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Zach Brown
d55b5fdaf4 [PATCH] aio: remove aio_max_nr accounting race
AIO was adding a new context's max requests to the global total before
testing if that resulting total was over the global limit.  This let
innocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task
that was crossing the limit.  This serializes the _nr accounting with a
spinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals.
Individual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int's worth of
requests by the syscall interface.

The problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating
and destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context.
Before the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN
if it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the
limit.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:38 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
28ef35845f [PATCH] small kernel_stat.h cleanup
cleanup: use for_each_cpu() instead of an open-coded NR_CPUS loop.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Hans Reiser
a43313668f [PATCH] reiser4: add radix_tree_lookup_slot()
Reiser4 uses radix trees to solve a trouble reiser4_readdir has serving nfs
requests.

Unfortunately, radix tree api lacks an operation suitable for modifying
existing entry.  This patch adds radix_tree_lookup_slot which returns pointer
to found item within the tree.  That location can be then updated.

Both Nick and Christoph Lameter have patches which need this as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Andrew Morton
7361f4d8ca [PATCH] readahead commentary
Add a few comments surrounding the generic readahead API.

Also convert some ulongs into pgoff_t: the identifier for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
offsets into pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Badari Pulavarty
bf8f972d3a [PATCH] SHM_NORESERVE flags for shmget()
Add SHM_NORESERVE functionality similar to MAP_NORESERVE for shared memory
segments.

This is mainly to avoid abuse of OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and this flag is ignored
for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
665a7583f3 [PATCH] Remove hlist_for_each_rcu() API, convert existing use to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
Remove the hlist_for_each_rcu() API, which is used only in one place, and
is trivially converted to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(), making the code
shorter and more readable.  Any out-of-tree uses may be similarly
converted.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Matt Helsley
9f46080c41 [PATCH] Process Events Connector
This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit
events for all processes to userspace.  It replaces the fork_advisor patch
that ELSA is currently using.  Applications that may find these events
useful include accounting/auditing (e.g.  ELSA), system activity monitoring
(e.g.  top), security, and resource management (e.g.  CKRM).

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Paul Mundt
055a251214 [PATCH] superhyway: multiple block support and VCR rework
This extends the API somewhat to allow for platform-specific VCR reading and
writing.  Some platforms (like SH4-202) implement the VCR in a split VCRL and
VCRH, but end up being in reverse order or have other quirks that need to be
dealt with, so we add a set of superhyway_ops per-bus to accomodate this.

We also have to extend the per-device resources somewhat, as some devices now
conveniently split control and data blocks.  So we allow a platform to
register its set of SuperHyway devices via superhyway_add_devices() with the
control block always ordered as the first resource (as this is the one that
userspace cares about).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:28 -08:00
Pekka J Enberg
2109a2d1b1 [PATCH] mm: rename kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache
This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0b154bb7d0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-11-06 16:59:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6adfd34e85 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodel 2005-11-06 16:58:38 -08:00
Russell King
2dd34b488a [PATCH] kbuild: permanently fix kernel configuration include mess
Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc command line
using -imacros.  This ensures that we have the kernel configuration
included from the start, rather than relying on each file having #include
<linux/config.h> as appropriate.  History has shown that this is something
which is difficult to get right.

Since we now include the kernel configuration automatically, make
configcheck becomes meaningless, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-11-06 10:22:04 +01:00
Pantelis Antoniou
21c614a789 [SERIAL] Support Au1x00 8250 UARTs using the generic 8250 driver.
The offsets of the registers are in a different place, and
some parts cannot handle a full set of modem control signals.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis@embeddedalley.ocm>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 09:07:03 +00:00
Russell King
37c12e7497 [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface
Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
parent device to be set.

Example usage:

	pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
	if (pdev) {
		err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
						    ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
		if (err == 0)
			err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
						       sizeof(platform_data));
		if (err == 0)
			err = platform_device_add(pdev);
	} else {
		err = -ENOMEM;
	}
	if (err)
		platform_device_put(pdev);

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-05 21:19:33 +00:00
Matt Porter
f896424cbc [PATCH] phy address mask support for generic phy layer
Adds a phy_mask field to struct mii_bus and uses it.  This field
indicates each phy address to be ignored when probing the mdio bus.

This support is needed for the fs_enet and ibm_emac drivers to be
converted to the generic phy layer among other drivers. Many systems
lock up on probing certain phy addresses or probing doesn't return
0xffff when nothing is found at the address. A new driver I'm
working on also makes use of this mask.

Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-05 14:40:55 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
6037d6bbdf [libata] ATAPI pad allocation fixes/cleanup
Use ata_pad_{alloc,free} in two drivers, to factor out common code.

Add ata_pad_{alloc,free} to two other drivers, which needed the padding
but had not been updated.
2005-11-04 22:08:00 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
c2cc87ca95 Merge branch 'master' 2005-11-04 21:39:31 -05:00
Calin A. Culianu
7015faa7df [PATCH] nvidiafb: Geforce 7800 series support added
This adds support for the Nvidia Geforce 7800 series of cards to the
nvidiafb framebuffer driver.  All it does is add the PCI device id for
the 7800, 7800 GTX, 7800 GO, and 7800 GTX GO cards to the module device
table for the nvidiafb.ko driver, so that nvidiafb.ko will actually work
on these cards.

I also added the relevant PCI device ids to linux/pci_ids.h

I tested it on my 7800 GTX here and it works like a charm.  I now can
get framebuffer support on this card! Woo hoo!! Nothing like 200x75 text
mode to make your eyes BLEED.  ;)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-04 18:01:34 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
d530838bfa NFSv4: Fix problem with OPEN_DOWNGRADE
RFC 3530 states that for OPEN_DOWNGRADE "The share_access and share_deny
 bits specified must be exactly equal to the union of the share_access and
 share_deny bits specified for some subset of the OPENs in effect for
 current openowner on the current file.

 Setattr is currently violating the NFSv4 rules for OPEN_DOWNGRADE in that
 it may cause a downgrade from OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_BOTH to
 OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE despite the fact that there exists no open file
 with O_WRONLY access mode.

 Fix the problem by replacing nfs4_find_state() with a modified version of
 nfs_find_open_context().

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-04 15:33:38 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
912cbe3c5b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-11-04 10:39:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0f3278d14f Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6 2005-11-03 16:25:58 -08:00
Nathan Scott
de69e5f44e [XFS] Add a mechanism for XFS to use the generic quota sync method.
This is now used to issue a delayed allocation flush before reporting
quota, which allows the used space quota report to match reality.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-03 13:53:34 +11:00
Nathan Scott
a2f8e178ad [XFS] Add the project quota type into the XFS quota header.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-03 13:51:23 +11:00
Nathan Scott
436d7d3060 [XFS] Update XFS quota header license to match the SGI boilerplate.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-03 13:50:05 +11:00
Stephen Hemminger
c2da8acaf4 [ETHERNET]: Add ether stuff to docbook
Fix up etherdevice docbook comments and make them (and other networking stuff)
get dragged into the kernel-api. Delete the old 8390 stuff, it really isn't
interesting anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-02 22:08:52 -02:00
Stephen Hemminger
2407534f8b [ETHERNET]: Optimize is_broadcast_ether_addr
Optimize the match for broadcast address by using bit operations instead
of comparison. This saves a number of conditional branches, and generates
smaller code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-02 21:54:07 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
ec1890c5df Merge git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2005-11-02 08:06:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f98e85691b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-11-01 21:33:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ec33b30910 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-11-01 21:32:46 -08:00
Jens Axboe
a362357b6c [BLOCK] Unify the seperate read/write io stat fields into arrays
Instead of having ->read_sectors and ->write_sectors, combine the two
into ->sectors[2] and similar for the other fields. This saves a branch
several places in the io path, since we don't have to care for what the
actual io direction is. On my x86-64 box, that's 200 bytes less text in
just the core (not counting the various drivers).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-01 09:26:16 +01:00
Harald Welte
6b7d31fcdd [NETFILTER]: Add "revision" support to arp_tables and ip6_tables
Like ip_tables already has it for some time, this adds support for
having multiple revisions for each match/target.  We steal one byte from
the name in order to accomodate a 8 bit version number.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-31 16:36:08 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
4fd5f8267d Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodel
Manual #include fixups for clashes - there may be some unnecessary
2005-10-31 07:32:56 -08:00
Russell King
913ade51ec [SERIAL] Fix port numbering
The PORT_* macros must be uniquely numbered.  This fixes the
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-31 13:53:26 +00:00
Paul Mackerras
23fd07750a Merge ../linux-2.6 by hand 2005-10-31 13:37:12 +11:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
451cbaa1c3 [PATCH] fat: cleanup and optimization of checksum
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.

In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch.  This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other.  So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it.  My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
621d31219d [PATCH] cleanup the usage of SEND_SIG_xxx constants
This patch simplifies some checks for magic siginfo values.  It should not
change the behaviour in any way.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:31 -08:00
Paul Jackson
4098f9918e [PATCH] sched: hardcode non-smp set_cpus_allowed
Simplify the UP (1 CPU) implementatin of set_cpus_allowed.

The one CPU is hardcoded to be cpu 0 - so just test for that bit, and avoid
having to pick up the cpu_online_map.

Also, unexport cpu_online_map: it was only needed for set_cpus_allowed().

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
a241ec65ae [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2).

This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an
intense torture test of the RCU infratructure.  This is needed due to the
continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks,
CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on.  Most of the code is in a separate file
that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set.  Documentation on how
to run the test and interpret the output is also included.

This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of
the PREEMPT_RT patchset.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Nikita Danilov
c0398ee6c2 [PATCH] include/linux/kernel.h:BUILD_BUG_ON(): fix a comment
Fix comment describing BUILD_BUG_ON: BUG_ON is not an assertion
(unfortunately).

Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:26 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
52303e8b5f [PATCH] modules: fix sparse warning for every MODULE_PARM
sparse complains about every MODULE_PARM used in a module: warning: symbol
'__parm_foo' was not declared.  Should it be static?

The fix is to split declaration and initialization.  While MODULE_PARM is
obsolete, it's not something sparse should report.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
6ea05db06f [PATCH] fuse: remove unused define
Setting ctime is implicit in all setattr cases, so the FATTR_CTIME
definition is unnecessary.

It is used by neither the kernel nor by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:24 -08:00
David Howells
29db919063 [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management [try #3]
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable
changes are:

 (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security
     modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which
     programs may access a key.

 (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key.

 (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules;
     the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out.

 (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather
     than a boolean value.

 (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of
     attributes (UID, GID, permissions).

Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation,
but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based
on the permission request bits.

Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both
CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled.

This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected:

	[PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
Paul Jackson
68860ec10b [PATCH] cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding
This patch automatically updates a tasks NUMA mempolicy when its cpuset
memory placement changes.  It does so within the context of the task,
without any need to support low level external mempolicy manipulation.

If a system is not using cpusets, or if running on a system with just the
root (all-encompassing) cpuset, then this remap is a no-op.  Only when a
task is moved between cpusets, or a cpusets memory placement is changed
does the following apply.  Otherwise, the main routine below,
rebind_policy() is not even called.

When mixing cpusets, scheduler affinity, and NUMA mempolicies, the
essential role of cpusets is to place jobs (several related tasks) on a set
of CPUs and Memory Nodes, the essential role of sched_setaffinity is to
manage a jobs processor placement within its allowed cpuset, and the
essential role of NUMA mempolicy (mbind, set_mempolicy) is to manage a jobs
memory placement within its allowed cpuset.

However, CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement are managed within the
kernel using absolute system wide numbering, not cpuset relative numbering.

This is ok until a job is migrated to a different cpuset, or what's the
same, a jobs cpuset is moved to different CPUs and Memory Nodes.

Then the CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement of the tasks in the job
need to be updated, to preserve their cpuset-relative position.  This can
be done for CPU affinity using sched_setaffinity() from user code, as one
task can modify anothers CPU affinity.  This cannot be done from an
external task for NUMA memory placement, as that can only be modified in
the context of the task using it.

However, it easy enough to remap a tasks NUMA mempolicy automatically when
a task is migrated, using the existing cpuset mechanism to trigger a
refresh of a tasks memory placement after its cpuset has changed.  All that
is needed is the old and new nodemask, and notice to the task that it needs
to rebind its mempolicy.  The tasks mems_allowed has the old mask, the
tasks cpuset has the new mask, and the existing
cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed() mechanism provides the notice.  The
bitmap/cpumask/nodemask remap operators provide the cpuset relative
calculations.

This patch leaves open a couple of issues:

 1) Updating vma and shmfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs memory policies:

    These mempolicies may reference nodes outside of those allowed to
    the current task by its cpuset.  Tasks are migrated as part of jobs,
    which reside on what might be several cpusets in a subtree.  When such
    a job is migrated, all NUMA memory policy references to nodes within
    that cpuset subtree should be translated, and references to any nodes
    outside that subtree should be left untouched.  A future patch will
    provide the cpuset mechanism needed to mark such subtrees.  With that
    patch, we will be able to correctly migrate these other memory policies
    across a job migration.

 2) Updating cpuset, affinity and memory policies in user space:

    This is harder.  Any placement state stored in user space using
    system-wide numbering will be invalidated across a migration.  More
    work will be required to provide user code with a migration-safe means
    to manage its cpuset relative placement, while preserving the current
    API's that pass system wide numbers, not cpuset relative numbers across
    the kernel-user boundary.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson
fb5eeeee44 [PATCH] cpusets: bitmap and mask remap operators
In the forthcoming task migration support, a key calculation will be
mapping cpu and node numbers from the old set to the new set while
preserving cpuset-relative offset.

For example, if a task and its pages on nodes 8-11 are being migrated to
nodes 24-27, then pages on node 9 (the 2nd node in the old set) should be
moved to node 25 (the 2nd node in the new set.)

As with other bitmap operations, the proper way to code this is to provide
the underlying calculation in lib/bitmap.c, and then to provide the usual
cpumask and nodemask wrappers.

This patch provides that.  These operations are termed 'remap' operations.
Both remapping a single bit and a set of bits is supported.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Paul Jackson
053199edf5 [PATCH] cpusets: dual semaphore locking overhaul
Overhaul cpuset locking.  Replace single semaphore with two semaphores.

The suggestion to use two locks was made by Roman Zippel.

Both locks are global.  Code that wants to modify cpusets must first
acquire the exclusive manage_sem, which allows them read-only access to
cpusets, and holds off other would-be modifiers.  Before making actual
changes, the second semaphore, callback_sem must be acquired as well.  Code
that needs only to query cpusets must acquire callback_sem, which is also a
global exclusive lock.

The earlier problems with double tripping are avoided, because it is
allowed for holders of manage_sem to nest the second callback_sem lock, and
only callback_sem is needed by code called from within __alloc_pages(),
where the double tripping had been possible.

This is not quite the same as a normal read/write semaphore, because
obtaining read-only access with intent to change must hold off other such
attempts, while allowing read-only access w/o such intention.  Changing
cpusets involves several related checks and changes, which must be done
while allowing read-only queries (to avoid the double trip), but while
ensuring nothing changes (holding off other would be modifiers.)

This overhaul of cpuset locking also makes careful use of task_lock() to
guard access to the task->cpuset pointer, closing a couple of race
conditions noticed while reading this code (thanks, Roman).  I've never
seen these races fail in any use or test.

See further the comments in the code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Andrew Morton
15d2bace5e [PATCH] add_timer() of a pending timer is illegal
In the recent timer rework we lost the check for an add_timer() of an
already-pending timer.  That check was useful for networking, so put it back.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
dfb7dac3af [PATCH] unify sys_ptrace prototype
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should.  Also move the common
prototype to <linux/syscalls.h>

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
19a4fcb531 [PATCH] kill sigqueue->lock
This lock is used in sigqueue_free(), but it is always equal to
current->sighand->siglock, so we don't need to keep it in the struct
sigqueue.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:19 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
2f51201662 [PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead
in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead,
file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object.

The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u

The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list
becomes f_u.f_list

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:19 -08:00