc: twl: Fix registration vs. init order
  rtc: Initialized rtc_time->tm_isdst
  rtc: Fix RTC PIE frequency limit
  rtc: rtc-twl: Remove lockdep related local_irq_enable()
  rtc: rtc-twl: Switch to using threaded irq
  rtc: ep93xx: Fix 'rtc' may be used uninitialized warning
  alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timers
  alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_get
  alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversal
2011-09-07 13:03:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e81b693c01 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free()
  sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule()
  sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemption
2011-09-07 13:01:34 -07:00
Eric B Munson 7f310a5d4e perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()
We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and
timing information when events were being multiplexing.

Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That
was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3
times to cause multiplexing on Core 2):

 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184
 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled
	63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled

The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns
out the bug was introduced by the following commit:

commit c479429591

    events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function

The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites
were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running
and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was
no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled
but it would show up in any other scenario.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-31 15:56:29 +02:00
Stephane Eranian a8d757ef07 perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading
to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active
cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU
would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a
simple ping/pong example:

 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10684.51 ctxsw/s

Now start a cgroup perf stat:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

$ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 6674.61 ctxsw/s

That's a 37% penalty.

Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup.

The results shown by perf stat are bogus:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles   test
 CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles  #    0.000 GHz

The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock
(here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups.

The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any
cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are
in the same cgroup.

With this patch the same test now yields:
 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10775.30 ctxsw/s

Start perf stat with cgroup:

 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

Run pong outside the cgroup:
 $ /pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10687.80 ctxsw/s

The penalty is now less than 2%.

And the results for perf stat are correct:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

Now perf stat reports the correct counts for
for the non cgroup event.

If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the
correct counts:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

      10.001457237 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:28:33 +02:00
WANG Cong feff8fa007 sched: Fix a memory leak in __sdt_free()
This patch fixes the following memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff880107266800 (size 512):
  comm "sched-powersave", pid 3718, jiffies 4323097853 (age 27495.450s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81133940>] create_object+0x187/0x28b
    [<ffffffff814ac103>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
    [<ffffffff811232ba>] __kmalloc_node+0x104/0x159
    [<ffffffff81044b98>] kzalloc_node.clone.97+0x15/0x17
    [<ffffffff8104cb90>] build_sched_domains+0xb7/0x7f3
    [<ffffffff8104d4df>] partition_sched_domains+0x1db/0x24a
    [<ffffffff8109ee4a>] do_rebuild_sched_domains+0x3b/0x47
    [<ffffffff810a00c7>] rebuild_sched_domains+0x10/0x12
    [<ffffffff8104d5ba>] sched_power_savings_store+0x6c/0x7b
    [<ffffffff8104d5df>] sched_mc_power_savings_store+0x16/0x18
    [<ffffffff8131322c>] sysdev_class_store+0x20/0x22
    [<ffffffff81193876>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144
    [<ffffffff81135b10>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x102
    [<ffffffff81135d23>] sys_write+0x4d/0x74
    [<ffffffff814c8a42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.0
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313671017-4112-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:27:01 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 9c40cef2b7 sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of __schedule()
There is no real reason to run blk_schedule_flush_plug() with
interrupts and preemption disabled.

Move it into schedule() and call it when the task is going voluntarily
to sleep. There might be false positives when the task is woken
between that call and actually scheduling, but that's not really
different from being woken immediately after switching away.

This fixes a deadlock in the scheduler where the
blk_schedule_flush_plug() callchain enables interrupts and thereby
allows a wakeup to happen of the task that's going to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dwfxtra7yg1b5r65m32ywtct@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:26:59 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner c259e01a1e sched: Separate the scheduler entry for preemption
Block-IO and workqueues call into notifier functions from the
scheduler core code with interrupts and preemption disabled. These
calls should be made before entering the scheduler core.

To simplify this, separate the scheduler core code into
__schedule(). __schedule() is directly called from the places which
set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and from schedule(). This allows us to add the work
checks into schedule(), so they are only called when a task voluntary
goes to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110622174918.813258321@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:26:57 +02:00
NeilBrown f5b9409973 All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-26 15:09:58 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 4c30c6f566 kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootcon
It seems that 7bf693951a ("console: allow to retain boot console via
boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when
printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles.
With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in
KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified.

I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees.  However, it's
more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep
the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was
encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and
not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why).

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.39.x, 3.0.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Andi Kleen be27425dcc Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:17:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 35a177a08d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: fix tracing builds inside the source tree
  xfs: remove subdirectories
  xfs: don't expect xfs headers to be in subdirectories
2011-08-23 11:41:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 69dd3d8e29 Revert "irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified"
This reverts commit f3637a5f2e.

It turns out that this breaks several drivers, one example being OMAP
boards which use the on-board OMAP UARTs and the omap-serial driver that
will not boot to userspace after the commit.

Paul Walmsley reports that enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ reveals 'IRQ
handler type mismatch' errors:

  IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 74
  current handler: serial idle
  ...

and the reason is that setting IRQF_ONESHOT will now result in those
interrupt handlers having different IRQF flags, and thus being
unsharable.  So the commit log in the reverted commit:

                            "Since it is required for those users and
    there is no difference for others it makes sense to add this flag
    unconditionally."

is simply not true: there may not be any difference from a "actions at
irq time", but there is a *big* difference wrt this flag testing irq
management (see __setup_irq() in kernel/irq/manage.c).

One solution may be to stop verifying IRQF_ONESHOT in __setup_irq(), but
right now the safe course of action is to revert the change.  Let's
revisit this in a later merge window.

Reported-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Requested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-23 10:36:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap d522a0d179 irqdesc: fix new kernel-doc warning
Fix kernel-doc warning in irqdesc.c:

  Warning(kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:353): No description found for parameter 'owner'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-18 14:12:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b4fd4ae6c6 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset
2011-08-17 13:15:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2da9f365fc Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock
2011-08-17 10:25:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 950d0a10d1 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: Track the owner of irq descriptor
  irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified
  genirq: Fix wrong bit operation
2011-08-17 10:23:50 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 17f2ae7f67 PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset
Function genpd_queue_power_off_work() is not defined for
CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, so pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() causes a build
error to happen in that case.  Fix the problem by making
pm_genpd_poweroff_unused() depend on CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-08-14 13:34:31 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig c59d87c460 xfs: remove subdirectories
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code.  Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00
Vasiliy Kulikov 72fa59970f move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC
check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and
similar functions.

Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed
number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on
rlimit only.  But the check created new security threat: many poorly
written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it
cannot fail if executed with root privileges.  So, the check is removed
in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to
buggy programs.

The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons
spawning user processes.  Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve().
The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in
setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues.

Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the
limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag.  With the change only
this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve()
behaviour is not changed.

Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still
exceeded at the moment of execve().  If the process was sleeping for
days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down
under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was
exceeded days ago would be unexpected.  If the limit is not exceeded
anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork().

The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit
was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one.

Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag).

v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user().

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1d229d54db Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership
  perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename
  perf sched: Do not delete session object prematurely
  perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership
  perf, x86: Add model 45 SandyBridge support
  perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension
  perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration
  perf tools: Make clean leaves some files
  perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  perf probe: Fix coredump introduced by probe module option
  jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order
  perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places
  perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables
  perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method
  trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED
  perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildid
2011-08-11 09:03:48 -07:00
Namhyung Kim c09c47caed blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or
FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and
distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results
look like (other flags might be shown also):

 - WRITE:            W
 - WRITE_FLUSH:      FW
 - WRITE_FUA:        WF
 - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA:  FWF

Note that we reuse TC_BARRIER due to lack of bit space of act_mask
so that the older versions of blktrace tools will report flush
requests as barriers from now on.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-11 10:36:05 +02:00
John Stultz 6af7e471e5 alarmtimers: Avoid possible denial of service with high freq periodic timers
Its possible to jam up the alarm timers by setting very small interval
timers, which will cause the alarmtimer subsystem to spend all of its time
firing and restarting timers. This can effectivly lock up a box.

A deeper fix is needed, closely mimicking the hrtimer code, but for now
just cap the interval to 100us to avoid userland hanging the system.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10 10:26:09 -07:00
John Stultz ea7802f630 alarmtimers: Memset itimerspec passed into alarm_timer_get
Following common_timer_get, zero out the itimerspec passed in.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10 07:10:09 -07:00
John Stultz 971c90bfa2 alarmtimers: Avoid possible null pointer traversal
We don't check if old_setting is non null before assigning it, so
correct this.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-08-10 07:09:53 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder f2c0d0266c cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning
syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG
was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning.

Commit ee24aebffb ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now")
improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping
the WARN_ONCE().  But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace
we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins
when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a
recent kernel.

Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to
give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted
backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever.

Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-09 18:22:22 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 80e0401e35 lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock
match_held_lock() was assuming it was being called on a lock class
that had already seen usage.

This condition was true for bug-free code using lockdep_assert_held(),
since you're in fact holding the lock when calling it. However the
assumption fails the moment you assume the assertion can fail, which
is the whole point of having the assertion in the first place.

Anyway, now that there's more lockdep_is_held() users, notably
__rcu_dereference_check(), its much easier to trigger this since we
test for a number of locks and we only need to hold any one of them to
be good.

Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312547787.28695.2.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-09 11:57:35 +02:00
Jason Baron b77f0f3c1f jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order
In the course of testing jump labels for use with the CFS
bandwidth controller, Paul Turner, discovered that using jump
labels reduced the branch count and the instruction count, but
did not reduce the cycle count or wall time.

I noticed that having the jump_label.o included in the kernel
but not used in any way still caused this increase in cycle
count and wall time. Thus, I moved jump_label.o in the
kernel/Makefile, thus changing the link order, and presumably
moving it out of hot icache areas. This brought down the cycle
count/time as expected.

In addition to Paul's testing,  I've tested the patch using a
single 'static_branch()' in the getppid() path, and basically
running tight loops of calls to getppid(). Here are my results
for the branch disabled case:

With jump labels turned on (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL), branch disabled:

 Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs):

     3,969,510,217 instructions             #	   0.864 IPC     ( +-0.000% )
     4,592,334,954 cycles                     ( +-   0.046% )
       751,634,470 branches                   ( +-   0.000% )

        1.722635797  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.046% )

Jump labels turned off (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL not set), branch
disabled:

 Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs):

     4,009,611,846 instructions             #	   0.867 IPC     ( +-0.000% )
     4,622,210,580 cycles                     ( +-   0.012% )
       771,662,904 branches                   ( +-   0.000% )

        1.734341454  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.022% )

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: rth@redhat.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805204040.GG2522@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
2011-08-05 23:57:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3272cab406 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: Include most of the merge window trees, to do fixes on top.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-05 10:33:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f03683b8fb Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them
  lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initialization
  slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slab
  lockdep: Fix up warning
  lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller()
  futex: Fix regression with read only mappings
2011-08-04 16:44:04 -10:00
Tejun Heo f59de8992a lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initialization
lockdep_init_map() only initializes parts of lockdep_map and triggers
kmemcheck warning when it is copied as a whole.  There isn't anything
to be gained by clearing selectively.  memset() the whole structure
and remove loop for ->class_cache[] clearing.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110714131909.GJ3455@htj.dyndns.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:17:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 70a0686a72 lockdep: Fix up warning
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 21:06 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c: In function 'mark_held_locks':
> /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c:2471:31: warning: comparison of
> distinct pointer types lacks a cast

The warning is harmless in this case, but the below makes it go away.

Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311588599.2617.56.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:17:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d36b26be0 lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller()
Commit dd4e5d3ac4 ("lockdep: Fix trace_[soft,hard]irqs_[on,off]()
recursion") made a bit of a mess of the various checks and error
conditions.

In particular it moved the check for !irqs_disabled() before the
spurious enable test, resulting in some warnings.

Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311679697.24752.28.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 288d5abec8 Boot up with usermodehelper disabled
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
Ingo Molnar d7619fe39d Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent 2011-08-04 09:09:27 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov a7295898a1 taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listeners
When send_cpu_listeners() finds the orphaned listener it marks it as
!valid and drops listeners->sem.  Before it takes this sem for writing,
s->pid can be reused and add_del_listener() can wrongly try to re-use
this entry.

Change add_del_listener() to check ->valid = T.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00