- 31 Oct, 2005 40 commits
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Arthur Othieno authored
__MUTEX_INITIALIZER() has no users, and equates to the more commonly used DECLARE_MUTEX(), thus making it pretty much redundant. Remove it for good. Signed-off-by:
Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
The driver had incorrectly wrapped module_init(rp_init) in #ifdef MODULE, so it worked only when compiled as a module. Tested by Wolfgang Denk with this device: 00:0e.0 Communication controller: Comtrol Corporation RocketPort 8 port w/RJ11 connectors (rev 04) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at 7000 [size=64] Signed-off-by:Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This change corrects an omission in posix_cpu_timer_schedule, so that it correctly propagates the overrun calculation to where it will get reported to the user. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2). This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks, CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how to run the test and interpret the output is also included. This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of the PREEMPT_RT patchset. Signed-off-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
Fix comment describing BUILD_BUG_ON: BUG_ON is not an assertion (unfortunately). Signed-off-by:
Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Laurent Riffard authored
This updates .owner field of struct pci_driver. This allows SYSFS to create the symlink from the driver to the module which provides it. Signed-off-by:
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Laurent Riffard authored
This updates .owner field of struct pci_driver. This allows SYSFS to create the symlink from the driver to the module which provides it. Signed-off-by:
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Laurent Riffard authored
This updates .owner field of struct pci_driver. This allows SYSFS to create the symlink from the driver to the module which provides it. Signed-off-by:
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Pozsar Balazs authored
This patch fixes a long-standing vgacon bug: characters with the bright bit set were left on the screen and not blacked out. All I did was that I lookuped up some examples on the net about setting the vga palette, and added the call missing from the linux kernel, but included in all other ones. It works for me. You can test this by writing something with the bright set to the console, for example: echo -e "\e[1;31mhello there\e[0m" and then wait for the console to blank itself (by default, after 10 mins of inactivity), maybe making it faster using setterm -blank 1 so you only have to wait 1 minute. Signed-off-by:
Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
This patch adds tests for the return value of sb_getblk() in the ext2/3 filesystems. In fs/buffer.c it is stated that the getblk() function never fails. However, it does can return NULL in some situations due to I/O errors, which may lead us to NULL pointer dereferences Signed-off-by:
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); } else { list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused); + inodes_stat.nr_unused++; } } wake_up_inode(inode); Are you sure the above diff is correct? It was added somewhere between 2.6.5 and 2.6.8. I think it's wrong. The only way I can imagine the i_count to be zero in the above path, is that I_WILL_FREE is set. And if I_WILL_FREE is set, then we must not increase nr_unused. So I believe the above change is buggy and it will definitely overstate the number of unused inodes and it should be backed out. Note that __writeback_single_inode before calling __sync_single_inode, can drop the spinlock and we can have both the dirty and locked bitflags clear here: spin_unlock(&inode_lock); __wait_on_inode(inode); iput(inode); XXXXXXX spin_lock(&inode_lock); } use inode again here a construct like the above makes zero sense from a reference counting standpoint. Either we don't ever use the inode again after the iput, or the inode_lock should be taken _before_ executing the iput (i.e. a __iput would be required). Taking the inode_lock after iput means the iget was useless if we keep using the inode after the iput. So the only chance the 2.6 was safe to call __writeback_single_inode with the i_count == 0, is that I_WILL_FREE is set (I_WILL_FREE will prevent the VM to free the inode in XXXXX). Potentially calling the above iput with I_WILL_FREE was also wrong because it would recurse in iput_final (the second mainline bug). The below (untested) patch fixes the nr_unused accounting, avoids recursing in iput when I_WILL_FREE is set and makes sure (with the BUG_ON) that we don't corrupt memory and that all holders that don't set I_WILL_FREE, keeps a reference on the inode! Signed-off-by:Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Roskin authored
sparse complains about every MODULE_PARM used in a module: warning: symbol '__parm_foo' was not declared. Should it be static? The fix is to split declaration and initialization. While MODULE_PARM is obsolete, it's not something sparse should report. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Pitre authored
They aren't used anywhere in that file. Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Because people can play games reprogramming keys and leaving traps for the next user of the console. Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Convert existing function docs to kernel-doc format. Eliminate all kernel-doc warnings. Fix some doc typos and a little whitespace cleanup. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Define jiffies_64 in kernel/timer.c rather than having 24 duplicated defines in each architecture. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Brian Gerst authored
This ioctl doesn't exist for native i386. Signed-off-by:
Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ben Dooks authored
Fix warnings from sparse due to un-declared functions that should either have a header file or have been declared static fs/ext2/bitmap.c:14:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext2/namei.c:92:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/bitmap.c:15:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/namei.c:1013:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/xattr.c:214:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_get' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/xattr.c:358:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_list' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/xattr.c:630:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_find' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/ext3/xattr.c:863:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_ibody_find' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by:
Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Gross authored
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Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() sends SIGKILL to all sub-threads and waits them to die in 'D' state. It is possible that one of the threads already dequeued coredump signal. When de_thread() unlocks ->sighand->lock that thread can enter do_coredump()->coredump_wait() and cause a deadlock. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Carlos Sanchez authored
Added a Receive_Abort to the Marvell serial driver Fix occasional input overrun errors on Marvell serial driver - If the Marvell serial driver is repeatedly started and then stopped it will occasionally report an input overrun error when started. - Added a Receive_Abort to the Marvell serial driver to abort previously received receive errors when re-starting the receive Acked-by:
Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Carlos Sanchez <csanchez@mvista.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Setting ctime is implicit in all setattr cases, so the FATTR_CTIME definition is unnecessary. It is used by neither the kernel nor by userspace. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Correct some typos and inconsistent use of "initialise" vs "initialize" in comments. Reported by Ioannis Barkas. Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit. Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
Back about a year ago when I last fiddled heavily with the do_wait code, I was thinking too hard about the wrong thing and I now think I introduced a bug whose inverse thought I was fixing. Apparently noone was looking too hard over much shoulder, so as to cite my bogus reasoning at the time. In the race condition when PTRACE_ATTACH is about to steal a child and then the child hits a tracing event (what my_ptrace_child checks for), the real parent does need to set its flag noting it has some eligible live children. Otherwise a spurious ECHILD error is possible, since the child in question is not yet on the ptrace_children list. Signed-off-by:
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Pat Gefre authored
Various small mods for the Altix ioc4 serial driver - mostly cleanup: - remove UIF_INITIALIZED usage - use the 'lock' from uart_port - better multiple card support Signed-off-by:
Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
I noticed some problems while running ext3 with the debug flag set on. More precisely, I was unable to umount the filesystem. Some investigation took me to the patch that follows. At a first glance , the lock/unlock I've taken out seems really not necessary, as the main code (outside debug) does not lock the super. The only additional danger operations that debug code introduces seems to be related to bitmap, but bitmap operations tends to be all atomic anyway. I also took the opportunity to fix 2 spelling errors. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
This patch deletes pointless code from coredump_wait(). 1. It does useless mm->core_waiters inc/dec under mm->mmap_sem, but any changes to ->core_waiters have no effect until we drop ->mmap_sem. 2. It calls yield() for absolutely unknown reason. Signed-off-by:
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Coywolf Qi Hunt authored
The PF_DEAD setting doesn't belong to exit_notify(), move it to a proper place. Signed-off-by:
Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
- Removes some trailing whitespace - Breaks long lines and make other small changes to conform to CodingStyle - Add explicit printk loglevels in two places. Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Remove some unneeded casts. Avoid an assignment in the case of kmalloc failure. Break a few instances of if (foo) whatever; into two lines. Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The attached patch gets rid of a "statement without effect" warning when CONFIG_KEYS is disabled by making use of the return value of key_get(). The compiler will optimise all of this away when keys are disabled. Signed-Off-By:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable changes are: (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which programs may access a key. (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key. (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules; the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out. (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather than a boolean value. (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of attributes (UID, GID, permissions). Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation, but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based on the permission request bits. Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled. This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected: [PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive Signed-Off-By:Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Export user-defined key operations so that those who wish to define their own key type based on the user-defined key operations may do so (as has been requested). The header file created has been placed into include/keys/user-type.h, thus creating a directory where other key types may also be placed. Any objections to doing this? Signed-Off-By:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch removes page_pte_prot and page_pte macros from all architectures. Some architectures define both, some only page_pte (broken) and others none. These macros are not used anywhere. page_pte_prot(page, prot) is identical to mk_pte(page, prot) and page_pte(page) is identical to page_pte_prot(page, __pgprot(0)). * The following architectures define both page_pte_prot and page_pte arm, arm26, ia64, sh64, sparc, sparc64 * The following architectures define only page_pte (broken) frv, i386, m32r, mips, sh, x86-64 * All other architectures define neither Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch removes redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru(). pages_to_free.cold is set to pvec->cold by pagevec_init() call right above the assignment. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
When __generic_file_aio_read() hits an error during reading, it reports the error iff nothing has successfully been read yet. This is condition - when an error occurs, if nothing has been read/written, report the error code; otherwise, report the amount of bytes successfully transferred upto that point. This corner case can be exposed by performing readv(2) with the following iov. iov[0] = len0 @ ptr0 iov[1] = len1 @ NULL (or any other invalid pointer) iov[2] = len2 @ ptr2 When file size is enough, performing above readv(2) results in len0 bytes from file_pos @ ptr0 len2 bytes from file_pos + len0 @ ptr2 And the return value is len0 + len2. Test program is attached to this mail. This patch makes __generic_file_aio_read()'s error handling identical to other functions. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { const char *path; struct stat stbuf; size_t len0, len1; void *buf0, *buf1; struct iovec iov[3]; int fd, i; ssize_t ret; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: testreadv path (better be a " "small text file)\n"); return 1; } path = argv[1]; if (stat(path, &stbuf) < 0) { perror("stat"); return 1; } len0 = stbuf.st_size / 2; len1 = stbuf.st_size - len0; if (!len0 || !len1) { fprintf(stderr, "Dude, file is too small\n"); return 1; } if ((fd = open(path, O_RDONLY)) < 0) { perror("open"); return 1; } if (!(buf0 = malloc(len0)) || !(buf1 = malloc(len1))) { perror("malloc"); return 1; } memset(buf0, 0, len0); memset(buf1, 0, len1); iov[0].iov_base = buf0; iov[0].iov_len = len0; iov[1].iov_base = NULL; iov[1].iov_len = len1; iov[2].iov_base = buf1; iov[2].iov_len = len1; printf("vector "); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) printf("%p:%zu ", iov[i].iov_base, iov[i].iov_len); printf("\n"); ret = readv(fd, iov, 3); if (ret < 0) perror("readv"); printf("readv returned %zd\nbuf0 = [%s]\nbuf1 = [%s]\n", ret, (char *)buf0, (char *)buf1); return 0; } Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
I could seldom reproduce a deadlock with a task not killable in T state (TASK_STOPPED, not TASK_TRACED) by attaching a NPTL threaded program to gdb, by segfaulting the task and triggering a core dump while some other task is executing exit_group and while one task is in ptrace_attached TASK_STOPPED state (not TASK_TRACED yet). This originated from a gdb bugreport (the fact gdb was segfaulting the task wasn't a kernel bug), but I just incidentally noticed the gdb bug triggered a real kernel bug as well. Most threads hangs in exit_mm because the core_dumping is still going, the core dumping hangs because the stopped task doesn't exit, the stopped task can't wakeup because it has SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT set, hence the deadlock. To me it seems that the problem is that the force_sig_specific(SIGKILL) in zap_threads is a noop if the task has PF_PTRACED set (like in this case because gdb is attached). The __ptrace_unlink does nothing because the signal->flags is set to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT|SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED (verified). The above info also shows that the stopped task hit a race and got the stop signal (presumably by the ptrace_attach, only the attach, state is still TASK_STOPPED and gdb hangs waiting the core before it can set it to TASK_TRACED) after one of the thread invoked the core dump (it's the core dump that sets signal->flags to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT). So beside the fact nobody would wakeup the task in __ptrace_unlink (the state is _not_ TASK_TRACED), there's a secondary problem in the signal handling code, where a task should ignore the ptrace-sigstops as long as SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set (or the wakeup in __ptrace_unlink path wouldn't be enough). So I attempted to make this patch that seems to fix the problem. There were various ways to fix it, perhaps you prefer a different one, I just opted to the one that looked safer to me. I also removed the clearing of the stopped bits from the zap_other_threads (zap_other_threads was safe unlike zap_threads). I don't like useless code, this whole NPTL signal/ptrace thing is already unreadable enough and full of corner cases without confusing useless code into it to make it even less readable. And if this code is really needed, then you may want to explain why it's not being done in the other paths that sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT at least. Even after this patch I still wonder who serializes the read of p->ptrace in zap_threads. Patch is called ptrace-core_dump-exit_group-deadlock-1. This was the trace I've got: test T ffff81003e8118c0 0 14305 1 14311 14309 (NOTLB) ffff810058ccdde8 0000000000000082 000001f4000037e1 ffff810000000013 00000000000000f8 ffff81003e811b00 ffff81003e8118c0 ffff810011362100 0000000000000012 ffff810017ca4180 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff80141677>{finish_stop+87} <ffffffff8014367f>{get_signal_to_deliver+1359} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80111575>{sys_ptrace+2293} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80196399>{sys_ioctl+73} <ffffffff8010dd27>{sysret_signal+28} <ffffffff8010e00f>{ptregscall_common+103} test D ffff810011362100 0 14309 1 14305 14312 (NOTLB) ffff810053c81cf8 0000000000000082 0000000000000286 0000000000000001 0000000000000195 ffff810011362340 ffff810011362100 ffff81002e338040 ffff810001e0ca80 0000000000000001 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80137435>{exit_mm+149} <ffffffff801381af>{do_exit+479} <ffffffff80138d0c>{do_group_exit+252} <ffffffff801436db>{get_signal_to_deliver+1451} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+2 <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804479a0>{do_int3+112} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} test D ffff81002e338040 0 14311 1 14716 14305 (NOTLB) ffff81005ca8dcf8 0000000000000082 0000000000000286 0000000000000001 0000000000000120 ffff81002e338280 ffff81002e338040 ffff8100481cb740 ffff810001e0ca80 0000000000000001 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80137435>{exit_mm+149} <ffffffff801381af>{do_exit+479} <ffffffff80142d0e>{__dequeue_signal+558} <ffffffff80138d0c>{do_group_exit+252} <ffffffff801436db>{get_signal_to_deliver+1451} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+208} <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804479a0>{do_int3+112} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} test D ffff810017ca4180 0 14312 1 14309 13882 (NOTLB) ffff81005d15fcb8 0000000000000082 ffff81005d15fc58 ffffffff80130816 0000000000000897 ffff810017ca43c0 ffff810017ca4180 ffff81003e8118c0 0000000000000082 ffffffff801317ed Call Trace:<ffffffff80130816>{activate_task+150} <ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8018cdc3>{do_coredump+819} <ffffffff80445f52>{thread_return+82} <ffffffff801436d4>{get_signal_to_deliver+1444} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+2 <ffffffff804472e5>{_spin_unlock_irqrestore+5} <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804476ff>{do_general_protection+159} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} Signed-off-by: -
Paul Jackson authored
This patch automatically updates a tasks NUMA mempolicy when its cpuset memory placement changes. It does so within the context of the task, without any need to support low level external mempolicy manipulation. If a system is not using cpusets, or if running on a system with just the root (all-encompassing) cpuset, then this remap is a no-op. Only when a task is moved between cpusets, or a cpusets memory placement is changed does the following apply. Otherwise, the main routine below, rebind_policy() is not even called. When mixing cpusets, scheduler affinity, and NUMA mempolicies, the essential role of cpusets is to place jobs (several related tasks) on a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes, the essential role of sched_setaffinity is to manage a jobs processor placement within its allowed cpuset, and the essential role of NUMA mempolicy (mbind, set_mempolicy) is to manage a jobs memory placement within its allowed cpuset. However, CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement are managed within the kernel using absolute system wide numbering, not cpuset relative numbering. This is ok until a job is migrated to a different cpuset, or what's the same, a jobs cpuset is moved to different CPUs and Memory Nodes. Then the CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement of the tasks in the job need to be updated, to preserve their cpuset-relative position. This can be done for CPU affinity using sched_setaffinity() from user code, as one task can modify anothers CPU affinity. This cannot be done from an external task for NUMA memory placement, as that can only be modified in the context of the task using it. However, it easy enough to remap a tasks NUMA mempolicy automatically when a task is migrated, using the existing cpuset mechanism to trigger a refresh of a tasks memory placement after its cpuset has changed. All that is needed is the old and new nodemask, and notice to the task that it needs to rebind its mempolicy. The tasks mems_allowed has the old mask, the tasks cpuset has the new mask, and the existing cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed() mechanism provides the notice. The bitmap/cpumask/nodemask remap operators provide the cpuset relative calculations. This patch leaves open a couple of issues: 1) Updating vma and shmfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs memory policies: These mempolicies may reference nodes outside of those allowed to the current task by its cpuset. Tasks are migrated as part of jobs, which reside on what might be several cpusets in a subtree. When such a job is migrated, all NUMA memory policy references to nodes within that cpuset subtree should be translated, and references to any nodes outside that subtree should be left untouched. A future patch will provide the cpuset mechanism needed to mark such subtrees. With that patch, we will be able to correctly migrate these other memory policies across a job migration. 2) Updating cpuset, affinity and memory policies in user space: This is harder. Any placement state stored in user space using system-wide numbering will be invalidated across a migration. More work will be required to provide user code with a migration-safe means to manage its cpuset relative placement, while preserving the current API's that pass system wide numbers, not cpuset relative numbers across the kernel-user boundary. Signed-off-by:Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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