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  1. Jul 26, 2011
    • Vasiliy Kulikov's avatar
      ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl · b34a6b1d
      Vasiliy Kulikov authored
      
      Add support for the shm_rmid_forced sysctl.  If set to 1, all shared
      memory objects in current ipc namespace will be automatically forced to
      use IPC_RMID.
      
      The POSIX way of handling shmem allows one to create shm objects and
      call shmdt(), leaving shm object associated with no process, thus
      consuming memory not counted via rlimits.
      
      With shm_rmid_forced=1 the shared memory object is counted at least for
      one process, so OOM killer may effectively kill the fat process holding
      the shared memory.
      
      It obviously breaks POSIX - some programs relying on the feature would
      stop working.  So set shm_rmid_forced=1 only if you're sure nobody uses
      "orphaned" memory.  Use shm_rmid_forced=0 by default for compatability
      reasons.
      
      The feature was previously impemented in -ow as a configure option.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation, per Randy]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability/conventionality tweaks]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shm_rmid_forced/shm_forced_rmid confusion, use standard comment layout]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
      Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b34a6b1d
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      ipc/mqueue.c: fix mq_open() return value · d40dcdb0
      Jiri Slaby authored
      
      We return ENOMEM from mqueue_get_inode even when we have enough memory.
      Namely in case the system rlimit of mqueue was reached.  This error
      propagates to mq_queue and user sees the error unexpectedly.  So fix
      this up to properly return EMFILE as described in the manpage:
      
      	EMFILE The process already has the maximum number of files and
      	       message queues open.
      
      instead of:
      
      	ENOMEM Insufficient memory.
      
      With the previous patch we just switch to ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR/IS_ERR error
      handling here.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d40dcdb0
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      ipc/mqueue.c: refactor failure handling · 04715206
      Jiri Slaby authored
      
      If new_inode fails to allocate an inode we need only to return with
      NULL.  But now we test the opposite and have all the work in a nested
      block.  So do the opposite to save one indentation level (and remove
      unnecessary line breaks).
      
      This is only a preparation/cleanup for the next patch where we fix up
      return values from mqueue_get_inode.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      04715206
  2. Jul 25, 2011
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  8. Mar 25, 2011
  9. Mar 23, 2011
  10. Jan 06, 2011
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      fs: icache RCU free inodes · fa0d7e3d
      Nick Piggin authored
      
      RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
      
      - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
        permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
      - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
        to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
        the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
      - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
      - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
        page lock to follow page->mapping.
      
      The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
      creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
      reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
      kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
      
      In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
      during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
      not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
      
      The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
      however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
      so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
      real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
      doubt it will be a problem.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      fa0d7e3d
  11. Oct 30, 2010
  12. Oct 29, 2010
  13. Oct 27, 2010
    • Dan Rosenberg's avatar
      ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions · 03145beb
      Dan Rosenberg authored
      
      This takes care of leaking uninitialized kernel stack memory to
      userspace from non-zeroed fields in structs in compat ipc functions.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      03145beb
    • Helge Deller's avatar
      ipc/shm.c: add RSS and swap size information to /proc/sysvipc/shm · b7952180
      Helge Deller authored
      
      The kernel currently provides no functionality to analyze the RSS and swap
      space usage of each individual sysvipc shared memory segment.
      
      This patch adds this info for each existing shm segment by extending the
      output of /proc/sysvipc/shm by two columns for RSS and swap.
      
      Since shmctl(SHM_INFO) already provides a similiar calculation (it
      currently sums up all RSS/swap info for all segments), I did split out a
      static function which is now used by the /proc/sysvipc/shm output and
      shmctl(SHM_INFO).
      
      SAP products (esp.  the SAP Netweaver ABAP Kernel) uses lots of big shared
      memory segments (we often have Linux systems with >= 16GB shm usage).
      Sometimes we get customer reports about "slow" system responses and while
      looking into their configurations we often find massive swapping activity
      on the system.  With this patch it's now easy to see from the command line
      if and which shm segments gets swapped out (and how much) and can more
      easily give recommendations for system tuning.  Without the patch it's
      currently not possible to do such shm analysis at all.
      
      Also...
      
      Add some spaces in front of the "size" field for 64bit kernels to get the
      columns correct if you cat the contents of the file.  In
      sysvipc_shm_proc_show() the kernel prints the size value in "SPEC_SIZE"
      format, which is defined like this:
      
      #if BITS_PER_LONG <= 32
      #define SIZE_SPEC "%10lu"
      #else
      #define SIZE_SPEC "%21lu"
      #endif
      
      So, if the header is not adjusted, the columns are not correctly aligned.
      I actually tested this on 32- and 64-bit and it seems correct now.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b7952180
  14. Oct 25, 2010
  15. Oct 15, 2010
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      llseek: automatically add .llseek fop · 6038f373
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
      nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
      .llseek pointer.
      
      The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
      and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
      the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
      the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
      
      New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
      and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
      to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
      relies on calling seek on the device file.
      
      The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
      comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
      chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
      be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
      seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
      
      Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
      the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
      
      Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
      patch that does all this.
      
      ===== begin semantic patch =====
      // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
      // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
      //
      // The rules are
      // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
      // - use seq_lseek for sequential files
      // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
      // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
      //   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
      //
      @ open1 exists @
      identifier nested_open;
      @@
      nested_open(...)
      {
      <+...
      nonseekable_open(...)
      ...+>
      }
      
      @ open exists@
      identifier open_f;
      identifier i, f;
      identifier open1.nested_open;
      @@
      int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
      {
      <+...
      (
      nonseekable_open(...)
      |
      nested_open(...)
      )
      ...+>
      }
      
      @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
      identifier read_f;
      identifier f, p, s, off;
      type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
      expression E;
      identifier func;
      @@
      ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
      {
      <+...
      (
         *off = E
      |
         *off += E
      |
         func(..., off, ...)
      |
         E = *off
      )
      ...+>
      }
      
      @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
      identifier read_f;
      identifier f, p, s, off;
      type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
      @@
      ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
      {
      ... when != off
      }
      
      @ write @
      identifier write_f;
      identifier f, p, s, off;
      type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
      expression E;
      identifier func;
      @@
      ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
      {
      <+...
      (
        *off = E
      |
        *off += E
      |
        func(..., off, ...)
      |
        E = *off
      )
      ...+>
      }
      
      @ write_no_fpos @
      identifier write_f;
      identifier f, p, s, off;
      type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
      @@
      ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
      {
      ... when != off
      }
      
      @ fops0 @
      identifier fops;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
       ...
      };
      
      @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier llseek_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
       .llseek = llseek_f,
      ...
      };
      
      @ has_read depends on fops0 @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier read_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
       .read = read_f,
      ...
      };
      
      @ has_write depends on fops0 @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier write_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
       .write = write_f,
      ...
      };
      
      @ has_open depends on fops0 @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier open_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
       .open = open_f,
      ...
      };
      
      // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
      ////////////////////////////////////////////
      @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...  .open = nso, ...
      +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
      };
      
      @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier open.open_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...  .open = open_f, ...
      +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
      };
      
      // use seq_lseek for sequential files
      /////////////////////////////////////
      @ seq depends on !has_llseek @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...  .read = sr, ...
      +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
      };
      
      // use default_llseek if there is a readdir
      ///////////////////////////////////////////
      @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier readdir_e;
      @@
      // any other fop is used that changes pos
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
      +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
      };
      
      // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
      /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier read.read_f;
      @@
      // read fops use offset
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ... .read = read_f, ...
      +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
      };
      
      @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier write.write_f;
      @@
      // write fops use offset
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ... .write = write_f, ...
      +	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
      };
      
      // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
      ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      
      @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
      identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
      @@
      // write fops use offset
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
       .write = write_f,
       .read = read_f,
      ...
      +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
      };
      
      @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ... .write = write_f, ...
      +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
      };
      
      @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ... .read = read_f, ...
      +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
      };
      
      @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
      identifier fops0.fops;
      @@
      struct file_operations fops = {
      ...
      +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
      };
      ===== End semantic patch =====
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      6038f373
  16. Oct 01, 2010
    • Dan Rosenberg's avatar
      sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage · 982f7c2b
      Dan Rosenberg authored
      
      The semctl syscall has several code paths that lead to the leakage of
      uninitialized kernel stack memory (namely the IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO,
      IPC_STAT, and SEM_STAT commands) during the use of the older, obsolete
      version of the semid_ds struct.
      
      The copy_semid_to_user() function declares a semid_ds struct on the stack
      and copies it back to the user without initializing or zeroing the
      "sem_base", "sem_pending", "sem_pending_last", and "undo" pointers,
      allowing the leakage of 16 bytes of kernel stack memory.
      
      The code is still reachable on 32-bit systems - when calling semctl()
      newer glibc's automatically OR the IPC command with the IPC_64 flag, but
      invoking the syscall directly allows users to use the older versions of
      the struct.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      982f7c2b
  17. Aug 09, 2010
  18. Jul 20, 2010
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  20. May 27, 2010
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync · 7ea80859
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      7ea80859
    • Julia Lawall's avatar
      ipc/sem.c: use ERR_CAST · 4de85cd6
      Julia Lawall authored
      Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)).  The former makes more
      clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
      no-op.
      
      The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
      (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
      
      )
      
      // <smpl>
      @@
      type T;
      T x;
      identifier f;
      @@
      
      T f (...) { <+...
      - ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
      + x
       ...+> }
      
      @@
      expression x;
      @@
      
      - ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
      + ERR_CAST(x)
      // </smpl>
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4de85cd6
    • Manfred Spraul's avatar
      ipc/sem.c: update description of the implementation · c5cf6359
      Manfred Spraul authored
      
      ipc/sem.c begins with a 15 year old description about bugs in the initial
      implementation in Linux-1.0.  The patch replaces that with a top level
      description of the current code.
      
      A TODO could be derived from this text:
      
      The opengroup man page for semop() does not mandate FIFO.  Thus there is
      no need for a semaphore array list of pending operations.
      
      If
      
      - this list is removed
      - the per-semaphore array spinlock is removed (possible if there is no
        list to protect)
      - sem_otime is moved into the semaphores and calculated on demand during
        semctl()
      
      then the array would be read-mostly - which would significantly improve
      scaling for applications that use semaphore arrays with lots of entries.
      
      The price would be expensive semctl() calls:
      
      	for(i=0;i<sma->sem_nsems;i++) spin_lock(sma->sem_lock);
      	<do stuff>
      	for(i=0;i<sma->sem_nsems;i++) spin_unlock(sma->sem_lock);
      
      I'm not sure if the complexity is worth the effort, thus here is the
      documentation of the current behavior first.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c5cf6359
    • Manfred Spraul's avatar
      ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process out of the spinlock section · 0a2b9d4c
      Manfred Spraul authored
      
      The wake-up part of semtimedop() consists out of two steps:
      
      - the right tasks must be identified.
      - they must be woken up.
      
      Right now, both steps run while the array spinlock is held.  This patch
      reorders the code and moves the actual wake_up_process() behind the point
      where the spinlock is dropped.
      
      The code also moves setting sem->sem_otime to one place: It does not make
      sense to set the last modify time multiple times.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair kerneldoc]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised retval]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0a2b9d4c
    • Manfred Spraul's avatar
      ipc/sem.c: optimize update_queue() for bulk wakeup calls · fd5db422
      Manfred Spraul authored
      
      The following series of patches tries to fix the spinlock contention
      reported by Chris Mason - his benchmark exposes problems of the current
      code:
      
      - In the worst case, the algorithm used by update_queue() is O(N^2).
        Bulk wake-up calls can enter this worst case.  The patch series fix
        that.
      
        Note that the benchmark app doesn't expose the problem, it just should
        be fixed: Real world apps might do the wake-ups in another order than
        perfect FIFO.
      
      - The part of the code that runs within the semaphore array spinlock is
        significantly larger than necessary.
      
        The patch series fixes that.  This change is responsible for the main
        improvement.
      
      - The cacheline with the spinlock is also used for a variable that is
        read in the hot path (sem_base) and for a variable that is unnecessarily
        written to multiple times (sem_otime).  The last step of the series
        cacheline-aligns the spinlock.
      
      This patch:
      
      The SysV semaphore code allows to perform multiple operations on all
      semaphores in the array as atomic operations.  After a modification,
      update_queue() checks which of the waiting tasks can complete.
      
      The algorithm that is used to identify the tasks is O(N^2) in the worst
      case.  For some cases, it is simple to avoid the O(N^2).
      
      The patch adds a detection logic for some cases, especially for the case
      of an array where all sleeping tasks are single sembuf operations and a
      multi-sembuf operation is used to wake up multiple tasks.
      
      A big database application uses that approach.
      
      The patch fixes wakeup due to semctl(,,SETALL,) - the initial version of
      the patch breaks that.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make do_smart_update() static]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fd5db422
  21. May 25, 2010
  22. May 11, 2010
  23. Apr 06, 2010
  24. Mar 30, 2010
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  25. Mar 22, 2010
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      ppc64 sys_ipc breakage in 2.6.34-rc2 · 45575f5a
      Anton Blanchard authored
      
      I chased down a fail on ppc64 on 2.6.34-rc2 where an application that
      uses shared memory was getting a SEGV.
      
      Commit baed7fc9 ("Add generic sys_ipc
      wrapper") changed the second argument from an unsigned long to an int.
      When we call shmget the system call wrappers for sys_ipc will sign
      extend second (ie the size) which truncates it.  It took a while to
      track down because the call succeeds and strace shows the untruncated
      size :)
      
      The patch below changes second from an int to an unsigned long which
      fixes shmget on ppc64 (and I assume s390, sparc64 and mips64).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      --
      
      I assume the function prototypes for the other IPC methods would cause us
      to sign or zero extend second where appropriate (avoiding any security
      issues). Come to think of it, the syscall wrappers for each method should do
      that for us as well.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45575f5a
  26. Mar 12, 2010
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      ipc: use rlimit helpers · f1eb1332
      Jiri Slaby authored
      
      Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits.  E.g.  fetching them
      twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented.
      
      I.e.  either use rlimit helpers added in
      3e10e716 ("resource: add helpers for
      fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f1eb1332
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      Add generic sys_ipc wrapper · baed7fc9
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall.  Except for
      s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical.
      
      There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips
      and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned
      long for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while
      it traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters.  frv goes even
      further and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which
      is a pointer type everywhere.  The change from int to unsigned long for
      "third" and back to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the
      in-register calling conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar
      issue with the generic sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch
      maintainers looks over this in details.
      
      Except for that h8300, m68k and m68knommu lack an impplementation of the
      semtimedop sub call which this patch adds, and various architectures have
      gets used - at least on i386 it seems superflous as the compat code on
      x86-64 and ia64 doesn't even bother to implement it.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ipc to sys_ni.c]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      baed7fc9
  27. Mar 03, 2010
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