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Linus Torvalds 09f3eca2b7 Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc
* 'for-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix swapper_pg_dir size when CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y on FSL_BOOKE
2007-12-06 12:27:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e1b7361f32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6:
  [PARISC] lba_pci: pci_claim_resources disabled expansion roms
  [PARISC] print more than one character at a time for pdc console
  [PARISC] Update parisc-linux MAINTAINERS entries
  [PARISC] timer interrupt should not be IRQ_DISABLED
  Revert "[PARISC] import necessary bits of libgcc.a"
2007-12-06 12:26:17 -08:00
Kumar Gala bee86f14d5 [POWERPC] Fix swapper_pg_dir size when CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y on FSL_BOOKE
The size of swapper_pg_dir is 8k instead of 4k when using 64-bit PTEs
(CONFIG_PTE_64BIT).

This was reported by Cedric Hombourger <chombourger@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-12-06 13:11:04 -06:00
Kyle McMartin 721fdf3416 [PARISC] print more than one character at a time for pdc console
There's really no reason not to print more than one character at a
time to the PDC console... Booting is measurably speedier, and now I don't
have to watch individual characters get drawn.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2007-12-06 09:32:15 -08:00
Sergei Shtylyov 0e8120e094 [MIPS] Alchemy: fix IRQ bases
Do what the commits commits f3e8d1da38 and
9d360ab4a7 failed to achieve -- actually
convert the Alchemy code to irq_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-12-06 17:15:58 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 7e1fb765c6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL
  lockdep: in_range() fix
  lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks()
  sched: style cleanups
  futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
2007-12-05 09:27:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ad658cec23 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
  VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
  Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addr
  security: protect from stack expantion into low vm addresses
  Security: allow capable check to permit mmap or low vm space
  SELinux: detect dead booleans
  SELinux: do not clear f_op when removing entries
2007-12-05 09:26:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2a1292b36b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [LRO]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
  [TCP]: NAGLE_PUSH seems to be a wrong way around
  [TCP]: Move prior_in_flight collect to more robust place
  [TCP] FRTO: Use of existing funcs make code more obvious & robust
  [IRDA]: Move ircomm_tty_line_info() under #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
  [ROSE]: Trivial compilation CONFIG_INET=n case
  [IPVS]: Fix sched registration race when checking for name collision.
  [IPVS]: Don't leak sysctl tables if the scheduler registration fails.
2007-12-05 09:26:13 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 5a622f2d0f proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting
Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and "deleted" flag has problems (see below).
Switch to usual scheme:
* PDE is created with refcount 1
* every de_get does +1
* every de_put() and remove_proc_entry() do -1
* once refcount reaches 0, PDE is freed.

This elegantly fixes at least two following races (both observed) without
introducing new locks, without abusing old locks, without spreading
lock_kernel():

1) PDE leak

remove_proc_entry			de_put
-----------------			------
			[refcnt = 1]
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
					if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
						if (de->deleted)
							/* also not taken! */
							free_proc_entry(de);
else
	de->deleted = 1;
		[refcount=0, deleted=1]

2) use after free

remove_proc_entry			de_put
-----------------			------
			[refcnt = 1]

					if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
	free_proc_entry(de);
						/* boom! */
						if (de->deleted)
							free_proc_entry(de);

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b
printing eip: c10acdda *pdpt = 00000000338f8001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: af_packet ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand loop serio_raw psmouse k8temp hwmon sr_mod cdrom
Pid: 23161, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc2-8c0863403f109a43d7000b4646da4818220d501f #4)
EIP: 0060:[<c10acdda>] EFLAGS: 00210097 CPU: 1
EIP is at strnlen+0x6/0x18
EAX: 6b6b6b6b EBX: 6b6b6b6b ECX: 6b6b6b6b EDX: fffffffe
ESI: c128fa3b EDI: f380bf34 EBP: ffffffff ESP: f380be44
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 23161, ti=f380b000 task=f38f2570 task.ti=f380b000)
Stack: c10ac4f0 00000278 c12ce000 f43cd2a8 00000163 00000000 7da86067 00000400
       c128fa20 00896b18 f38325a8 c128fe20 ffffffff 00000000 c11f291e 00000400
       f75be300 c128fa20 f769c9a0 c10ac779 f380bf34 f7bfee70 c1018e6b f380bf34
Call Trace:
 [<c10ac4f0>] vsnprintf+0x2ad/0x49b
 [<c10ac779>] vscnprintf+0x14/0x1f
 [<c1018e6b>] vprintk+0xc5/0x2f9
 [<c10379f1>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xab
 [<c1004f44>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb7
 [<c117db3b>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x3f/0x5b
 [<c100264e>] need_resched+0x1f/0x21
 [<c10190ba>] printk+0x1b/0x1f
 [<c107c8ad>] de_put+0x3d/0x50
 [<c107c8f8>] proc_delete_inode+0x38/0x41
 [<c107c8c0>] proc_delete_inode+0x0/0x41
 [<c1066298>] generic_delete_inode+0x5e/0xc6
 [<c1065aa9>] iput+0x60/0x62
 [<c1063c8e>] d_kill+0x2d/0x46
 [<c1063fa9>] dput+0xdc/0xe4
 [<c10571a1>] __fput+0xb0/0xcd
 [<c1054e49>] filp_close+0x48/0x4f
 [<c1055ee9>] sys_close+0x67/0xa5
 [<c10026b6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
=======================
Code: c9 74 0c f2 ae 74 05 bf 01 00 00 00 4f 89 fa 5f 89 d0 c3 85 c9 57 89 c7 89 d0 74 05 f2 ae 75 01 4f 89 f8 5f c3 89 c1 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 c3 90 90 90 57 83 c9
EIP: [<c10acdda>] strnlen+0x6/0x18 SS:ESP 0068:f380be44

Also, remove broken usage of ->deleted from reiserfs: if sget() succeeds,
module is already pinned and remove_proc_entry() can't happen => nobody
can mark PDE deleted.

Dummy proc root in netns code is not marked with refcount 1. AFAICS, we
never get it, it's just for proper /proc/net removal. I double checked
CLONE_NETNS continues to work.

Patch survives many hours of modprobe/rmmod/cat loops without new bugs
which can be attributed to refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
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>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
Jan Kara d4beaf4ab5 jbd: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
Before we start committing a transaction, we call
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back
buffers.

If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some
buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction
because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some
assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :).

We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a
transaction in T_FINISHED state.  The locking there is subtle though (as
everywhere in JBD ;().  We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a
subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end
of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction
can get to T_FINISHED state.

Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary -
checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a
transaction must be already committed to be processed or from
__journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus
transaction cannot change state either.  Better be safe if something
changes in future...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
Bryan Wu 003d922618 Blackfin SPI driver: move hard coded pin_req to board file
Remove some sort of bloaty code, try to get these pin_req arrays built at compile-time

 - move this static things to the blackfin board file
 - add pin_req array to struct bfin5xx_spi_master
 - tested on BF537/BF548 with SPI flash

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
Bryan Wu 62310e51ac spi: spi_bfin: update handling of delay-after-deselect
Move cs_chg_udelay handling (specific to this driver) to cs_deactive(), fixing
a bug when some SPI LCD driver needs delay after cs_deactive.

Fix bug reported by Cameron Barfield <cbarfield@cyberdata.net>
https://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/forum/?action=ForumBrowse&forum_id=39&_forum_action=ForumMessageBrowse&thread_id=23630&feedback=Message%20replied.

Cc: Cameron Barfield <cbarfield@cyberdata.net>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
Michael Hennerich cc2f81a695 spi: bfin spi uses portmux calls
Use new Blackfin portmux interface, add error handling.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:19 -08:00
Bryan Wu 131b17d42d spi: initial BF54x SPI support
Initial BF54x SPI support

 - support BF54x SPI0
 - clean up some code (whitespace etc)
 - will support multiports in the future
 - start using portmux calls

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:19 -08:00
Steven Rostedt ce6bd420f4 futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
David Holmes found a bug in the -rt tree with respect to
pthread_cond_timedwait. After trying his test program on the latest git
from mainline, I found the bug was there too.  The bug he was seeing
that his test program showed, was that if one were to do a "Ctrl-Z" on a
process that was in the pthread_cond_timedwait, and then did a "bg" on
that process, it would return with a "-ETIMEDOUT" but early. That is,
the timer would go off early.

Looking into this, I found the source of the problem. And it is a rather
nasty bug at that.

Here's the relevant code from kernel/futex.c: (not in order in the file)

[...]
smlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
                          struct timespec __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2,
                          u32 val3)
{
        struct timespec ts;
        ktime_t t, *tp = NULL;
        u32 val2 = 0;
        int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;

        if (utime && (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_LOCK_PI)) {
                if (copy_from_user(&ts, utime, sizeof(ts)) != 0)
                        return -EFAULT;
                if (!timespec_valid(&ts))
                        return -EINVAL;

                t = timespec_to_ktime(ts);
                if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT)
                        t = ktime_add(ktime_get(), t);
                tp = &t;
        }
[...]
        return do_futex(uaddr, op, val, tp, uaddr2, val2, val3);
}

[...]

long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
                u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3)
{
        int ret;
        int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;
        struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;

        if (!(op & FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG))
                fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;

        switch (cmd) {
        case FUTEX_WAIT:
                ret = futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, timeout);

[...]

static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
                      u32 val, ktime_t *abs_time)
{
[...]
               struct restart_block *restart;
                restart = &current_thread_info()->restart_block;
                restart->fn = futex_wait_restart;
                restart->arg0 = (unsigned long)uaddr;
                restart->arg1 = (unsigned long)val;
                restart->arg2 = (unsigned long)abs_time;
                restart->arg3 = 0;
                if (fshared)
                        restart->arg3 |= ARG3_SHARED;
                return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
[...]

static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
{
        u32 __user *uaddr = (u32 __user *)restart->arg0;
        u32 val = (u32)restart->arg1;
        ktime_t *abs_time = (ktime_t *)restart->arg2;
        struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;

        restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
        if (restart->arg3 & ARG3_SHARED)
                fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;
        return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, abs_time);
}

So when the futex_wait is interrupt by a signal we break out of the
hrtimer code and set up or return from signal. This code does not return
back to userspace, so we set up a RESTARTBLOCK.  The bug here is that we
save the "abs_time" which is a pointer to the stack variable "ktime_t t"
from sys_futex.

This returns and unwinds the stack before we get to call our signal. On
return from the signal we go to futex_wait_restart, where we update all
the parameters for futex_wait and call it. But here we have a problem
where abs_time is no longer valid.

I verified this with print statements, and sure enough, what abs_time
was set to ends up being garbage when we get to futex_wait_restart.

The solution I did to solve this (with input from Linus Torvalds)
was to add unions to the restart_block to allow system calls to
use the restart with specific parameters.  This way the futex code now
saves the time in a 64bit value in the restart block instead of storing
it on the stack.

Note: I'm a bit nervious to add "linux/types.h" and use u32 and u64
in thread_info.h, when there's a #ifdef __KERNEL__ just below that.
Not sure what that is there for.  If this turns out to be a problem, I've
tested this with using "unsigned int" for u32 and "unsigned long long" for
u64 and it worked just the same. I'm using u32 and u64 just to be
consistent with what the futex code uses.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Andrew Gallatin 621544eb8c [LRO]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Add a field to the lro_mgr struct so that drivers can specify how much
padding is required to align layer 3 headers when a packet is copied
into a freshly allocated skb by inet_lro.c:lro_gen_skb().  Without
padding, skbs generated by LRO will cause alignment warnings on
architectures which require strict alignment (seen on sparc64).

Myri10GE is updated to use this field.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:32 -08:00
Eric Paris 7cd94146cd Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addr
If mmap_min_addr is set and a process attempts to mmap (not fixed) with a
non-null hint address less than mmap_min_addr the mapping will fail the
security checks.  Since this is just a hint address this patch will round
such a hint address above mmap_min_addr.

gcj was found to try to be very frugal with vm usage and give hint addresses
in the 8k-32k range.  Without this patch all such programs failed and with
the patch they happily get a higher address.

This patch is wrappad in CONFIG_SECURITY since mmap_min_addr doesn't exist
without it and there would be no security check possible no matter what.  So
we should not bother compiling in this rounding if it is just a waste of
time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-12-06 00:25:10 +11:00
Anton Vorontsov 6f4a7f4183 PHY: Add the phy_device_release device method.
Lately I've got this nice badness on mdio bus removal:

Device 'e0103120:06' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
------------[ cut here ]------------
Badness at drivers/base/core.c:107
NIP: c015c1a8 LR: c015c1a8 CTR: c0157488
REGS: c34bdcf0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.23-rc5-g9ebadfbb-dirty)
MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 24088422  XER: 00000000
...
[c34bdda0] [c015c1a8] device_release+0x78/0x80 (unreliable)
[c34bddb0] [c01354cc] kobject_cleanup+0x80/0xbc
[c34bddd0] [c01365f0] kref_put+0x54/0x6c
[c34bdde0] [c013543c] kobject_put+0x24/0x34
[c34bddf0] [c015c384] put_device+0x1c/0x2c
[c34bde00] [c0180e84] mdiobus_unregister+0x2c/0x58
...

Though actually there is nothing broken, it just device
subsystem core expects another "pattern" of resource managment.

This patch implement phy device's release function, thus
we're getting rid of this badness.

Also small hidden bug fixed, hope none other introduced. ;-)

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-04 15:06:33 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 1a2edea9af Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
  x86: fix x86-32 early fixmap initialization.
  x86: disable hpet legacy replacement for kdump
  x86: disable hpet on shutdown
2007-12-03 08:45:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f589b86d4b Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Remove xmon from ml300 and ml403 defconfig in arch/ppc
  Revert "[POWERPC] Fix RTAS os-term usage on kernel panic"
2007-12-03 08:23:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ca6435f188 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
2007-12-03 08:21:06 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi c86c7fbc82 x86: disable hpet on shutdown
If HPET was enabled by pci quirks, we use i8253 as initial clockevent
because pci quirks doesn't run until pci is initialized.

The above means the kernel (or something) is assuming HPET legacy
replacement is disabled and can use i8253 at boot.

If we used kexec, it isn't true. So, this patch disables HPET legacy
replacement for kexec in machine_shutdown().

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-03 17:17:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8002cedc1a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  [INET]: Fix inet_diag dead-lock regression
  [NETNS]: Fix /proc/net breakage
  [TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure
  [NETFILTER]: fix forgotten module release in xt_CONNMARK and xt_CONNSECMARK
  [NETFILTER]: xt_TCPMSS: remove network triggerable WARN_ON
  [DECNET]: dn_nl_deladdr() almost always returns no error
  [IPV6]: Restore IPv6 when MTU is big enough
  [RXRPC]: Add missing select on CRYPTO
  mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages
  rfkill: fix double-mutex-locking
  mac80211: drop unencrypted frames if encryption is expected
  mac80211: Fix behavior of ieee80211_open and ieee80211_close
  ieee80211: fix unaligned access in ieee80211_copy_snap
  mac80211: free ifsta->extra_ie and clear IEEE80211_STA_PRIVACY_INVOKED
  SCTP: Fix build issues with SCTP AUTH.
  SCTP: Fix chunk acceptance when no authenticated chunks were listed.
  SCTP: Fix the supported extensions paramter
  SCTP: Fix SCTP-AUTH to correctly add HMACS paramter.
  SCTP: Fix the number of HB transmissions.
  [TCP] illinois: Incorrect beta usage
  ...
2007-12-03 08:15:36 -08:00
Paul Mackerras 8f51506164 Revert "[POWERPC] Fix RTAS os-term usage on kernel panic"
This reverts commit a2b51812a4.

It turns out that this change caused some machines to fail to come
back up when being rebooted, and generated an error in the hypervisor
error log on some machines.  The platform architecture (PAPR) is a
little unclear on exactly when the RTAS ibm,os-term function should be
called.  Until that is clarified I'm reverting this commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-03 09:39:45 +11:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri d842de871c sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
Commit cfb5285660 removed a useful feature for
us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller.  This feature would be
useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt
really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption.

The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's
original patch (Commit 62d0df6406), with
these differences:

        - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp
	  to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for
	  2.6.25 after more discussions.
        - Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs
	  stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler
	  classes
	- Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage
	  counter to be per-cpu
	- Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the
	  code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly
	  needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing
	  rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in
	  kernel/sched.c)

The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting
information.

Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

 Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran
 some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in
 the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with
 cpuacct.usage.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-02 20:04:49 +01:00