Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:26 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: add a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids
struct cgroup used to have a bunch of fields for keeping track of the
pidlist for the tasks file. Those are now separated into a new struct
cgroup_pidlist, of which two are had, one for procs and one for tasks.
The way the seq_file operations are set up is changed so that just the
pidlist struct gets passed around as the private data.
Interface example: Suppose a multithreaded process has pid 1000 and other
threads with ids 1001, 1002, 1003:
$ cat tasks
1000
1001
1002
1003
$ cat cgroup.procs
1000
$
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:25 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: revert "cgroups: fix pid namespace bug"
The following series adds a "cgroup.procs" file to each cgroup that
reports unique tgids rather than pids, and allows all threads in a
threadgroup to be atomically moved to a new cgroup.
The subsystem "attach" interface is modified to support attaching whole
threadgroups at a time, which could introduce potential problems if any
subsystem were to need to access the old cgroup of every thread being
moved. The attach interface may need to be revised if this becomes the
case.
Also added is functionality for read/write locking all CLONE_THREAD
fork()ing within a threadgroup, by means of an rwsem that lives in the
sighand_struct, for per-threadgroup-ness and also for sharing a cacheline
with the sighand's atomic count. This scheme should introduce no extra
overhead in the fork path when there's no contention.
The final patch reveals potential for a race when forking before a
subsystem's attach function is called - one potential solution in case any
subsystem has this problem is to hang on to the group's fork mutex through
the attach() calls, though no subsystem yet demonstrates need for an
extended critical section.
This is in preparation for some clashing cgroups changes that subsume the
original commit's functionaliy.
The original commit fixed a pid namespace bug which Ben Blum fixed
independently (in the same way, but with different code) as part of a
series of patches. I played around with trying to reconcile Ben's patch
series with Li's patch, but concluded that it was simpler to just revert
Li's, given that Ben's patch series contained essentially the same fix.
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:23 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound subsystems
This patch removes the restriction that a cgroup hierarchy must have at
least one bound subsystem. The mount option "none" is treated as an
explicit request for no bound subsystems.
A hierarchy with no subsystems can be useful for plain task tracking, and
is also a step towards the support for multiply-bindable subsystems.
As part of this change, the hierarchy id is no longer calculated from the
bitmask of subsystems in the hierarchy (since this is not guaranteed to be
unique) but is allocated via an ida. Reference counts on cgroups from
css_set objects are now taken explicitly one per hierarchy, rather than
one per subsystem.
Example usage:
mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup
Based on the "no-op"/"none" subsystem concept proposed by [email protected]
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:22 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: add a back-pointer from struct cg_cgroup_link to struct cgroup
Currently the cgroups code makes the assumption that the subsystem
pointers in a struct css_set uniquely identify the hierarchy->cgroup
mappings associated with the css_set; and there's no way to directly
identify the associated set of cgroups other than by indirecting through
the appropriate subsystem state pointers.
This patch removes the need for that assumption by adding a back-pointer
from struct cg_cgroup_link object to its associated cgroup; this allows
the set of cgroups to be determined by traversing the cg_links list in
the struct css_set.
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:20 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: move the cgroup debug subsys into cgroup.c to access internal state
While it's architecturally clean to have the cgroup debug subsystem be
completely independent of the cgroups framework, it limits its usefulness
for debugging the contents of internal data structures. Move the debug
subsystem code into the scope of all the cgroups data structures to make
more detailed debugging possible.
Paul Menage [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:19 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: support named cgroups hierarchies
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to
allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and
multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new
cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount option
A pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems;
a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation.
Example usage:
# To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1
# To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2
Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt
In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and
Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs
documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and
Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition
remained.
This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel.
Peng Tao [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:13 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now. The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.
time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use
There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between
calendar time and broken-down time.
Here is some source I found:
fs/ncpfs/dir.c
fs/smbfs/proc.c
fs/fat/misc.c
fs/udf/udftime.c
fs/cifs/netmisc.c
net/netfilter/xt_time.c
drivers/scsi/ips.c
drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c
arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
arch/m68k/mac/misc.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h
...
We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we
can get following benefit:
1: Make kernel simple and unify
2: Easy to fix bug in converting code
3: Reduce clone of code in future
For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime,
this patch will make me easy.
hugetlbfs: do not call user_shm_lock() for MAP_HUGETLB fix
Commit 6bfde05bf5c ("hugetlbfs: allow the creation of files suitable for
MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount") altered can_do_hugetlb_shm() to
check if a file is being created for shared memory or mmap(). If this
returns false, we then unconditionally call user_shm_lock() triggering a
warning. This block should never be entered for MAP_HUGETLB. This
patch partially reverts the problem and fixes the check.
ksm: change default values to better fit into mainline kernel
Now that ksm is in mainline it is better to change the default values to
better fit to most of the users.
This patch change the ksm default values to be:
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = 100 (instead of 200)
ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20 (like before)
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP (instead of KSM_RUN_MERGE - meaning ksm is
disabled by default)
ksm_max_kernel_pages = nr_free_buffer_pages / 4 (instead of 2046)
The important aspect of this patch is: it disables ksm by default, and sets
the number of the kernel_pages that can be allocated to be a reasonable
number.
input: fix build failures caused by Kconfig Winbond WPCD376I Consumer IR hardware driver Kconfig entry
Fix these warnings:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `apanel_remove':
apanel.c:(.text+0x56e852): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `apanel_probe':
apanel.c:(.text+0x56eae3): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_fujitsu_hotkey_add':
fujitsu-laptop.c:(.text+0x5d7647): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
fujitsu-laptop.c:(.text+0x5d76b5): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `wbcir_probe':
winbond-cir.c:(.devinit.text+0x5f375): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
winbond-cir.c:(.devinit.text+0x5f663): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `wbcir_remove':
winbond-cir.c:(.devexit.text+0x7f23): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `fujitsu_cleanup':
fujitsu-laptop.c:(.exit.text+0xbe37): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
fujitsu-laptop.c:(.exit.text+0xbe53): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
It happens because the new INPUT_WINBOND_CIR driver relies on new-leds
infrastructure - but does not select it in drivers/input/misc/Kconfig.
But it selects LEDS_CLASS, which confuses a number of other drivers into
thinking that all the leds infrastructure is in place.
Fix this by selecting NEW_LEDS as well, like similar drivers do.
Eventually, this whole leds infrastructure complexity should be
cleaned up, it's been going on for years.
The extent relocation code copy file extents one by one when
relocating data block group. This is inefficient if file
extents are small. This patch makes the relocation code copy
file extents in clusters. So we can can make better use of
read-ahead.
A recent change enforces only one access point to each subvolume. The first
directory entry (the one added when the subvolume/snapshot was created) is
treated as valid access point, all other subvolume links are linked to dummy
empty directories. The dummy directories are temporary inodes that only in
memory, so we can not rename file into them.
Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
For every hardlink in btrfs, there is a corresponding inode back
reference. All inode back references for hardlinks in a given
directory are stored in single b-tree item. The size of b-tree item
is limited by the size of b-tree leaf, so we can only create limited
number of hardlinks to a given file in a directory.
The original code lacks of the check, it oops if the number of
hardlinks goes over the limit. This patch fixes the issue by adding
check to btrfs_link and btrfs_rename.
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced
in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour
(except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok).
Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok.
vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and
into mm/truncate.c.
fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
sys_mount() reads/copies a whole page for its "type" parameter. When
do_mount_root() passes a kernel address that points to an object which is
smaller than a whole page, copy_mount_options() will happily go past this
memory object, possibly dereferencing "wild" pointers that could be in any
state (hence the kmemcheck warning, which shows that parts of the next
page are not even allocated).
(The likelihood of something going wrong here is pretty low -- first of
all this only applies to kernel calls to sys_mount(), which are mostly
found in the boot code. Secondly, I guess if the page was not mapped,
exact_copy_from_user() _would_ in fact handle it correctly because of its
access_ok(), etc. checks.)
But it is much nicer to avoid the dubious reads altogether, by stopping as
soon as we find a NUL byte. Is there a good reason why we can't do
something like this, using the already existing strndup_from_user()?
[[email protected]: make copy_mount_string() static]
[AV: fix compat mount breakage, which involves undoing akpm's change above]
freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
Currently we held s_umount while a filesystem is frozen, despite that we
might return to userspace and unlock it from a different process. Instead
grab an active reference to keep the file system busy and add an explicit
check for frozen filesystems in remount and reject the remount instead
of blocking on s_umount.
Add a new get_active_super helper to super.c for use by freeze_bdev that
grabs an active reference to a superblock from a given block device.
Now that we have the freeze count there is not much reason for bd_mount_sem
anymore. The actual freeze/thaw operations are serialized using the
bd_fsfreeze_mutex, and the only other place we take bd_mount_sem is
get_sb_bdev which tries to prevent mounting a filesystem while the block
device is frozen. Instead of add a check for bd_fsfreeze_count and
return -EBUSY if a filesystem is frozen. While that is a change in user
visible behaviour a failing mount is much better for this case rather
than having the mount process stuck uninterruptible for a long time.
Boaz Harrosh [Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:56:46 +0000 (17:56 +0300)]
exofs: remove BKL from super operations
the two places inside exofs that where taking the BKL were:
exofs_put_super() - .put_super
and
exofs_sync_fs() - which is .sync_fs and is also called from
.write_super.
Now exofs_sync_fs() is protected from itself by also taking
the sb_lock.
exofs_put_super() directly calls exofs_sync_fs() so there is no
danger between these two either.
In anyway there is absolutely nothing dangerous been done
inside exofs_sync_fs().
Unless there is some subtle race with the actual lifetime of
the super_block in regard to .put_super and some other parts
of the VFS. Which is highly unlikely.
Jeff Layton [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:53 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
sb->s_maxbytes is supposed to indicate the maximum size of a file that can
exist on the filesystem. It's declared as an unsigned long long.
Even if a filesystem has no inherent limit that prevents it from using
every bit in that unsigned long long, it's still problematic to set it to
anything larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE. There are places in the kernel
that cast s_maxbytes to a signed value. If it's set too large then this
cast makes it a negative number and generally breaks the comparison.
Change s_maxbytes to be loff_t instead. That should help eliminate the
temptation to set it too large by making it a signed value.
Also, add a warning for couple of releases to help catch filesystems that
set s_maxbytes too large. Eventually we can either convert this to a
BUG() or just remove it and in the hope that no one will get it wrong now
that it's a signed value.
Jeff Layton [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:50 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
If fiemap_check_ranges is passed a large enough value, then it's
possible that the value would be cast to a signed value for comparison
against s_maxbytes when we change it to loff_t. Make sure that doesn't
happen by explicitly casting s_maxbytes to an unsigned value for the
purposes of comparison.
Some benchmark testing shows touch_atime to be high up in profile logs for
IO intensive workloads. Most likely that's due to the lock in
mnt_want_write(). Unfortunately touch_atime first takes the lock, and
then does all the other tests that could avoid atime updates (like noatime
or relatime).
Do it the other way round -- first try to avoid the update and only then
if that didn't succeed take the lock. That works because none of the
atime avoidance tests rely on locking.
Jan Kara [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:44 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
Hugetlbfs needs to do special things instead of truncate_inode_pages().
Currently, it copied generic_forget_inode() except for
truncate_inode_pages() call which is asking for trouble (the code there
isn't trivial). So create a separate function generic_detach_inode()
which does all the list magic done in generic_forget_inode() and call
it from hugetlbfs_forget_inode().
fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
Add device-id and inode number for better debugging. This was suggested
by Andreas in one of the threads
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/12062 .
"If anyone has a chance, fixing this error message to be not-useless would
be good... Including the device name and the inode number would help
track down the source of the problem."
Steven Rostedt [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:42 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
Impact: have simple_read_from_buffer conform to standards
It was brought to my attention by Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso, and H.
Peter Anvin that a read from userspace should only return -EFAULT if
nothing was actually read.
Looking at the simple_read_from_buffer I noticed that this function does
not conform to that rule. This patch fixes that function.
Michal Simek [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:15:49 +0000 (15:15 +0200)]
microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
Instead of remembering to specify DTB= on the make commandline, this commit
allows the much friendlier make simpleImage.<dts>
where <dts>.dts is expected to be found in arch/microblaze/boot/dts/
The resulting vmlinux, with the compiled DTS linked in, will be copied to
boot/simpleImage.<dts>
This mirrors the same functionality as on PowerPC,
albeit achieving it in a slightly different way.
+ strip simpleImage file
The size of output file is very similar to linux.bin.
vmlinux - full elf without fdt blob
simpleImage.<dtb name>.unstrip - full elf with fdt blob
simpleImage.<dtb name> - stripped elf with fdt blob
Add symlink to generic system.dts in platform folder
Michael Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:15:19 +0000 (10:15 +0200)]
[PATCH] Fix idle time field in /proc/uptime
Git commit 79741dd changes idle cputime accounting, but unfortunately
the /proc/uptime file hasn't caught up. Here the idle time calculation
from /proc/stat is copied over.
Paul Moore [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:46:00 +0000 (13:46 -0400)]
lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
Currently the audit subsystem prints uncompressed IPv6 addresses which not
only differs from common usage but also results in ridiculously large audit
strings which is not a good thing. This patch fixes this by simply converting
audit to always print compressed IPv6 addresses.
Eric Paris [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:46:00 +0000 (13:46 -0400)]
Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
Audit will not respond to signal requests if selinux is disabled since it is
unable to translate the 0 sid from the sending process to a context. This
patch just doesn't send the context info if there isn't any.
Eric Paris [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:54:29 +0000 (16:54 -0400)]
Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
pahole pointed out that on x86_64 struct audit_context can be rearrainged
to save 16 bytes per struct. Since we have an audit_context per task this
can acually be a pretty significant gain.
/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 7 */
/* sum members: 64, holes: 2, sum holes: 8 */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
}; /* definitions: 1 */
by moving dev after count we save 8 bytes, actually improving cacheline
usage. There are typically very few of these in the kernel so it won't be
a large savings, but it's a good thing no matter what.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (39 commits)
cpumask: Move deprecated functions to end of header.
cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity
cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist.
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: um
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mips
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mn10300
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: m32r
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: arm
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: um
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: powerpc
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: mips
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: m32r
cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: s390
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: powerpc
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha
cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64
...
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
not needed after kref conversion
* remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it
NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
headers and files alone.
This reverts commit c02e3f361c7 ("kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code")
The patch is wrong. UMH_WAIT_EXEC is called with VFORK what ensures
that the child finishes prior returing back to the parent. No race.
In fact, the patch makes it even worse because it does the thing it
claims not do:
- It calls ->complete() on UMH_WAIT_EXEC
- the complete() callback may de-allocated subinfo as seen in the
following call chain:
[<c009f904>] (__link_path_walk+0x20/0xeb4) from [<c00a094c>] (path_walk+0x48/0x94)
[<c00a094c>] (path_walk+0x48/0x94) from [<c00a0a34>] (do_path_lookup+0x24/0x4c)
[<c00a0a34>] (do_path_lookup+0x24/0x4c) from [<c00a158c>] (do_filp_open+0xa4/0x83c)
[<c00a158c>] (do_filp_open+0xa4/0x83c) from [<c009ba90>] (open_exec+0x24/0xe0)
[<c009ba90>] (open_exec+0x24/0xe0) from [<c009bfa8>] (do_execve+0x7c/0x2e4)
[<c009bfa8>] (do_execve+0x7c/0x2e4) from [<c0026a80>] (kernel_execve+0x34/0x80)
[<c0026a80>] (kernel_execve+0x34/0x80) from [<c004b514>] (____call_usermodehelper+0x130/0x148)
[<c004b514>] (____call_usermodehelper+0x130/0x148) from [<c0024858>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
and the path pointer was NULL. Good that ARM's kernel_execve()
doesn't check the pointer for NULL or else I wouldn't notice it.
The only race there might be is with UMH_NO_WAIT but it is too late for
me to investigate it now. UMH_WAIT_PROC could probably also use VFORK
and we could save one exec. So the only race I see is with UMH_NO_WAIT
and recent scheduler changes where the child does not always run first
might have trigger here something but as I said, it is late....
Chris Mason [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:28:46 +0000 (20:28 -0400)]
Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
During releasepage, we try to drop any extent_state structs for the
bye offsets of the page we're releaseing. But the code was incorrectly
telling clear_extent_bit to delete the state struct unconditionallly.
Normally this would be fine because we have the page locked, but other
parts of btrfs will lock down an entire extent, the most common place
being IO completion.
releasepage was deleting the extent state without first locking the extent,
which may result in removing a state struct that another process had
locked down. The fix here is to leave the NODATASUM and EXTENT_LOCKED
bits alone in releasepage.
Chris Mason [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:23:16 +0000 (20:23 -0400)]
Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
If test_range_bit finds an extent that goes all the way to (u64)-1, it
can incorrectly wrap the u64 instead of treaing it like the end of
the address space.
This just adds a check for the highest possible offset so we don't wrap.
Chris Mason [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:09 +0000 (19:51 -0400)]
Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
Both set and clear_extent_bit allow passing a cached
state struct to reduce rbtree search times. clear_extent_bit
was improperly bypassing some of the checks around making sure
the extent state fields were correct for a given operation.
The fix used here (from Yan Zheng) is to use the hit_next
goto target instead of jumping all the way down to start clearing
bits without making sure the cached state was exactly correct
for the operation we were doing.
This also fixes up the setting of the start variable for both
ops in the case where we find an overlapping extent that
begins before the range we want to change. In both cases
we were incorrectly going backwards from the original
requested change.
Rusty Russell [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:52 +0000 (09:34 -0600)]
cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity
We're not forcing removal of the old cpu_ functions, but we might as
well delete the now-unused ones.
Especially CPUMASK_ALLOC and friends. I actually got a phone call (!)
from a hacker who thought I had introduced them as the new cpumask
API. He seemed bewildered that I had lost all taste.
We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), and by defining
it, the old arch_send_call_function_ipi is defined by the core code.
Rusty Russell [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:44 +0000 (09:34 -0600)]
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips
We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), and by defining
it, the old arch_send_call_function_ipi is defined by the core code.
We also take the chance to wean the implementations off the
obsolescent for_each_cpu_mask(): making send_ipi_mask take the pointer
seemed the most natural way to ensure all implementations used
for_each_cpu.
Rusty Russell [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:43 +0000 (09:34 -0600)]
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r
We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), and by defining
it, the old arch_send_call_function_ipi is defined by the core code.
We also take the chance to wean the implementations off the
obsolescent for_each_cpu_mask(): making send_ipi_mask take the pointer
seemed the most natural way to ensure all implementations used
for_each_cpu.
Rusty Russell [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:43 +0000 (09:34 -0600)]
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha
We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask().
We also take the chance to wean the send_ipi_message off the
obsolescent for_each_cpu_mask(): making it take a pointer seemed the
most natural way to do this.
Rusty Russell [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:37 +0000 (09:34 -0600)]
cpumask: remove unused mask field from struct irqaction.
Up until 1.1.83, the primitive human tribes used struct sigaction for
interrupts. The sa_mask field was overloaded to hold a pointer to the
name.
When someone created the new "struct irqaction" they carried across
the "mask" field as a kind of ancestor worship: the fact that it was
unused makes clear its spiritual significance.
(Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo)
CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so:
#define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } }
Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best,
unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added
CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR:
#define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL)
Which formalizes this practice. One day gcc could bite us over this
usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far).
So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR
with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real struct cpumask *), and remove
CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR altogether.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
kbuild: add static to prototypes
kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
ctags: usability fix
kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
kbuild: introduce ld-option
...
Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
NFS: Propagate 'fsc' mount option through automounts
sunrpc/rpc_pipe: fix kernel-doc notation
sunrpc: xdr_xcode_hyper helpers cannot presume 64-bit alignment
NFS: Add nfs_alloc_parsed_mount_data
NFS/RPC: fix problems with reestablish_timeout and related code.
NFS: Get rid of the NFS_MOUNT_VER3 and NFS_MOUNT_TCP flags
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
9p: Add fscache support to 9p
9p: Fix the incorrect update of inode size in v9fs_file_write()
9p: Use the i_size_[read, write]() macros instead of using inode->i_size directly.
Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
hwmon: (ltc4245) Clear faults at startup
hwmon: (ltc4215) Clear faults at startup
hwmon: (coretemp) Add Lynnfield CPU
hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Penryn mobile CPUs
hwmon: (coretemp) Fix Atom CPUs support
hwmon: Delete deprecated FSC drivers
hwmon: (adm1031) Add sysfs files for temperature offsets
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
SELinux: do not destroy the avc_cache_nodep
KEYS: Have the garbage collector set its timer for live expired keys
tpm-fixup-pcrs-sysfs-file-update
creds_are_invalid() needs to be exported for use by modules:
include/linux/cred.h: fix build
Fix trivial BUILD_BUG_ON-induced conflicts in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c