Allows one to create and use a channel with no associated files. Files
can be initialized later. This is useful in scenarios such as logging in
early code, before VFS is up. Therefore, such channels can be created and
used as soon as kmem_cache_init() completed.
This is needed by kmemtrace to do tracing in early kernel code.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
block: add large command support
block: replace sizeof(rq->cmd) with BLK_MAX_CDB
ide: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: rename and export rq_init()
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd with blk_get_request
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd in prepare_flush_fn hook
block/blk-barrier.c:blk_ordered_cur_seq() mustn't be inline
block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
block: make queue flags non-atomic
block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern
unexport blk_max_pfn
ps3disk: Remove superfluous cast
block: make rq_init() do a full memset()
relay: fix splice problem
Use vmalloc() and memset() instead of kcalloc() to allocate a page* array when
the array size is bigger than one page. This enables relayfs to support
bigger relay buffers than 64MB on 4k-page system, 512MB on 16k-page system.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
relay doesn't reference the pages it adds, however we need a non-NULL
hook or splice_to_pipe() can oops.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
I found that relay files can be read by pread(2). I fix it,
for relay files are not capable of seeking.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If subbuf_pages was larger than the max number of pages the pipe
buffer will hold, subbuf_splice_actor() would happily go beyond
the array size.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Drivers that register a ->fault handler, but do not range-check the
offset argument, must set VM_DONTEXPAND in the vm_flags in order to
prevent an expanding mremap from overflowing the resource.
I've audited the tree and attempted to fix these problems (usually by
adding VM_DONTEXPAND where it is not obvious).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Coverity spotted what looks like a real possible case of using a variable
after it has been freed. The problem is in
kernel/relay.c::relay_open_buf()
If the code hits "goto free_buf;" it ends up in this code :
free_buf:
relay_destroy_buf(buf); <--- calls kfree() on 'buf'.
free_name:
kfree(tmpname);
end:
return buf; <-- use after free of 'buf'.
I read through the callers and they all handle a NULL return from this
function as an error (and hitting the 'free_buf' label only happens on
failure to chan->cb->create_buf_file(), so that looks like a clear error to
me).
The patch simply sets 'buf' to NULL after the call to
relay_destroy_buf(buf); - as far as I can see that should take care of the
problem.
The patch also corrects a reference to a documentation file while
I was at it.
Note from Mathieu: the documentation reference change should have been
done in a separate patch, but I guess no one will really care.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current code that sets the read position in subbuf_splice_actor may
give erroneous results if the buffer size isn't a power of 2. This
patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer
in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the
name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh
Dickins a bit.
A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really
there, and that the contents are good.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It cleans up the relay splice implementation a lot, and gets rid of
a lot of internal pipe knowledge that should not be in there.
Plus fixes for padding and partial first page (and lots more) from
Tom Zanussi.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use
the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of
pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header
file finally.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
fix file specification in comments
drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
misc doc and kconfig typos
Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
Fix occurrences of "the the "
Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
Fix "deprecated" typoes.
...
Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).
[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
