1. 15 10月, 2012 2 次提交
  2. 13 10月, 2012 1 次提交
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      vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it · 91a27b2a
      Jeff Layton 提交于
      getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
      kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
      however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
      the string.
      
      For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
      amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
      we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
      need to recopy it from userspace.
      
      This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
      a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
      string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.
      
      Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
      convenient.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      91a27b2a
  3. 01 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 05 6月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 02 6月, 2012 6 次提交
  6. 24 5月, 2012 2 次提交
  7. 22 5月, 2012 5 次提交
  8. 05 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  9. 01 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  10. 13 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  11. 22 12月, 2011 2 次提交
    • K
      driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage. · edbaa603
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      The sysdev.h file should not be needed by any in-kernel code, so remove
      the .h file from these random files that seem to still want to include
      it.
      
      The sysdev code will be going away soon, so this include needs to be
      removed no matter what.
      
      Cc: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
      Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
      Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
      Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
      Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      edbaa603
    • K
      cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem · 8a25a2fd
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
      and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
      implemented as subsystem interfaces now.
      
      After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
      sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
      
      Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
      from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.
      
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      8a25a2fd
  12. 12 12月, 2011 3 次提交
    • F
      nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu() · 1268fbc7
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of
      tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single
      irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would
      needlessly process any RCU job.
      
      Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits
      have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple
      idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      1268fbc7
    • F
      nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop · 2bbb6817
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
      mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
      true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
      the tick is stopped.
      
      To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
      tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().
      
      If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
      tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
      must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
      need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().
      
      Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
      tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:
      
      - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
      to sleep.
      - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
      up.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      2bbb6817
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      nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic · 280f0677
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay
      the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two
      places:
      
      - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode
      - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick
      idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in
      case the irq changed some internal state that requires this
      action.
      
      There are only few minor differences between both that
      are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle
      cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees
      that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually
      interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended
      quiescent state from idle loop entry only.
      
      Split this function into:
      
      - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters
      dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU
      extended quiescent state.
      
      - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode
      when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called).
      
      To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed
      into tick_nohz_idle_exit().
      
      This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need
      for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between
      dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to
      further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle
      loop.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      280f0677
  13. 27 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  14. 24 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  15. 10 6月, 2011 1 次提交
  16. 29 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      ns: Wire up the setns system call · 7b21fddd
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working.  The rest I have looked
      at closely and I can't find any problems.
      
      setns is an easy system call to wire up.  It just takes two ints so I
      don't expect any weird architecture porting problems.
      
      While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are
      very slow to get new system calls.  cris seems to be the slowest where
      the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev.  avr32 is weird
      in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h.  frv is
      behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up.  On h8300
      the last system call wired up was epoll_wait.  On m32r the last system
      call wired up was fallocate.  mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system
      call wired up.  The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was
      new in the 2.6.39.
      
      v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
      v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
      v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
      v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall  conflicts.
      v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree.
      
      >  arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h     |    3 ++-
      >  arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S      |    1 +
      Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      
      Oh - ia64 wiring looks good.
      Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7b21fddd
  17. 13 4月, 2011 2 次提交
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      avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO · 24a1a475
      Andreas Bießmann 提交于
      The ATAG_BOARDINFO is intended to hand over the information
      bd->bi_board_number from u-boot to the kernel.
      
      This piece of information can be used to implement some kind of board
      identification while booting the kernel. Therefore it is placed in .initdata
      section and can be accessed via the new symbol board_number only while
      initializing the kernel.
      Signed-off-by: NAndreas Bießmann <biessmann@corscience.de>
      Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
      24a1a475
    • M
      avr32: init cannot ignore signals sent by force_sig_info() · 9f0d15aa
      Matt Fleming 提交于
      We can delete the code that checks to see if we're sending an ignored
      signal to init because force_sig_info() already handles this case.
      force_sig_info() will kill init even if the signal handler is SIG_DFL
      and the scenario described in the comment where init might "generate
      the same exception over and over again" cannot occur (force_sig_info()
      clears SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE to ensure that init will die).
      
      Also, the use of is_global_init() is not correct in the multhreaded
      case, as Oleg Nesterov explains,
      
      	"is_global_init() is not right in theory, /sbin/init can be
      	multithreaded. And, this doesn't cover the sub-namespace
      	inits... I'd suggest to check SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE, but looking
      	closer I think you can simply remove this code."
      
      It seems this code was copied from arch/powerpc in March 2007 in commit
      
        623b0355 "[AVR32] Clean up exception handling code"
      
      but the code was deleted from arch/powerpc in November 2009 in commit
      
        a0592d42 "powerpc: kill the obsolete code under is_global_init()"
      
      So catch up with powerpc and delete the bogus code.
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
      9f0d15aa
  18. 25 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  19. 24 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  20. 14 1月, 2011 2 次提交
  21. 28 10月, 2010 2 次提交
  22. 06 10月, 2010 1 次提交
    • L
      modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race · 5336377d
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
      that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
      possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.
      
      However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
      that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
      doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
      dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
      "module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.
      
      Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
      with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
      module loading lock any more.
      
      So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
      from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
      process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
      are now safe.
      
      Future fixups:
       - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
         belongs.
       - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
         (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
         for other reasons.
      Reported-and-tested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5336377d
  23. 18 8月, 2010 1 次提交
    • D
      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer · d7627467
      David Howells 提交于
      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
      correctly on ARM:
      
      arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
      
      This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
      the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
      because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
      copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
      pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
      
      do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
      or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
      const should be fine.
      
      Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
      
      This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7627467