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Edgar E. Iglesias
79885b2277 elf: use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags
ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct
arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps.  Use it for kcore dumps as well.
At the moment, this affects the CRIS and the H8300 arch.

Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar@axis.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
7833351b52 pty: remove unused UNIX98_PTY_COUNT options
The h8300 and sparc options somehow survived when the code stopped using
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT.

Reviewed-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
9eefe520c8 ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing
This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical
positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418.

This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount
of lowmem.  With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification
routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc
namespace creation/ removal.

When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e.  value written to the proc
file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it
registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file.  This is
the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick".

To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni.
This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing.

With this patch, the process is the following:
1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode"
   /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends
                           on lowmem)
   /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1"

2) echo <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
   . sets msg_ctlmni to <val>
   . de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added
     msgmni won't be recomputed anymore)
   . /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0"

3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing
     this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays
     blocked at its current value)

3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size
     and number of ipc namespaces
   . re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
f1a43f93f0 ipc: use simple_read_from_buffer()
Also this patch kills unneccesary trailing NULL character.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
380af1b33b ipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list locking
The attached patch:
- reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock:
  Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock.
  Now it's the other way around.
- converts the undo structure to rcu.

Benefits:
- With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures.
  The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later.
- The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that
  recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock,
  then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
a1193f8ec0 ipc/sem.c: convert sem_array.sem_pending to struct list_head
sem_array.sem_pending is a double linked list, the attached patch converts
it to struct list_head.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
2c0c29d414 ipc/sem.c: remove unused entries from struct sem_queue
sem_queue.sma and sem_queue.id were never used, the attached patch removes
them.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
4daa28f6d8 ipc/sem.c: convert undo structures to struct list_head
The undo structures contain two linked lists, the attached patch replaces
them with generic struct list_head lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
00c2bf85d8 ipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down()
Remove the ipc_lock_down() routines: they used to call idr_find() locklessly
(given that the ipc ids lock was already held), so they are not needed
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
983bfb7db3 ipc: call idr_find() without locking in ipc_lock()
Call idr_find() locklessly from ipc_lock(), since the idr tree is now RCU
protected.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
cf481c20c4 idr: make idr_remove rcu-safe
Introduce the free_layer() routine: it is the one that actually frees memory
after a grace period has elapsed.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
f9c46d6ea5 idr: make idr_find rcu-safe
Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
3219b3b745 idr: make idr_get_new* rcu-safe
Make the idr_get_new* routines rcu-safe.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
944ca05c7b idr: error checking factorization
Do some code factorization in the return code analysis.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
f098ad655f idr: fix a printk call
Fix the incomplete printk call.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
4ae537892a idr: rename some of the idr APIs internal routines
This is a trivial patch that renames:

   . alloc_layer to get_from_free_list since it idr_pre_get that actually
     allocates memory.
   . free_layer to move_to_free_list since memory is not actually freed there.

This makes things more clear for the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
2027d1abc2 idr: change the idr structure
After scalability problems have been detected when using the sysV ipcs, I have
proposed to use an RCU based implementation of the IDR api instead (see
threads http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/11/212 and
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/295).

This resulted in many people asking to convert the idr API and make it rcu
safe (because most of the code was duplicated and thus unmaintanable and
unreviewable).

So here is a first attempt.

The important change wrt to the idr API itself is during idr removes: idr
layers are freed after a grace period, instead of being moved to the free
list.

The important change wrt to ipcs, is that idr_find() can now be called
locklessly inside a rcu read critical section.

Here are the results I've got for the pmsg test sent by Manfred:

   2.6.25-rc3-mm1   2.6.25-rc3-mm1+   2.6.25-mm1   Patched 2.6.25-mm1
1         1168441           1064021       876000               947488
2         1094264            921059      1549592              1730685
3         2082520           1738165      1694370              2324880
4         2079929           1695521       404553              2400408
5         2898758            406566       391283              3246580
6         2921417            261275       263249              3752148
7         3308761            126056       191742              4243142
8         3329456            100129       141722              4275780

1st column: stock 2.6.25-rc3-mm1
2nd column: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 + ipc patches (store ipcs into idrs)
3nd column: stock 2.6.25-mm1
4th column: 2.6.25-mm1 + this pacth series.

This patch:

Add an rcu_head to the idr_layer structure in order to free it after a grace
period.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Chandru
95b68dec0d calgary iommu: use the first kernels TCE tables in kdump
kdump kernel fails to boot with calgary iommu and aacraid driver on a x366
box.  The ongoing dma's of aacraid from the first kernel continue to exist
until the driver is loaded in the kdump kernel.  Calgary is initialized
prior to aacraid and creation of new tce tables causes wrong dma's to
occur.  Here we try to get the tce tables of the first kernel in kdump
kernel and use them.  While in the kdump kernel we do not allocate new tce
tables but instead read the base address register contents of calgary
iommu and use the tables that the registers point to.  With these changes
the kdump kernel and hence aacraid now boots normally.

Signed-off-by: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8448502cfc workqueues: do CPU_UP_CANCELED if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails
The bug was pointed out by Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>, and this
patch is based on his original patch.

workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_UP_PREPARE) expects that if it returns
NOTIFY_BAD, _cpu_up() will send CPU_UP_CANCELED then.

However, this is not true since

	"cpu hotplug: cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE"
	commit: a0d8cdb652

The callback which has returned NOTIFY_BAD will not receive
CPU_UP_CANCELED.  Change the code to fulfil the CPU_UP_CANCELED logic if
CPU_UP_PREPARE fails.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reported-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>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8de6d308ba workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on()
schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on() to avoid the code
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ef1ca236b8 workqueues: queue_work() can use queue_work_on()
queue_work() can use queue_work_on() to avoid the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a67da70dc0 workqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work()
Add lockdep annotations to flush_work() and update the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
69b895fd13 S390 topology: don't use kthread() for arch_reinit_sched_domains()
Now that it is safe to use get_online_cpus() we can revert

	[S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock.
	commit: fd781fa25c

and call arch_reinit_sched_domains() directly from topology_work_fn().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.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>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3da1c84c00 workqueues: make get_online_cpus() useable for work->func()
workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_DEAD) flushes cwq->thread under
cpu_maps_update_begin().  This means that the multithreaded workqueues
can't use get_online_cpus() due to the possible deadlock, very bad and
very old problem.

Introduce the new state, CPU_POST_DEAD, which is called after
cpu_hotplug_done() but before cpu_maps_update_done().

Change workqueue_cpu_callback() to use CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEAD.
This means that create/destroy functions can't rely on get_online_cpus()
any longer and should take cpu_add_remove_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.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>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8616a89ab7 workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu: use flush_work()
Change schedule_on_each_cpu() to use flush_work() instead of
flush_workqueue(), this way we don't wait for other work_struct's which
can be queued meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
db70089722 workqueues: implement flush_work()
Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(),
but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not
an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example.

Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the
specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last
queue_work() which is visible to the caller.

For example, this code

	queue_work(wq, work);
	/* WINDOW */
	queue_work(wq, work);

	flush_work(work);

doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is

	- wq starts the execution of work->func()

	- the caller migrates to another CPU

now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and
at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may
return before the first work->func() completes.

It is trivial to add another helper

	int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work)
	{
		return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work);
	}

which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus
it much slower than flush_work().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1a4d9b0aa0 workqueues: insert_work: use "list_head *" instead of "int tail"
insert_work() inserts the new work_struct before or after cwq->worklist,
depending on the "int tail" parameter. Change it to accept "list_head *"
instead, this shrinks .text a bit and allows us to insert the barrier
after specific work_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
565b9b14e7 coredump: format_corename: fix the "core_uses_pid" logic
I don't understand why the multi-thread coredump implies the core_uses_pid
behaviour, but we shouldn't use mm->mm_users for that.  This counter can
be incremented by get_task_mm().  Use the valued returned by
coredump_wait() instead.

Also, remove the "const char *pattern" argument, format_corename() can use
core_pattern directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a94e2d408e coredump: kill mm->core_done
Now that we have core_state->dumper list we can use it to wake up the
sub-threads waiting for the coredump completion.

This uglifies the code and .text grows by 47 bytes, but otoh mm_struct
lessens by sizeof(struct completion).  Also, with this change we can
decouple exit_mm() from the coredumping code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
182c515fd2 coredump: elf_fdpic_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list
Kill the nasty rcu_read_lock() + do_each_thread() loop, use the list
encoded in mm->core_state instead, s/GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_KERNEL/.

This patch allows futher cleanups in binfmt_elf_fdpic.c.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
83914441f9 coredump: elf_core_dump: use core_state->dumper list
Kill the nasty rcu_read_lock() + do_each_thread() loop, use the list
encoded in mm->core_state instead, s/GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_KERNEL/.

This patch allows futher cleanups in binfmt_elf.c, in particular we can
kill the parallel info->threads list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b564daf806 coredump: construct the list of coredumping threads at startup time
binfmt->core_dump() has to iterate over the all threads in system in order
to find the coredumping threads and construct the list using the
GFP_ATOMIC allocations.

With this patch each thread allocates the list node on exit_mm()'s stack and
adds itself to the list.

This allows us to do further changes:

	- simplify ->core_dump()

	- change exit_mm() to clear ->mm first, then wait for ->core_done.
	  this makes the coredumping process visible to oom_kill

	- kill mm->core_done

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
9d5b327bf1 coredump: make mm->core_state visible to ->core_dump()
Move the "struct core_state core_state" from coredump_wait() to
do_coredump(), this makes mm->core_state visible to binfmt->core_dump().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
c5f1cc8c18 coredump: turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t
Turn core_state->nr_threads into atomic_t and kill now unneeded
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) in exit_mm().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8cd9c24912 coredump: simplify core_state->nr_threads calculation
Change zap_process() to return int instead of incrementing
mm->core_state->nr_threads directly.  Change zap_threads() to set
mm->core_state only on success.

This patch restores the original size of .text, and more importantly now
->nr_threads is used in two places only.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
999d9fc167 coredump: move mm->core_waiters into struct core_state
Move mm->core_waiters into "struct core_state" allocated on stack.  This
shrinks mm_struct a little bit and allows further changes.

This patch mostly does s/core_waiters/core_state.  The only essential
change is that coredump_wait() must clear mm->core_state before return.

The coredump_wait()'s path is uglified and .text grows by 30 bytes, this
is fixed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
32ecb1f26d coredump: turn mm->core_startup_done into the pointer to struct core_state
mm->core_startup_done points to "struct completion startup_done" allocated
on the coredump_wait()'s stack.  Introduce the new structure, core_state,
which holds this "struct completion".  This way we can add more info
visible to the threads participating in coredump without enlarging
mm_struct.

No changes in affected .o files.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
24d5288f06 coredump: elf_core_dump: skip kernel threads
linux_binfmt->core_dump() runs before the process does exit_aio(), this
means that we can hit the kernel thread which shares the same ->mm.
Afaics, nothing really bad can happen, but perhaps it makes sense to fix
this minor bug.

It is sad we have to iterate over all threads in system and use
GFP_ATOMIC.  Hopefully we can kill theses ugly do_each_thread()s, but this
needs some nontrivial changes in mm_struct and do_coredump.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
15b9f360c0 coredump: zap_threads() must skip kernel threads
The main loop in zap_threads() must skip kthreads which may use the same
mm.  Otherwise we "kill" this thread erroneously (for example, it can not
fork or exec after that), and the coredumping task stucks in the
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state forever because of the wrong ->core_waiters
count.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
246bb0b1de kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
Kill PF_BORROWED_MM.  Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and
do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users.

No functional changes yet.  But this allows us to do further
fixes/cleanups.

oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the
kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm().  The problem with
PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races.  With this
patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper:

	/* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */
	struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
	{
		if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
			return NULL;
		return tsk->mm;
	}

Note also ecard_task().  It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel
thread without PF_BORROWED_MM.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
7b34e4283c introduce PF_KTHREAD flag
Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads.  It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).

daemonize() was changed as well.  In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.

This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC.  But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3d749b9e67 ptrace: simplify ptrace_stop()->sigkill_pending() path
1. SIGKILL can't be blocked, remove this check from sigkill_pending().

2. When ptrace_stop() sees sigkill_pending() == T, it can just return.
   Kill "int killed" and simplify the code. This also is more correct,
   the tracer shouldn't see us in TASK_TRACED if we are not going to
   stop.

I strongly believe this code needs further changes.  We should do the "was
this task killed" check unconditionally, currently it depends on
arch_ptrace_stop_needed().  On the other hand, sigkill_pending() isn't
very clever.  If the task was killed tkill(SIGKILL), the signal can be
already dequeued if the caller is do_exit().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
364d3c13c1 ptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL
ptrace_stop() has some complicated checks to prevent the scheduling in the
TASK_TRACED state with the pending SIGKILL, but these checks are racy, and
they depend on arch_ptrace_stop_needed().

This patch assumes that the traced task should die asap if it was killed by
SIGKILL, in that case schedule()->signal_pending_state() has no reason to
ignore the TASK_WAKEKILL part of TASK_TRACED, and we can kill this nasty
special case.

Note: do_exit()->ptrace_notify() is special, the killed task can already
dequeue SIGKILL at this point. Another indication that fatal_signal_pending()
is not exactly right.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
f22ab814a2 include/asm/ptrace.h userspace headers cleanup
This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h
userspace headers:

- include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove
  the superfluous listings in the Kbuild files of the following
  architectures:
  - cris
  - frv
  - powerpc
  - x86
- don't expose function prototypes and macros to userspace:
  - arm
  - blackfin
  - cris
  - mn10300
  - parisc
- remove #ifdef CONFIG_'s around #define's:
  - blackfin
  - m68knommu
- sh: AFAIK __SH5__ should work in both kernel and userspace,
      no need to leak CONFIG_SUPERH64 to userspace
- xtensa: cosmetical change to remove empty
            #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #else #endif
          from the userspace headers

Not changed by this patch is the fact that the following architectures
have a different struct pt_regs depending on CONFIG_ variables:
- h8300
- m68knommu
- mips

This does not work in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Gustavo Fernando Padovan
bc64efd220 kernel/signal.c: change vars pid and tgid types to pid_t
Change the type of pid and tgid variables from int to the POSIX type
pid_t.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk
d8878ba3f0 signals: make siginfo_t si_utime + si_sstime report times in USER_HZ, not HZ
In the switch to configurable HZ in 2.6, the treatment of the si_utime and
si_stime fields that are exposed to userland via the siginfo structure
looks to have been botched.  As things stand, these fields report times in
units of HZ, so that userland gets information that varies depending on
the HZ that the kernel was configured with.  This patch changes the
reported values to use USER_HZ units.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
e4901f92a8 coredump: zap_threads: comments && use while_each_thread()
No changes in fs/exec.o

The for_each_process() loop in zap_threads() is very subtle, it is not
clear why we don't race with fork/exit/exec.  Add the fat comment.

Also, change the code to use while_each_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
2b201a9edd signals: do_signal_stop: kill the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check
fae5fa44f1 changed do_signal_stop() to check
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE, this wasn't needed.  If signal_group_exit() == F, the
signal sent to SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE task must be already filtered out by the
caller, get_signal_to_deliver().  And if signal_group_exit() == T we are
not going to stop.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
92413d771e signals: dequeue_signal: don't check SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT when setting SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED
dequeue_signal() checks SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT before setting
SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED.  This was added by
788e05a67c a long ago to avoid the
coredump/SIGSTOP race.

Since then the related code was changed, and now this subtle check is both
incomplete and unneeded at the same time.  It is incomplete because
nowadays exec() doesn't set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, so in fact we should check
signal_group_exit() to avoid a similar race.  Fortunately, we doesn't need
the check at all.  The only function which relies on SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED
is do_signal_stop(), and it ignores this flag if signal_group_exit() == T,
this covers the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2008-07-25 10:53:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3854a77182 __exit_signal: don't take rcu lock
There is no reason for rcu_read_lock() in __exit_signal().  tsk->sighand
can only be changed if tsk does exec, obviously this is not possible.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:38 -07:00