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Stephen Hemminger
8d16b76421 [PATCH] hrtimer: export symbols
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

I want to use the hrtimer's in the netem (Network Emulator) qdisc.  But the
necessary symbols aren't exported for module use.

Also needed by SystemTap.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-31 16:27:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f1adad78dd Revert "[PATCH] sched: fix interactive task starvation"
This reverts commit 5ce74abe78 (and its
dependent commit 8a5bc075b8), because of
audio underruns.

Reported by Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>, who also pinpointed
the exact cause of the underruns:

  "Audio underruns galore, with only ogg123 and firefox (browsing the
   GIT tree online is also a nice trigger by the way).

   If I back it out, everything is fine for me again."

Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 18:54:09 -07:00
Zachary Amsden
0662b71322 [PATCH] Fix a NO_IDLE_HZ timer bug
Under certain timing conditions, a race during boot occurs where timer
ticks are being processed on remote CPUs.  The remote timer ticks can
increment jiffies, and if this happens during a window when a timeout is
very close to expiring but a local tick has not yet been delivered, you can
end up with

1) No softirq pending
2) A local timer wheel which is not synced to jiffies
3) No high resolution timer active
4) A local timer which is supposed to fire before the current jiffies value.

In this circumstance, the comparison in next_timer_interrupt overflows,
because the base of the comparison for high resolution timers is jiffies,
but for the softirq timer wheel, it is relative the the current base of the
wheel (jiffies_base).

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Paul Jackson
92d1dbd274 [PATCH] cpuset: might_sleep_if check in cpuset_zones_allowed
It's too easy to incorrectly call cpuset_zone_allowed() in an atomic
context without __GFP_HARDWALL set, and when done, it is not noticed until
a tight memory situation forces allocations to be tried outside the current
cpuset.

Add a 'might_sleep_if()' check, to catch this earlier on, instead of
waiting for a similar check in the mutex_lock() code, which is only rarely
invoked.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:18 -07:00
Paul Jackson
36be57ffe3 [PATCH] cpuset: update cpuset_zones_allowed comment
Update the kernel/cpuset.c:cpuset_zone_allowed() comment.

The rule for when mm/page_alloc.c should call cpuset_zone_allowed()
was intended to be:

  Don't call cpuset_zone_allowed() if you can't sleep, unless you
  pass in the __GFP_HARDWALL flag set in gfp_flag, which disables
  the code that might scan up ancestor cpusets and sleep.

The explanation of this rule in the comment above cpuset_zone_allowed() was
stale, as a result of a restructuring of some __alloc_pages() code in
November 2005.

Rewrite that comment ...

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:18 -07:00
David Woodhouse
18594822fc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-16 01:19:52 +01:00
Trent Piepho
5e37661389 [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel
Even since a previous patch:

Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000)
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe

The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel.

symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call
two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try
to acquire the same lock.  This deadlocks the kernel of course.

This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it
doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly.  Also, it
now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address().  The latter has
an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that
since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address
uses) ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
986733e01d [PATCH] RCU: introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface
With "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>

Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface.  This can be used to tell if there
will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer.
This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu
would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called
on a different cpu.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f358166a94 ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs
Eric Biederman points out that we can't take the task_lock while holding
tasklist_lock for writing, because another CPU that holds the task lock
might take an interrupt that then tries to take tasklist_lock for writing.

Which would be a nasty deadlock, with one CPU spinning forever in an
interrupt handler (although admittedly you need to really work at
triggering it ;)

Since the ptrace_attach() code is special and very unusual, just make it
be extra careful, and use trylock+repeat to avoid the possible deadlock.

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-11 11:08:49 -07:00
David Woodhouse
6f18a022fb Finally remove the obnoxious inter_module_xxx()
This was already a bad plan when I argued against adding it in the first
place. Good riddance.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-08 22:40:05 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f5b40e363a Fix ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme()/de_thread() race
This holds the task lock (and, for ptrace_attach, the tasklist_lock)
over the actual attach event, which closes a race between attacking to a
thread that is either doing a PTRACE_TRACEME or getting de-threaded.

Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for reminding me about this, and Chris Wright
for noticing a lost return value in my first version.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-07 10:49:33 -07:00
Steve Grubb
2ad312d209 [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance
While testing the watch performance, I noticed that selinux_task_ctxid()
was creeping into the results more than it should. Investigation showed
that the function call was being called whether it was needed or not. The
below patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:10:07 -04:00
Steve Grubb
073115d6b2 [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing
1) The audit_ipc_perms() function has been split into two different
functions:
        - audit_ipc_obj()
        - audit_ipc_set_perm()

There's a key shift here...  The audit_ipc_obj() collects the uid, gid,
mode, and SElinux context label of the current ipc object.  This
audit_ipc_obj() hook is now found in several places.  Most notably, it
is hooked in ipcperms(), which is called in various places around the
ipc code permforming a MAC check.  Additionally there are several places
where *checkid() is used to validate that an operation is being
performed on a valid object while not necessarily having a nearby
ipcperms() call.  In these locations, audit_ipc_obj() is called to
ensure that the information is captured by the audit system.

The audit_set_new_perm() function is called any time the permissions on
the ipc object changes.  In this case, the NEW permissions are recorded
(and note that an audit_ipc_obj() call exists just a few lines before
each instance).

2) Support for an AUDIT_IPC_SET_PERM audit message type.  This allows
for separate auxiliary audit records for normal operations on an IPC
object and permissions changes.  Note that the same struct
audit_aux_data_ipcctl is used and populated, however there are separate
audit_log_format statements based on the type of the message.  Finally,
the AUDIT_IPC block of code in audit_free_aux() was extended to handle
aux messages of this new type.  No more mem leaks I hope ;-)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:10:04 -04:00
Steve Grubb
ce29b682e2 [PATCH] More user space subject labels
Hi,

The patch below builds upon the patch sent earlier and adds subject label to
all audit events generated via the netlink interface. It also cleans up a few
other minor things.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:10:01 -04:00
Steve Grubb
e7c3497013 [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages
The below patch should be applied after the inode and ipc sid patches.
This patch is a reworking of Tim's patch that has been updated to match
the inode and ipc patches since its similar.

[updated:
>  Stephen Smalley also wanted to change a variable from isec to tsec in the
>  user sid patch.                                                              ]

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:09:58 -04:00
Steve Grubb
9c7aa6aa74 [PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing
Hi,

The patch below converts IPC auditing to collect sid's and convert to context
string only if it needs to output an audit record. This patch depends on the
inode audit change patch already being applied.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:09:56 -04:00
Steve Grubb
1b50eed9ca [PATCH] audit inode patch
Previously, we were gathering the context instead of the sid. Now in this patch,
we gather just the sid and convert to context only if an audit event is being
output.

This patch brings the performance hit from 146% down to 23%

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:09:53 -04:00
Darrel Goeddel
3dc7e3153e [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2
This patch provides the ability to filter audit messages based on the
elements of the process' SELinux context (user, role, type, mls sensitivity,
and mls clearance).  It uses the new interfaces from selinux to opaquely
store information related to the selinux context and to filter based on that
information.  It also uses the callback mechanism provided by selinux to
refresh the information when a new policy is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:09:36 -04:00
Al Viro
97e94c4530 [PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:06:21 -04:00
Al Viro
5411be59db [PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit}
... it's always current, and that's a good thing - allows simpler locking.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:06:18 -04:00
Al Viro
e495149b17 [PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit()
now we can do that - all callers are process-synchronous and do not hold
any locks.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:06:16 -04:00
Al Viro
fa84cb935d [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:06:13 -04:00
Al Viro
45d9bb0e37 [PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
Don't assume that audit_log_exit() et.al. are called for the context of
current; pass task explictly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-01 06:06:07 -04:00
Andrew Morton
13e87ec686 [PATCH] request_irq(): remove warnings from irq probing
- Add new SA_PROBEIRQ which suppresses the new sharing-mismatch warning.
  Some drivers like to use request_irq() to find an unused interrupt slot.

- Use it in i82365.c

- Kill unused SA_PROBE.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00
dean gaudet
47bb789973 [PATCH] off-by-1 in kernel/power/main.c
There's an off-by-1 in kernel/power/main.c:state_store() ...  if your
kernel just happens to have some non-zero data at pm_states[PM_SUSPEND_MAX]
(i.e.  one past the end of the array) then it'll let you write anything you
want to /sys/power/state and in response the box will enter S5.

Signed-off-by: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28 08:33:46 -07:00