Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Debug info and other statistics fixes and related enhancements"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched
sched/numa: Show numa_group ID in /proc/sched_debug task listings
sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h
sched/stat: Expose /proc/pid/schedstat if CONFIG_SCHED_INFO=y
sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"The main change in this kernel is Casey's generalized LSM stacking
work, which removes the hard-coding of Capabilities and Yama stacking,
allowing multiple arbitrary "small" LSMs to be stacked with a default
monolithic module (e.g. SELinux, Smack, AppArmor).
See
https://lwn.net/Articles/636056/
This will allow smaller, simpler LSMs to be incorporated into the
mainline kernel and arbitrarily stacked by users. Also, this is a
useful cleanup of the LSM code in its own right"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
tpm, tpm_crb: fix le64_to_cpu conversions in crb_acpi_add()
vTPM: set virtual device before passing to ibmvtpm_reset_crq
tpm_ibmvtpm: remove unneccessary message level.
ima: update builtin policies
ima: extend "mask" policy matching support
ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition
ima: fix ima_show_template_data_ascii()
Smack: freeing an error pointer in smk_write_revoke_subj()
selinux: fix setting of security labels on NFS
selinux: Remove unused permission definitions
selinux: enable genfscon labeling for sysfs and pstore files
selinux: enable per-file labeling for debugfs files.
selinux: update netlink socket classes
signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds()
selinux: Print 'sclass' as string when unrecognized netlink message occurs
Smack: allow multiple labels in onlycap
Smack: fix seq operations in smackfs
ima: pass iint to ima_add_violation()
ima: wrap event related data to the new ima_event_data structure
integrity: add validity checks for 'path' parameter
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- threadgroup_lock got reorganized so that its users can pick the
actual locking mechanism to use. Its only user - cgroups - is
updated to use a percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem.
This makes things a bit lighter on hot paths and allows cgroups to
perform and fail multi-task (a process) migrations atomically.
Multi-task migrations are used in several places including the
unified hierarchy.
- Delegation rule and documentation added to unified hierarchy. This
will likely be the last interface update from the cgroup core side
for unified hierarchy before lifting the devel mask.
- Some groundwork for the pids controller which is scheduled to be
merged in the coming devel cycle.
* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
cgroup: separate out cgroup_procs_write_permission() from __cgroup_procs_write()
kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public
MAINTAINERS: add a cgroup core co-maintainer
cgroup: fix uninitialised iterator in for_each_subsys_which
cgroup: replace explicit ss_mask checking with for_each_subsys_which
cgroup: use bitmask to filter for_each_subsys
cgroup: add seq_file forward declaration for struct cftype
cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking
sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking
cgroup: switch to unsigned long for bitmasks
cgroup: reorganize include/linux/cgroup.h
cgroup: separate out include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
cgroup: fix some comment typos
clone has some of the quirkiest syscall handling in the kernel, with a
pile of special cases, historical curiosities, and architecture-specific
calling conventions. In particular, clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts a
parameter "tls" that the C entry point completely ignores and some
assembly entry points overwrite; instead, the low-level arch-specific
code pulls the tls parameter out of the arch-specific register captured
as part of pt_regs on entry to the kernel. That's a massive hack, and
it makes the arch-specific code only work when called via the specific
existing syscall entry points; because of this hack, any new clone-like
system call would have to accept an identical tls argument in exactly
the same arch-specific position, rather than providing a unified system
call entry point across architectures.
The first patch allows architectures to handle the tls argument via
normal C parameter passing, if they opt in by selecting
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. The second patch makes 32-bit and 64-bit x86 opt
into this.
These two patches came out of the clone4 series, which isn't ready for
this merge window, but these first two cleanup patches were entirely
uncontroversial and have acks. I'd like to go ahead and submit these
two so that other architectures can begin building on top of this and
opting into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. However, I'm also happy to wait and
send these through the next merge window (along with v3 of clone4) if
anyone would prefer that.
This patch (of 2):
clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts an argument to set the thread-local
storage area for the new thread. sys_clone declares an int argument
tls_val in the appropriate point in the argument list (based on the
various CLONE_BACKWARDS variants), but doesn't actually use or pass along
that argument. Instead, sys_clone calls do_fork, which calls
copy_process, which calls the arch-specific copy_thread, and copy_thread
pulls the corresponding syscall argument out of the pt_regs captured at
kernel entry (knowing what argument of clone that architecture passes tls
in).
Apart from being awful and inscrutable, that also only works because only
one code path into copy_thread can pass the CLONE_SETTLS flag, and that
code path comes from sys_clone with its architecture-specific
argument-passing order. This prevents introducing a new version of the
clone system call without propagating the same architecture-specific
position of the tls argument.
However, there's no reason to pull the argument out of pt_regs when
sys_clone could just pass it down via C function call arguments.
Introduce a new CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS for architectures to opt into,
and a new copy_thread_tls that accepts the tls parameter as an additional
unsigned long (syscall-argument-sized) argument. Change sys_clone's tls
argument to an unsigned long (which does not change the ABI), and pass
that down to copy_thread_tls.
Architectures that don't opt into copy_thread_tls will continue to ignore
the C argument to sys_clone in favor of the pt_regs captured at kernel
entry, and thus will be unable to introduce new versions of the clone
syscall.
Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull NOHZ updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A few updates to the nohz infrastructure:
- recursion protection for context tracking
- make the TIF_NOHZ inheritance smarter
- isolate cpus which belong to the NOHZ full set"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set
nohz: Add tick_nohz_full_add_cpus_to() API
context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches
context_tracking: Protect against recursion
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:
- Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel
- Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
disabled at runtime.
- Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
offset updates smarter
- hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
problems in sched/perf
- Some more leap second tweaks
- Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem
- First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
introducing the necessary infrastructure
- Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()
- The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates
The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
and redundant code, which got copied all over the place. The y2038
changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
boot/persistant clock"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:
- lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues
(Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra)
- Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to
improve scalability (Jason Low)
- NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel)
- SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li)
- clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker)
- decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption
counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David
Hildenbrand)
- SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni)
- topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski)
- /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded()
sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p->dl_throttled flag
sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration
sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init
sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()
sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers
sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration
sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()
sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/<pid>/sched
sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug
sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug
sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations
Revert 095bebf61a ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced")
sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit
preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point
sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask()
x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask()
...
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes mostly consist of work on x86 PMU drivers:
- x86 Intel PT (hardware CPU tracer) improvements (Alexander
Shishkin)
- x86 Intel CQM (cache quality monitoring) improvements (Thomas
Gleixner)
- x86 Intel PEBSv3 support (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel PEBS interrupt batching support for lower overhead
sampling (Zheng Yan, Kan Liang)
- x86 PMU scheduler fixes and improvements (Peter Zijlstra)
There's too many tooling improvements to list them all - here are a
few select highlights:
'perf bench':
- Introduce new 'perf bench futex' benchmark: 'wake-parallel', to
measure parallel waker threads generating contention for kernel
locks (hb->lock). (Davidlohr Bueso)
'perf top', 'perf report':
- Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicaly in 'perf top':
a 'perf top' session can instantly become a 'perf report'
one, i.e. going from dynamic analysis to a static one,
returning to a dynamic one is possible, to toogle the
modes, just press 'f' to 'freeze/unfreeze' the sampling. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI, allowing interrupting the load of big
perf.data files (Namhyung Kim)
'perf probe': (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Support glob wildcards for function name
- Support $params special probe argument: Collect all function arguments
- Make --line checks validate C-style function name.
- Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
- Greatly speed up 'perf probe --list' by caching debuginfo.
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc.
'perf sched':
- Add option in 'perf sched' to merge like comms to lat output (Josef Bacik)
Plus tons of infrastructure work - in particular preparation for
upcoming threaded perf report support, but also lots of other work -
and fixes and other improvements. See (much) more details in the
shortlog and in the git log"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (305 commits)
perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
perf report: Fix sort__sym_cmp to also compare end of symbol
perf hists browser: React to unassigned hotkey pressing
perf top: Tell the user how to unfreeze events after pressing 'f'
perf hists browser: Honour the help line provided by builtin-{top,report}.c
perf hists browser: Do not exit when 'f' is pressed in 'report' mode
perf top: Replace CTRL+z with 'f' as hotkey for enable/disable events
perf annotate: Rename source_line_percent to source_line_samples
perf annotate: Display total number of samples with --show-total-period
perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed
perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly
perf evlist: Add toggle_enable() method
perf trace: Fix race condition at the end of started workloads
perf probe: Speed up perf probe --list by caching debuginfo
perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped
perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable
perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order
perf tools: Ignore .config-detected in .gitignore
perf probe: Fix to return error if no probe is added
...
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:
- 'qspinlock' support, enabled on x86: queued spinlocks - these are
now the spinlock variant used by x86 as they outperform ticket
spinlocks in every category. (Waiman Long)
- 'pvqspinlock' support on x86: paravirtualized variant of queued
spinlocks. (Waiman Long, Peter Zijlstra)
- 'qrwlock' support, enabled on x86: queued rwlocks. Similar to
queued spinlocks, they are now the variant used by x86:
CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y
CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y
CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y
CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y
- various lockdep fixlets
- various locking primitives cleanups, further WRITE_ONCE()
propagation"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
locking/lockdep: Remove hard coded array size dependency
locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING
lockdep: Do not break user-visible string
locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()
locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb()
rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context
arch: Remove __ARCH_HAVE_CMPXCHG
locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS
locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb()
locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for Xen
locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM
locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching
locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock
locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors
locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock
locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS
locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch
locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit
...
Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.
We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.
The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.
With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.
Before:
47.76% hog [.] main
14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target
1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu
After:
48.10% hog [.] main
15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
selinux_bprm_committed_creds()->__flush_signals() is not right, we
shouldn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING unconditionally. There can be other
reasons for signal_pending(): freezing(), JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK, and
potentially more.
Also change this code to check fatal_signal_pending() rather than
SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, it looks a bit better.
Now we can kill __flush_signals() before it finds another buggy user.
Note: this code looks racy, we can flush a signal which was sent after
the task SID has been updated.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem
to synchronize against threadgroup changes. This per-process rwsem
adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces
cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple
places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across
multiple processes.
This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global
percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader
side and contained in cgroups proper. This patch converts one-to-one.
This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however,
cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize
thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take
enough time for the lower granularity to matter.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
threadgroup_change_begin/end() are used to mark the beginning and end
of threadgroup modifying operations to allow code paths which require
a threadgroup to stay stable across blocking operations to synchronize
against those sections using threadgroup_lock/unlock().
It's currently implemented as a general mechanism in sched.h using
per-signal_struct rwsem; however, this never grew non-cgroup use cases
and becomes noop if !CONFIG_CGROUPS. It turns out that cgroups is
gonna be better served with a different sycnrhonization scheme and is
a bit silly to keep cgroups specific details as a general mechanism.
What's general here is identifying the places where threadgroups are
modified. This patch restructures threadgroup locking so that
threadgroup_change_begin/end() become a place where subsystems which
need to sycnhronize against threadgroup changes can hook into.
cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin/end() which operate on the
per-signal_struct rwsem are created and threadgroup_lock/unlock() are
moved to cgroup.c and made static.
This is pure reorganization which doesn't cause any functional
changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for
'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having
all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly.
Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals
masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue.
This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting.
As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to
idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
preempt_mask.h defines all the preempt_count semantics and related
symbols: preempt, softirq, hardirq, nmi, preempt active, need resched,
etc...
preempt.h defines the accessors and mutators of preempt_count.
But there is a messy dependency game around those two header files:
* preempt_mask.h includes preempt.h in order to access preempt_count()
* preempt_mask.h defines all preempt_count semantic and symbols
except PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED that is needed by asm/preempt.h
Thus we need to define it from preempt.h, right before including
asm/preempt.h, instead of defining it to preempt_mask.h with the
other preempt_count symbols. Therefore the preempt_count semantics
happen to be spread out.
* We plan to introduce preempt_active_[enter,exit]() to consolidate
preempt_schedule*() code. But we'll need to access both preempt_count
mutators (preempt_count_add()) and preempt_count symbols
(PREEMPT_ACTIVE, PREEMPT_OFFSET). The usual place to define preempt
operations is in preempt.h but then we'll need symbols in
preempt_mask.h which already includes preempt.h. So we end up with
a ressource circle dependency.
Lets merge preempt_mask.h into preempt.h to solve these dependency issues.
This way we gather semantic symbols and operation definition of
preempt_count in a single file.
This is a dumb copy-paste merge. Further merge re-arrangments are
performed in a subsequent patch to ease review.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431441711-29753-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
task_struct currently contains two ad-hoc members for use by the VFS:
link_count and total_link_count. These are only interesting to fs/namei.c,
so exposing them explicitly is poor layering. Incidentally, link_count
isn't used anymore, so it can just die.
This patches replaces those with a single pointer to 'struct nameidata'.
This structure represents the current filename lookup of which
there can only be one per process, and is a natural place to
store total_link_count.
This will allow the current "nameidata" argument to all
follow_link operations to be removed as current->nameidata
can be used instead in the _very_ few instances that care about
it at all.
As there are occasional circumstances where pathname lookup can
recurse, such as through kern_path_locked, we always save and old
current->nameidata (if there is one) when setting a new value, and
make sure any active link_counts are preserved.
follow_mount and follow_automount now get a 'struct nameidata *'
rather than 'int flags' so that they can directly access
total_link_count, rather than going through 'current'.
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
