- 23 Jun, 2006 40 commits
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Chuck Ebbert authored
The i386 page fault handler does not allow enough slack when checking for userspace access below the current stack pointer. This prevents use of the enter instruction by user code. Fix this by allowing enough slack for "enter $65535,$31" to execute. Problem reported by Tomasz Malesinski <tmal@mimuw.edu.pl> Tested using this program, based on the original from Tomasz: .file "ovflow.S" .version "01.01" gcc2_compiled.: .section .rodata .LC0: .string "asdf\n" .text .align 4 .globl main .type main,@function main: nest_level=0 .rept 30 enter $0,$nest_level nest_level=nest_level+1 .endr enter $65535,$30 enter $65535,$31 addl $-12,%esp pushl $.LC0 call printf addl $16,%esp .L2: .rept 32 leave .endr ret .Lfe1: .size main,.Lfe1-main .ident "GCC: (GNU) 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)" Signed-off-by:
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Zhang Yanmin authored
On i386, kernel irq balance doesn't work. 1) In function do_irq_balance, after kernel finds the min_loaded cpu but before calling set_pending_irq to really pin the selected_irq to the target cpu, kernel does a cpus_and with irq_affinity[selected_irq]. Later on, when the irq is acked, kernel would calls move_native_irq=>desc->handler->set_affinity to change the irq affinity. However, every function pointed by hw_interrupt_type->set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask) always changes irq_affinity[irq] to cpumask. Next time when recalling do_irq_balance, it has to do cpu_ands again with irq_affinity[selected_irq], but irq_affinity[selected_irq] already becomes one cpu selected by the first irq balance. 2) Function balance_irq in file arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c has the same issue. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS is enabled, and one does a dump_stack() during early SMP init, an infinite stackdump and a bootup hang happens: [<c0104e7f>] show_trace+0xd/0xf [<c0104e96>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [<c01440df>] save_trace+0xc3/0xce [<c014527d>] mark_lock+0x8c/0x4fe [<c0145df5>] __lockdep_acquire+0x44e/0xaa5 [<c0146798>] lockdep_acquire+0x68/0x84 [<c1048699>] _spin_lock+0x21/0x2f [<c010d918>] prepare_set+0xd/0x5d [<c010daa8>] generic_set_all+0x1d/0x201 [<c010ca9a>] mtrr_ap_init+0x23/0x3b [<c010ada8>] identify_cpu+0x2a7/0x2af [<c01192a7>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x2f/0xb4 [<c01197d0>] start_secondary+0xb5/0x3ec [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4 [...] Due to "end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function" recursing back to itself in the EBP stackframe-walker. So avoid this type of recursion when walking the stack . Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
When multiple updates matching a given CPU are found in the update file, the action taken by the microcode update driver was inappropriate: - when lower revision microcode was found before matching or higher revision one, the driver would needlessly complain that it would not downgrade the CPU - when microcode matching the currently installed revision was found before newer revision code, no update would actually take place To change this behavior, the driver now concludes about possibly updates and issues messages only when the entire input was parsed. Additionally, this adds back (in different places, and conditionalized upon a new module option) some messages removed by a previous patch. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Only drm, framebuffer, mtrr parts + misc files here and there. Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
- avoid expensive modulo (integer division) which happened since APM_MAX_EVENTS is 20 (non-power-of-2) - kill compiler warnings by initializing two variables - add __read_mostly to some important static variables that are read often (by idle loop etc.) - constify several structures Signed-off-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Hiro Yoshioka authored
Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user(). Some performance data are Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples) 2.6.12.4.orig 1921587 2.6.12.4.nt 1599424 1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction) BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss) 2.6.12.4.orig 57427 2.6.12.4.nt 20858 20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction) L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll samples % 37408 65.1412 vmlinux __copy_from_user_ll 23 0.1103 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction) Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000 samples % app name symbol name 128392 8.0274 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 64206 4.0143 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 59746 3.7355 vmlinux do_get_write_access 47674 2.9807 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head 46021 2.8774 vmlinux journal_dirty_metadata pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000 samples % app name symbol name 69755 4.2861 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache 55685 3.4215 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 52371 3.2179 vmlinux __find_get_block 45504 2.7960 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head 36005 2.2123 vmlinux journal_stop pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000 samples % app name symbol name 1147 5.4994 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head 881 4.2240 vmlinux journal_dirty_data 872 4.1809 vmlinux blk_rq_map_sg 734 3.5192 vmlinux journal_commit_transaction 617 2.9582 vmlinux radix_tree_delete pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out iozone results are original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec cache aware CPU time = 184.783 sec (three times run) 184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction) original: pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.997 CPU time 64.527 CPU utilization 140.28 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 46.878 CPU time 71.933 CPU utilization 153.45 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.152 CPU time 71.308 CPU utilization 157.93 % cache awre: pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.842 CPU time 62.465 CPU utilization 139.30 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.718 CPU time 59.273 CPU utilization 132.55 % pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.367 CPU time 63.045 CPU utilization 142.10 % Signed-off-by:
Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yoichi Yuasa authored
mremap syscall takes 5 arguments. Fixed by Ralf Baechle. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Add missing PSC #define's required for the drivers using PSC on DBAu1550 board (also fixing Au1550 PSC3 address) and all Au1200-based boards as well. Make the OSS driver use the correct PSC definitions fo each board. Signed-off-by:
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Remove _syscall invocations that aren't used in the kernel. Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Remove duplicate EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations from the FRV arch. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
The memcpy_fromio() function should have a const qualifier on its source pointer. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
The ieee1394 assumes it may make direct use of ->count in the semaphore structure. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Clean up the FRV arch's xchg() function. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled automatically for the moment. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Disable Ext2 XIP if the kernel is configured in no-MMU mode as the former won't build. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
The FRV arch should use fstatat64 not newfstatat. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
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Al Viro authored
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Al Viro authored
Add __user annotations to binfmt_elf_fdpic. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Add __user annotations to FRV-specific sysctl stuff. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Add annotations to the FRV signal handling for sparse. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Add annotations to the FRV I/O handling functions for sparse. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Add general annotations to the FRV arch for sparse. Signed-off-by:
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David Quigley authored
This patch inserts security_task_movememory hook calls into memory management code to enable security modules to mediate this operation between tasks. Since the last posting, the hook has been renamed following feedback from Christoph Lameter. Signed-off-by:
David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Quigley authored
This patch adds new security hook, task_movememory, to be called when memory owened by a task is to be moved (e.g. when migrating pages to a this hook is identical to the setscheduler implementation, but a separate hook introduced to allow this check to be specialized in the future if necessary. Since the last posting, the hook has been renamed following feedback from Christoph Lameter. Signed-off-by:
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David Quigley authored
Add a security hook call to enable security modules to control the ability to attach a task to a cpuset. While limited control over this operation is possible via permission checks on the pseudo fs interface, those checks are not sufficient to control access to the target task, which is looked up in this function. The existing task_setscheduler hook is re-used for this operation since this falls under the same class of operations. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Quigley authored
This patch adds LSM hooks into the setaffinity and getaffinity functions to enable security modules to control these operations between tasks with task_setscheduler and task_getscheduler LSM hooks. Signed-off-by:
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James Morris authored
Implement an LSM hook for setting a task's IO priority, similar to the hook for setting a tasks's nice value. A previous version of this LSM hook was included in an older version of multiadm by Jan Engelhardt, although I don't recall it being submitted upstream. Also included is the corresponding SELinux hook, which re-uses the setsched permission in the proccess class. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
The definition of the third parameter is a pointer to an array of virtual addresses which give us some trouble. The existing code calculated the wrong address in the array since I used void to avoid having to specify a type. I now use the correct type "compat_uptr_t __user *" in the definition of the function in kernel/compat.c. However, I used __u32 in syscalls.h. Would have to include compat.h there in order to provide the same definition which would generate an ugly include situation. On both ia64 and x86_64 compat_uptr_t is u32. So this works although parameter declarations differ. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
sys_move_pages() support for 32bit (i386 plus x86_64 compat layer) Add support for move_pages() on i386 and also add the compat functions necessary to run 32 bit binaries on x86_64. Add compat_sys_move_pages to the x86_64 32bit binary layer. Note that it is not up to date so I added the missing pieces. Not sure if this is done the right way. [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
sys_move_pages support for x86_64 Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
move_pages() is used to move individual pages of a process. The function can be used to determine the location of pages and to move them onto the desired node. move_pages() returns status information for each page. long move_pages(pid, number_of_pages_to_move, addresses_of_pages[], nodes[] or NULL, status[], flags); The addresses of pages is an array of void * pointing to the pages to be moved. The nodes array contains the node numbers that the pages should be moved to. If a NULL is passed instead of an array then no pages are moved but the status array is updated. The status request may be used to determine the page state before issuing another move_pages() to move pages. The status array will contain the state of all individual page migration attempts when the function terminates. The status array is only valid if move_pages() completed successfullly. Possible page states in status[]: 0..MAX_NUMNODES The page is now on the indicated node. -ENOENT Page is not present -EACCES Page is mapped by multiple processes and can only be moved if MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is specified. -EPERM The page has been mlocked by a process/driver and cannot be moved. -EBUSY Page is busy and cannot be moved. Try again later. -EFAULT Invalid address (no VMA or zero page). -ENOMEM Unable to allocate memory on target node. -EIO Unable to write back page. The page must be written back in order to move it since the page is dirty and the filesystem does not provide a migration function that would allow the moving of dirty pages. -EINVAL A dirty page cannot be moved. The filesystem does not provide a migration function and has no ability to write back pages. The flags parameter indicates what types of pages to move: MPOL_MF_MOVE Move pages that are only mapped by the process. MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL Also move pages that are mapped by multiple processes. Requires sufficient capabilities. Possible return codes from move_pages() -ENOENT No pages found that would require moving. All pages are either already on the target node, not present, had an invalid address or could not be moved because they were mapped by multiple processes. -EINVAL Flags other than MPOL_MF_MOVE(_ALL) specified or an attempt to migrate pages in a kernel thread. -EPERM MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL specified without sufficient priviledges. or an attempt to move a process belonging to another user. -EACCES One of the target nodes is not allowed by the current cpuset. -ENODEV One of the target nodes is not online. -ESRCH Process does not exist. -E2BIG Too many pages to move. -ENOMEM Not enough memory to allocate control array. -EFAULT Parameters could not be accessed. A test program for move_pages() may be found with the patches on ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/pmig/patches-2.6.17-rc4-mm3 From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Detailed results for sys_move_pages() Pass a pointer to an integer to get_new_page() that may be used to indicate where the completion status of a migration operation should be placed. This allows sys_move_pags() to report back exactly what happened to each page. Wish there would be a better way to do this. Looks a bit hacky. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Instead of passing a list of new pages, pass a function to allocate a new page. This allows the correct placement of MPOL_INTERLEAVE pages during page migration. It also further simplifies the callers of migrate pages. migrate_pages() becomes similar to migrate_pages_to() so drop migrate_pages_to(). The batching of new page allocations becomes unnecessary. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages(). Seems that we will not need any postprocessing of pages. This will simplify the handling of pages by the callers of migrate_pages(). Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Currently migrate_pages() is mess with lots of goto. Extract two functions from migrate_pages() and get rid of the gotos. Plus we can just unconditionally set the locked bit on the new page since we are the only one holding a reference. Locking is to stop others from accessing the page once we establish references to the new page. Remove the list_del from move_to_lru in order to have finer control over list processing. [akpm@osdl.org: add debug check] Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Korotaev authored
This patch fixes printk() under zone->lock in show_free_areas(). It can be unsafe to call printk() under this lock, since caller can try to allocate/free some memory and selfdeadlock on this lock. I found allocations/freeing mem both in netconsole and serial console. This issue was faced in reallity when meminfo was periodically printed for debug purposes and netconsole was used. Signed-off-by:
Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
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