Currently there is a circular reference between work queue initialization
and kthread initialization. This prevents the kthread infrastructure from
initializing until after work queues have been initialized.
We want the properties of tasks created with kthread_create to be as close
as possible to the init_task and to not be contaminated by user processes.
The later we start our kthreadd that creates these tasks the harder it is
to avoid contamination from user processes and the more of a mess we have
to clean up because the defaults have changed on us.
So this patch modifies the kthread support to not use work queues but to
instead use a simple list of structures, and to have kthreadd start from
init_task immediately after our kernel thread that execs /sbin/init.
By being a true child of init_task we only have to change those process
settings that we want to have different from init_task, such as our process
name, the cpus that are allowed, blocking all signals and setting SIGCHLD
to SIG_IGN so that all of our children are reaped automatically.
By being a true child of init_task we also naturally get our ppid set to 0
and do not wind up as a child of PID == 1. Ensuring that tasks generated
by kthread_create will not slow down the functioning of the wait family of
functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use interruptible sleeps]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
enhance the initcall_debug boot option:
- measure the time the initcall took to execute and report
it in units of milliseconds.
- show the return code of initcalls (useful to see failures and
to make sure that an initcall hung)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The nr_cpu_ids value is currently only calculated in smp_init. However, it
may be needed before (SLUB needs it on kmem_cache_init!) and other kernel
components may also want to allocate dynamically sized per cpu array before
smp_init. So move the determination of possible cpus into sched_init()
where we already loop over all possible cpus early in boot.
Also initialize both nr_node_ids and nr_cpu_ids with the highest value they
could take. If we have accidental users before these values are determined
then the current valud of 0 may cause too small per cpu and per node arrays
to be allocated. If it is set to the maximum possible then we only waste
some memory for early boot users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits)
kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault
kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir
kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found
kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death
kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message.
kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
usr/Kconfig: fix typo
kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'
kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file
kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.
kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries
kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es
kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text
kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c
kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE
kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man
kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper
kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config'
kbuild: override build timestamp & version
...
In init/main.c we have a reference from rest_init() to .init.text
which is intentional.
Rename the function 'init' to 'kernel_init' to make it a
kernel wide unique symbol and whitelist the reference.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).
Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We frequently need the maximum number of possible processors in order to
allocate arrays for all processors. So far this was done using
highest_possible_processor_id(). However, we do need the number of
processors not the highest id. Moreover the number was so far dynamically
calculated on each invokation. The number of possible processors does not
change when the system is running. We can therefore calculate that number
once.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
powerpc gets:
init/main.c: In function `do_basic_setup':
init/main.c:714: warning: implicit declaration of function `init_irq_proc'
but we cannot include linux/irq.h in generic code.
Fix it by moving the declaration into linux/interrupt.h instead.
And make sure all code that defines init_irq_proc() is including
linux/interrupt.h.
And nuke an ifdef-in-C
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.
For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.
The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(
We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o init() is a non __init function in .text section but it calls many
functions which are in .init.text section. Hence MODPOST generates lots
of cross reference warnings on i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:smp_prepare_cpus from .text between 'init' (at offset 0xc0101049) and 'rest_init'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:migration_init from .text between 'init' (at offset 0xc010104e) and 'rest_init'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:spawn_ksoftirqd from .text between 'init' (at offset 0xc0101053) and 'rest_init'
o This patch breaks down init() in two parts. One part which can go
in .init.text section and can be freed and other part which has to
be non __init(init_post()). Now init() calls init_post() and init_post()
does not call any functions present in .init sections. Hence getting
rid of warnings.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Current implementation stores a static command-line buffer allocated to
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE size. Most architectures stores two copies of this buffer,
one for future reference and one for parameter parsing.
Current kernel command-line size for most architecture is much too small for
module parameters, video settings, initramfs paramters and much more. The
problem is that setting COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to a grater value, allocates static
buffers.
In order to allow a greater command-line size, these buffers should be
dynamically allocated or marked as init disposable buffers, so unused memory
can be released.
This patch renames the static saved_command_line variable into
boot_command_line adding __initdata attribute, so that it can be disposed
after initialization. This rename is required so applications that use
saved_command_line will not be affected by this change.
It reintroduces saved_command_line as dynamically allocated buffer to match
the data in boot_command_line.
It also mark secondary command-line buffer as __initdata, and copies it to
dynamically allocated static_command_line buffer components may hold reference
to it after initialization.
This patch is for linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and is divided to target each
architecture. I could not check this in any architecture so please forgive me
if I got it wrong.
The per-architecture modification is very simple, use boot_command_line in
place of saved_command_line. The common code is the change into dynamic
command-line.
This patch:
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line, mark as init
disposable.
2. Add dynamic allocated saved_command_line.
3. Add dynamic allocated static_command_line.
4. During startup copy: boot_command_line into saved_command_line. arch
command_line into static_command_line.
5. Parse static_command_line and not arch command_line, so arch
command_line may be freed.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o Some functions which should have been in init sections as they are called
only once. Put them in init sections. Otherwise MODPOST generates warning
as these functions are placed in .text and they end up accessing something
in init sections.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:migration_init
from .text between 'do_pre_smp_initcalls' (at offset 0xc01000d1) and
'run_init_process'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable
interrupts again way too early.
Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC when they initialize
the IRQ controllers (which happens later in the code). This patch detects
that irq's are enabled again, barfs about it and disables them again as a
safety net.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Ard van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a prototype for driver_init() in include/linux/device.h.
Also remove a static function of the same name in drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c to
ibm_acpi_driver_init() to fix the namespace collision.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should not initialize rootfs before all the core initializers have
run. So do it as a separate stage just before starting the regular
driver initializers.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As reported by Andy Whitcroft, at least the SLES9 initrd build process
depends on getting the kernel version from the kernel binary. It does
that by simply trawling the binary and looking for the signature of the
"linux_banner" string (the string "Linux version " to be exact. Which
is really broken in itself, but whatever..)
That got broken when the string was changed to allow /proc/version to
change the UTS release information dynamically, and "get_kernel_version"
thus returned "%s" (see commit a2ee8649ba:
"[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information").
This just restores "linux_banner" as a static string, which should fix
the version finding. And /proc/version simply uses a different string.
To avoid wasting even that miniscule amount of memory, the early boot
string should really be marked __initdata, but that just causes the same
bug in SLES9 to re-appear, since it will then find other occurrences of
"Linux version " first.
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a per pid_namespace child-reaper. This is needed so processes are reaped
within the same pid space and do not spill over to the parent pid space. Its
also needed so containers preserve existing semantic that pid == 1 would reap
orphaned children.
This is based on Eric Biederman's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/285
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Sam Ravnborg
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Eric W. Biederman
Ingo Molnar
Adrian Bunk
Christoph Lameter
Linus Torvalds
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Christoph Lameter
Andrew Morton
Thomas Gleixner
Vivek Goyal
Alon Bar-Lev
Robert P. J. Day
Roman Zippel
Ard van Breemen
Linus Torvalds