The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented.
*Grumble*.
NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a
core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a
user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc
function of the /proc filesystem operates.
This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of
get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user().
We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the
buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses
in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for
kernel and user.
This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking
input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel
buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the
upcoming bandwidth allocator code.
Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A couple of HDIO IOCTLs are not yet handled and a few others are marked
as using a pointer rather than an unsigned long. The formers include:
HDIO_GET_WCACHE, HDIO_GET_ACOUSTIC, HDIO_GET_ADDRESS and
HDIO_GET_BUSSTATE. The latters are: HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT,
HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR, HDIO_SET_KEEPSETTINGS, HDIO_SET_32BIT,
HDIO_SET_NOWERR, HDIO_SET_DMA, HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE and HDIO_SET_NICE.
Additionally 0x330 used to be HDIO_GETGEO_BIG and may be issued by 32-bit
`hdparm' run on a 64-bit kernel making Linux complain loudly.
This is a fix for these issues.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A failure in invalidate_inode_pages2_range() can result in unpleasant things
happening in NFS (at least). Stick a WARN_ON_ONCE() in there so we can find
out if it happens, and maybe why.
(akpm: might be a -mm-only patch, we'll see..)
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This likely profiling is pretty fun. I found a few possible problems
in sched.c.
This patch may be not measurable, but when I did measure long ago,
nooping (un)likely cost a couple of % on scheduler heavy benchmarks, so
it all adds up.
Tweak some branch hints:
- the 2nd 64 bits in the bitmask is likely to be populated, because it
contains the first 28 bits (nearly 3/4) of the normal priorities.
(ratio of 669669:691 ~= 1000:1).
- it isn't unlikely that context switching switches to another process. it
might be very rapidly switching to and from the idle process (ratio of
475815:419004 and 471330:423544). Let the branch predictor decide.
- preempt_enable seems to be very often called in a nested preempt_disable
or with interrupts disabled (ratio of 3567760:87965 ~= 40:1)
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- handle sysfs error
- handle driver model errors
- de-obfuscate platform_device_register_simple() call, which included an
assignment in between two function calls, in the same C statement.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Current error behaviour for ext2 and ext3 filesystems does not fully
correspond to the documentation and should be fixed.
According to man 8 mount, ext2 and ext3 file systems allow to set one of 3
different on-errors behaviours:
---- start of quote man 8 mount ----
errors=continue / errors=remount-ro / errors=panic
Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. (Either ignore
errors and just mark the file system erroneous and continue, or remount
the file system read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is
set in the filesystem superblock, and can be changed using tune2fs(8).
---- end of quote ----
However EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock, and thus
ERRORS_CONT is not saved on the sbi->s_mount_opt. It leads to the incorrect
handle of errors on ext3.
Then we've checked corresponding code in ext2 and discovered that it is buggy
as well:
- EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock (the same);
- parse_option() does not clean the alternative values and thus something
like (ERRORS_CONT|ERRORS_RO) can be set;
- if options are omitted, parse_option() does not set any of these options.
Therefore it is possible to set any combination of these options on the ext2:
- none of them may be set: EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE on superblock / empty mount
options;
- any of them may be set using mount options;
- 2 any options may be set: by using EXT2_ERRORS_RO/EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the
superblock and other value in mount options;
- and finally all three options may be set by adding third option in remount.
Currently ext2 uses these values only in ext2_error() and it is not leading to
any noticeable troubles. However somebody may be discouraged when he will try
to workaround EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock by using errors=continue in
mount options.
This patch:
EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE should be read from the superblock as default value for
error behaviour. parse_option() should clean the alternative options and
should not change default value taken from the superblock.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Current error behaviour for ext2 and ext3 filesystems does not fully
correspond to the documentation and should be fixed.
According to man 8 mount, ext2 and ext3 file systems allow to set one of 3
different on-errors behaviours:
---- start of quote man 8 mount ----
errors=continue / errors=remount-ro / errors=panic
Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. (Either ignore
errors and just mark the file system erroneous and continue, or remount
the file system read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is
set in the filesystem superblock, and can be changed using tune2fs(8).
---- end of quote ----
However EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock, and thus
ERRORS_CONT is not saved on the sbi->s_mount_opt. It leads to the incorrect
handle of errors on ext3.
Then we've checked corresponding code in ext2 and discovered that it is buggy
as well:
- EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock (the same);
- parse_option() does not clean the alternative values and thus something
like (ERRORS_CONT|ERRORS_RO) can be set;
- if options are omitted, parse_option() does not set any of these options.
Therefore it is possible to set any combination of these options on the ext2:
- none of them may be set: EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE on superblock / empty mount
options;
- any of them may be set using mount options;
- 2 any options may be set: by using EXT2_ERRORS_RO/EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the
superblock and other value in mount options;
- and finally all three options may be set by adding third option in remount.
Currently ext2 uses these values only in ext2_error() and it is not leading to
any noticeable troubles. However somebody may be discouraged when he will try
to workaround EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock by using errors=continue in
mount options.
This patch:
EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE should be taken from the superblock as default value for
error behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Module taint flags listing in Oops/panic has a couple of issues:
* taint_flags() doesn't null-terminate the buffer after printing the flags
* per-module taints are only set if the kernel is not already tainted
(with that particular flag) => only the first offending module gets its
taint info correctly updated
Some additional changes:
* 'license_gplok' is no longer needed - equivalent to !(taints &
TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE) - so we can drop it from struct module *
exporting module taint info via /proc/module:
pwc 88576 0 - Live 0xf8c32000
evilmod 6784 1 pwc, Live 0xf8bbf000 (PF)
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some people find their Jmicron pata port reports its disabled even
though it has devices on it and was boot probed. Fix this
(Candidate for 2.6.18.*, less so for 2.6.19 as we've got a proper
jmicron driver on the merge for that to replace ide-generic support)
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If grow_buffers() is for some reason passed a block number which wants to lie
outside the maximum-addressable pagecache range (PAGE_SIZE * 4G bytes) then it
will accidentally truncate `index' and will then instnatiate a page at the
wrong pagecache offset. This causes __getblk_slow() to go into an infinite
loop.
This can happen with corrupted disks, or with software errors elsewhere.
Detect that, and handle it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a follow-up patch based on the review for perfmon2. This patch
adds the carta_random32() library routine + carta_random32.h header file.
This is fast, simple, and efficient pseudo number generator algorithm. We
use it in perfmon2 to randomize the sampling periods. In this context, we
do not need any fancy randomizer.
Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: David Mosberger <david.mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement the epoll_pwait system call, that extend the event wait mechanism
with the same logic ppoll and pselect do. The definition of epoll_pwait
is:
int epoll_pwait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents,
int timeout, const sigset_t *sigmask, size_t sigsetsize);
The difference between the vanilla epoll_wait and epoll_pwait is that the
latter allows the caller to specify a signal mask to be set while waiting
for events. Hence epoll_pwait will wait until either one monitored event,
or an unmasked signal happen. If sigmask is NULL, the epoll_pwait system
call will act exactly like epoll_wait. For the POSIX definition of
pselect, information is available here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In order to encourage people to notice when they break the exported
headers, add a config option which automatically runs the sanity checks
when building vmlinux. That way, those who use allyesconfig will notice
failures.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that various memory splits are enabled, add a config option allowing the
user to compile UML for its need - HOST_2G_2G allowed to choose either 3G/1G
or 2G/2G, and enabling it reduced the usable virtual memory.
Detecting this at run time should be implemented in the future, but we must
make the stop-gap measure work well enough (this is valid in _many_ cases).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Deprecate TT mode in Kconfig so that users won't select it, update the
MODE_SKAS description (it was largely obsolete and misleadin) and btw describe
advantages for high memory usage with CONFIG_STATIC_LINK.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The export is together with the definition, in arch/x86_64/lib/csum-partial.c,
which is compiled in by arch/um/sys-x86_64/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Enable compilation of x86_64 crypto code;, and add the needed constant to make
the code compile again (that macro was added to i386 asm-offsets between
2.6.17 and 2.6.18, in 6c2bb98bc3).
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Declare UML partial support for LOCKDEP - however IRQFLAGS tracing requires
some coding which nobody did yet, so we cannot run full lockdep on UML. Grep
for CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS on i386 code to find their implementation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On a 64bit Uml, if run under "setarch i386" (which a user did), uname()
currently returns the obtained i686 as machine - fix that. Btw, I'm quite
surprised that under setarch i386 a 64-bit binary can run.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Makes UML compile on any possible processor choice. The two problems were:
*) x86 code, when 386 is selected, checks at runtime boot_cpuflags, which we do
not have.
*) 3Dnow support for memcpy() et al. does not compile currently and fixing this
is not trivial, so simply disable it; with this change, if one selects MK7
UML compiles (while it did not).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If enable is moved by GCC in a register its value may not be preserved after
coming back there with longjmp(). So, mark it as volatile to prevent this;
this is suggested (it seems) in info gcc, when it talks about -Wuninitialized.
I re-read this and it seems to say something different, but I still believe
this may be needed.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make TT mode compile after the introduction of klibc's implementation of
setjmp.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthias Urlichs
Reinette Chatre
Maciej W. Rozycki
Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin
Vasily Averin
Dmitry Mishin
Florin Malita
Alan Cox
Stephane Eranian
Davide Libenzi
David Woodhouse
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso