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Dmitry Baryshkov
cb3952bf78 DMA: make dma-coherent.c documentation kdoc-friendly
Spotted by Randy.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-08-07 06:52:01 -07:00
Richard Hughes
bf1db69fbf pm_qos: spelling fixes
A documentation cleanup patch.  With a minor tweak to clarify units for
kbs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:50 -07:00
Jan Beulich
d2dc1f4adb dma: fix order calculation in dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied()
get_order() takes byte-sized input, not a page-granular one.

Irrespective of this fix I'm inclined to believe that this doesn't work
right anyway - bitmap_allocate_region() has an implicit assumption of
'pos' being suitable for 'order', which this function doesn't seem to
enforce (and since it's being called with a byte-granular value there's no
reason to believe that the callers would make sure device_addr is passed
accordingly - it's also not documented that way).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:49 -07:00
David Brownell
c69ad71bcd genirq: better warning on irqchip->set_type() failure
While I'm glad to finally see the hole fixed whereby passing an invalid
IRQ trigger type to request_irq() would be ignored, the current diagnostic
isn't quite useful.  Fixed by also listing the trigger type which was
rejected.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
5b2becc8cf semaphore: __down_common: use signal_pending_state()
Change __down_common() to use signal_pending_state() instead of open
coding.

The changes in kernel/semaphore.o are just artifacts, the state checks are
optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:47 -07:00
Tom Zanussi
3219445033 relay: fix "full buffer with exactly full last subbuffer" accounting problem
In relay's current read implementation, if the buffer is completely full
but hasn't triggered the buffer-full condition (i.e. the last write
didn't cross the subbuffer boundary) and the last subbuffer is exactly
full, the subbuffer accounting code erroneously finds nothing available.
This patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b13ad6f47c Merge branch 'audit.b56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  Re: [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
2008-08-04 17:21:38 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
725aad24c3 __sched_setscheduler: don't do any policy checks when not "user"
The "user" parameter to __sched_setscheduler indicates whether the
change is being done on behalf of a user process or not.  If not, we
shouldn't apply any permissions checks, so don't call
security_task_setscheduler().

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04 17:16:20 -07:00
zhangxiliang
1a61c88def Re: [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
Sorry, I miss a blank between if and "(".
And I add "unlikely" to check "ctx" in audit_match_perm() and audit_match_filetype().
This is a new patch for it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-04 06:13:50 -04:00
Roland McGrath
5c7edcd7ee tracehook: fix exit_signal=0 case
My commit 2b2a1ff64a introduced a regression
(sorry about that) for the odd case of exit_signal=0 (e.g. clone_flags=0).
This is not a normal use, but it's used by a case in the glibc test suite.

Dying with exit_signal=0 sends no signal, but it's supposed to wake up a
parent's blocked wait*() calls (unlike the delayed_group_leader case).
This fixes tracehook_notify_death() and its caller to distinguish a
"signal 0" wakeup from the delayed_group_leader case (with no wakeup).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01 12:01:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5adf2b03d9 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:
  locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation
2008-08-01 11:52:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
31582b094d Merge branch 'for_linus' of 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:
  kgdb: fix gdb serial thread queries
  kgdb: fix kgdb_validate_break_address to perform a mem write
  kgdb: remove the requirement for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
2008-08-01 11:45:09 -07:00
zhangxiliang
20c6aaa39a [PATCH] Fix the bug of using AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT when set fail, no error output.
When the "status_get->mask" is "AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT || AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_LIMIT".
If "audit_set_rate_limit" fails and "audit_set_backlog_limit" succeeds, the "err" value
will be greater than or equal to 0. It will miss the failure of rate set.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:16 -04:00
zhangxiliang
980dfb0db3 [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
When calling audit_filter_task(), it calls audit_filter_rules() with audit_context is NULL.
If the key field is set, the result in audit_filter_rules() will be set to 1 and
ctx->filterkey will be set to key.
But the ctx is NULL in this condition, so kernel will panic.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:03 -04:00
zhangxiliang
036bbf76ad Re: [PATCH] the loginuid field should be output in all AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE audit messages
> shouldn't these be using the "audit_get_loginuid(current)"  and if we
> are going to output loginuid we also should be outputting sessionid

Thanks for your detailed explanation.
I have made a new patch for outputing "loginuid" and "sessionid" by audit_get_loginuid(current) and audit_get_sessionid(current).
If there are some deficiencies, please give me your indication.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:03 -04:00
Vesa-Matti J Kari
1d6c9649e2 kernel/audit.c control character detection is off-by-one
Hello,

According to my understanding there is an off-by-one bug in the
function:

   audit_string_contains_control()

in:

  kernel/audit.c

Patch is included.

I do not know from how many places the function is called from, but for
example, SELinux Access Vector Cache tries to log untrusted filenames via
call path:

avc_audit()
     audit_log_untrustedstring()
         audit_log_n_untrustedstring()
             audit_string_contains_control()

If audit_string_contains_control() detects control characters, then the
string is hex-encoded. But the hex=0x7f dec=127, DEL-character, is not
detected.

I guess this could have at least some minor security implications, since a
user can create a filename with 0x7f in it, causing logged filename to
possibly look different when someone reads it on the terminal.

Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:05:35 -04:00
Eric Paris
ee1d315663 [PATCH] Audit: Collect signal info when SIGUSR2 is sent to auditd
Makes the kernel audit subsystem collect information about the sending
process when that process sends SIGUSR2 to the userspace audit daemon.
SIGUSR2 is a new interesting signal to auditd telling auditd that it
should try to start logging to disk again and the error condition which
caused it to stop logging to disk (usually out of space) has been
rectified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:05:32 -04:00
Jason Wessel
25fc999913 kgdb: fix gdb serial thread queries
The command "info threads" did not work correctly with kgdb.  It would
result in a silent kernel hang if used.

This patach addresses several problems.
 - Fix use of deprecated NR_CPUS
 - Fix kgdb to not walk linearly through the pid space
 - Correctly implement shadow pids
 - Change the threads per query to a #define
 - Fix kgdb_hex2long to work with negated values

The threads 0 and -1 are reserved to represent the current task.  That
means that CPU 0 will start with a shadow thread id of -2, and CPU 1
will have a shadow thread id of -3, etc...

From the debugger you can switch to a shadow thread to see what one of
the other cpus was doing, however it is not possible to execute run
control operations on any other cpu execept the cpu executing the
kgdb_handle_exception().

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-08-01 08:39:35 -05:00
Jason Wessel
a9b60bf4c2 kgdb: fix kgdb_validate_break_address to perform a mem write
A regression to the kgdb core was found in the case of using the
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA kernel option.  When this option is on, a breakpoint
cannot be written into any readonly memory page.  When an external
debugger requests a breakpoint to get set, the
kgdb_validate_break_address() was only checking to see if the address
to place the breakpoint was readable and lacked a write check.

This patch changes the validate routine to try reading (via the
breakpoint set request) and also to try immediately writing the break
point.  If either fails, an error is correctly returned and the
debugger behaves correctly.  Then an end user can make the
descision to use hardware breakpoints.

Also update the documentation to reflect that using
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA will inhibit the use of software breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-08-01 08:39:34 -05:00
Andi Kleen
f718cd4add sched: make scheduler sysfs attributes sysdev class devices
They are really class devices, but were incorrectly declared.  This
leads to crashes with the recent changes that makes non normal sysdevs
use a different prototype.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
6af8bf3d86 workqueues: add comments to __create_workqueue_key()
Dmitry Adamushko pointed out that the error handling in
__create_workqueue_key() is not clear, add the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
641de9d8f5 printk: fix comment for printk ratelimiting
The comment assumed the burst to be one and the ratelimit used to be named
printk_ratelimit_jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
5def9a3a22 markers: fix markers read barrier for multiple probes
Paul pointed out two incorrect read barriers in the marker handler code in
the path where multiple probes are connected.  Those are ordering reads of
"ptype" (single or multi probe marker), "multi" array pointer, and "multi"
array data access.

It should be ordered like this :

read ptype
smp_rmb()
read multi array pointer
smp_read_barrier_depends()
access data referenced by multi array pointer

The code with a single probe connected (optimized case, does not have to
allocate an array) has correct memory ordering.

It applies to kernel 2.6.26.x, 2.6.25.x and linux-next.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Li Zefan
aeed682421 cpuset: clean up cpuset hierarchy traversal code
Use cpuset.stack_list rather than kfifo, so we avoid memory allocation
for kfifo.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Li Zefan
93a6557558 cpuset: fix wrong calculation of relax domain level
When multiple cpusets are overlapping in their 'cpus' and hence they
form a single sched domain, the largest sched_relax_domain_level among
those should be used. But when top_cpuset's sched_load_balance is
set, its sched_relax_domain_level is used regardless other sub-cpusets'.

This patch fixes it by walking the cpuset hierarchy to find the largest
sched_relax_domain_level.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
f5393693e9 cpuset: speed up sched domain partition
All child cpusets contain a subset of the parent's cpus, so we can skip
them when partitioning sched domains. This decreases 'csa' greately for
cpusets with multi-level hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Li Zefan
8d1e6266f5 cpuset: a bit cleanup for scan_for_empty_cpusets()
clean up hierarchy traversal code

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Li Zefan
55b6fd0162 cgroup: uninline cgroup_has_css_refs()
It's not small enough, and has 2 call sites.

 text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
12813    1676    4832   19321    4b79 cgroup.o.orig
12775    1676    4832   19283    4b53 cgroup.o

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Li Zefan
36553434f4 cgroup: remove duplicate code in allocate_cg_link()
- just call free_cg_links() in allocate_cg_links()
- the list will get initialized in allocate_cg_links(), so don't init
  it twice

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Li Zefan
5a3eb9f6b7 cgroup: fix possible memory leak
There's a leak if copy_from_user() returns failure.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Magnus Damm
1a4e564b7d resource: add resource_size()
Avoid one-off errors by introducing a resource_size() function.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d9b9f6a53 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  x86/PCI: use dev_printk when possible
  PCI: add D3 power state avoidance quirk
  PCI: fix bogus "'device' may be used uninitialized" warning in pci_slot
  PCI: add an option to allow ASPM enabled forcibly
  PCI: disable ASPM on pre-1.1 PCIe devices
  PCI: disable ASPM per ACPI FADT setting
  PCI MSI: Don't disable MSIs if the mask bit isn't supported
  PCI: handle 64-bit resources better on 32-bit machines
  PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code
  PCI: document pci_target_state
  PCI hotplug: fix typo in pcie hotplug output
  x86 gart: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  x86, AMD IOMMU: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper function
  dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces
  Cris: convert to using generic dma-coherent mem allocator
  Sh: use generic per-device coherent dma allocator
  ARM: support generic per-device coherent dma mem
  Generic dma-coherent: fix DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
  x86: use generic per-device dma coherent allocator
  ...
2008-07-28 18:14:24 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
cddb8a5c14 mmu-notifiers: core
With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to pages.
 There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary tlbs) too.
sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say spte in
mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte".  In GRU case there's no
actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb because the GRU
secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every secondary tlb miss
event in the MMU always generates a page fault that has to be resolved by
the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a secondary tlb miss will
walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the secondary tlb transparently
to software if the corresponding spte is present).  The same way
zap_page_range has to invalidate the pte before freeing the page, the spte
(and secondary tlb) must also be invalidated before any page is freed and
reused.

Currently we take a page_count pin on every page mapped by sptes, but that
means the pages can't be swapped whenever they're mapped by any spte
because they're part of the guest working set.  Furthermore a spte unmap
event can immediately lead to a page to be freed when the pin is released
(so requiring the same complex and relatively slow tlb_gather smp safe
logic we have in zap_page_range and that can be avoided completely if the
spte unmap event doesn't require an unpin of the page previously mapped in
the secondary MMU).

The mmu notifiers allow kvm/GRU/XPMEM to attach to the tsk->mm and know
when the VM is swapping or freeing or doing anything on the primary MMU so
that the secondary MMU code can drop sptes before the pages are freed,
avoiding all page pinning and allowing 100% reliable swapping of guest
physical address space.  Furthermore it avoids the code that teardown the
mappings of the secondary MMU, to implement a logic like tlb_gather in
zap_page_range that would require many IPI to flush other cpu tlbs, for
each fixed number of spte unmapped.

To make an example: if what happens on the primary MMU is a protection
downgrade (from writeable to wrprotect) the secondary MMU mappings will be
invalidated, and the next secondary-mmu-page-fault will call
get_user_pages and trigger a do_wp_page through get_user_pages if it
called get_user_pages with write=1, and it'll re-establishing an updated
spte or secondary-tlb-mapping on the copied page.  Or it will setup a
readonly spte or readonly tlb mapping if it's a guest-read, if it calls
get_user_pages with write=0.  This is just an example.

This allows to map any page pointed by any pte (and in turn visible in the
primary CPU MMU), into a secondary MMU (be it a pure tlb like GRU, or an
full MMU with both sptes and secondary-tlb like the shadow-pagetable layer
with kvm), or a remote DMA in software like XPMEM (hence needing of
schedule in XPMEM code to send the invalidate to the remote node, while no
need to schedule in kvm/gru as it's an immediate event like invalidating
primary-mmu pte).

At least for KVM without this patch it's impossible to swap guests
reliably.  And having this feature and removing the page pin allows
several other optimizations that simplify life considerably.

Dependencies:

1) mm_take_all_locks() to register the mmu notifier when the whole VM
   isn't doing anything with "mm".  This allows mmu notifier users to keep
   track if the VM is in the middle of the invalidate_range_begin/end
   critical section with an atomic counter incraese in range_begin and
   decreased in range_end.  No secondary MMU page fault is allowed to map
   any spte or secondary tlb reference, while the VM is in the middle of
   range_begin/end as any page returned by get_user_pages in that critical
   section could later immediately be freed without any further
   ->invalidate_page notification (invalidate_range_begin/end works on
   ranges and ->invalidate_page isn't called immediately before freeing
   the page).  To stop all page freeing and pagetable overwrites the
   mmap_sem must be taken in write mode and all other anon_vma/i_mmap
   locks must be taken too.

2) It'd be a waste to add branches in the VM if nobody could possibly
   run KVM/GRU/XPMEM on the kernel, so mmu notifiers will only enabled if
   CONFIG_KVM=m/y.  In the current kernel kvm won't yet take advantage of
   mmu notifiers, but this already allows to compile a KVM external module
   against a kernel with mmu notifiers enabled and from the next pull from
   kvm.git we'll start using them.  And GRU/XPMEM will also be able to
   continue the development by enabling KVM=m in their config, until they
   submit all GRU/XPMEM GPLv2 code to the mainline kernel.  Then they can
   also enable MMU_NOTIFIERS in the same way KVM does it (even if KVM=n).
   This guarantees nobody selects MMU_NOTIFIER=y if KVM and GRU and XPMEM
   are all =n.

The mmu_notifier_register call can fail because mm_take_all_locks may be
interrupted by a signal and return -EINTR.  Because mmu_notifier_reigster
is used when a driver startup, a failure can be gracefully handled.  Here
an example of the change applied to kvm to register the mmu notifiers.
Usually when a driver startups other allocations are required anyway and
-ENOMEM failure paths exists already.

 struct  kvm *kvm_arch_create_vm(void)
 {
        struct kvm *kvm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm), GFP_KERNEL);
+       int err;

        if (!kvm)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);

+       kvm->arch.mmu_notifier.ops = &kvm_mmu_notifier_ops;
+       err = mmu_notifier_register(&kvm->arch.mmu_notifier, current->mm);
+       if (err) {
+               kfree(kvm);
+               return ERR_PTR(err);
+       }
+
        return kvm;
 }

mmu_notifier_unregister returns void and it's reliable.

The patch also adds a few needed but missing includes that would prevent
kernel to compile after these changes on non-x86 archs (x86 didn't need
them by luck).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/filemap_xip.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/mmu_notifier.c build]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
cb28a1bbdb Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 00:07:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9e3ee1c39c Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts:

	kernel/stop_machine.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 23:32:00 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e56b3bc794 cpu masks: optimize and clean up cpumask_of_cpu()
Clean up and optimize cpumask_of_cpu(), by sharing all the zero words.

Instead of stupidly generating all possible i=0...NR_CPUS 2^i patterns
creating a huge array of constant bitmasks, realize that the zero words
can be shared.

In other words, on a 64-bit architecture, we only ever need 64 of these
arrays - with a different bit set in one single world (with enough zero
words around it so that we can create any bitmask by just offsetting in
that big array). And then we just put enough zeroes around it that we
can point every single cpumask to be one of those things.

So when we have 4k CPU's, instead of having 4k arrays (of 4k bits each,
with one bit set in each array - 2MB memory total), we have exactly 64
arrays instead, each 8k bits in size (64kB total).

And then we just point cpumask(n) to the right position (which we can
calculate dynamically). Once we have the right arrays, getting
"cpumask(n)" ends up being:

  static inline const cpumask_t *get_cpu_mask(unsigned int cpu)
  {
          const unsigned long *p = cpu_bit_bitmap[1 + cpu % BITS_PER_LONG];
          p -= cpu / BITS_PER_LONG;
          return (const cpumask_t *)p;
  }

This brings other advantages and simplifications as well:

 - we are not wasting memory that is just filled with a single bit in
   various different places

 - we don't need all those games to re-create the arrays in some dense
   format, because they're already going to be dense enough.

if we compile a kernel for up to 4k CPU's, "wasting" that 64kB of memory
is a non-issue (especially since by doing this "overlapping" trick we
probably get better cache behaviour anyway).

[ mingo@elte.hu:

  Converted Linus's mails into a commit. See:

     http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/27/156
     http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/320

  Also applied a family filter - which also has the side-effect of leaving
  out the bits where Linus calls me an idio... Oh, never mind ;-)
]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 22:20:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
414f746d23 Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096 2008-07-28 21:14:43 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
0e241ffd30 locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation
Fix @key parameter to mutex_init() and one of its callers.

Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//drivers/base/class.c:210): No description found for parameter 'key'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 18:12:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
37eaf8c746 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  stop_machine: fix up ftrace.c
  stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run()
  stop_machine(): stop_machine_run() changed to use cpu mask
  Hotplug CPU: don't check cpu_online after take_cpu_down
  Simplify stop_machine
  stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option
  module: fix build warning with !CONFIG_KALLSYMS
2008-07-28 08:37:46 -07:00
Rusty Russell
784e2d7600 stop_machine: fix up ftrace.c
Simple conversion.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2008-07-28 12:16:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell
9b1a4d3837 stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run()
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28 12:16:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell
eeec4fad96 stop_machine(): stop_machine_run() changed to use cpu mask
Instead of a "cpu" arg with magic values NR_CPUS (any cpu) and ~0 (all
cpus), pass a cpumask_t.  Allow NULL for the common case (where we
don't care which CPU the function is run on): temporary cpumask_t's
are usually considered bad for stack space.

This deprecates stop_machine_run, to be removed soon when all the
callers are dead.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28 12:16:30 +10:00
Rusty Russell
0432158758 Hotplug CPU: don't check cpu_online after take_cpu_down
Akinobu points out that if take_cpu_down() succeeds, the cpu must be offline.
Remove the cpu_online() check, and put a BUG_ON().

Quoting Akinobu Mita:
   Actually the cpu_online() check was necessary before appling this
   stop_machine: simplify patch.

   With old __stop_machine_run(), __stop_machine_run() could succeed
   (return !IS_ERR(p) value) even if take_cpu_down() returned non-zero value.
   The return value of take_cpu_down() was obtained through kthread_stop()..

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Akinobu Mita" <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
2008-07-28 12:16:29 +10:00
Rusty Russell
ffdb5976c4 Simplify stop_machine
stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads.  We can
create those threads directly and simplify things a little.  Some care
must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code
seems more robust than it was in the past.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-28 12:16:29 +10:00
Jason Baron
5c2aed6225 stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option
-allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling
 stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior.
 stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has
 invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: akpm@osdl.org
2008-07-28 12:16:28 +10:00
WANG Cong
15bba37d62 module: fix build warning with !CONFIG_KALLSYMS
This patch fixed the warning:

  CC      kernel/module.o
  /home/wangcong/Projects/linux-2.6/kernel/module.c:332: warning:
‘lookup_symbol’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28 12:16:28 +10:00
Andrea Righi
940389b8af task IO accounting: move all IO statistics in struct task_io_accounting
Simplify the code of include/linux/task_io_accounting.h.

It is also more reasonable to have all the task i/o-related statistics in a
single struct (task_io_accounting).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 16:12:28 -07:00
Andrea Righi
5995477ab7 task IO accounting: improve code readability
Put all i/o statistics in struct proc_io_accounting and use inline functions to
initialize and increment statistics, removing a lot of single variable
assignments.

This also reduces the kernel size as following (with CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y and
CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y).

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   11651       0       0   11651    2d83 kernel/exit.o.before
   11619       0       0   11619    2d63 kernel/exit.o.after
   10886     132     136   11154    2b92 kernel/fork.o.before
   10758     132     136   11026    2b12 kernel/fork.o.after

 3082029  807968 4818600 8708597  84e1f5 vmlinux.o.before
 3081869  807968 4818600 8708437  84e155 vmlinux.o.after

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 09:58:20 -07:00
Andrea Righi
605ccb73f6 tracing: remove unused variable
Remove the following warning with CONFIG_TRACING=y:

	kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘s_next’:
	kernel/trace/trace.c:1186: warning: unused variable ‘last_ent’

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 09:58:20 -07:00
Al Viro
bfbcf03479 lost sysctl fix
try_attach() should walk into the matching subdirectory, not the first one...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 09:45:34 -07:00