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  1. 04 Nov, 2008 1 commit
  2. 20 Oct, 2008 3 commits
  3. 16 Oct, 2008 2 commits
  4. 27 Jun, 2008 1 commit
  5. 20 May, 2008 1 commit
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc64: Add global register dumping facility. · 93dae5b7
      David S. Miller authored
      When a cpu really is stuck in the kernel, it can be often
      impossible to figure out which cpu is stuck where.  The
      worst case is when the stuck cpu has interrupts disabled.
      
      Therefore, implement a global cpu state capture that uses
      SMP message interrupts which are not disabled by the
      normal IRQ enable/disable APIs of the kernel.
      
      As long as we can get a sysrq 'y' to the kernel, we can
      get a dump.  Even if the console interrupt cpu is wedged,
      we can trigger it from userspace using /proc/sysrq-trigger
      
      The output is made compact so that this facility is more
      useful on high cpu count systems, which is where this
      facility will likely find itself the most useful :)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      93dae5b7
  6. 29 Apr, 2008 1 commit
    • Rik van Riel's avatar
      sysrq: add show-backtrace-on-all-cpus function · 5045bcae
      Rik van Riel authored
      SysRQ-P is not always useful on SMP systems, since it usually ends up showing
      the backtrace of a CPU that is doing just fine, instead of the backtrace of
      the CPU that is having problems.
      
      This patch adds SysRQ show-all-cpus(L), which shows the backtrace of every
      active CPU in the system.  It skips idle CPUs because some SMP systems are
      just too large and we already know what the backtrace of the idle task looks
      like.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: <lwoodman@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5045bcae
  7. 28 Apr, 2008 1 commit
  8. 19 Oct, 2007 1 commit
    • Serge E. Hallyn's avatar
      pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init() · b460cbc5
      Serge E. Hallyn authored
      is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
      is_global_init() and is_container_init().
      
      A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.
      
      A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
      is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
      compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
      initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.
      
      Changelog:
      
      	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
      	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
      	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
      	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().
      
      	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:
      
      	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
      	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
      	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
      	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
      [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
      [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
      [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
      Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b460cbc5
  9. 17 Oct, 2007 2 commits
  10. 08 May, 2007 1 commit
  11. 16 Feb, 2007 1 commit
  12. 14 Feb, 2007 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix SAK_work workqueue initialization. · 7f1f86a0
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      Somewhere in the rewrite of the work queues my cleanup of SAK handling
      got broken.  Maybe I didn't retest it properly or possibly the API
      was changing so fast I missed something.  Regardless currently
      triggering a SAK now generates an ugly BUG_ON and kills the kernel.
      
      Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> for spotting this.
      
      This modifies the use of SAK_work to initialize it when the data
      structure it resides in is initialized, and to simply call
      schedule_work when we need to generate a SAK.  I update both
      data structures that have a SAK_work member for consistency.
      
      All of the old PREPARE_WORK calls that are now gone.
      
      If we call schedule_work again before it has processed it
      has generated the first SAK it will simply ignore the duplicate
      schedule_work request.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7f1f86a0
  13. 11 Feb, 2007 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] vt: refactor console SAK processing · 8b6312f4
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      This does several things.
      - It moves looking up of the current foreground console into process
        context where we can safely take the semaphore that protects this
        operation.
      - It uses the new flavor of work queue processing.
      - This generates a factor of do_SAK, __do_SAK that runs immediately.
      - This calls __do_SAK with the console semaphore held ensuring nothing
        else happens to the console while we process the SAK operation.
      - With the console SAK processing moved into process context this
        patch removes the xchg operations that I used to attempt to attomically
        update struct pid, because of the strange locking used in the SAK processing.
        With SAK using the normal console semaphore nothing special is needed.
      
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8b6312f4
  14. 02 Feb, 2007 1 commit
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  17. 22 Nov, 2006 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data · 65f27f38
      David Howells authored
      Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
      The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
      
      For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
      pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
      structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
      
      To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
      work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
      
      Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
      scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
      work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
      that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
      else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
      problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
      
      However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
      function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
      with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
      work_struct by calling work_release().
      
      In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
      initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
      Signed-Off-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      65f27f38
  18. 06 Oct, 2006 1 commit
  19. 05 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers · 7d12e780
      David Howells authored
      Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
      of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
      Linux kernel.
      
      The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
      space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
      from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
      (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
      
      Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
      something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
      maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
      handling.
      
      Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
      through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
      device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
      interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
      device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
      layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
      
      I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
      main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
      I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
      with minimal configurations.
      
      This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
      Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
      
      	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
      
      And put the old one back at the end:
      
      	set_irq_regs(old_regs);
      
      Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
      
      In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
      
      	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
      	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
      	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
      	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
      
      I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
      except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
      
      Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
      
       (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
           the input_dev struct.
      
       (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
           something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
           pointer or not.
      
       (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
           irq_handler_t.
      Signed-Off-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
      7d12e780
  20. 01 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      [PATCH] sysrq: disable lockdep on reboot · b2e9c7d0
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      SysRq : Emergency Sync
      Emergency Sync complete
      SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
      Emergency Remount complete
      SysRq : Resetting
      BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1816/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted)
      
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff8026d56d>] show_trace+0xae/0x319
       [<ffffffff8026d7ed>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
       [<ffffffff802a68d1>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xbc/0x13d
       [<ffffffff803a8eec>] sysrq_handle_reboot+0x9/0x11
       [<ffffffff803a8f8d>] __handle_sysrq+0x99/0x130
       [<ffffffff803a903b>] handle_sysrq+0x17/0x19
       [<ffffffff803a36ee>] kbd_event+0x32e/0x57d
       [<ffffffff80401e35>] input_event+0x42d/0x45b
       [<ffffffff804063eb>] atkbd_interrupt+0x44d/0x53d
       [<ffffffff803fe5c5>] serio_interrupt+0x49/0x86
       [<ffffffff803ff2a4>] i8042_interrupt+0x202/0x21a
       [<ffffffff80210cf0>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2c/0x64
       [<ffffffff802bfd8b>] __do_IRQ+0xaf/0x114
       [<ffffffff8026ea24>] do_IRQ+0xf8/0x107
       [<ffffffff8025f886>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
      DWARF2 unwinder stuck at ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
      Leftover inexact backtrace:
       <IRQ> <EOI> [<ffffffff80258e36>] mwait_idle+0x3f/0x54
       [<ffffffff8024a33a>] cpu_idle+0xa2/0xc5
       [<ffffffff8026c34e>] rest_init+0x2b/0x2d
       [<ffffffff809708bc>] start_kernel+0x24a/0x24c
       [<ffffffff8097028b>] _sinittext+0x28b/0x292
      
      Since we're shutting down anyway, don't bother being smart,
      just turn the thing off.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b2e9c7d0
  21. 29 Sep, 2006 1 commit
  22. 03 Jul, 2006 2 commits
  23. 30 Jun, 2006 1 commit
  24. 25 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  25. 21 Feb, 2006 1 commit
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation · 9b0f8b04
      Christoph Lameter authored
      Some allocations are restricted to a limited set of nodes (due to memory
      policies or cpuset constraints).  If the page allocator is not able to find
      enough memory then that does not mean that overall system memory is low.
      
      In particular going postal and more or less randomly shooting at processes
      is not likely going to help the situation but may just lead to suicide (the
      whole system coming down).
      
      It is better to signal to the process that no memory exists given the
      constraints that the process (or the configuration of the process) has
      placed on the allocation behavior.  The process may be killed but then the
      sysadmin or developer can investigate the situation.  The solution is
      similar to what we do when running out of hugepages.
      
      This patch adds a check before we kill processes.  At that point
      performance considerations do not matter much so we just scan the zonelist
      and reconstruct a list of nodes.  If the list of nodes does not contain all
      online nodes then this is a constrained allocation and we should kill the
      current process.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9b0f8b04
  26. 09 Jan, 2006 1 commit
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  31. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4