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* [PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threadsOleg Nesterov2006-03-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process(). Contrary, boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr = 0. copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and kill unhash_process(). We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle() because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[]. We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init(). free_pidmap() is never called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused. So it is still possible to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV. However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case. We still have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and kernel threads which don't call daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove add_parent()'s parent argumentOleg Nesterov2006-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | add_parent(p, parent) is always called with parent == p->parent, and it makes no sense to do it differently. This patch removes this argument. No changes in affected .o files. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-03-2827-41/+3680
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support [ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine [ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig [ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core [ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c [ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR [ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX. [ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/Makefile [ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URL [ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL [ARM] 3414/1: ep93xx: reset ethernet controller before uncompressing
| * [ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx supportLennert Buytenhek2006-03-2810-1/+1313
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Lennert Buytenhek This patch adds support for the Intel ixp23xx series of CPUs. The ixp23xx is an XSC3 based CPU with 512K of L2 cache, a 64bit 66MHz PCI interface, two DDR RAM interfaces, QDR RAM interfaces, two gigabit MACs, two 10/100 MACs, expansion bus, four microengines, a Media and Switch Fabric unit almost identical to the one on the ixp2400, two xscale (8250ish) UARTs and a bunch of other stuff. This patch adds the core ixp23xx support code, and support for the ADI Engineering Roadrunner, Intel IXDP2351, and IP Fabrics Double Espresso platforms. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engineLennert Buytenhek2006-03-283-0/+399
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Lennert Buytenhek Add support for the LogicPD PXA270 Card Engine. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfigLennert Buytenhek2006-03-281-0/+1302
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Lennert Buytenhek Add ixp23xx defconfig. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 coreLennert Buytenhek2006-03-286-2/+618
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Lennert Buytenhek This patch adds support for the new XScale v3 core. This is an ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions: - L2 cache - I/O coherency support (on select chipsets) - Low-Locality Reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache) - Supersections (v6 compatible) - 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible) - Single instruction cache line clean/invalidate - LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin) I attempted to merge the XSC3 support into proc-xscale.S, but XSC3 cores have separate errata and have to handle things like L2, so it is simpler to keep it separate. L2 cache support is currently a build option because the L2 enable bit must be set before we enable the MMU and there is no easy way to capture command line parameters at this point. There are still optimizations that can be done such as using LLR for copypage (in theory using the exisiting mini-cache code) but those can be addressed down the road. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.cRussell King2006-03-283-22/+14
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCRRussell King2006-03-281-10/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As per the corresponding change to the serial drivers, arrange for ARM decompressors to give CRLF. Move the common putstr code into misc.c such that machines only need to supply "putc" and "flush" functions. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX.Russell King2006-03-271-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark page table walks with outer-cacheable attribute, and enable no-execute in page tables. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/MakefileHyok S. Choi2006-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ifeq ($CONFIG_PREEMPT,y) -> ifeq ($(CONFIG_PREEMPT),y) Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URLErik Mouw2006-03-272-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Erik Mouw The LART website moved to http://www.lartmaker.nl/. This patch updates the URL in ARM specific files. Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl> Acked-by: Jan-Derk Bakker <jdb@lartmaker.nl> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * [ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOLRichard Purdie2006-03-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Richard Purdie Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL for the Akita IO Expander Device. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds2006-03-283-1/+115
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] Provide Cirrus EP93xx AMBA PL010 serial support. [SERIAL] amba-pl010: allow platforms to specify modem control method [SERIAL] Remove obsoleted au1x00_uart driver [SERIAL] Small time UART configuration fix for AU1100 processor
| * | [SERIAL] Provide Cirrus EP93xx AMBA PL010 serial support.Lennert Buytenhek2006-03-261-0/+68
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | [SERIAL] amba-pl010: allow platforms to specify modem control methodRussell King2006-03-261-0/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The amba-pl010 hardware does not provide RTS and DTR control lines; it is expected that these will be implemented using GPIO. Allow platforms to supply a function to implement manipulation of modem control lines. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | [SERIAL] Remove obsoleted au1x00_uart driverRalf Baechle2006-03-261-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | As announced in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds2006-03-282-5/+6
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected [CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask() [CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8 [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: add range check [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: keep ignore_nice_load value when it is reselected [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: Warn if it cannot run due to too long transition latency [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alternative initialise approach [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: make for_each_cpu() safe [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alter default responsiveness [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: aligning of codebase with ondemand
| * | [CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask()Andrew Morton2006-03-271-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is unneeded and wrong. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
| * | [CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8shin, jacob2006-03-271-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andi's previous fix to initialise powernow_data on all siblings will not work properly with CPU Hotplug. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* | | [PATCH] Typo fixesAlexey Dobriyan2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] fix signed vs unsigned in nmi watchdogJesper Juhl2006-03-281-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix "signed vs unsigned" in nmi_watchdog_tick. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctlAdrian Bunk2006-03-281-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no longer use this ioctl. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-282-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] ia64: const f_ops fixAndrew Morton2006-03-281-19/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tweak the proc setup code so things work OK with const proc_dir_entry.proc_fops. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: i386KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-284-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. under arch/i386. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitionsMatt Mackall2006-03-287-65/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove some duplicate BCD definitions Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and styleMatt Mackall2006-03-282-20/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up some RTC whitespace and style Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on AlphaMatt Mackall2006-03-281-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sync may still be needed for CPU clock calibration but we don't sync in the regular case. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH MPC1211Matt Mackall2006-03-281-15/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH03Matt Mackall2006-03-281-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS-based DECMatt Mackall2006-03-281-36/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move real_year inside the read loop and move the spinlock up as well Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on ARMMatt Mackall2006-03-281-16/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC MapleMatt Mackall2006-03-281-22/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on CHRP (arch/powerpc)Matt Mackall2006-03-281-20/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)Matt Mackall2006-03-281-20/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Sparc64Matt Mackall2006-03-281-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86_64Matt Mackall2006-03-281-29/+12
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-03-271-2/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Fix off-by-1 error in TSB grow check.
| * | [SPARC64]: Fix off-by-1 error in TSB grow check.David S. Miller2006-03-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The worst part about this bug is what it would cause a hugepage TSB to be allocated for every address space since "0 >= 0". Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | [PATCH] fbdev: Make BIOS EDID reading configurableAntonino A. Daplas2006-03-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DDC reading via the Video BIOS may take several tens of seconds with some combination of display cards and monitors. Make this option configurable. It defaults to `y' to minimise disruption. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC subsystem: SA1100/PXA2XX driverRichard Purdie2006-03-272-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add an RTC subsystem driver for the ARM SA1100/PXA2XX processor RTC. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC subsystem: ARM Integrator cleanupRichard Purdie2006-03-271-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix some namespace conflicts between the RTC subsystem and the ARM Integrator time functions. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] RTC subsystem: ARM cleanupAlessandro Zummo2006-03-272-95/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes from the ARM subsytem some of the rtc-related functions that have been included in the RTC subsystem. It also fixes some naming collisions. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] mips: fixed collision of rtc function nameYoichi Yuasa2006-03-2718-45/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the collision of rtc function name. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern2006-03-2720-72/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: x86_64Ingo Molnar2006-03-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x86_64: add the futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser() assembly implementation, and wire up the new syscalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: i386Ingo Molnar2006-03-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386: add the futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser() assembly implementation, and wire up the new syscalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] unify PFN_* macrosDave Hansen2006-03-2719-56/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on pfns. They're all virtually identical. This patch consolidates all of them. One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal header file. To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck the new definitions in a new, isolated header. Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a bit. It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got ripped away before the arithmetic is done. This has been posted to that sh64 maintainers and the development list. Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] for_each_online_pgdat: remove sorting pgdatKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-273-48/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because pgdat_list was linked to pgdat_list in *reverse* order, (By default) some of arch has to sort it by themselves. for_each_pgdat has gone..for_each_online_pgdat() uses node_online_map, which doesn't need to be sorted. This patch removes codes for sorting pgdat. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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