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* Merge branch 'core/softlockup' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-071-1/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
| * Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar2009-04-071-13/+17
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| * | softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.cIngo Molnar2009-02-121-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP=y || CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASKS=y is now the only user of the 'one' constant in kernel/sysctl.c. Move it to the softlockup block of constants. This fixes a GCC warning. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar2009-02-121-4/+14
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| * | | softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detectionMandeep Singh Baines2009-01-161-1/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Decoupling allows: * hung tasks check to happen at very low priority * hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog) * hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threadsPeter W Morreale2009-04-071-0/+23
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush on both large and small machines. The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices. Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the kernel. The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000. Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly] Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | kernel/sysctl.c: avoid annoying warningsLinus Torvalds2009-04-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the limit constants are used only depending on some complex configuration dependencies, yet it's not worth making the simple variables depend on those configuration details. Just mark them as perhaps not being unused, and avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Make the slow work pool configurableDavid Howells2009-04-031-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the slow work pool configurable through /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work. (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/min-threads The minimum number of threads that should be in the pool as long as it is in use. This may be anywhere between 2 and max-threads. (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/max-threads The maximum number of threads that should in the pool. This may be anywhere between min-threads and 255 or NR_CPUS * 2, whichever is greater. (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/vslow-percentage The percentage of active threads in the pool that may be used to execute very slow work items. This may be between 1 and 99. The resultant number is bounded to between 1 and one fewer than the number of active threads. This ensures there is always at least one thread that can process very slow work items, and always at least one thread that won't. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
* | | sysctl: fix suid_dumpable and lease-break-time sysctlsMatthew Wilcox2009-04-021-9/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arne de Bruijn points out that commit 76fdbb25f963de5dc1e308325f0578a2f92b1c2d ("coredump masking: bound suid_dumpable sysctl") mistakenly limits lease-break-time instead of suid_dumpable. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Reported-by: Arne de Bruijn <kernelbt@arbruijn.dds.nl> Cc: Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"Alexey Dobriyan2009-04-011-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838 On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange way from the user's point of view: # echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs # cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 499 So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported back. TICK_NSEC = 999848 ACTHZ = 256039 Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit archesSven Wegener2009-02-111-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: 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 'core/debugobjects' into core/urgentThomas Gleixner2009-01-221-2/+11
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| * [IA64] dump stack on kernel unaligned warningsDoug Chapman2009-01-151-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Often the cause of kernel unaligned access warnings is not obvious from just the ip displayed in the warning. This adds the option via proc to dump the stack in addition to the warning. The default is off (just display the 1 line warning). To enable the stack to be shown: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-dump-stack Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27Heiko Carstens2009-01-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reducedMandeep Singh Baines2009-01-141-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value, touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh. This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic is enabled, the system will panic. The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.Paul Mundt2009-01-081-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to the nearest power-of-2 number of pages. Currently it then discards the excess pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other things. This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation. To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming behaviour. The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular watermark in order to have finer-grained control. vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
* mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctlsDavid Rientjes2009-01-061-5/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm: dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes. dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio. With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of dirtyable memory over the entire system. dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system. If either of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback. When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a function of the written value. For example, if dirty_bytes is written to be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback. dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of dirtyable memory: dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory AND dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be specified. When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read. The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units. Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user written value between 0 and 100. This restriction is maintained, but dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page. Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or exceed dirty_ratio. This restriction is maintained in addition to restricting dirty_background_bytes. If either background threshold equals or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the dirty threshold. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-12-281-1/+21
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| * Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-12-281-0/+20
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
| | * trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracerSteven Rostedt2008-12-181-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: enhancement to stack tracer The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on. (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses) This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace' has been added to enable it on bootup. A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2008-12-041-0/+10
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| | * | ftrace: sysctl typoPeter Zijlstra2008-11-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix sysctl name typo Steve must have needed more coffee ;-) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar2008-10-311-1/+1
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| | * | | ftrace: ftrace dump on oops controlSteven Rostedt2008-10-271-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add (default-off) dump-trace-on-oops flag Currently, ftrace is set up to dump its contents to the console if the kernel panics or oops. This can be annoying if you have trace data in the buffers and you experience an oops, but the trace data is old or static. Usually when you want ftrace to dump its contents is when you are debugging your system and you have set up ftrace to trace the events leading to an oops. This patch adds a control variable called "ftrace_dump_on_oops" that will enable the ftrace dump to console on oops. This variable is default off but a developer can enable it either through the kernel command line by adding "ftrace_dump_on_oops" or at run time by setting (or disabling) /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops. v2: Replaced /** with /* as Randy explained that kernel-doc does not yet handle variables. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2008-12-041-0/+10
| |\ \ \ \ | | | |_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g. nfs4_save_creds(). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| * | | | CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernelDavid Howells2008-11-141-1/+1
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | | sparc64: Add tsb-ratio sysctl.David S. Miller2008-12-041-0/+14
| |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a sysctl to tweak the RSS limit used to decide when to grow the TSB for an address space. In order to avoid expensive divides and multiplies only simply positive and negative powers of two are supported. The function computed takes the number of TSB translations that will fit at one time in the TSB of a given size, and either adds or subtracts a percentage of entries. This final value is the RSS limit. See tsb_size_to_rss_limit(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | epoll: introduce resource usage limitsDavide Libenzi2008-12-011-0/+10
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgentIngo Molnar2008-10-271-0/+10
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| * Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-231-0/+10
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: disable the hrtick for now sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks sched: optimize group load balancer sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup sched: kill unused scheduler decl. sched: fix the wrong mask_len sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
| | * sched: optimize group load balancerPeter Zijlstra2008-10-201-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus in the sched_domain. This hurts. We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value. This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance in semi-stable situations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgentIngo Molnar2008-10-221-1/+1
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| * | ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACERSteven Rostedt2008-10-201-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctlLee Schermerhorn2008-10-201-0/+10
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them. Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual nodes' zones. Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of these pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Configure out AIO supportThomas Petazzoni2008-10-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data: text data bss dec hex filename 1115067 119180 217088 1451335 162547 vmlinux 1108025 119048 217088 1444161 160941 vmlinux.new -7042 -132 0 -7174 -1C06 +/- This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysctl: simplify ->strategyAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-161-16/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array may be needed (name). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ] Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Make the taint flags reliableAndi Kleen2008-10-161-39/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion. Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit operations on it. Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it anymore. It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit (since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.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>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds2008-10-141-1/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (59 commits) svcrdma: Fix IRD/ORD polarity svcrdma: Update svc_rdma_send_error to use DMA LKEY svcrdma: Modify the RPC reply path to use FRMR when available svcrdma: Modify the RPC recv path to use FRMR when available svcrdma: Add support to svc_rdma_send to handle chained WR svcrdma: Modify post recv path to use local dma key svcrdma: Add a service to register a Fast Reg MR with the device svcrdma: Query device for Fast Reg support during connection setup svcrdma: Add FRMR get/put services NLM: Remove unused argument from svc_addsock() function NLM: Remove "proto" argument from lockd_up() NLM: Always start both UDP and TCP listeners lockd: Remove unused fields in the nlm_reboot structure lockd: Add helper to sanity check incoming NOTIFY requests lockd: change nlmclnt_grant() to take a "struct sockaddr *" lockd: Adjust nlmsvc_lookup_host() to accomodate AF_INET6 addresses lockd: Adjust nlmclnt_lookup_host() signature to accomodate non-AF_INET lockd: Support non-AF_INET addresses in nlm_lookup_host() NLM: Convert nlm_lookup_host() to use a single argument svcrdma: Add Fast Reg MR Data Types ...
| * Configure out file locking featuresThomas Petazzoni2008-09-291-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock() system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl() and NFS support are disabled. These features are not necessarly needed on embedded systems. It allows to save ~11 Kb of kernel code and data: text data bss dec hex filename 1125436 118764 212992 1457192 163c28 vmlinux.old 1114299 118564 212992 1445855 160fdf vmlinux -11137 -200 0 -11337 -2C49 +/- This patch has originally been written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: matthew@wil.cx Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mpm@selenic.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* | Merge branch 'proc' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-131-11/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc * 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: proc: remove kernel.maps_protect proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock() proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig proc: make grab_header() static proc: remove unused get_dma_list() proc: remove dummy vmcore_open() proc: proc_sys_root tweak proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
| * | proc: remove kernel.maps_protectAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-101-11/+0
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka "restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace" sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-09-161-0/+1
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
| * forgotten refcount on sysctl root tableAl Viro2008-09-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll blow up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl tables. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | sysctl: Use header file for sysctl knob declarations on sparc.David S. Miller2008-09-111-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This also takes care of a sparse warning as scons_pwroff's definition point. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | sysctl: Use CONFIG_SPARC instead of __sparc__ for ifdef tests.David S. Miller2008-09-111-2/+2
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* lost sysctl fixAl Viro2008-07-271-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototypeAl Viro2008-07-261-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask. * kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission() * sanitize ecryptfs_permission() * fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new MAY_... found in mask. The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9) folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctlAl Viro2008-07-261-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes * grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to entry if that succeeds * have ->d_compare() check if table should be seen for one who does lookup; that allows us to avoid flipping inodes - if we have the same name resolve to different things, we'll just keep several dentries and ->d_compare() will reject the wrong ones. * have ->lookup() and ->readdir() scan the table of our inode first, then walk all ctl_table_header and scan ->attached_by for those that are attached to our directory. * implement ->getattr(). * get rid of insane amounts of tree-walking * get rid of the need to know dentry in ->permission() and of the contortions induced by that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] sysctl: keep track of tree relationshipsAl Viro2008-07-261-0/+63
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a sense, that's the heart of the series. It's based on the following property of the trees we are actually asked to add: they can be split into stem that is already covered by registered trees and crown that is entirely new. IOW, if a/b and a/c/d are introduced by our tree, then a/c is also introduced by it. That allows to associate tree and table entry with each node in the union; while directory nodes might be covered by many trees, only one will cover the node by its crown. And that will allow much saner logics for /proc/sys in the next patches. This patch introduces the data structures needed to keep track of that. When adding a sysctl table, we find a "parent" one. Which is to say, find the deepest node on its stem that already is present in one of the tables from our table set or its ancestor sets. That table will be our parent and that node in it - attachment point. Add our table to list anchored in parent, have it refer the parent and contents of attachment point. Also remember where its crown lives. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] allow delayed freeing of ctl_table_headerAl Viro2008-07-261-1/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refcount the sucker; instead of freeing it by the end of unregistration just drop the refcount and free only when it hits zero. Make sure that we _always_ make ->unregistering non-NULL in start_unregistering(). That allows anybody to get a reference to such puppy, preventing its freeing and reuse. It does *not* block unregistration. Anybody who holds such a reference can * try to grab a "use" reference (ctl_head_grab()); that will succeeds if and only if it hadn't entered unregistration yet. If it succeeds, we can use it in all normal ways until we release the "use" reference (with ctl_head_finish()). Note that this relies on having ->unregistering become non-NULL in all cases when one starts to unregister the sucker. * keep pointers to ctl_table entries; they *can* be freed if the entire thing is unregistered. However, if ctl_head_grab() succeeds, we know that unregistration had not happened (and will not happen until ctl_head_finish()) and such pointers can be used safely. IOW, now we can have inodes under /proc/sys keep references to ctl_table entries, protecting them with references to ctl_table_header and grabbing the latter for the duration of operations that require access to ctl_table. That won't cause deadlocks, since unregistration will not be stopped by mere keeping a reference to ctl_table_header. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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