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    • Ulrich Drepper's avatar
      flag parameters: pipe · ed8cae8b
      Ulrich Drepper authored 
      

This patch introduces the new syscall pipe2 which is like pipe but it also
takes an additional parameter which takes a flag value.  This patch implements
the handling of O_CLOEXEC for the flag.  I did not add support for the new
syscall for the architectures which have a special sys_pipe implementation.  I
think the maintainers of those archs have the chance to go with the unified
implementation but that's up to them.

The implementation introduces do_pipe_flags.  I did that instead of changing
all callers of do_pipe because some of the callers are written in assembler.
I would probably screw up changing the assembly code.  To avoid breaking code
do_pipe is now a small wrapper around do_pipe_flags.  Once all callers are
changed over to do_pipe_flags the old do_pipe function can be removed.

The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#ifndef __NR_pipe2
# ifdef __x86_64__
#  define __NR_pipe2 293
# elif defined __i386__
#  define __NR_pipe2 331
# else
#  error "need __NR_pipe2"
# endif
#endif

int
main (void)
{
  int fd[2];
  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, 0) != 0)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(0) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
      if (coe == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(0) set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
    }
  close (fd[0]);
  close (fd[1]);

  if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, O_CLOEXEC) != 0)
    {
      puts ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    {
      int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
      if (coe == -1)
        {
          puts ("fcntl failed");
          return 1;
        }
      if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
        {
          printf ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
    }
  close (fd[0]);
  close (fd[1]);

  puts ("OK");

  return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ed8cae8b
    • Andrea Righi's avatar
      PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures · 27ac792c
      Andrea Righi authored 
      On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:

	u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);

always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.

The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):

#define PAGE_SHIFT      12
#define PAGE_SIZE       (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK       (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr)       (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)

The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.

Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.

See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237



[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      27ac792c
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    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop · b8f8c3cf
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      

Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:

	scheduler switch to idle task
	enable interrupts

Window starts here

	----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
	      	irq_exit() stops the tick

	----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)

	return from schedule()
	
	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();

Window ends here

The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.

The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.

Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.

cpu_idle()
{
	preempt_disable();

	while(1) {
		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
		 			          are in the idle loop

		 while (!need_resched())
		       halt();

		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
		 schedule();
		 preempt_disable();
	}
}

In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 

/me grabs a large brown paperbag.

Debugged-by: default avatarJack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com&gt;,>
Debugged-by: default avatareric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b8f8c3cf
    • Heiko Carstens's avatar
      fix core/stacktrace changes on avr32, mips, sh · 8b95d917
      Heiko Carstens authored 
      

Fixes this type of problem:

  CC      arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.o
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration

caused by "stacktrace: export save_stack_trace[_tsk]"

Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8b95d917
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