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* gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64Peter Oberparleiter2009-06-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes include disabling profiling for: * arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed: not linked to main kernel * arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet: profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context) Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructurePeter Oberparleiter2009-06-187-0/+1448
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel: constructor supportPeter Oberparleiter2009-06-181-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nsproxy: extract create_nsproxy()Alexey Dobriyan2009-06-181-12/+7Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | clone_nsproxy() does useless copying of old nsproxy -- every pointer will be rewritten to new ns or to old ns. Remove copying, rename clone_nsproxy(), create_nsproxy() will be used by C/R code to create fresh nsproxy on restart. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* utsns: extract creeate_uts_ns()Alexey Dobriyan2009-06-181-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | create_uts_ns() will be used by C/R to create fresh uts_ns. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pidns: rewrite copy_pid_ns()Alexey Dobriyan2009-06-181-15/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | copy_pid_ns() is a perfect example of a case where unwinding leads to more code and makes it less clear. Watch the diffstat. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pidns: make create_pid_namespace() accept parent pidnsAlexey Dobriyan2009-06-181-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | create_pid_namespace() creates everything, but caller has to assign parent pidns by hand, which is unnatural. At the moment of call new ->level has to be taken from somewhere and parent pidns is already available. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pids: clean up find_task_by_pid variantsChristoph Hellwig2009-06-181-14/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | find_task_by_pid_type_ns is only used to implement find_task_by_vpid and find_task_by_pid_ns, but both of them pass PIDTYPE_PID as first argument. So just fold find_task_by_pid_type_ns into find_task_by_pid_ns and use find_task_by_pid_ns to implement find_task_by_vpid. While we're at it also remove the exports for find_task_by_pid_ns and find_task_by_vpid - we don't have any modular callers left as the only modular caller of he old pre pid namespace find_task_by_pid (gfs2) was switched to pid_task which operates on a struct pid pointer instead of a pid_t. Given the confusion about pid_t values vs namespace that's generally the better option anyway and I think we're better of restricting modules to do it that way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysctl.c: remove unused variableSukanto Ghosh2009-06-181-3/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remoce the unused variable 'val' from __do_proc_dointvec() The integer has been declared and used as 'val = -val' and there is no reference to it anywhere. Signed-off-by: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto.cse.iitb@gmail.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Cc: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto.cse.iitb@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kthreads: simplify migration_thread() exit pathOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-10/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that kthread_stop() can be used even if the task has already exited, we can kill the "wait_to_die:" loop in migration_thread(). But we must pin rq->migration_thread after creation. Actually, I don't think CPU_UP_CANCELED or CPU_DEAD should wait for ->migration_thread exit. Perhaps we can simplify this code a bit more. migration_call() can set ->should_stop and forget about this thread. But we need a new helper in kthred.c for that. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kthreads: rework kthread_stop()Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-41/+28Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on Eric's patch which in turn was based on my patch. kthread_stop() has the nasty problems: - it runs unpredictably long with the global semaphore held. - it deadlocks if kthread itself does kthread_stop() before it obeys the kthread_should_stop() request. - it is not useable if kthread exits on its own, see for example the ugly "wait_to_die:" hack in migration_thread() - it is not possible to just tell kthread it should stop, we must always wait for its exit. With this patch kthread() allocates all neccesary data (struct kthread) on its own stack, globals kthread_stop_xxx are deleted. ->vfork_done is used as a pointer into "struct kthread", this means kthread_stop() can easily wait for kthread's exit. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kthreads: simplify the startup synchronizationOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-7/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We use two completions two create the kernel thread, this is a bit ugly. kthread() wakes up create_kthread() via ->started, then create_kthread() wakes up the caller kthread_create() via ->done. But kthread() does not need to wait for kthread(), it can just return. Instead kthread() itself can wake up the caller of kthread_create(). Kill kthread_create_info->started, ->done is enough. This improves the scalability a bit and sijmplifies the code. The only problem if kernel_thread() fails, in that case create_kthread() must do complete(&create->done). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: exit.c reorder wait_opts to remove padding on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy2009-06-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Reorder struct wait_opts to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* do_wait: fix the theoretical race with stop/trace/contOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_wait: current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; read_lock(&tasklist_lock); ... search for the task to reap ... In theory, the ->state changing can leak into the critical section. Since the child can change its status under read_lock(tasklist) in parallel (finish_stop/ptrace_stop), we can miss the wakeup if __wake_up_parent() sees us in TASK_RUNNING state. Add the barrier. Also, use __set_current_state() to set TASK_RUNNING. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* do_wait: kill the old BUG_ON, use while_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-3/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_wait() does BUG_ON(tsk->signal != current->signal), this looks like a raher obsolete check. At least, I don't think do_wait() is the best place to verify that all threads have the same ->signal. Remove it. Also, change the code to use while_each_thread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* do_wait: simplify retval/tsk_result/notask_error messOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-12/+8Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we don't pass &retval down to other helpers we can simplify the code more. - kill tsk_result, just use retval - add the "notask" label right after the main loop, and s/got end/goto notask/ after the fastpath pid check. This way we don't need to initialize retval before this check and the code becomes a bit more clean, if this pid has no attached tasks we should just skip the list search. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* introduce "struct wait_opts" to simplify do_wait() patchesOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-97/+110
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce "struct wait_opts" which holds the parameters for misc helpers in do_wait() pathes. This adds 13 lines to kernel/exit.c, but saves 256 bytes from .o and imho makes the code much more readable. This patch temporary uglifies rusage/siginfo code a little bit, will be addressed by further cleanups. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* shift "ptrace implies WUNTRACED" from ptrace_do_wait() to wait_task_stopped()Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-6/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes, preparation for the next patch. ptrace_do_wait() adds WUNTRACED to options for wait_task_stopped() which should always accept the stopped tracee, even if do_wait() was called without WUNTRACED. Change wait_task_stopped() to check "ptrace || WUNTRACED" instead. This makes the code more explicit, and "int options" argument becomes const in do_wait() pathes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* copy_process(): remove the unneeded clear_tsk_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-1/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | The forked child can have TIF_SIGPENDING if it was copied from parent's ti->flags. But this is harmless and actually almost never happens, because copy_process() can't succeed if signal_pending() == T. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* wait_task_zombie: do not use thread_group_cputime()Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-10/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no reason for thread_group_cputime() in wait_task_zombie(), there must be no other threads. This call was previously needed to collect the per-cpu data which we do not have any longer. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: don't take tasklist to get/set ->last_siginfoOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-10/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | Change ptrace_getsiginfo/ptrace_setsiginfo to use lock_task_sighand() without tasklist_lock. Perhaps it makes sense to make a single helper with "bool rw" argument. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: do_notify_parent_cldstop: fix the wrong ->nsproxy usageOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the non-traced sub-thread calls do_notify_parent_cldstop(), we send the notification to group_leader->real_parent and we report group_leader's pid. But, if group_leader is traced we use the wrong ->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns, the tracer and parent can live in different namespaces. Change the code to use "parent" instead of tsk->parent. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: wait_task_zombie: s/->parent/->real_parent/Oleg Nesterov2009-06-181-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Change wait_task_zombie() to use ->real_parent instead of ->parent. We could even use current afaics, but ->real_parent is more clean. We know that the child is not ptrace_reparented() and thus they are equal. But we should avoid using task_struct->parent, we are going to remove it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace_get_task_struct: s/tasklist/rcu/, make it staticOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-13/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Use rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock to find/get the task in ptrace_get_task_struct(). - Make it static, it has no callers outside of ptrace.c. - The comment doesn't match the reality, this helper does not do any checks. Beacuse it is really trivial and static I removed the whole comment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: do not use task_lock() for attachOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-46/+13Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the "Nasty, nasty" lock dance in ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme() - from now task_lock() has nothing to do with ptrace at all. With the recent changes nobody uses task_lock() to serialize with ptrace, but in fact it was never needed and it was never used consistently. However ptrace_attach() calls __ptrace_may_access() and needs task_lock() to pin task->mm for get_dumpable(). But we can call __ptrace_may_access() before we take tasklist_lock, ->cred_exec_mutex protects us against do_execve() path which can change creds and MMF_DUMP* flags. (ugly, but we can't use ptrace_may_access() because it hides the error code, so we have to take task_lock() and use __ptrace_may_access()). NOTE: this change assumes that LSM hooks, security_ptrace_may_access() and security_ptrace_traceme(), can be called without task_lock() held. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: cleanup check/set of PT_PTRACED during attachOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-50/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ptrace_attach() and ptrace_traceme() are the last functions which look as if the untraced task can have task->ptrace != 0, this must not be possible. Change the code to just check ->ptrace != 0 and s/|=/=/ to set PT_PTRACED. Also, a couple of trivial whitespace cleanups in ptrace_attach(). And move ptrace_traceme() up near ptrace_attach() to keep them close to each other. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: ptrace_attach: check PF_KTHREAD + exit_state instead of ->mmOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-9/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Add PF_KTHREAD check to prevent attaching to the kernel thread with a borrowed ->mm. With or without this change we can race with daemonize() which can set PF_KTHREAD or clear ->mm after ptrace_attach() does the check, but this doesn't matter because reparent_to_kthreadd() does ptrace_unlink(). - Kill "!task->mm" check. We don't really care about ->mm != NULL, and the task can call exit_mm() right after we drop task_lock(). What we need is to make sure we can't attach after exit_notify(), check task->exit_state != 0 instead. Also, move the "already traced" check down for cosmetic reasons. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: do not use task->ptrace directly in core kernelOleg Nesterov2009-06-182-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes. - Nobody except ptrace.c & co should use ptrace flags directly, we have task_ptrace() for that. - No need to specially check PT_PTRACED, we must not have other PT_ bits set without PT_PTRACED. And no need to know this flag exists. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: mm_need_new_owner: use ->real_parent to search in the siblingsOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | "Search in the siblings" should use ->real_parent, not ->parent. If the task is traced then ->parent == tracer, while the task's parent is always ->real_parent. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* allow_signal: kill the bogus ->mm check, add a note about CLONE_SIGHANDOleg Nesterov2009-06-181-10/+9Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | allow_signal() checks ->mm == NULL. Not sure why. Perhaps to make sure current is the kernel thread. But this helper must not be used unless we are the kernel thread, kill this check. Also, document the fact that the CLONE_SIGHAND kthread must not use allow_signal(), unless the caller really wants to change the parent's ->sighand->action as well. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: add interface to reset limitsDaisuke Nishimura2009-06-181-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't have an interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now. This patch allows to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit when they are being set to -1. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cgroups: forbid noprefix if mounting more than just cpuset subsystemLi Zefan2009-06-181-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 'noprefix' option was introduced for backwards-compatibility of cpuset, but actually it can be used when mounting other subsystems. This results in possibility of name collision, and now the collision can really happen, because we have 'stat' file in both memory and cpuacct subsystem: # mount -t cgroup -o noprefix,memory,cpuacct xxx /mnt Cgroup will happily mount the 2 subsystems, but only 'stat' file of memory subsys can be seen. We don't want users to use nopreifx, and also want to avoid name collision, so we change to allow noprefix only if mounting just the cpuset subsystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift for cpuset_subsys_id >= 32] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* softirq: introduce statistics for softirqKeika Kobayashi2009-06-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Statistics for softirq doesn't exist. It will be helpful like statistics for interrupts. This patch introduces counting the number of softirq, which will be exported in /proc/softirqs. When softirq handler consumes much CPU time, /proc/stat is like the following. $ while :; do cat /proc/stat | head -n1 ; sleep 10 ; done cpu 88 0 408 739665 583 28 2 0 0 cpu 450 0 1090 740970 594 28 1294 0 0 ^^^^ softirq In such a situation, /proc/softirqs shows us which softirq handler is invoked. We can see the increase rate of softirqs. <before> $ cat /proc/softirqs CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 HI 0 0 0 0 TIMER 462850 462805 462782 462718 NET_TX 0 0 0 365 NET_RX 2472 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 381 1164 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 462654 462689 462698 462427 RCU 3046 2423 3367 3173 <after> $ cat /proc/softirqs CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 HI 0 0 0 0 TIMER 463361 465077 465056 464991 NET_TX 53 0 1 365 NET_RX 3757 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 398 1170 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 463074 464318 464612 463330 RCU 3505 2948 3947 3673 When CPU TIME of softirq is high, the rates of increase is the following. TIMER : 220/sec : CPU1-3 NET_TX : 5/sec : CPU0 NET_RX : 120/sec : CPU0 SCHED : 40-200/sec : all CPU RCU : 45-58/sec : all CPU The rates of increase in an idle mode is the following. TIMER : 250/sec SCHED : 250/sec RCU : 2/sec It seems many softirqs for receiving packets and rcu are invoked. This gives us help for checking system. Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-171-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: UBIFS: start using hrtimers hrtimer: export ktime_add_safe UBIFS: do not forget to register BDI device UBIFS: allow sync option in rootflags UBIFS: remove dead code UBIFS: use anonymous device UBIFS: return proper error code if the compr is not present UBIFS: return error if link and unlink race UBIFS: reset no_space flag after inode deletion
| * hrtimer: export ktime_add_safeArtem Bityutskiy2009-06-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want to use hrtimers in UBIFS (for write-buffer write-back timer). We need the 'hrtimer_set_expires_range_ns()', which is an in-line function which uses 'ktime_add_safe()'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'akpm'Linus Torvalds2009-06-1710-445/+431Star
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * akpm: (182 commits) fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb? s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[] acornfb: remove fb_mmap function mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct ... Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
| * | slow-work: use round_jiffies() for thread pool's cull and OOM timersChris Peterson2009-06-171-9/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Round the slow work queue's cull and OOM timeouts to whole second boundary with round_jiffies(). The slow work queue uses a pair of timers to cull idle threads and, after OOM, to delay new thread creation. This patch also extracts the mod_timer() logic for the cull timer into a separate helper function. By rounding non-time-critical timers such as these to whole seconds, they will be batched up to fire at the same time rather than being spread out. This allows the CPU wake up less, which saves power. Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | groups: move code to kernel/groups.cAlexey Dobriyan2009-06-173-283/+289
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move supplementary groups implementation to kernel/groups.c . kernel/sys.c already accumulated quite a few random stuff. Do strictly copy/paste + add required headers to compile. Compile-tested on many configs and archs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | kernel/kfifo.c: replace conditional test with is_power_of_2()Robert P. J. Day2009-06-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config optionKOSAKI Motohiro2009-06-171-2/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off. Thus this configurability is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozenRafael J. Wysocki2009-06-171-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the following scenario appears to be possible in theory: * Tasks are frozen for hibernation or suspend. * Free pages are almost exhausted. * Certain piece of code in the suspend code path attempts to allocate some memory using GFP_KERNEL and allocation order less than or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. * __alloc_pages_internal() cannot find a free page so it invokes the OOM killer. * The OOM killer attempts to kill a task, but the task is frozen, so it doesn't die immediately. * __alloc_pages_internal() jumps to 'restart', unsuccessfully tries to find a free page and invokes the OOM killer. * No progress can be made. Although it is now hard to trigger during hibernation due to the memory shrinking carried out by the hibernation code, it is theoretically possible to trigger during suspend after the memory shrinking has been removed from that code path. Moreover, since memory allocations are going to be used for the hibernation memory shrinking, it will be even more likely to happen during hibernation. To prevent it from happening, introduce the oom_killer_disabled switch that will cause __alloc_pages_internal() to fail in the situations in which the OOM killer would have been called and make the freezer set this switch after tasks have been successfully frozen. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be nicer to the namespace] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is ↵Mel Gorman2009-06-171-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | valid Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [for the SLOB NUMA bits] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in timeMiao Xie2009-06-172-138/+48Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is changed. In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task. But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes, then clear newly disallowed ones. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy(). Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new(). Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL 'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new(). Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for 'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to verify this assumption.] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive enough to differentiate it from mpol_new(). This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on 'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions that we need to call this function to "set nodes". Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in timeMiao Xie2009-06-171-4/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the bug that the kernel didn't spread page cache/slab object evenly over all the allowed nodes when spread flags were set by updating tasks' page/slab spread flags in time. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | cpusets: restructure the function cpuset_update_task_memory_state()Miao Xie2009-06-171-8/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel still allocates the page caches on old node after modifying its cpuset's mems when 'memory_spread_page' was set, or it didn't spread the page cache evenly over all the nodes that faulting task is allowed to usr after memory_spread_page was set. it is caused by the old mem_allowed and flags of the task, the current kernel doesn't updates them unless some function invokes cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), it is too late sometimes.We must update the mem_allowed and the flags of the tasks in time. Slab has the same problem. The following patches fix this bug by updating tasks' mem_allowed and spread flag after its cpuset's mems or spread flag is changed. This patch: Extract a function from cpuset_update_task_memory_state(). It will be used later for update tasks' page/slab spread flags after its cpuset's flag is set Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-165-10/+41
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits) signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: introduce __getname_gfp() trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event net: annotate struct sock bitfield c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report ieee1394: annotate bitfield net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot x86: unify pte_hidden x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings kmemcheck: don't track page tables ...
| * \ \ Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEADVegard Nossum2009-06-1520-834/+953
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
| * | | | signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warningVegard Nossum2009-06-151-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This false positive is due to field padding in struct sigqueue. When this dynamically allocated structure is copied to the stack (in arch- specific delivery code), kmemcheck sees a read from the padding, which is, naturally, uninitialized. Hide the false positive using the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag. Also made the rlimit override code a bit clearer by introducing a new variable. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
| * | | | trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_eventVegard Nossum2009-06-151-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This gets rid of a heap of false-positive warnings from the tracer code due to the use of bitfields. [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
| * | | | kmemcheck: add mm functionsVegard Nossum2009-06-151-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this: 1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or uninitialized. 2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized. There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and "recently freed". If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck. If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object. In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option). Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for atomicity. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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