* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev:
[PATCH] fix bogus argument of blkdev_put() in pktcdvd
[PATCH 2/2] documnt FMODE_ constants
[PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW
[PATCH] clean up blkdev_get a little bit
[PATCH] Fix block dev compat ioctl handling
[PATCH] kill obsolete temporary comment in swsusp_close()
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them
posix-cpu-timers: fix clock_gettime with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0
documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
it had been put there to mark the call of blkdev_put() that
needed proper argument propagated to it; later patch in the
same series had done just that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Impact: fix time warp bug
Alex Shi, along with Yanmin Zhang have been noticing occasional time
inconsistencies recently. Through their great diagnosis, they found that
the xtime_nsec value used in update_wall_time was occasionally going
negative. After looking through the code for awhile, I realized we have
the possibility for an underflow when three conditions are met in
update_wall_time():
1) We have accumulated a second's worth of nanoseconds, so we
incremented xtime.tv_sec and appropriately decrement xtime_nsec.
(This doesn't cause xtime_nsec to go negative, but it can cause it
to be small).
2) The remaining offset value is large, but just slightly less then
cycle_interval.
3) clocksource_adjust() is speeding up the clock, causing a
corrective amount (compensating for the increase in the multiplier
being multiplied against the unaccumulated offset value) to be
subtracted from xtime_nsec.
This can cause xtime_nsec to underflow.
Unfortunately, since we notify the NTP subsystem via second_overflow()
whenever we accumulate a full second, and this effects the error
accumulation that has already occured, we cannot simply revert the
accumulated second from xtime nor move the second accumulation to after
the clocksource_adjust call without a change in behavior.
This leaves us with (at least) two options:
1) Simply return from clocksource_adjust() without making a change if we
notice the adjustment would cause xtime_nsec to go negative.
This would work, but I'm concerned that if a large adjustment was needed
(due to the error being large), it may be possible to get stuck with an
ever increasing error that becomes too large to correct (since it may
always force xtime_nsec negative). This may just be paranoia on my part.
2) Catch xtime_nsec if it is negative, then add back the amount its
negative to both xtime_nsec and the error.
This second method is consistent with how we've handled earlier rounding
issues, and also has the benefit that the error being added is always in
the oposite direction also always equal or smaller then the correction
being applied. So the risk of a corner case where things get out of
control is lessened.
This patch fixes bug 11970, as tested by Yanmin Zhang
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11970
Reported-by: alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:
max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user
max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user
The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.
This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update
sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c
sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc
genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug
irq: fix typo
x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot
genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq
genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every
new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another).
Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also
kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after
__ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Regarding the bug addressed in:
4cd4262: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
Linus points out that the fix is not complete:
> There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload
> rq->nr_running.
>
> Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides
> that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will
> literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to
> reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and
> it even has a name (rematerialization).
>
> So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the
> fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point.
>
> We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler
> doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify
> the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock.
So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change
after we check it for nonzero.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this warning:
kernel/cpuset.c: In function ‘generate_sched_domains’:
kernel/cpuset.c:588: warning: ‘ndoms’ may be used uninitialized in this function
triggers because GCC does not recognize that ndoms stays uninitialized
only if doms is NULL - but that flow is covered at the end of
generate_sched_domains().
Help out GCC by initializing this variable to 0. (that's prudent anyway)
Also, this function needs a splitup and code flow simplification:
with 160 lines length it's clearly too long.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq
While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash:
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>] [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f
[...]
Call Trace:
<IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa
[<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21
[<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6
[<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f
[<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232
[<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e
[<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd
[<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e
[<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff
[<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has:
if (rq->nr_running)
rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running;
The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents
the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition.
The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger.
This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that
for both the condition and the division.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion
if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID is in fact translated to -6, the switch
statement in cpu_clock_sample_group() must first mask off the irrelevant
bits, similar to cpu_clock_sample().
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
--
posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing
When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer
overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit
| commit 3928a8a2d9
| Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| Date: Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400
|
| ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
|
| This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.
The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API.
When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of
lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was
missed, otherwise the data may not make sense.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prettify /proc/lockdep_info
Just feel odd that not all lines of lockdep info are aligned.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns
When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete.
When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be
printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in
this printing.
When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which
is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns
(m->private + *pos)th record.
Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can
be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m->private.
About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use
seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to
check whether or not records are lost.
This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non
overrun.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Try this, and you'll get oops immediately:
# cd Documentation/accounting/
# gcc -o getdelays getdelays.c
# mount -t cgroup -o debug xxx /mnt
# ./getdelays -C /mnt/tasks
Because a normal file's dentry->d_fsdata is a pointer to struct cftype,
not struct cgroup.
After the patch, it returns EINVAL if we try to get cgroupstats
from a normal file.
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
