- 01 Oct, 2006 40 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
A new member in the ever growing family of call_usermode* functions is born. The new call_usermodehelper_pipe() function allows to pipe data to the stdin of the called user mode progam and behaves otherwise like the normal call_usermodehelp() (except that it always waits for the child to finish) Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Split the big and hard to read do_pipe function into smaller pieces. This creates new create_write_pipe/free_write_pipe/create_read_pipe functions. These functions are made global so that they can be used by other parts of the kernel. The resulting code is more generic and easier to read and has cleaner error handling and less gotos. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert x86_64 to use generic ioremap_page_range() [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert m32r to use generic ioremap_page_range() Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert i386 to use generic ioremap_page_range() [bunk@stusta.de: build fix] Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert CRIS to use generic ioremap_page_range() Signed-off-by:
Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert AVR32 to use generic ioremap_page_range() Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Convert Alpha to use generic ioremap_page_range() by turning __alpha_remap_area_pages() into an inline wrapper around ioremap_page_range(). Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
The existing implementation of ioremap_page_range(), which was taken from i386, does this: flush_cache_all(); /* modify page tables */ flush_tlb_all(); I think this is a bit defensive, so this patch changes the generic implementation to do: /* modify page tables */ flush_cache_vmap(start, end); instead, which is similar to what vmalloc() does. This should still be correct because we never modify existing PTEs. According to James Bottomley: The problem the flush_tlb_all() is trying to solve is to avoid stale tlb entries in the ioremap area. We're just being conservative by flushing on both map and unmap. Technically what vmalloc/vfree does (only flush the tlb on unmap) is just fine because it means that the only tlb entries in the remap area must belong to in-use mappings. Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
This patch adds a generic implementation of ioremap_page_range() in lib/ioremap.c based on the i386 implementation. It differs from the i386 version in the following ways: * The PTE flags are passed as a pgprot_t argument and must be determined up front by the arch-specific code. No additional PTE flags are added. * Uses set_pte_at() instead of set_pte() [bunk@stusta.de: warning fix] ]dhowells@redhat.com: nommu build fix] Signed-off-by:Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Vazquez authored
Re-implement smp_send_nmi_allbutself() so that calls to smp_processor_id (through send_IPI_allbutself) can be replaced with safe_smp_processor_id without affecting other parts of the kernel (as suggested by Eric Biederman). Signed-off-by:
Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp> Looks-reasonable-to: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by:
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Vazquez authored
Substitute "smp_processor_id" with the stack overflow-safe "safe_smp_processor_id" in the reboot path to the second kernel. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Vazquez authored
"safe_smp_processor_id" implementation for i386-Voyager. Signed-off-by:
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Fernando Vazquez authored
This is a the first of a series of patch-sets aiming at making kdump more robust against stack overflows. This patch set does the following: * Add safe_smp_processor_id function to i386 architecture (this function was inspired by the x86_64 function of the same name). * Substitute "smp_processor_id" with the stack overflow-safe "safe_smp_processor_id" in the reboot path to the second kernel. This patch: On the event of a stack overflow critical data that usually resides at the bottom of the stack is likely to be stomped and, consequently, its use should be avoided. In particular, in the i386 and IA64 architectures the macro smp_processor_id ultimately makes use of the "cpu" member of struct thread_info which resides at the bottom of the stack. x86_64, on the other hand, is not affected by this problem because it benefits from the use of the PDA infrastructure. To circumvent this problem I suggest implementing "safe_smp_processor_id()" (it already exists in x86_64) for i386 and IA64 and use it as a replacement for smp_processor_id in the reboot path to the dump capture kernel. This is a possible implementation for i386. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero it during an unlink operation. We need to catch these in addition to the decrement operations. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Fasheh authored
OCFS2 does some operations on i_nlink, then reverts them if some of its operations fail to complete. This does not fit in well with the drop_nlink() logic where we expect i_nlink to stay at zero once it gets there. So, delay all of the nlink operations until we're sure that the operations have completed. Also, introduce a small helper to check whether an inode has proper "unlinkable" i_nlink counts no matter whether it is a directory or regular inode. This patch is broken out from the others because it does contain some logical changes. Signed-off-by:
Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some more hooks. This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem. We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs. So, add a little helper function to do the decrements. We'll tie into it in a bit to note when i_nlink hits zero. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
The code around vfs_create() in open_namei() is getting a bit too complex. Right now, there is at least the reference count on the dentry, and the i_mutex to worry about. Soon, we'll also have mnt_writecount. So, break the vfs_create() call out of open_namei(), and into a helper function. This duplicates the call to may_open(), but that isn't such a bad thing since the arguments (acc_mode and flag) were being heavily massaged anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
We're shortly going to be adding a bunch more permission checks in these functions. That requires adding either a bunch of new if() conditions, or some gotos. This patch collapses existing if()s and uses gotos instead to prepare for the upcoming changes. Signed-off-by:
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Jay Lan authored
ChangeLog: Feedbacks from Andrew Morton: - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32 - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime of last timer interrupt update. - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt to describe fields of taskstats struct. Feedback from Balbir Singh: - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct. Misc: - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: -
Jay Lan authored
There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT. This patch is to change those ifdef's from CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT. A few defines are moved from kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and include/linux/tsacct_kern.h. Signed-off-by:
Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by:
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Jay Lan authored
Add extended system accounting handling over taskstats interface. A CONFIG_TASK_XACCT flag is created to enable the extended accounting code. Signed-off-by:
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Jay Lan authored
Add some basic accounting fields to the taskstats struct, add a new kernel/tsacct.c to handle basic accounting data handling upon exit. A handle is added to taskstats.c to invoke the basic accounting data handling. Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Fix the length passed while (un)registering cpumask. We were passing sizeof the array, make it strlen(). Error value printed in fatal errors should be derived from the message. The message contains an nlmsgerr embedded with an error value. We must report that value to the user. Signed-off-by:
Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
The addition of the CSA patch pushed the size of struct taskstats to 256 bytes. This exposed a problem with prepare_reply(), we were not allocating space for the netlink and genetlink header. It worked earlier because alloc_skb() would align the skb to SMP_CACHE_BYTES, which added some additonal bytes. Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Add two utility helper functions genlmsg_msg_size() and genlmsg_total_size(). These functions are derived from their netlink counterparts. Signed-off-by:
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Chen, Kenneth W authored
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Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by:
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
This work is initially done by Zach Brown to add support for vectored aio. These are the core changes for AIO to support IOCB_CMD_PREADV/IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV. [akpm@osdl.org: huge build fix] Signed-off-by:
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Acked-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces. Christoph Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups. In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods. This allows us to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines. Final available interfaces: generic_file_aio_read() - read handler generic_file_aio_write() - write handler generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with aio_read()/aio_write() methods. Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is aio_read()/aio_write(). Signed-off-by:
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