1. 11 4月, 2006 16 次提交
  2. 01 4月, 2006 17 次提交
  3. 29 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads · 73b9ebfe
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process().  Contrary,
      boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
      = 0.
      
      copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
      can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
      kill unhash_process().  We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
      because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
      kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].
      
      We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init().  free_pidmap() is never
      called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused.  So it is still possible
      to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.
      
      However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case.  We still
      have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
      kernel threads which don't call daemonize().
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      73b9ebfe
  4. 28 3月, 2006 6 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
    • D
      [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros · 22a9835c
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on pfns.
       They're all virtually identical.  This patch consolidates all of them.
      
      One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal header
      file.  To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck the new
      definitions in a new, isolated header.
      
      Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a bit.
      It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got ripped away before
      the arithmetic is done.  This has been posted to that sh64 maintainers and
      the development list.
      
      Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      22a9835c
    • J
      [PATCH] uml: fix thread startup race · 5f4e8fd0
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This fixes a race in the starting of write_sigio_thread.  Previously, some of
      the data needed by the thread was initialized after the clone.  If the thread
      ran immediately, it would see the uninitialized data, including an empty
      pollfds, which would cause it to hang.
      
      We move the data initialization to before the clone, and adjust the error
      paths and cleanup accordingly.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5f4e8fd0
    • J
      [PATCH] uml: prevent umid theft · 1fbbd684
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Behavior when booting two UMLs with the same umid was broken.  The second one
      would steal the umid.  This fixes that, making the second UML take a random
      umid instead.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1fbbd684
    • J
      [PATCH] uml: fix segfault on signal delivery · 98c18238
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This fixes a process segfault where a signal was being delivered such that a
      new stack page needed to be allocated to hold the signal frame.  This was
      tripping some logic in the page fault handler which wouldn't allocate the page
      if the faulting address was more that 32 bytes lower than the current stack
      pointer.  Since a signal frame is greater than 32 bytes, this exercised that
      case.
      
      It's fixed by updating the SP in the pt_regs before starting to copy the
      signal frame.  Since those are the registers that will be copied on to the
      stack, we have to be careful to put the original SP, not the new one which
      points to the signal frame, on the stack.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      98c18238
    • J
      [PATCH] uml: allow ubd devices to be shared in a cluster · 6c29256c
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This adds a 'c' option to the ubd switch which turns off host file locking so
      that the device can be shared, as with a cluster.  There's also some
      whitespace cleanup while I was in this file.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6c29256c