1. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 08 12月, 2006 5 次提交
  3. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: Use %gs as the PDA base-segment in the kernel · f95d47ca
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      This patch is the meat of the PDA change.  This patch makes several related
      changes:
      
      1: Most significantly, %gs is now used in the kernel.  This means that on
         entry, the old value of %gs is saved away, and it is reloaded with
         __KERNEL_PDA.
      
      2: entry.S constructs the stack in the shape of struct pt_regs, and this
         is passed around the kernel so that the process's saved register
         state can be accessed.
      
         Unfortunately struct pt_regs doesn't currently have space for %gs
         (or %fs). This patch extends pt_regs to add space for gs (no space
         is allocated for %fs, since it won't be used, and it would just
         complicate the code in entry.S to work around the space).
      
      3: Because %gs is now saved on the stack like %ds, %es and the integer
         registers, there are a number of places where it no longer needs to
         be handled specially; namely context switch, and saving/restoring the
         register state in a signal context.
      
      4: And since kernel threads run in kernel space and call normal kernel
         code, they need to be created with their %gs == __KERNEL_PDA.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      f95d47ca
  4. 26 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 15 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      Revert "[PATCH] fix Data Acess error in dup_fd" · 9a3a04ac
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This reverts commit 0130b0b3.
      
      Sergey Vlasov points out (and Vadim Lobanov concurs) that the bug it was
      supposed to fix must be some unrelated memory corruption, and the "fix"
      actually causes more problems:
      
        "However, the new code does not look safe in all cases.  If some other
         task has opened more files while dup_fd() released oldf->file_lock, the
         new code will update open_files to the new larger value.  But newf was
         allocated with the old smaller value of open_files, therefore subsequent
         accesses to newf may try to write into unallocated memory."
      
      so revert it.
      
      Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
      Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a3a04ac
  6. 13 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] fix Data Acess error in dup_fd · 0130b0b3
      Sharyathi Nagesh 提交于
      On running the Stress Test on machine for more than 72 hours following
      error message was observed.
      
      0:mon> e
      cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000007ce2f7f0]
          pc: c000000000060d90: .dup_fd+0x240/0x39c
          lr: c000000000060d6c: .dup_fd+0x21c/0x39c
          sp: c00000007ce2fa70
         msr: 800000000000b032
         dar: ffffffff00000028
       dsisr: 40000000
        current = 0xc000000074950980
        paca    = 0xc000000000454500
          pid   = 27330, comm = bash
      
      0:mon> t
      [c00000007ce2fa70] c000000000060d28 .dup_fd+0x1d8/0x39c (unreliable)
      [c00000007ce2fb30] c000000000060f48 .copy_files+0x5c/0x88
      [c00000007ce2fbd0] c000000000061f5c .copy_process+0x574/0x1520
      [c00000007ce2fcd0] c000000000062f88 .do_fork+0x80/0x1c4
      [c00000007ce2fdc0] c000000000011790 .sys_clone+0x5c/0x74
      [c00000007ce2fe30] c000000000008950 .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
      
      The problem is because of race window.  When if(expand) block is executed in
      dup_fd unlocking of oldf->file_lock give a window for fdtable in oldf to be
      modified.  So actual open_files in oldf may not match with open_files
      variable.
      
      Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0130b0b3
  7. 29 10月, 2006 2 次提交
  8. 17 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] rt-mutex: fixup rt-mutex debug code · bea493a0
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      BUG: warning at kernel/rtmutex-debug.c:125/rt_mutex_debug_task_free() (Not tainted)
       [<c04051e3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x16a
       [<c04057f0>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
       [<c0405900>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
       [<c043f03d>] rt_mutex_debug_task_free+0x35/0x6a
       [<c04224c0>] free_task+0x15/0x24
       [<c042378c>] copy_process+0x12bd/0x1324
       [<c0423835>] do_fork+0x42/0x113
       [<c04021dd>] sys_fork+0x19/0x1b
       [<c0403fb7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
      
      In copy_process(), dup_task_struct() also duplicates the ->pi_lock,
      ->pi_waiters and ->pi_blocked_on members.  rt_mutex_debug_task_free()
      called from free_task() validates these members.  However free_task() can
      be invoked before these members are reset for the new task.
      
      Move the initialization code before the first bail that can hit free_task().
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      bea493a0
  9. 02 10月, 2006 6 次提交
  10. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routines · 8f0ab514
      Jay Lan 提交于
      There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed
      inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.  This patch is to change those ifdef's from
      CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT.  A few defines are moved from
      kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and
      include/linux/tsacct_kern.h.
      Signed-off-by: NJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
      Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
      Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
      Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8f0ab514
  11. 30 9月, 2006 2 次提交
  12. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 20 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 02 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 06 8月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 15 7月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid once · ad4ecbcb
      Shailabh Nagar 提交于
      Send per-tgid data only once during exit of a thread group instead of once
      with each member thread exit.
      
      Currently, when a thread exits, besides its per-tid data, the per-tgid data
      of its thread group is also sent out, if its thread group is non-empty.
      The per-tgid data sent consists of the sum of per-tid stats for all
      *remaining* threads of the thread group.
      
      This patch modifies this sending in two ways:
      
      - the per-tgid data is sent only when the last thread of a thread group
        exits.  This cuts down heavily on the overhead of sending/receiving
        per-tgid data, especially when other exploiters of the taskstats
        interface aren't interested in per-tgid stats
      
      - the semantics of the per-tgid data sent are changed.  Instead of being
        the sum of per-tid data for remaining threads, the value now sent is the
        true total accumalated statistics for all threads that are/were part of
        the thread group.
      
      The patch also addresses a minor issue where failure of one accounting
      subsystem to fill in the taskstats structure was causing the send of
      taskstats to not be sent at all.
      
      The patch has been tested for stability and run cerberus for over 4 hours
      on an SMP.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes]
      Signed-off-by: NShailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ad4ecbcb
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      [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup · ca74e92b
      Shailabh Nagar 提交于
      Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
      measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc.  The
      collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches.  This patch
      sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
      disabled through a kernel boot parameter.
      Signed-off-by: NShailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
      Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
      Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ca74e92b
  17. 11 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 04 7月, 2006 5 次提交
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      [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct · 36c8b586
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I
      introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake.
      
      Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all
      secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      36c8b586
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      [PATCH] lockdep: annotate ->mmap_sem · ad339451
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.  Has no effect
      on non-lockdep kernels.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ad339451
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      [PATCH] lockdep: core · fbb9ce95
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options -
      reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and
      you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files.
      
      Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out
      voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output
      can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario.
      
      What does the lock validator do?  It "observes" and maps all locking rules as
      they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks,
      rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems).  Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a
      new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of
      rules.  If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the
      new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal.  If the
      new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out.
      
      When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are
      considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task
      context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing
      locking scenarios.  In a typical system this means millions of separate
      scenarios.  This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all
      rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical
      certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator
      implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not
      corrupted by some other kernel subsystem).  [see more details and conditionals
      of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and
      Documentation/lockdep-design.txt]
      
      Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also
      enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races
      via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs
      drastically.  In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in
      the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and
      which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs.
      That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!).  So in essence a
      race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components
      for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself!  In its
      short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they
      actually caused a real deadlock.
      
      To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per
      "lock instance", but per "lock-class".  For example, all struct inode objects
      in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex.  If there are 10,000 inodes cached,
      then there are 10,000 lock objects.  But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock
      type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are
      "unified" into this single lock-class.  The advantage of the lock-class
      approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single
      (and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many
      different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules.  The
      set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel.
      
      To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a
      portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup:
      
       lock-classes:                            694 [max: 2048]
       direct dependencies:                  1598 [max: 8192]
       indirect dependencies:               17896
       all direct dependencies:             16206
       dependency chains:                    1910 [max: 8192]
       in-hardirq chains:                      17
       in-softirq chains:                     105
       in-process chains:                    1065
       stack-trace entries:                 38761 [max: 131072]
       combined max dependencies:         2033928
       hardirq-safe locks:                     24
       hardirq-unsafe locks:                  176
       softirq-safe locks:                     53
       softirq-unsafe locks:                  137
       irq-safe locks:                         59
       irq-unsafe locks:                      176
      
      The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns,
      and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios.
      
      More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in
      Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at:
      
         http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt
      
      [bunk@stusta.de: cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fbb9ce95
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      [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, core · de30a2b3
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Accurate hard-IRQ-flags and softirq-flags state tracing.
      
      This allows us to attach extra functionality to IRQ flags on/off
      events (such as trace-on/off).
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      de30a2b3
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      [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging · 9a11b49a
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Generic lock debugging:
      
       - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock
         subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems.
      
       - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from
         the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype
         hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway.
      
       - ability to do silent tests
      
       - check lock freeing in vfree too.
      
       - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to
         turn off more expensive debugging features.
      
      There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks'
      stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock
      classes.  (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first
      checks whether we are holding a lock already)
      
      Here are the current debugging options:
      
      CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
      CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
      
      which do:
      
       config DEBUG_MUTEXES
                bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks"
      
       config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
               bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes"
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a11b49a
  19. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 28 6月, 2006 2 次提交
  21. 27 6月, 2006 2 次提交
  22. 26 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs. · 0e464814
      KaiGai Kohei 提交于
      The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is
      generated.  There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up.  If OOM killer is
      activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory
      regions.
      
      But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling
      exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory.  In the results, any
      processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.
      0e464814