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2007-05-24documentation: Documentation/initrd.txtDomenico Andreoli1-28/+46
Final clearification of the pivot_root mechanism, which brings this document really up-to-date. Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@dandreoli.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24md: fix bug with linear hot-add and elsewhereNeilBrown2-11/+19
Adding a drive to a linear array seems to have stopped working, due to changes elsewhere in md, and insufficient ongoing testing... So the patch to make linear hot-add work in the first place introduced a subtle bug elsewhere that interracts poorly with older version of mdadm. This fixes it all up. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24md: don't write more than is required of the last page of a bitmapNeilBrown2-5/+13
It is possible that real data or metadata follows the bitmap without full page alignment. So limit the last write to be only the required number of bytes, rounded up to the hard sector size of the device. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24md: avoid overflow in raid0 calculation with large componentsNeilBrown1-2/+1
If a raid0 has a component device larger than 4TB, and is accessed on a 32bit machines, then as 'chunk' is unsigned long, chunk << chunksize_bits can overflow (this can be as high as the size of the device in KB). chunk itself will not overflow (without triggering a BUG). So change 'chunk' to be 'sector_t, and get rid of the 'BUG' as it becomes impossible to hit. Cc: "Jeff Zheng" <Jeff.Zheng@endace.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24i386, x86-64: show that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend on SMPStefan Richter2-3/+6
It's not sufficiently documented that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend/hibernation on SMP. Point out the non-obvious. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24i2o: eliminate a peculiar constraint on i2o_max_driversAkinobu Mita1-5/+3
There is no reason i2o_max_drivers must be a power of two. This patch eliminates such a constraint. Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24i2o: fix notifiers when max_drivers is configuredAkinobu Mita1-7/+7
Maximum number of I2O drivers which could be registered is configurable by max_drivers module parameter. But the module parameter is ignored and default value (I2O_MAX_DRIVERS = 8) is used in the loops to notify all registered drivers. Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24i2o: destroy event queue only when drv->event is setAkinobu Mita1-2/+6
i2o_driver_register() initalizes event queue for driver only when drv->event is set. So similarly the event queue should be destroyed only when drv->event is set in the error path. Otherwise destroy_workqueue() will called with NULL. Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24signalfd: retrieve multiple signals with one read() callDavi Arnaut1-45/+75
Gathering signals in bulk enables server applications to drain a signal queue (almost full of realtime signals) more efficiently by reducing the syscall and file look-up overhead. Very similar to the sigtimedwait4() call described by Niels Provos, Chuck Lever, and Stephen Tweedie in a paper entitled "Analyzing the Overload Behavior of a Simple Web Server". The paper lists more details and advantages. Signed-off-by: Davi E. M. Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br> Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24update dontdiff fileRandy Dunlap1-1/+41
Update dontdiff file by adding entries from many .gitignore files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24power: Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typoOGAWA Hirofumi1-1/+1
Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typo. It should be just PAGE_SIZE for zeroing the swsusp_header. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hogawa@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Misc: phantom, take care of pci postingJiri Slaby1-1/+10
phantom, take care of pci posting thanks to akpm for pointing this out Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24phantom: move to unlocked_ioctlJiri Slaby1-4/+14
phantom's ioctl is often (4000 times a sec or so) invoked, don't acquire BKL and block other processes. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@phantom.fi.muni.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24simplify cleanup_workqueue_thread()Oleg Nesterov1-47/+37
cleanup_workqueue_thread() and cwq_should_stop() are overcomplicated. Convert the code to use kthread_should_stop/kthread_stop as was suggested by Gautham and Srivatsa. In particular this patch removes the (unlikely) busy-wait loop from the exit path, it was a temporary and ugly kludge (if not a bug). Note: the current code was designed to solve another old problem: work->func can't share locks with hotplug callbacks. I think this could be done, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116905366428633 but this needs some more complications to preserve CPU affinity of cwq->thread during cpu_up(). A freezer-based hotplug looks more appealing. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it more tolerant of gcc borkenness] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@wilibox.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Char: cyclades, fix deadlockJiri Slaby1-0/+1
An omitted unlock. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24SLUB Debug: fix check for super sized slabs (>512k 64bit, >256k 32bit)Christoph Lameter1-1/+1
The check for super sized slabs where we can no longer move the free pointer behind the object for debugging purposes etc is accessing a field that is not setup yet. We must use objsize here since the size of the slab has not been determined yet. The effect of this is that a global slab shrink via "slabinfo -s" will show errors about offsets being wrong if booted with slub_debug. Potentially there are other troubles with huge slabs under slub_debug because the calculated free pointer offset is truncated. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24fix unused setup_nr_node_idsMiklos Szeredi1-20/+25
mm/page_alloc.c:931: warning: 'setup_nr_node_ids' defined but not used This is now the only (!) compiler warning I get in my UML build :) Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24fuse: delete inode on dropMiklos Szeredi1-0/+1
When inode is dropped (no more references) delete it from cache. There's not much point in keeping it cached, when a new lookup will refresh the attributes anyway. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24fuse: generic_write_checks() for direct_ioMiklos Szeredi1-1/+3
This fixes O_APPEND in direct IO mode. Also checks writes against file size limits, notably rlimits. Reported by Greg Bruno. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24uselib: add missing MNT_NOEXEC checkChristoph Hellwig1-0/+3
We don't allow loading ELF shared library from noexec points so the same should apply to sys_uselib aswell. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Missing 'const' from reiserfs MIN_KEY declaration.David Woodhouse1-1/+1
In stree.c, MIN_KEY is declared const. The extern declaration in dir.c doesn't match... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24imxfb: fix memory holeSascha Hauer1-1/+0
info->pseudo_palette was previously kmalloced. Do not overwrite it afterwards Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24imxfb: remove ifdefsSascha Hauer1-15/+8
Here are some small fixes for the imxfb framebuffer driver: - remove ifndef for MX1FS2 platform which is not present in the kernel. - REV, CLS, PS and SPL_SPR are only needed with some sharp displays. Only setup the corresponding io pins when such a display is connected. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24ps3fb: use FB_SYS_* instead of FB_CFB_*Geert Uytterhoeven2-6/+9
ps3fb: Use the FB_SYS_* operations instead of the FB_CFB_* operations as the actual frame buffer memory is part of system RAM Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24w100fb: fix compile warningsRichard Purdie1-5/+9
Fix compile warnings from w100fb.c. Attribute registration failure doesn't stop the driver working so just warn about it. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24pm3fb: various fixesKrzysztof Helt1-181/+152
- fix 16-bit RGBA 4444 and 5551 modes (use fbset -rgba to set them) - kill wmb() after each register write by PM3_SLOW_WRITE_REG - kill inaccurate comments (leftovers from skeletonfb.c) - kill PCI class restriction, now it is more general and shorter - white spaces and other minor fixes and source reducing Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24pm2fb: RDAC_WR barriers clean upKrzysztof Helt1-12/+5
This patch fixes a possible barriers problem in RDAC_WR functions, then remove redudant ones. It also removes one unneeded register load from blitter function(). Signed-off-by: Krzysztof.Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24fbdev: cleanup of sparc FB optionsKrzysztof Helt1-90/+86
This patch puts all SBUS/UPA selection under one option "SBUS/UPA framebuffers" and moves all sparc specific drivers next to them in one group. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24spi: potential memleak in spidev_ioctlFlorin Malita1-0/+1
'ioc' should be deallocated if __copy_from_user fails (found by Coverity - CID 1644). Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24optimize compat_core_sys_select() by a using stack space for small fd setsBadari Pulavarty1-6/+11
Optimize select by a using stack space for small fd sets. core_sys_select() already has this optimization. This is for compat version. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24recalc_sigpending_tsk fixesRoland McGrath4-17/+28
Steve Hawkes discovered a problem where recalc_sigpending_tsk was called in do_sigaction but no signal_wake_up call was made, preventing later signals from waking up blocked threads with TIF_SIGPENDING already set. In fact, the few other calls to recalc_sigpending_tsk outside the signals code are also subject to this problem in other race conditions. This change makes recalc_sigpending_tsk private to the signals code. It changes the outside calls, as well as do_sigaction, to use the new recalc_sigpending_and_wake instead. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <Steve.Hawkes@motorola.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Avoid zero size allocation in cache_k8_northbridges()Ben Collins1-1/+6
kmalloc for flush_words resulted in zero size allocation when no k8_northbridges existed. Short circuit the code path for this case. Also remove uneeded zeroing of num_k8_northbridges just after checking if it is zero. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Documentation: fix the explanation of Kconfig filesRobert P. J. Day1-19/+30
Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernelPaul E. McKenney1-2/+1
There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally compiled rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which has never been useful, and has often resulted in great frustration. The attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel. It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module. People wishing to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot are free to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m" line. Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24uml: improve PTRACE_SYSEMU checkingJeff Dike1-8/+16
Make the PTRACE_SYSEMU checking more robust. It will make sure that system call numbers are reported correctly. If there is a problem, it will disable PTRACE_SYSEMU use and use PTRACE_SYSCALL instead. Thanks to Balaji G for helping reproduce this problem. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24spi/spidev: check message size before copyingDomen Puncer1-6/+6
Message size needs to be checked before copying, or bad things could happen. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24capability.h warning fixAndrew Morton1-0/+2
include/linux/capability.h:397: warning: "struct task_struct" declared inside parameter list include/linux/capability.h:397: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24genhd: send async notification on media changeKristen Carlson Accardi2-1/+26
Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has occurred. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24genhd: expose AN to user spaceKristen Carlson Accardi3-1/+25
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of media changes. This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags", which is documented in (insert file name). This sysfs file will export all disk capabilities flags to user space. We also define a new flag to define the media change notification capability. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning outputThomas Gleixner1-3/+9
The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly. Rate limit the output until we found the root cause of that problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24spi doc update: describe clock mode bitsDavid Brownell1-5/+48
Update the SPI documentation to cover a few points that have proven to be confusing or unclear; most notably the two clock mode bits. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24mpc52xx_psc_spi: fix it for CONFIG_PPC_MERGEDomen Puncer1-14/+11
Fix mpc5200 PSC SPI driver to actually work for CONFIG_PPC_MERGE - s/mpc52xx/mpc5200/, as this was changed in device tree some time ago - fix spi id detection The move from 'ppc' to 'powerpc' didn't quite match the latest kernel.org code. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com> Acked-by: Dragos Carp <dragos.carp@toptica.com> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24fuse: fix mknod of regular fileMiklos Szeredi1-1/+1
The wrong lookup flag was tested in ->create() causing havoc (error or Oops) when a regular file was created with mknod() in a fuse filesystem. Thanks to J. Cameijo Cerdeira for the report. Kernels 2.6.18 onward are affected. Please apply to -stable as well. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24SLUB Debug: Fix object size calculationChristoph Lameter1-1/+1
The object size calculation is wrong if !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG because the #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is now switching off the size adjustments for DESTROY_BY_RCU and ctor. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Ignore bogus ACPI info for offline CPUsThomas Gleixner1-5/+12
Booting a SMP kernel with maxcpus=1 on a SMP system leads to a hard hang, because ACPI ignores the maxcpus setting and sends timer broadcast info for the offline CPUs. This results in a stuck for ever call to smp_call_function_single() on an offline CPU. Ignore the bogus information and print a kernel error to remind ACPI folks to fix it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24freezer: move frozen_process() to kernel/power/process.cGautham R Shenoy2-14/+13
Other than refrigerator, no one else calls frozen_process(). So move it from include/linux/freezer.h to kernel/power/process.c. Also, since a task can be marked as frozen by itself, we don't need to pass the (struct task_struct *p) parameter to frozen_process(). Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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>
2007-05-24freezer: fix PF_NOFREEZE vs freezeable raceGautham R Shenoy1-2/+4
This patch fixes the race pointed out by Oleg Nesterov. * Freezer marks a thread as freezeable. * The thread now marks itself PF_NOFREEZE, but it will be frozen on on calling try_to_freeze(). Thus the task is frozen, even though it doesn't want to. * Subsequent thaw_processes() will also fail to thaw the task since it is marked PF_NOFREEZE. Avoid this problem by checking the task's PF_NOFREEZE status in frozen_processes() before marking the task as frozen. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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>
2007-05-24freezer: fix kthread_create vs freezer theoretical raceOleg Nesterov1-2/+5
kthread() sleeps in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state waiting for the first wakeup. In theory, this wakeup may come from freeze_process()->signal_wake_up(), so the task can disappear even before kthread_create() sets its ->comm. Change kthread() to use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/BUG_ON/WARN_ON+recover] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24freezer: take kernel_execve into considerationRafael J. Wysocki1-2/+2
Kernel threads can become userland processes by calling kernel_execve(). In particular, this may happen right after the try_to_freeze_tasks() called with FREEZER_USER_SPACE has returned, so try_to_freeze_tasks() needs to take userspace processes into consideration even if it is called with FREEZER_KERNEL_THREADS. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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>
2007-05-24freezer: fix vfork problemRafael J. Wysocki4-22/+59
Currently try_to_freeze_tasks() has to wait until all of the vforked processes exit and for this reason every user can make it fail. To fix this problem we can introduce the additional process flag PF_FREEZER_SKIP to be used by tasks that do not want to be counted as freezable by the freezer and want to have TIF_FREEZE set nevertheless. Then, this flag can be set by tasks using sys_vfork() before they call wait_for_completion(&vfork) and cleared after they have woken up. After clearing it, the tasks should call try_to_freeze() as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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>
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