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* Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-131-6/+18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpusets, hotplug, scheduler: fix scheduler domain breakage
| * cpusets, hotplug, scheduler: fix scheduler domain breakageDmitry Adamushko2008-07-131-6/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit f18f982ab ("sched: CPU hotplug events must not destroy scheduler domains created by the cpusets") introduced a hotplug-related problem as described below: Upon CPU_DOWN_PREPARE, update_sched_domains() -> detach_destroy_domains(&cpu_online_map) does the following: /* * Force a reinitialization of the sched domains hierarchy. The domains * and groups cannot be updated in place without racing with the balancing * code, so we temporarily attach all running cpus to the NULL domain * which will prevent rebalancing while the sched domains are recalculated. */ The sched-domains should be rebuilt when a CPU_DOWN ops. has been completed, effectively either upon CPU_DEAD{_FROZEN} (upon success) or CPU_DOWN_FAILED{_FROZEN} (upon failure -- restore the things to their initial state). That's what update_sched_domains() also does but only for !CPUSETS case. With f18f982ab, sched-domains' reinitialization is delegated to CPUSETS code: cpuset_handle_cpuhp() -> common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug() -> rebuild_sched_domains() Being called for CPU_UP_PREPARE and if its callback is called after update_sched_domains()), it just negates all the work done by update_sched_domains() -- i.e. a soon-to-be-offline cpu is included in the sched-domains and that makes it visible for the load-balancer while the CPU_DOWN ops. is in progress. __migrate_live_tasks() moves the tasks off a 'dead' cpu (it's already "offline" when this function is called). try_to_wake_up() is called for one of these tasks from another CPU -> the load-balancer (wake_idle()) picks up a "dead" CPU and places the task on it. Then e.g. BUG_ON(rq->nr_running) detects this a bit later -> oops. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: miaox@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-101-3/+4
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix cpu hotplug, cleanup sched: fix cpu hotplug
| * sched: fix cpu hotplug, cleanupLinus Torvalds2008-07-101-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up __migrate_task(): to just have separate "done" and "fail" cases, instead of that "out" case with random error behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: fix cpu hotplugDmitry Adamushko2008-07-101-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I think we may have a race between try_to_wake_up() and migrate_live_tasks() -> move_task_off_dead_cpu() when the later one may end up looping endlessly. Interrupts are enabled on other CPUs when migration_call(CPU_DEAD, ...) is called so we may get a race between try_to_wake_up() and migrate_live_tasks() -> move_task_off_dead_cpu(). The former one may push a task out of a dead CPU causing the later one to loop endlessly. Heiko Carstens observed: | That's exactly what explains a dump I got yesterday. Thanks for fixing! :) Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: miaox@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Fix PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPUNick Piggin2008-07-101-12/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPU is broken. The rcu_online_cpu is called to initially populate rcu_cpu_online_map with all online CPUs when the hotplug event handler is installed, and also to populate the map with CPUs as they come online. The former case is meant to happen with and without HOTPLUG_CPU, but without HOTPLUG_CPU, the rcu_offline_cpu function is no-oped -- while it still gets called, it does not set the rcu CPU map. With a blank RCU CPU map, grace periods get to tick by completely oblivious to active RCU read side critical sections. This results in free-before-grace bugs. Fix is obvious once the problem is known. (Also, change __devinit to __cpuinit so the function gets thrown away on !HOTPLUG_CPU kernels). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Nick is my personal hero of the day - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kernel/kprobes.c: Made kprobe_blacklist static.Daniel Guilak2008-07-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kernel/printk.c: Made printk_recursion_bug_msg static.Daniel Guilak2008-07-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-051-0/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
| * | softlockup: print a module list on being stuckArjan van de Ven2008-07-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most places in the kernel that go BUG: print a module list (which is very useful for doing statistics and finding patterns), however the softlockup detector does not do this yet. This patch adds the one line change to fix this gap. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | security: filesystem capabilities: fix fragile setuid fixup codeAndrew G. Morgan2008-07-041-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit includes a bugfix for the fragile setuid fixup code in the case that filesystem capabilities are supported (in access()). The effect of this fix is gated on filesystem capability support because changing securebits is only supported when filesystem capabilities support is configured.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Christoph has movedChristoph Lameter2008-07-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email address for the future). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | hrtimer: prevent migration for raising softirqSteven Rostedt2008-07-031-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to a possible deadlock, the waking of the softirq was pushed outside of the hrtimer base locks. See commit 0c96c5979a522c3323c30a078a70120e29b5bdbc Unfortunately this allows the task to migrate after setting up the softirq and raising it. Since softirqs run a queue that is per-cpu we may raise the softirq on the wrong CPU and this will keep the queued softirq task from running. To solve this issue, this patch disables preemption around the releasing of the hrtimer lock and raising of the softirq. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-031-0/+3
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix divide error when trying to configure rt_period to zero
| * | sched: fix divide error when trying to configure rt_period to zeroRaistlin2008-07-011-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here it is another little Oops we found while configuring invalid values via cgroups: echo 0 > /dev/cgroups/0/cpu.rt_period_us or echo 4294967296 > /dev/cgroups/0/cpu.rt_period_us [ 205.509825] divide error: 0000 [#1] [ 205.510151] Modules linked in: [ 205.510151] [ 205.510151] Pid: 2339, comm: bash Not tainted (2.6.26-rc8 #33) [ 205.510151] EIP: 0060:[<c030c6ef>] EFLAGS: 00000293 CPU: 0 [ 205.510151] EIP is at div64_u64+0x5f/0x70 [ 205.510151] EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 [ 205.510151] ESI: d9800000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c6cede60 ESP: c6cede50 [ 205.510151] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 205.510151] Process bash (pid: 2339, ti=c6cec000 task=c79be370 task.ti=c6cec000) [ 205.510151] Stack: d9800000 0000389f c05971a0 d9800000 c6cedeb4 c0214dbd 00000000 00000000 [ 205.510151] c6cede88 c0242bd8 c05377c0 c7a41b40 00000000 00000000 00000000 c05971a0 [ 205.510151] c780ed20 c7508494 c7a41b40 00000000 00000002 c6cedebc c05971a0 ffffffea [ 205.510151] Call Trace: [ 205.510151] [<c0214dbd>] ? __rt_schedulable+0x1cd/0x240 [ 205.510151] [<c0242bd8>] ? cgroup_file_open+0x18/0xe0 [ 205.510151] [<c0214fe4>] ? tg_set_bandwidth+0xa4/0xf0 [ 205.510151] [<c0215066>] ? sched_group_set_rt_period+0x36/0x50 [ 205.510151] [<c021508e>] ? cpu_rt_period_write_uint+0xe/0x10 [ 205.510151] [<c0242dc5>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x125/0x160 [ 205.510151] [<c0232c15>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x155/0x190 [ 205.510151] [<c02f047f>] ? security_file_permission+0xf/0x20 [ 205.510151] [<c0277ad8>] ? rw_verify_area+0x48/0xc0 [ 205.510151] [<c0283744>] ? dupfd+0x104/0x130 [ 205.510151] [<c027838c>] ? vfs_write+0x9c/0x160 [ 205.510151] [<c0242ca0>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x0/0x160 [ 205.510151] [<c027850d>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70 [ 205.510151] [<c0203019>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91 [ 205.510151] ======================= [ 205.510151] Code: 0f 45 de 31 f6 0f ad d0 d3 ea f6 c1 20 0f 45 c2 0f 45 d6 89 45 f0 89 55 f4 8b 55 f4 31 c9 8b 45 f0 39 d3 89 c6 77 08 89 d0 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 83 c4 08 89 f0 f7 f3 89 ca 5b 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 56 [ 205.510151] EIP: [<c030c6ef>] div64_u64+0x5f/0x70 SS:ESP 0068:c6cede50 The attached patch solves the issue for me. I'm checking as soon as possible for the period not being zero since, if it is, going ahead is useless. This way we also save a mutex_lock() and a read_lock() wrt doing it inside tg_set_bandwidth() or __rt_schedulable(). Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-07-031-1/+15
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: rcu: fix hotplug vs rcu race
| * | rcu: fix hotplug vs rcu raceGautham R Shenoy2008-07-011-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dhaval Giani reported this warning during cpu hotplug stress-tests: | On running kernel compiles in parallel with cpu hotplug: | | WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:118 | native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36() | Modules linked in: | Pid: 27483, comm: cc1 Not tainted 2.6.26-rc7 #1 | [...] | [<c0110355>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36 | [<c014fe8f>] force_quiescent_state+0x47/0x57 | [<c014fef0>] call_rcu+0x51/0x6d | [<c01713b3>] __fput+0x130/0x158 | [<c0171231>] fput+0x17/0x19 | [<c016fd99>] filp_close+0x4d/0x57 | [<c016fdff>] sys_close+0x5c/0x97 IMHO the warning is a spurious one. cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run(). Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section, stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're in the irq disabled section. However, a cpu might have been offlined _just_ before we disabled irqs while entering force_quiescent_state(). And rcu subsystem might not yet have handled the CPU_DEAD notification, leading to the offlined cpu's bit being set in the rcp->cpumask. Hence cpumask = (rcp->cpumask & cpu_online_map) to prevent sending smp_reschedule() to an offlined CPU. Here's the timeline: CPU_A CPU_B -------------------------------------------------------------- cpu_down(): . . . . . stop_machine(): /* disables preemption, . * and irqs */ . . . . . take_cpu_down(); . . . . . . . cpu_disable(); /*this removes cpu . *from cpu_online_map . */ . . . . . restart_machine(); /* enables irqs */ . ------WINDOW DURING WHICH rcp->cpumask is stale --------------- . call_rcu(); . /* disables irqs here */ . .force_quiescent_state(); .CPU_DEAD: .for_each_cpu(rcp->cpumask) . . smp_send_reschedule(); . . . . WARN_ON() for offlined CPU! . . . rcu_cpu_notify: . -------- WINDOW ENDS ------------------------------------------ rcu_offline_cpu() /* Which calls cpu_quiet() * which removes * cpu from rcp->cpumask. */ If a new batch was started just before calling stop_machine_run(), the "tobe-offlined" cpu is still present in rcp-cpumask. During a cpu-offline, from take_cpu_down(), we queue an rt-prio idle task as the next task to be picked by the scheduler. We also call cpu_disable() which will disable any further interrupts and remove the cpu's bit from the cpu_online_map. Once the stop_machine_run() successfully calls take_cpu_down(), it calls schedule(). That's the last time a schedule is called on the offlined cpu, and hence the last time when rdp->passed_quiesc will be set to 1 through rcu_qsctr_inc(). But the cpu_quiet() will be on this cpu will be called only when the next RCU_SOFTIRQ occurs on this CPU. So at this time, the offlined CPU is still set in rcp->cpumask. Now coming back to the idle_task which truely offlines the CPU, it does check for a pending RCU and raises the softirq, since it will find rdp->passed_quiesc to be 0 in this case. However, since the cpu is offline I am not sure if the softirq will trigger on the CPU. Even if it doesn't the rcu_offline_cpu() will find that rcp->completed is not the same as rcp->cur, which means that our cpu could be holding up the grace period progression. Hence we call cpu_quiet() and move ahead. But because of the window explained in the timeline, we could still have a call_rcu() before the RCU subsystem executes it's CPU_DEAD notification, and we send smp_send_reschedule() to offlined cpu while trying to force the quiescent states. The appended patch adds comments and prevents checking for offlined cpu everytime. cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run(). Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section, stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're in the irq disabled section. Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-301-0/+1
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix cpu hotplug
| * | sched: fix cpu hotplugDmitry Adamushko2008-06-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the CPU hotplug problems (crashes under high-volume unplug+replug tests) seem to be related to migrate_dead_tasks(). Firstly I added traces to see all tasks being migrated with migrate_live_tasks() and migrate_dead_tasks(). On my setup the problem pops up (the one with "se == NULL" in the loop of pick_next_task_fair()) shortly after the traces indicate that some has been migrated with migrate_dead_tasks()). btw., I can reproduce it much faster now with just a plain cpu down/up loop. [disclaimer] Well, unless I'm really missing something important in this late hour [/desclaimer] pick_next_task() is not something appropriate for migrate_dead_tasks() :-) the following change seems to eliminate the problem on my setup (although, I kept it running only for a few minutes to get a few messages indicating migrate_dead_tasks() does move tasks and the system is still ok) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'audit.b52' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-292-4/+5
|\ \ \ | |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] remove useless argument type in audit_filter_user() [PATCH] audit: fix kernel-doc parameter notation [PATCH] kernel/audit.c: nlh->nlmsg_type is gotten more than once
| * | [PATCH] remove useless argument type in audit_filter_user()Peng Haitao2008-06-252-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The second argument "type" is not used in audit_filter_user(), so I think that type can be removed. If I'm wrong, please tell me. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] audit: fix kernel-doc parameter notationRandy Dunlap2008-06-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix auditfilter kernel-doc misssing parameter description: Warning(lin2626-rc3//kernel/auditfilter.c:1551): No description found for parameter 'sessionid' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | [PATCH] kernel/audit.c: nlh->nlmsg_type is gotten more than oncePeng Haitao2008-06-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The first argument "nlh->nlmsg_type" of audit_receive_filter() should be modified to "msg_type" in audit_receive_msg(). Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | kgdb: sparse fixJason Wessel2008-06-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Fix warning reported by sparse kernel/kgdb.c:1502:6: warning: symbol 'kgdb_console_write' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-231-20/+73
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_pi
| * | futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_piThomas Gleixner2008-06-231-20/+73
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses a very sporadic pi-futex related failure in highly threaded java apps on large SMP systems. David Holmes reported that the pi_state consistency check in lookup_pi_state triggered with his test application. This means that the kernel internal pi_state and the user space futex variable are out of sync. First we assumed that this is a user space data corruption, but deeper investigation revieled that the problem happend because the pi-futex code is not handling a fault in the futex_lock_pi path when the user space variable needs to be fixed up. The fault happens when a fork mapped the anon memory which contains the futex readonly for COW or the page got swapped out exactly between the unlock of the futex and the return of either the new futex owner or the task which was the expected owner but failed to acquire the kernel internal rtmutex. The current futex_lock_pi() code drops out with an inconsistent in case it faults and returns -EFAULT to user space. User space has no way to fixup that state. When we wrote this code we thought that we could not drop the hash bucket lock at this point to handle the fault. After analysing the code again it turned out to be wrong because there are only two tasks involved which might modify the pi_state and the user space variable: - the task which acquired the rtmutex - the pending owner of the pi_state which did not get the rtmutex Both tasks drop into the fixup_pi_state() function before returning to user space. The first task which acquired the hash bucket lock faults in the fixup of the user space variable, drops the spinlock and calls futex_handle_fault() to fault in the page. Now the second task could acquire the hash bucket lock and tries to fixup the user space variable as well. It either faults as well or it succeeds because the first task already faulted the page in. One caveat is to avoid a double fixup. After returning from the fault handling we reacquire the hash bucket lock and check whether the pi_state owner has been modified already. Reported-by: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> kernel/futex.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
* | Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar2008-06-234-10/+18
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| * Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-204-10/+18
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bh cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
| | * softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regressionJason Wessel2008-06-191-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The touch_nmi_watchdog() routine on x86 ultimately calls touch_softlockup_watchdog(). The problem is that to touch the softlockup watchdog, the cpu_clock code has to be called which could involve multiple cpu locks and can lead to a hard hang if one of the locks is held by a processor that is not going to return anytime soon (such as could be the case with kgdb or perhaps even with some other kind of exception). This patch causes the public version of the touch_softlockup_watchdog() to defer the cpu clock access to a later point. The test case for this problem is to use the following kernel config options: CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS=y CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT=y CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_BOOT_STRING="V1F100I100000" It should be noted that kgdb test suite and these options were not available until 2.6.26-rc2, so it was necessary to patch the kgdb test suite during the bisection. I would consider this patch a regression fix because the problem first appeared in commit 27ec4407790d075c325e1f4da0a19c56953cce23 when some logic was added to try to periodically sync the clocks. It was possible to work around this particular problem by simply not performing the sync anytime the system was in a critical context. This was ok until commit 3e51f33fcc7f55e6df25d15b55ed10c8b4da84cd, which added config option CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK and some multi-cpu locks to sync the clocks. It became clear that accessing this code from an nmi was the source of the lockups. Avoiding the access to the low level clock code from an code inside the NMI processing also fixed the problem with the 27ec44... commit. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bhSteven Rostedt2008-06-191-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In rcupreempt, rcu_batches_completed_bh is defined as a static inline in the header file. This does not need to be exported, and not only that, this breaks my PPC build. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_levelLi Zefan2008-06-192-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL for inputs outside this range. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | | sched: refactor wait_for_completion_timeout()Oleg Nesterov2008-06-201-18/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the code and fix the boundary condition of wait_for_completion_timeout(,0). We can kill the first __remove_wait_queue() as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* | | sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy loadRoland Dreier2008-06-201-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that the current implementaton of wait_for_completion_timeout() has a small problem under very high load for the common pattern: if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, timeout)) /* handle failure */ because the implementation very roughly does (lots of code deleted to show the basic flow): static inline long __sched do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x, long timeout, int state) { if (x->done) return timeout; do { timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout); if (!timeout) return timeout; } while (!x->done); return timeout; } so if the system is very busy and x->done is not set when do_wait_for_common() is entered, it is possible that the first call to schedule_timeout() returns 0 because the task doing wait_for_completion doesn't get rescheduled for a long time, even if it is woken up early enough. In this case, wait_for_completion_timeout() returns 0 without even checking x->done again, and the code above falls into its failure case purely for scheduler reasons, even if the hardware event or whatever was being waited for happened early enough. It would make sense to add an extra test to do_wait_for() in the timeout case and return 1 if x->done is actually set. A quick audit (not exhaustive) of wait_for_completion_timeout() callers seems to indicate that no one actually cares about the return value in the success case -- they just test for 0 (timed out) versus non-zero (wait succeeded). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | sched: rt: dont stop the period timer when there are tasks wanting to runPeter Zijlstra2008-06-201-1/+2
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So if the group ever gets throttled, it will never wake up again. Reported-by: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched, delay accounting: fix incorrect delay time when constantly waiting on ↵Bharath Ravi2008-06-191-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | runqueue This patch corrects the incorrect value of per process run-queue wait time reported by delay statistics. The anomaly was due to the following reason. When a process leaves the CPU and immediately starts waiting for CPU on the runqueue (which means it remains in the TASK_RUNNABLE state), the time of re-entry into the run-queue is never recorded. Due to this, the waiting time on the runqueue from this point of re-entry upto the next time it hits the CPU is not accounted for. This is solved by recording the time of re-entry of a process leaving the CPU in the sched_info_depart() function IF the process will go back to waiting on the run-queue. This IF condition is verified by checking whether the process is still in the TASK_RUNNABLE state. The patch was tested on 2.6.26-rc6 using two simple CPU hog programs. The values noted prior to the fix did not account for the time spent on the runqueue waiting. After the fix, the correct values were reported back to user space. Signed-off-by: Bharath Ravi <bharathravi1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Madhava K R <madhavakr@gmail.com> Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com Cc: balbir@in.ibm.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: CPU hotplug events must not destroy scheduler domains created by the ↵Max Krasnyansky2008-06-192-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpusets First issue is not related to the cpusets. We're simply leaking doms_cur. It's allocated in arch_init_sched_domains() which is called for every hotplug event. So we just keep reallocation doms_cur without freeing it. I introduced free_sched_domains() function that cleans things up. Second issue is that sched domains created by the cpusets are completely destroyed by the CPU hotplug events. For all CPU hotplug events scheduler attaches all CPUs to the NULL domain and then puts them all into the single domain thereby destroying domains created by the cpusets (partition_sched_domains). The solution is simple, when cpusets are enabled scheduler should not create default domain and instead let cpusets do that. Which is exactly what the patch does. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: pj@sgi.com Cc: menage@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | sched: rt-group: fix RR bugletPeter Zijlstra2008-06-191-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In tick_task_rt() we first call update_curr_rt() which can dequeue a runqueue due to it running out of runtime, and then we try to requeue it, of it also having exhausted its RR quota. Obviously requeueing something that is no longer on the runqueue will not have the expected result. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: rt-group: heirarchy aware throttlePeter Zijlstra2008-06-191-26/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bandwidth throttle code dequeues a group when it runs out of quota, and re-queues it once the period rolls over and the quota gets refreshed. Sadly it failed to take the hierarchy into consideration. Share more of the enqueue/dequeue code with regular task opterations. Also, some operations like sched_setscheduler() can dequeue/enqueue tasks that are in throttled runqueues, we should not inadvertly re-enqueue empty runqueues so check for that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: rt-group: fix hierarchyPeter Zijlstra2008-06-191-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't re-set the entity's runqueue to the wrong rq after we've set it to the right one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: NULL pointer dereference while setting sched_rt_period_usDario Faggioli2008-06-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED and CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED are enabled, with: echo 10000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us We get this: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008c [ 947.682233] IP: [<c0216b72>] __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160 [ 947.683123] *pde = 00000000=20 [ 947.683782] Oops: 0000 [#1] [ 947.684307] Modules linked in: [ 947.684308] [ 947.684308] Pid: 2359, comm: bash Not tainted (2.6.26-rc6 #8) [ 947.684308] EIP: 0060:[<c0216b72>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 [ 947.684308] EIP is at __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160 [ 947.684308] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000001 [ 947.684308] ESI: c0521db4 EDI: 00000001 EBP: c6cc9f00 ESP: c6cc9ed0 [ 947.684308] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 947.684308] Process bash (pid: 2359, tiÆcc8000 taskÇa54f00=20 task.tiÆcc8000) [ 947.684308] Stack: c0222790 00000000 080f8c08 c0521db4 c6cc9f00 00000001 00000000 00000000 [ 947.684308] c6cc9f9c 00000000 c0521db4 00000001 c6cc9f28 c0216d40 00000000 00000000 [ 947.684308] c6cc9f9c 000f4240 000e7ef0 ffffffff c0521db4 c79dfb60 c6cc9f58 c02af2cc [ 947.684308] Call Trace: [ 947.684308] [<c0222790>] ? do_proc_dointvec_conv+0x0/0x50 [ 947.684308] [<c0216d40>] ? sched_rt_handler+0x80/0x110 [ 947.684308] [<c02af2cc>] ? proc_sys_call_handler+0x9c/0xb0 [ 947.684308] [<c02af2fa>] ? proc_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 [ 947.684308] [<c0273c36>] ? vfs_write+0x96/0x160 [ 947.684308] [<c02af2e0>] ? proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20 [ 947.684308] [<c027423d>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70 [ 947.684308] [<c0202ef5>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91 [ 947.684308] ======================= [ 947.684308] Code: 24 04 e8 62 b1 0e 00 89 c7 89 f8 8b 5d f4 8b 75 f8 8b 7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 24 89 45 ec 89 55 e4 89 4d e8 <8b> b8 8c 00 00 00 85 ff 0f 84 c9 00 00 00 8b 57 24 39 55 e8 8b [ 947.684308] EIP: [<c0216b72>] __rt_schedulable+0x12/0x160 SS:ESP 0068:c6cc9ed0 We think the following patch solves the issue. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: fix defined-but-unused warningRabin Vincent2008-06-171-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | Fix this warning, which appears with !CONFIG_SMP: kernel/sched.c:1216: warning: `init_hrtick' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kprobes: fix error checking of batch registrationMasami Hiramatsu2008-06-131-6/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix error checking routine to catch an error which occurs in first __register_*probe(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-121-8/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: 64-bit: fix arithmetics overflow sched: fair group: fix overflow(was: fix divide by zero) sched: fix TASK_WAKEKILL vs SIGKILL race
| * sched: 64-bit: fix arithmetics overflowLai Jiangshan2008-06-121-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (overflow means weight >= 2^32 here, because inv_weigh = 2^32/weight) A weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities are queued on this cfs_rq, so it will overflow when there are too many entities. Although, overflow occurs very rarely, but it break fairness when it occurs. 64-bits systems have more memory than 32-bit systems and 64-bit systems can create more process usually, so overflow may occur more frequently. This patch guarantees fairness when overflow happens on 64-bit systems. Thanks to the optimization of compiler, it changes nothing on 32-bit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: fair group: fix overflow(was: fix divide by zero)Lai Jiangshan2008-06-121-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I found a bug which can be reproduced by this way:(linux-2.6.26-rc5, x86-64) (use 2^32, 2^33, ...., 2^63 as shares value) # mkdir /dev/cpuctl # mount -t cgroup -o cpu cpuctl /dev/cpuctl # cd /dev/cpuctl # mkdir sub # echo 0x8000000000000000 > sub/cpu.shares # echo $$ > sub/tasks oops here! divide by zero. This is because do_div() expects the 2th parameter to be 32 bits, but unsigned long is 64 bits in x86_64. Peter Zijstra pointed it out that the sane thing to do is limit the shares value to something smaller instead of using an even more expensive divide. Also, I found another bug about "the shares value is too large": pid1 and pid2 are set affinity to cpu#0 pid1 is attached to cg1 and pid2 is attached to cg2 if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 2000000000 then pid2 got 100% usage of cpu, and pid1 0% if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 20000000000 then pid2 got 0% usage of cpu, and pid1 100% And a weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities are queued on this cfs_rq, so the shares value should be limited to a smaller value. I think that (1UL << 18) is a good limited value: 1) it's not too large, we can create a lot of group before overflow 2) it's several times the weight value for nice=-19 (not too small) Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * sched: fix TASK_WAKEKILL vs SIGKILL raceOleg Nesterov2008-06-101-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | schedule() has the special "TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE && signal_pending()" case, this allows us to do current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; schedule(); without fear to sleep with pending signal. However, the code like current->state = TASK_KILLABLE; schedule(); is not right, schedule() doesn't take TASK_WAKEKILL into account. This means that mutex_lock_killable(), wait_for_completion_killable(), down_killable(), schedule_timeout_killable() can miss SIGKILL (and btw the second SIGKILL has no effect). Introduce the new helper, signal_pending_state(), and change schedule() to use it. Hopefully it will have more users, that is why the task's state is passed separately. Note this "__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED" check in signal_pending_state(). This is needed to preserve the current behaviour (ptrace_notify). I hope this check will be removed soon, but this (afaics good) change needs the separate discussion. The fast path is "(state & (INTERRUPTIBLE | WAKEKILL)) + signal_pending(p)", basically the same that schedule() does now. However, this patch of course bloats schedule(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-061-38/+73
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6: capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support. LSM: remove stale web site from MAINTAINERS
| * | capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability ↵Andrew G. Morgan2008-06-011-38/+73
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | support. Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but true. Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using sys_capset(). As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation for all. It 1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its legacy value. 2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal implementation of the preferred magic. 3. deprecates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2, the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel to log a "deprecated" warning so the admin can find applications that may be using v2 inappropriately. [User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first to support v3 capabilities.] Fixes issue reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447518. Thanks to Bojan Smojver for the report. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depreciate/deprecate/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be robust about put_user size] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
* | | cpusets: fix bug when adding nonexistent cpu or memLai Jiangshan2008-06-061-3/+7
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding a nonexistent cpu to a cpuset will be omitted quietly. It should return -EINVAL. Example: (real_nr_cpus <= 4 < NR_CPUS or cpu#4 was just offline) # cat cpus 0-1 # /bin/echo 4 > cpus # /bin/echo $? 0 # cat cpus # The same occurs when add a nonexistent mem. This patch will fix this bug. And when *buf == "", the check is unneeded. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-06-041-10/+6
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdbts: Use HW breakpoints with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA kgdb: use common ascii helpers and put_unaligned_be32 helper