- Jul 12, 2013
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Tejun Heo authored
* Rename it to cgroup_clear_dir() and make it take the pointer to the target cgroup instead of the the dentry. This makes the function consistent with its counterpart - cgroup_populate_dir(). * Move cgroup_clear_directory() invocation from cgroup_d_remove_dir() to cgroup_remount() so that the function doesn't have to determine the cgroup pointer back from the dentry. cgroup_d_remove_dir() now only deals with vfs, which is slightly cleaner. This patch doesn't introduce any functional differences. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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- Jul 11, 2013
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Michel Lespinasse authored
Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(), there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache. Signed-off-by:
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 09, 2013
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Robin Holt authored
Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line parameter handling. Signed-off-by:
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Acked-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
Get the new file to pass scripts/checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
This patch is preparatory. It moves reboot related syscall, etc functions from kernel/sys.c to kernel/reboot.c. Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
Remove the prior patch's #define for easier backporting to the stable releases. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Change ptrace_detach() to call flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(child). This frees the slots for non-ptrace PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT users, and this ensures that the tracee won't be killed by SIGTRAP triggered by the active breakpoints. Test-case: unsigned long encode_dr7(int drnum, int enable, unsigned int type, unsigned int len) { unsigned long dr7; dr7 = ((len | type) & 0xf) << (DR_CONTROL_SHIFT + drnum * DR_CONTROL_SIZE); if (enable) dr7 |= (DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE << (drnum * DR_ENABLE_SIZE)); return dr7; } int write_dr(int pid, int dr, unsigned long val) { return ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, pid, offsetof (struct user, u_debugreg[dr]), val); } void func(void) { } int main(void) { int pid, stat; unsigned long dr7; pid = fork(); if (!pid) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGHUP); func(); return 0x13; } assert(pid == waitpid(-1, &stat, 0)); assert(WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGHUP); assert(write_dr(pid, 0, (long)func) == 0); dr7 = encode_dr7(0, 1, DR_RW_EXECUTE, DR_LEN_1); assert(write_dr(pid, 7, dr7) == 0); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, 0,0) == 0); assert(pid == waitpid(-1, &stat, 0)); assert(stat == 0x1300); return 0; } Before this patch the child is killed after PTRACE_DETACH. Signed-off-by:Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
This reverts commit bf26c018 ("Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints"). The patch was fine but we can no longer race with SIGKILL after commit 9899d11f ("ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL"), the __TASK_TRACED tracee can't be woken up and ->ptrace_bps[] can't go away. Now that ptrace_get_breakpoints/ptrace_put_breakpoints have no callers, we can kill them and remove task->ptrace_bp_refcnt. Signed-off-by:
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Thorlton authored
Add the cpu/pid that called WARN() so that the stack traces can be matched up with the WARNING messages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray quote] Signed-off-by:
Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Reviewed-by:
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Michal Simek authored
Use proper decimal type for comparison with u32. Compilation warning was introduced by 780a7654 ("audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.") kernel/auditfilter.c: In function 'audit_data_to_entry': kernel/auditfilter.c:426:3: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90 [enabled by default] if ((f->type == AUDIT_LOGINUID) && (f->val == 4294967295)) { Signed-off-by:
Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
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Chen Gang authored
If both 'tree' and 'watch' are valid we must call audit_put_tree(), just like the preceding code within audit_add_rule(). Signed-off-by:
Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Raphael S. Carvalho authored
kernel/auditfilter.c:426: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90 Signed-off-by:
Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Layton authored
The old audit PATH records for mq_open looked like this: type=PATH msg=audit(1366282323.982:869): item=1 name=(null) inode=6777 dev=00:0c mode=041777 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s15:c0.c1023 type=PATH msg=audit(1366282323.982:869): item=0 name="test_mq" inode=26732 dev=00:0c mode=0100700 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=staff_u:object_r:user_tmpfs_t:s15:c0.c1023 ...with the audit related changes that went into 3.7, they now look like this: type=PATH msg=audit(1366282236.776:3606): item=2 name=(null) inode=66655 dev=00:0c mode=0100700 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=staff_u:object_r:user_tmpfs_t:s15:c0.c1023 type=PATH msg=audit(1366282236.776:3606): item=1 name=(null) inode=6926 dev=00:0c mode=041777 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s15:c0.c1023 type=PATH msg=audit(1366282236.776:3606): item=0 name="test_mq" Both of these look wrong to me. As Steve Grubb pointed out: "What we need is 1 PATH record that identifies the MQ. The other PATH records probably should not be there." Fix it to record the mq root as a parent, and flag it such that it should be hidden from view when the names are logged, since the root of the mq filesystem isn't terribly interesting. With this change, we get a single PATH record that looks more like this: type=PATH msg=audit(1368021604.836:484): item=0 name="test_mq" inode=16914 dev=00:0c mode=0100644 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmpfs_t:s0 In order to do this, a new audit_inode_parent_hidden() function is added. If we do it this way, then we avoid having the existing callers of audit_inode needing to do any sort of flag conversion if auditing is inactive. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reported-by:
Jiri Jaburek <jjaburek@redhat.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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- Jul 06, 2013
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Sigh, should have noticed myself. Reported-by:
<fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- Jul 05, 2013
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Thomas Gleixner authored
smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context. But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support Xens resume mechanism. linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_* is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen change. Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context. Reported-and-tested-by:
Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Up to commit 5d33b883 (clocksource: Always verify highres capability) we had no sanity check when selecting a clocksource, which prevented that a non highres capable clocksource is used when the system already switched to highres/nohz mode. The new sanity check works as Alex and Tim found out. It prevents the TSC from being used. This happens because on x86 the boot process looks like this: tsc_start_freqency_validation(TSC); clocksource_register(HPET); clocksource_done_booting(); clocksource_select() Selects HPET which is valid for high-res switch_to_highres(); clocksource_register(TSC); TSC is not selected, because it is not yet flagged as VALID_HIGH_RES clocksource_watchdog() Validates TSC for highres, but that does not make TSC the current clocksource. Before the sanity check was added, we installed TSC unvalidated which worked most of the time. If the TSC was really detected as unstable, then the unstable logic removed it and installed HPET again. The sanity check is correct and needed. So the watchdog needs to kick a reselection of the clocksource, when it qualifies TSC as a valid high res clocksource. To solve this, we mark the clocksource which got the flag CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES set by the watchdog with an new flag CLOCK_SOURCE_RESELECT and trigger the watchdog thread. The watchdog thread evaluates the flag and invokes clocksource_select() when set. To avoid that the clocksource_done_booting() code, which is about to install the first real clocksource anyway, needs to go through clocksource_select and tick_oneshot_notify() pointlessly, split out the clocksource_watchdog_kthread() list walk code and invoke the select/notify only when called from clocksource_watchdog_kthread(). So clocksource_done_booting() can utilize the same splitout code without the select/notify invocation and the clocksource_mutex unlock/relock dance. Reported-and-tested-by:
Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Cc: Hans Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Tested-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307042239150.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by:
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch fixes a serious bug in: 14c63f17 perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow There was an misunderstanding on the API of the do_div() macro. It returns the remainder of the division and this was not what the function expected leading to disabling the interrupt latency watchdog. This patch also remove a duplicate assignment in perf_sample_event_took(). Signed-off-by:
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704223010.GA30625@quad Signed-off-by:
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- Jul 04, 2013
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
When tsk->signal->cputimer->running is 1, signal->cputimer (i.e. per process timer account) and tsk->sum_sched_runtime (i.e. per thread timer account) increase at the same pace because update_curr() increases both accounting. However, there is one exception. When thread exiting, __exit_signal() turns over task's sum_shced_runtime to sig->sum_sched_runtime, but it doesn't stop signal->cputimer accounting. This inconsistency makes POSIX timer wake up too early. This patch fixes it. Original-patch-by:
Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Jul 03, 2013
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Kevin Hao authored
This line was introduced by fcb11918 ("resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas"). But the struct tmp was already assigned to *new in the above line, so this seems superfluous. Just remove it. Signed-off-by:
Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by:
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Raphael S. Carvalho authored
Move statement to static initilization of init_pid_ns. Signed-off-by:
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
copy_process() does a lot of "chaotic" initializations and checks CLONE_THREAD twice before it takes tasklist. In particular it sets "p->group_leader = p" and then changes it again under tasklist if !thread_group_leader(p). This looks a bit confusing, lets create a single "if (CLONE_THREAD)" block which initializes ->exit_signal, ->group_leader, and ->tgid. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
copy_process() adds the new child to thread_group/init_task.tasks list and then does attach_pid(child, PIDTYPE_PID). This means that the lockless next_thread() or next_task() can see this thread with the wrong pid. Say, "ls /proc/pid/task" can list the same inode twice. We could move attach_pid(child, PIDTYPE_PID) up, but in this case find_task_by_vpid() can find the new thread before it was fully initialized. And this is already true for PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID, With this patch copy_process() initializes child->pids[*].pid first, then calls attach_pid() to insert the task into the pid->tasks list. attach_pid() no longer need the "struct pid*" argument, it is always called after pid_link->pid was already set. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cleanup and preparation for the next changes. Move the "if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)" code down under "if (likely(p->pid))" and turn it into into the "else" branch. This makes the process/thread initialization more symmetrical and removes one check. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Paris authored
When a task is attempting to violate the RLIMIT_NPROC limit we have a check to see if the task is sufficiently priviledged. The check first looks at CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, then if the task is uid=0. A result is that tasks which are allowed by the uid=0 check are first checked against the security subsystem. This results in the security subsystem auditting a denial for sys_admin and sys_resource and then the task passing the uid=0 check. This patch rearranges the code to first check uid=0, since if we pass that we shouldn't hit the security system at all. We then check sys_resource, since it is the smallest capability which will solve the problem. Lastly we check the fallback everything cap_sysadmin. We don't want to give this capability many places since it is so powerful. This will eliminate many of the false positive/needless denial messages we get when a root task tries to violate the nproc limit. (note that kthreads count against root, so on a sufficiently large machine we can actually get past the default limits before any userspace tasks are launched.) Signed-off-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Move __set_special_pids() from exit.c to sys.c close to its single caller and make it static. And rename it to set_special_pids(), another helper with this name has gone away. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
call_usermodehelper_exec() does nothing but returns success if path[0] == 0. The only user which needs this strange feature is request_module(), it can check modprobe_path[0] itself like other users do if they want to detect the "disabled by admin" case. Kill it. Not only it looks strange, it can confuse other callers. And this allows us to revert 264b83c0 ("usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL"), do_execve(NULL) is safe. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Vagin authored
crtools uses a parasite code for dumping processes. The parasite code is injected into a process with help PTRACE_SEIZE. Currently crtools blocks signals from a parasite code. If a process has pending signals, crtools wait while a process handles these signals. This method is not suitable for stopped tasks. A stopped task can have a few pending signals, when we will try to execute a parasite code, we will need to drop SIGSTOP, but all other signals must remain pending, because a state of processes must not be changed during checkpointing. This patch adds two ptrace commands to set/get signal-blocked mask. I think gdb can use this commands too. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be consistent with brace layout] Signed-off-by:
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Reviewed-by:
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Mathias Krause authored
When writing invalid input to 'debug/kprobes/enabled' it'll silently be ignored. Even worse, when writing an empty string to this file, the outcome is purely random as the switch statement will make its decision based on the value of an uninitialized stack variable. Fix this by handling invalid/empty input as error returning -EINVAL. Signed-off-by:
Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Change do_sysinfo() to use get_monotonic_boottime() instead of do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() + monotonic_to_bootbased(). Signed-off-by:
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com> Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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liguang authored
If LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT for reboot failed, the message "cannot halt" will stay on the same line with the next message, so append a '\n'. Signed-off-by:
liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jiang Liu authored
The global variable num_physpages is scheduled to be removed, so use totalram_pages instead of num_physpages at runtime. Signed-off-by:
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When a task exits, we perform a caching of the remaining cputime delta before expiring of its timers. This is done from the following places: * When the task is reaped. We iterate through its list of posix cpu timers and store the remaining timer delta to the timer struct instead of the absolute value. (See posix_cpu_timers_exit() / posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() ) * When we call posix_cpu_timer_get() or posix_cpu_timer_schedule(). If the timer's task is considered dying when watched from these places, the same conversion from absolute to relative expiry time is performed. Then the given task's reference is released. (See clear_dead_task() ). The relevance of this caching is questionable but this is another and deeper debate. The big issue here is that these two sources of caching don't mix up very well together. More specifically, the caching can easily be done twice, resulting in a wrong delta as it gets spuriously substracted a second time by the elapsed clock. This can happen in the following scenario: 1) The task exits and gets reaped: we call posix_cpu_timers_exit() and the absolute timer expiry values are converted to a relative delta. 2) timer_gettime() -> posix_cpu_timer_get() is called and relies on clear_dead_task() because tsk->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD. The delta gets substracted again by the elapsed clock and we return a wrong result. To fix this, just remove the caching done on task reaping time. It doesn't bring much value on its own. The caching done from posix_cpu_timer_get/schedule is enough. And it would also be hard to get it really right: we could make it put and clear the target task in the timer struct so that readers know if they are dealing with a relative cached of absolute value. But it would be racy. The only safe way to do it would be to lock the itimer->it_lock so that we know nobody reads the cputime expiry value while we modify it and its target task reference. Doing so would involve some funny workarounds to avoid circular lock against the sighand lock. There is just no reason to maintain this. The user visible effect of this patch can be observed by running the following code: it creates a subthread that launches a posix cputimer which expires after 10 seconds. But then the subthread only busy loops for 2 seconds and exits. The parent reaps the subthread and read the timer value. Its expected value should the be the initial timer's expiration value minus the cputime elapsed in the subthread. Roughly 10 - 2 = 8 seconds: #include <sys/time.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <time.h> #include <pthread.h> static timer_t id; static struct itimerspec val = { .it_value.tv_sec = 10, }, new; static void *thread(void *unused) { int err; struct timeval start, end, diff; timer_create(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, NULL, &id); if (err < 0) { perror("Can't create timer\n"); return NULL; } /* Arm 10 sec timer */ err = timer_settime(id, 0, &val, NULL); if (err < 0) { perror("Can't set timer\n"); return NULL; } /* Exit after 2 seconds of execution */ gettimeofday(&start, NULL); do { gettimeofday(&end, NULL); timersub(&end, &start, &diff); } while (diff.tv_sec < 2); return NULL; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { pthread_t pthread; int err; err = pthread_create(&pthread, NULL, thread, NULL); if (err) { perror("Can't create thread\n"); return -1; } pthread_join(pthread, NULL); /* Just wait a little bit to make sure the child got reaped */ sleep(1); err = timer_gettime(id, &new); if (err) perror("Can't get timer value\n"); printf("%d %ld\n", new.it_value.tv_sec, new.it_value.tv_nsec); return 0; } Before the patch: $ ./posix_cpu_timers 6 2278074 After the patch: $ ./posix_cpu_timers 8 1158766 Before the patch, the elapsed time got two more seconds spuriously accounted. Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
In order to re-arm a timer after it fired, we take a sample of the current process or thread cputime. If the task is dying though, we don't arm anything but we cache the remaining timer expiration delta for further reads. Something similar is performed in posix_cpu_timer_get() but here we forget to take the process wide cputime sample before caching it. As a result we are storing random stack content, leading every further reads of that timer to return junk values. Fix this by taking the appropriate sample in the case of process wide timers. This probably doesn't matter much in practice because, at this stage, the thread is the last one in the group and we reached exit_notify(). This implies that we called exit_itimers() and there should be no more timers to handle for that task. So this is likely dead code anyway but let's fix the current logic and the warning that came along: kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: In function 'posix_cpu_timer_schedule': kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c:1127: warning: 'now' may be used uninitialized in this function Then we can start to think further about cleaning up that code. Reported-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
Consolidate the common code amongst per thread and per process timers list on tick time. List traversal, expiry check and subsequent updates can be shared in a common helper. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Cleaning up the posix cpu timers on task exit shares some common code among timer list types, most notably the list traversal and expiry time update. Unify this in a common helper. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The posix cpu timer expiry time is stored in a union of two types: a 64 bits field if we rely on scheduler precise accounting, or a cputime_t if we rely on jiffies. This results in quite some duplicate code and special cases to handle the two types. Just unify this into a single 64 bits field. cputime_t can always fit into it. Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Fold alloc_module_percpu into percpu_modalloc(). Signed-off-by: -
Rusty Russell authored
v3.8-rc1-5-g1fb9341 was supposed to stop parallel kvm loads exhausting percpu memory on large machines: Now we have a new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, we can insert the module into the list (and thus guarantee its uniqueness) before we allocate the per-cpu region. In my defence, it didn't actually say the patch did this. Just that we "can". This patch actually *does* it. Signed-off-by:Jim Hull <jim.hull@hp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.8
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
I have patches that will use tracing_open_generic_tr/tc() in other files, but as they are not ready to be merged yet, and Fengguang Wu's sparse scripts pointed out that these functions were not declared anywhere, I'll make them static for now. When these functions are required to be used elsewhere, I'll remove the static then. Reported-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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