- 17 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Alan Cox authored
Remove some remaining vestiges of the old hacks jsm had to work around the old tty buffering. With the new tty buffering it simply doesn't matter any more. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Scott Kilau <scottk@digi.com> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox authored
We simply define it to the same value. Nowdays the TTY flip value is irrelevant but the value it used is as good as any so why risk breaking it Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Samuel Thibault authored
There have been issues with non-latin1 diacritics and unicode. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 Git 759448f4 `Kernel utf-8 handling' partly resolved it by adding conversion between diacritics and unicode. The patch below goes further by just turning diacritics into unicode, hence providing better future support. The kbd support can be fetched from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12313 This was tested in all of latin1, latin9, latin2 and unicode with french and czech dead keys. Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR. New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit _input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially sparse and large. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed L. Cashin authored
We can just use skb_mac_header now, and we don't need a wrapper function to perform the cast. Instead of requiring the reader to check aoe.h to look up what an aoe_hdr function does, I'd rather do without it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
When a new block bitmap is read from disk in read_block_bitmap() there are a few bits that should ALWAYS be set. In particular, the blocks given by ext4_blk_bitmap, ext4_inode_bitmap and ext4_inode_table. Validate the block bitmap against these blocks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS option to /proc/pid/coredump_filter. This dumps the first page (only) of a private file mapping if it appears to be a mapping of an ELF file. Including these pages in the core dump may give sufficient identifying information to associate the original DSO and executable file images and their debugging information with a core file in a generic way just from its contents (e.g. when those binaries were built with ld --build-id). I expect this to become the default behavior eventually. Existing versions of gdb can be confused by the core dumps it creates, so it won't enabled by default for some time to come. Soon many people will have systems with a gdb that handle these dumps, so they can arrange to set the bit at boot and have it inherited system-wide. This also cleans up the checking of the MMF_DUMP_* flag bits, which did not need to be using atomic macros. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Olaf Hering authored
/usr/include/scsi is provided by glibc. Remove the scsi export from make headers_install target. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist). Remove unneeded checks. 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cleanup. __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice. The second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very appropriate. Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill now unneeded wake_up_process(). 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are bogus. We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need write_lock(tasklist) to be changed. 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations, this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one line below. 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group. 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Two threads, T1 and T2. T2 ptraces P, and P is not a child of ptracer's thread group. P exits and goes to TASK_ZOMBIE. T1 does wait_task_zombie(P): P->exit_state = TASK_DEAD; ... read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); T2 does exit(), takes tasklist, forget_original_parent() does __ptrace_unlink(P) but doesn't call do_notify_parent(P) because p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD. Now, P is not visible to our process: __ptrace_unlink() removed it from ->children. We should send notification to P->parent and release P if and only if SIGCHLD is ignored. And we have 3 bugs: 1. P->parent does do_wait() and gets -ECHILD (P is on ->parent->children, but its state is TASK_DEAD). 2. // wait_task_zombie() continues if (put_user(...)) { // TODO: is this safe? p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; return; } we return without notification/release, task_struct leaked. Solution: ignore -EFAULT and proceed. It is an application's bug if we can't fill infop/stat_addr (in case of VM_FAULT_OOM we have much more problems). 3. // wait_task_zombie() continues if (p->real_parent != p->parent) { // Not taken, it was untraced'ed ... } release_task(p); we released the task which we shouldn't. Solution: check ->real_parent != ->parent before, under tasklist_lock, but use ptrace_unlink() instead of __ptrace_unlink() to check ->ptrace. This patch hopefully solves 2 and 3, the 1st bug will be fixed later, we need some cleanups in forget_original_parent/reparent_thread. However, the first race is very unlikely and not critical, so I hope it makes sense to fix 1 and 2 for now. 4. Small cleanup: don't "restore" EXIT_ZOMBIE unless we know we are not going to realease the child. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and __exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig). 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>
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Jesper Juhl authored
There's a small and unlikely memory leak in drivers/pnp/pnpbios/proc.c::proc_read_escd(). It's inside a sanity check, so it probably won't trigger often (if at all), however it *is* a potential leak and it's easy to avoid, so let's just fix it :) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This makes powerpc64's compat code use the new linux/elfcore-compat.h, reducing some hand-copied duplication. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the linux/elfcore-compat.h header file, which is the CONFIG_COMPAT analog of the linux/elfcore.h header. Each arch that needs to fake out fs/binfmt_elf.c for its compat code can use this header to replace the hand-copied definitions of the compat variants of struct elf_prstatus et al. Only the pr_reg field varies by arch, so asm/{compat,elf}.h must define compat_elf_gregset_t before linux/elfcore-compat.h can be used. It's a clean-up that every arch with compat core dumping code can benefit from. I only touched the ones I have handy to test at home. Doing the same for each other arch should be straightforward, and I'm happy to offer tips. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Satyam Sharma authored
The current code skips the check to verify whether the filesystem was previously cleanly unmounted, if (flags & UFS_ST_MASK) == UFS_ST_44BSD or UFS_ST_OLD. This looks like an inadvertent bug that slipped in due to parantheses in the compound conditional to me, especially given that ufs_get_fs_state() handles the UFS_ST_44BSD case perfectly well. So, let's fix the compound condition appropriately. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Move prototypes and in-core structures to fs/ufs/ similar to what most other filesystems already do. I made little modifications: move also ufs debug macros and mount options constants into fs/ufs/ufs.h, this stuff also private for ufs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Driver does proc_mkdir("ipmi", NULL); but remove_proc_entry(proc_ipmi_root->name, &proc_root); This is OK and working if only slightly inconsistent. Also changing proc_root to NULL will help OpenVZ which has multiple proc roots and, as we now know, requires matching parents in such cases. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
With or without this patch, multi-threaded init's are not fully supported, but do_exit() is completely wrong. This becomes a real problem when we support pid namespaces. 1. do_exit() panics when the main thread of /sbin/init exits. It should not until the whole thread group exits. Move the code below, under the "if (group_dead)" check. Note: this means that forget_original_parent() can use an already dead child_reaper()'s task_struct. This is OK for /sbin/init because - do_wait() from alive sub-thread still can reap a zombie, we iterate over all sub-thread's ->children lists - do_notify_parent() will wakeup some alive sub-thread because it sends the group-wide signal However, we should remove choose_new_parent()->BUG_ON(reaper->exit_state) for this. 2. We are playing games with ->nsproxy->pid_ns. This code is bogus today, and it has to be changed anyway when we really support pid namespaces, just remove it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.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>
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Andi Kleen authored
The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out ld.sos. This was originally added to make transition from a.out to ELF easier because an a.out ELF ld.so could be still build using an older a.out toolkit. But by now that should be fully obsolete and removing it would clean up binfmt_elf.c up a bit. I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25. Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel. This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk warning users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: better warning message] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.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>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
It is a bit annoying that do_exit() takes ->pi_lock to set PF_EXITING. All we need is to synchronize with lookup_pi_state() which saw this task without PF_EXITING under ->pi_lock. Change do_exit() to use spin_unlock_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
If we discover the TIS TPM device via PNP, use the PNP IRQ information rather than probing for an IRQ. If PNP shows no IRQ, run the TPM in polling mode. Tested-by: <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c | 104398 -> 104346 (-52 bytes) drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o | 210710 -> 210702 (-8 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
fs/autofs4/inode.c | 10467 -> 10435 (-32 bytes) fs/autofs4/inode.o | 98576 -> 98552 (-24 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c | 5246 -> 5211 (-35 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
drivers/char/consolemap.c | 22678 -> 22650 (-28 bytes) drivers/char/consolemap.o | 90113 -> 90029 (-84 bytes) Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
Add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer. The intention is for them to be used by recovery/dump/debug code so the kernel log can be easily retrieved/parsed in a crash scenario, but they are generic enough for other people to dream up other fun uses. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: buncha fixes] Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions (in this case ioremap_page_range()). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make the following needlessly global functions static: - rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages() - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates() - write.c: afs_writepages_region() - make the following needlessly global variables static: - mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout - proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[] - server.c: afs_server_timeout - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout - #if 0 the following unused function: - cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe() - #if 0 the following unused variables: - callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout - cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global variable rt_trace_on static - remove the unused global function deadlock_trace_off() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This patch adds the /sys/module/<name>/notes/ magic directory, which has a file for each allocated SHT_NOTE section that appears in <name>.ko. This is the counterpart for each module of /sys/kernel/notes for vmlinux. Reading this delivers the contents of the module's SHT_NOTE sections. This lets userland easily glean any detailed information about that module's build that was stored there at compile time (e.g. by ld --build-id). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
* Remove stupid comments, like, at the beginning of every function that function begins (twice per function) and at the end (once) * Remove trailing or otherwise broken whitespace as per let c_space_errors=1 * Reformat comments to fit it into 80 columns and remove stupid ------------'s. * Indent case labels on the same column where switch begins * other minor CS tweaks not worth mentioning Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Neil Horman authored
Fix do_coredump to detect a crash in the user mode helper process and abort the attempt to recursively dump core to another copy of the helper process, potentially ad-infinitum. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Neil Horman authored
A rewrite of my previous post for this enhancement. It uses jeremy's split_argv/free_argv library functions to translate core_pattern into an argv array to be passed to the user mode helper process. It also adds a translation to format_corename such that the origional value of RLIMIT_CORE can be passed to userspace as an argument. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Neil Horman authored
For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and intellegently process a core. This infrastructure however has some shortcommings which can be enhanced. Specifically: 1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core, at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and restrictions. 2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the user space helper as an argv array. The real core limit of the uid of the crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it is overridden to zero when called). 3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself crash. Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a deadlock. This patch: Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe. In the event that core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Neil Horman authored
It would be nice if the argv_split library function could gracefully handle a NULL pointer in the argcp parameter, so as to allow functions using it that did not care about the value of argc to not have to declare a useless variable. This patch accomplishes that. Tested by me, with successful results. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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