The only actual current lockref user (dcache) uses zero reference counts
even for perfectly live dentries, because it's a cache: there may not be
any users, but that doesn't mean that we want to throw away the dentry.
At the same time, the dentry cache does have a notion of a truly "dead"
dentry that we must not even increment the reference count of, because
we have pruned it and it is not valid.
Currently that distinction is not visible in the lockref itself, and the
dentry cache validation uses "lockref_get_or_lock()" to either get a new
reference to a dentry that already had existing references (and thus
cannot be dead), or get the dentry lock so that we can then verify the
dentry and increment the reference count under the lock if that
verification was successful.
That's all somewhat complicated.
This adds the concept of being "dead" to the lockref itself, by simply
using a count that is negative. This allows a usage scenario where we
can increment the refcount of a dentry without having to validate it,
and pushing the special "we killed it" case into the lockref code.
The dentry code itself doesn't actually use this yet, and it's probably
too late in the merge window to do that code (the dentry_kill() code
with its "should I decrement the count" logic really is pretty complex
code), but let's introduce the concept at the lockref level now.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The code got rewritten, but the comments got copied as-is from older
versions, and as a result the argument name in the comment didn't
actually match the code any more.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug
fixes.
The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions. nsown_capable
is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be
considered. A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally
tracked and fixed. A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace
infrastructure.
Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace
capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows
the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy
capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD
userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on.
pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup
sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt between namespaces
kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code.
proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem
vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 3.12:
- Added MODULE_SOFTDEP to allow pre-loading of modules.
- Reinstated crct10dif driver using the module softdep feature.
- Allow via rng driver to be auto-loaded.
- Split large input data when necessary in nx.
- Handle zero length messages correctly for GCM/XCBC in nx.
- Handle SHA-2 chunks bigger than block size properly in nx.
- Handle unaligned lengths in omap-aes.
- Added SHA384/SHA512 to omap-sham.
- Added OMAP5/AM43XX SHAM support.
- Added OMAP4 TRNG support.
- Misc fixes"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (66 commits)
Reinstate "crypto: crct10dif - Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use crypto transform framework"
hwrng: via - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
crypto: fcrypt - Fix bitoperation for compilation with clang
crypto: nx - fix SHA-2 for chunks bigger than block size
crypto: nx - fix GCM for zero length messages
crypto: nx - fix XCBC for zero length messages
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CCM
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-XCBC
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-GCM
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CTR
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CBC
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-ECB
crypto: nx - add offset to nx_build_sg_lists()
padata - Register hotcpu notifier after initialization
padata - share code between CPU_ONLINE and CPU_DOWN_FAILED, same to CPU_DOWN_PREPARE and CPU_UP_CANCELED
hwrng: omap - reorder OMAP TRNG driver code
crypto: omap-sham - correct dma burst size
crypto: omap-sham - Enable Polling mode if DMA fails
crypto: tegra-aes - bitwise vs logical and
crypto: sahara - checking the wrong variable
...
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"This set includes adding support for Neon acceleration of RAID6 XOR
code from Ard Biesheuvel, cache flushing and barrier updates from Will
Deacon, and a cleanup to the ARM debug code which reduces the amount
of code by about 500 lines.
A few other cleanups, such as constifying the machine descriptors
which already shouldn't be written to, cleaning up the printing of the
L2 cache size"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (55 commits)
ARM: 7826/1: debug: support debug ll on hisilicon soc
ARM: 7830/1: delay: don't bother reporting bogomips in /proc/cpuinfo
ARM: 7829/1: Add ".text.unlikely" and ".text.hot" to arm unwind tables
ARM: 7828/1: ARMv7-M: implement restart routine common to all v7-M machines
ARM: 7827/1: highbank: fix debug uart virtual address for LPAE
ARM: 7823/1: errata: workaround Cortex-A15 erratum 773022
ARM: 7806/1: allow DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS for Tegra
ARM: 7793/1: debug: use generic option for ep93xx PL10x debug port
ARM: debug: move SPEAr debug to generic PL01x code
ARM: debug: move davinci debug to generic 8250 code
ARM: debug: move keystone debug to generic 8250 code
ARM: debug: remove DEBUG_ROCKCHIP_UART
ARM: debug: provide generic option choices for 8250 and PL01x ports
ARM: debug: move PL01X debug include into arch/arm/include/debug/
ARM: debug: provide PL01x debug uart phys/virt address configuration options
ARM: debug: add support for word accesses to debug/8250.S
ARM: debug: move 8250 debug include into arch/arm/include/debug/
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart phys/virt address configuration options
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart register shift configuration option
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart flow control configuration option
...
Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
"Unfortunately, this merge window it'll have a be a lot of small piles -
my fault, actually, for not keeping #for-next in anything that would
resemble a sane shape ;-/
This pile: assorted fixes (the first 3 are -stable fodder, IMO) and
cleanups + %pd/%pD formats (dentry/file pathname, up to 4 last
components) + several long-standing patches from various folks.
There definitely will be a lot more (starting with Miklos'
check_submount_and_drop() series)"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO
direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions
add formats for dentry/file pathnames
kvm eventfd: switch to fdget
powerpc kvm: use fdget
switch fchmod() to fdget
switch epoll_ctl() to fdget
switch copy_module_from_fd() to fdget
git simplify nilfs check for busy subtree
ibmasmfs: don't bother passing superblock when not needed
don't pass superblock to hypfs_{mkdir,create*}
don't pass superblock to hypfs_diag_create_files
don't pass superblock to hypfs_vm_create_files()
oprofile: get rid of pointless forward declarations of struct super_block
oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument
oprofilefs_mkdir() doesn't need superblock argument
don't bother with passing superblock to oprofile_create_stats_files()
oprofile: don't bother with passing superblock to ->create_files()
don't bother passing sb to oprofile_create_files()
coh901318: don't open-code simple_read_from_buffer()
...
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"A couple of features and a ton of bug-fixes. There is also some
maintership changes. Jeremy is enjoying the full-time work at the
startup and as much as he would love to help - he can't find the time.
I have a bunch of other things that I promised to work on - paravirt
diet, get SWIOTLB working everywhere, etc, but haven't been able to
find the time.
As such both David Vrabel and Boris Ostrovsky have graciously
volunteered to help with the maintership role. They will keep the lid
on regressions, bug-fixes, etc. I will be in the background to help -
but eventually there will be less of me doing the Xen GIT pulls and
more of them. Stefano is still doing the ARM/ARM64 and will continue
on doing so.
Features:
- Xen Trusted Platform Module (TPM) frontend driver - with the
backend in MiniOS.
- Scalability improvements in event channel.
- Two extra Xen co-maintainers (David, Boris) and one going away (Jeremy)
Bug-fixes:
- Make the 1:1 mapping work during early bootup on selective regions.
- Add scratch page to balloon driver to deal with unexpected code
still holding on stale pages.
- Allow NMIs on PV guests (64-bit only)
- Remove unnecessary TLB flush in M2P code.
- Fixes duplicate callbacks in Xen granttable code.
- Fixes in PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH ioctls to allow retries
- Fix for events being lost due to rescheduling on different VCPUs.
- More documentation"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (23 commits)
hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc
drivers/xen-tpmfront: Fix compile issue with missing option.
xen/balloon: don't set P2M entry for auto translated guest
xen/evtchn: double free on error
Xen: Fix retry calls into PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH*.
xen/pvhvm: Initialize xen panic handler for PVHVM guests
xen/m2p: use GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace to reinstate the original mapping
xen: fix ARM build after 6efa20e4
MAINTAINERS: Remove Jeremy from the Xen subsystem.
xen/events: document behaviour when scanning the start word for events
x86/xen: during early setup, only 1:1 map the ISA region
x86/xen: disable premption when enabling local irqs
swiotlb-xen: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro
swiotlb: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro
xen/balloon: set a mapping for ballooned out pages
xen/evtchn: improve scalability by using per-user locks
xen/p2m: avoid unneccesary TLB flush in m2p_remove_override()
MAINTAINERS: Add in two extra co-maintainers of the Xen tree.
MAINTAINERS: Update the Xen subsystem's with proper mailing list.
xen: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
...
Pull x86/asmlinkage changes from Ingo Molnar:
"As a preparation for Andi Kleen's LTO patchset (link time
optimizations using GCC's -flto which build time optimization has
steadily increased in quality over the past few years and might
eventually be usable for the kernel too) this tree includes a handful
of preparatory patches that make function calling convention
annotations consistent again:
- Mark every function without arguments (or 64bit only) that is used
by assembly code with asmlinkage()
- Mark every function with parameters or variables that is used by
assembly code as __visible.
For the vanilla kernel this has documentation, consistency and
debuggability advantages, for the time being"
* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asmlinkage: Fix warning in xen asmlinkage change
x86, asmlinkage, vdso: Mark vdso variables __visible
x86, asmlinkage, power: Make various symbols used by the suspend asm code visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make dump_stack visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make 64bit checksum functions visible
x86, asmlinkage, paravirt: Add __visible/asmlinkage to xen paravirt ops
x86, asmlinkage, apm: Make APM data structure used from assembler visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make syscall tables visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make several variables used from assembler/linker script visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make kprobes code visible and fix assembler code
x86, asmlinkage: Make various syscalls asmlinkage
x86, asmlinkage: Make 32bit/64bit __switch_to visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make _*_start_kernel visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make all interrupt handlers asmlinkage / __visible
x86, asmlinkage: Change dotraplinkage into __visible on 32bit
x86: Fix sys_call_table type in asm/syscall.h
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Main RCU changes this cycle were:
- Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the
timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Improved rcutorture test coverage.
- Updated RCU documentation"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine
jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow
rcu: Simplify _rcu_barrier() processing
rcu: Make rcutorture emit online failures if verbose
rcu: Remove unused variable from rcu_torture_writer()
rcu: Sort rcutorture module parameters
rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage
rcu: Add duplicate-callback tests to rcutorture
doc: Fix memory-barrier control-dependency example
rcu: Update RTFP documentation
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle arguments to API
nohz_full: Add full-system idle states and variables
nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state tracking
nohz_full: Add rcu_dyntick data for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add Kconfig parameter for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add testing information to documentation
rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks
rcu: Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu()
...
New formats: %p[dD][234]?. The next pointer is interpreted as struct dentry *
or struct file * resp. ('d' => dentry, 'D' => file) and the last component(s)
of pathname are printed (%pd => just the last one, %pd2 => the last two, etc.)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in
some cases in which it was known to have problems. From
Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.
2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.
3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
Rafael J Wysocki.
4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.
5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.
6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
the latter from Ben Guthro.
7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From
Felipe Contreras.
8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.
9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
to load) from Stratos Karafotis.
10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.
11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
Rafael J Wysocki.
13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.
14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
from Colin Cross.
15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
Tuukka Tikkanen.
16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
and Sahara.
17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.
18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
management from Shuah Khan.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (217 commits)
cpufreq: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
cpuidle: coupled: fix race condition between pokes and safe state
cpuidle: coupled: abort idle if pokes are pending
cpuidle: coupled: disable interrupts after entering safe state
ACPI / hotplug: Remove containers synchronously
driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues
cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments
cpufreq: governors: Remove duplicate check of target freq in supported range
cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing
ACPI / EC: Add ASUSTEK L4R to quirk list in order to validate ECDT
ACPI / thermal: Add check of "_TZD" availability and evaluating result
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance
ACPI: blacklist win8 OSI for buggy laptops
cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name
cpuidle: Change struct menu_device field types
cpuidle: Add a comment warning about possible overflow
cpuidle: Fix variable domains in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: Fix menu_device->intervals type
cpuidle: CodingStyle: Break up multiple assignments on single line
cpuidle: Check called function parameter in get_typical_interval()
...
While we are likley to succeed and break out of this loop, it isn't
guaranteed. We should be power and thread friendly if we do have to
go around for a second (or third, or more) attempt.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull driver core patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of tiny changes here fixing up the way sysfs attributes are
created, to try to make drivers simpler, and fix a whole class race
conditions with creations of device attributes after the device was
announced to userspace.
All the various pieces are acked by the different subsystem
maintainers"
* tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (119 commits)
firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
drivers/base/memory.c: introduce help macro to_memory_block
dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable
sysfs: sysfs_create_groups returns a value.
debugfs: provide debugfs_create_x64() when disabled
rbd: convert bus code to use bus_groups
firmware: dcdbas: use binary attribute groups
sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups for when SYSFS is not enabled
driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files.
HID: convert bus code to use dev_groups
Input: serio: convert bus code to use drv_groups
Input: gameport: convert bus code to use drv_groups
driver core: firmware: use __ATTR_RW()
driver core: core: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
driver core: bus: use DRIVER_ATTR_WO()
driver core: create write-only attribute macros for devices and drivers
sysfs: create __ATTR_WO()
driver-core: platform: convert bus code to use dev_groups
workqueue: convert bus code to use dev_groups
MEI: convert bus code to use dev_groups
...
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
"
* Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611.
* Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619.
* Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is
to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when
all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648.
* Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675.
"
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Instead of taking the spinlock, the lockless versions atomically check
that the lock is not taken, and do the reference count update using a
cmpxchg() loop. This is semantically identical to doing the reference
count update protected by the lock, but avoids the "wait for lock"
contention that you get when accesses to the reference count are
contended.
Note that a "lockref" is absolutely _not_ equivalent to an atomic_t.
Even when the lockref reference counts are updated atomically with
cmpxchg, the fact that they also verify the state of the spinlock means
that the lockless updates can never happen while somebody else holds the
spinlock.
So while "lockref_put_or_lock()" looks a lot like just another name for
"atomic_dec_and_lock()", and both optimize to lockless updates, they are
fundamentally different: the decrement done by atomic_dec_and_lock() is
truly independent of any lock (as long as it doesn't decrement to zero),
so a locked region can still see the count change.
The lockref structure, in contrast, really is a *locked* reference
count. If you hold the spinlock, the reference count will be stable and
you can modify the reference count without using atomics, because even
the lockless updates will see and respect the state of the lock.
In order to enable the cmpxchg lockless code, the architecture needs to
do three things:
(1) Make sure that the "arch_spinlock_t" and an "unsigned int" can fit
in an aligned u64, and have a "cmpxchg()" implementation that works
on such a u64 data type.
(2) define a helper function to test for a spinlock being unlocked
("arch_spin_value_unlocked()")
(3) select the "ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF" config variable in its
Kconfig file.
This enables it for x86-64 (but not 32-bit, we'd need to make sure
cmpxchg() turns into the proper cmpxchg8b in order to enable it for
32-bit mode).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
They aren't very good to inline, since they already call external
functions (the spinlock code), and we're going to create rather more
complicated versions of them that can do the reference count updates
locklessly.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights
over the net namespace. The principle here is if you create or have
capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with
what other people have mounted.
Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call,
perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers,
this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves
the existing sysfs abstractions.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Settings of the form, 'line x module y +p', can fail arbitrarily due to an
uninitialized local variable. With this patch results are consistent, as
expected.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
