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Steven Rostedt
a358324466 ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added

Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:

 tracing_on()
 tracing_off()

When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.

tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.

These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.

A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called

  tracing_on

This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.

  echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

disables the tracing.

  echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

enables it.

Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.

The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.

There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:

 tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.

 buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
     if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.

 cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
     anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
     an anomaly occurred.

The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().

Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.

Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
  called tracing_on. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 15:02:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2f96cb57cd Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: release buddies on yield
  fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
  sched: clean up debug info
2008-11-11 10:52:25 -08:00
Alan Cox
0906dd9df2 telephony: trivial: fix up email address
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-11 09:30:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0a4cf2c878 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handling
  dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differs
  net: fix setting of skb->tail in skb_recycle_check()
  net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
  mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug code
  netfilter: payload_len is be16, add size of struct rather than size of pointer
  ipv6: fix ip6_mr_init error path
  [4/4] dca: fixup initialization dependency
  [3/4] I/OAT: fix async_tx.callback checking
  [2/4] I/OAT: fix dma_pin_iovec_pages() error handling
  [1/4] I/OAT: fix channel resources free for not allocated channels
  ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems
  SSB: hide empty sub menu
  vlan: Fix typos in proc output string
  [netdrvr] usb/hso: Cleanup rfkill error handling
  sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in EEPROM
  el3_common_init() should be __devinit, not __init
  hso: rfkill type should be WWAN
  mlx4_en: Start port error flow bug fix
  af_key: mark policy as dead before destroying
2008-11-11 09:20:29 -08:00
Dhaval Giani
50ee91765e sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion
Impact: cleanup

This function no longer exists, so remove the defintion.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 13:53:13 +01:00
Eric Paris
06112163f5 Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit to
make an A or B type decision instead of a security decision.  Currently
this is the case at least for filesystems when deciding if a process can use
the reserved 'root' blocks and for the case of things like the oom
algorithm determining if processes are root processes and should be less
likely to be killed.  These types of security system requests should not be
audited or logged since they are not really security decisions.  It would be
possible to solve this problem like the vm_enough_memory security check did
by creating a new LSM interface and moving all of the policy into that
interface but proves the needlessly bloat the LSM and provide complex
indirection.

This merely allows those decisions to be made where they belong and to not
flood logs or printk with denials for thing that are not security decisions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 22:02:50 +11:00
Eric Paris
e68b75a027 When the capset syscall is used it is not possible for audit to record the
actual capbilities being added/removed.  This patch adds a new record type
which emits the target pid and the eff, inh, and perm cap sets.

example output if you audit capset syscalls would be:

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): arch=c000003e syscall=126 success=yes exit=0 a0=17f2014 a1=17f201c a2=80000000 a3=7fff2ab7f060 items=0 ppid=2160 pid=2223 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="setcap" exe="/usr/sbin/setcap" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=UNKNOWN[1322] msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): pid=0 cap_pi=ffffffffffffffff cap_pp=ffffffffffffffff cap_pe=ffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:22 +11:00
Eric Paris
3fc689e96c Any time fcaps or a setuid app under SECURE_NOROOT is used to result in a
non-zero pE we will crate a new audit record which contains the entire set
of known information about the executable in question, fP, fI, fE, fversion
and includes the process's pE, pI, pP.  Before and after the bprm capability
are applied.  This record type will only be emitted from execve syscalls.

an example of making ping use fcaps instead of setuid:

setcap "cat_net_raw+pe" /bin/ping

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=1457f30 a1=14606b0 a2=1463940 a3=321b770a70 items=2 ppid=2929 pid=2963 auid=0 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=UNKNOWN[1321] msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): fver=2 fp=0000000000002000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000 old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 new_pp=0000000000002000 new_pi=0000000000000000 new_pe=0000000000002000
type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="127.0.0.1"
type=CWD msg=audit(1225742021.015:236):  cwd="/home/test"
type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2
type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:18 +11:00
Eric Paris
851f7ff56d This patch will print cap_permitted and cap_inheritable data in the PATH
records of any file that has file capabilities set.  Files which do not
have fcaps set will not have different PATH records.

An example audit record if you run:
setcap "cap_net_admin+pie" /bin/bash
/bin/bash

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=2119230 a1=210da30 a2=20ee290 a3=8 items=2 ppid=2149 pid=2923 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="www.google.com"
type=CWD msg=audit(1225741937.363:230):  cwd="/root"
type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0104755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fi=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2
type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:14 +11:00
Eric Paris
c0b004413a This patch add a generic cpu endian caps structure and externally available
functions which retrieve fcaps information from disk.  This information is
necessary so fcaps information can be collected and recorded by the audit
system.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:10 +11:00
Eric Paris
9d36be76c5 Document the order of arguments for cap_issubset. It's not instantly clear
which order the argument should be in.  So give an example.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:07 +11:00
Frederic Weisbecker
caf4b323b0 tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
ad474caca3 fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load

This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.

Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.

Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.

Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
Michael Buesch
fd0fcf5c29 ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems
This fixes compilation of the SSB DMA-API code on non-PCI platforms.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10 13:50:19 -08:00
Jouni Malinen
fc6971d491 mac80211_hwsim: Add support for client PS mode
This introduces a debugfs file (ieee80211/phy#/hwsim/ps) that can be
used to force a simulated radio into power save mode. Following values
can be written into this file to change PS mode:
0 = power save disabled (constantly awake)
1 = power save enabled (drop all frames; do not send PS-Poll)
2 = power save enabled (send PS-Poll frames automatically to receive
    buffered unicast frames); not yet fully implemented
3 = manual PS-Poll trigger (send a single PS-Poll frame)

Two different behavior for power save mode processing can be tested:
- move between modes 1 and 0 (i.e., receive all buffered frames at a
  time)
- move to mode 1 and use manual PS-Poll frames (write 3 to the 'ps'
  debugfs file) to fetch power save buffered frames one at a time

Mode 2 (automatic PS-Poll) does not yet parse Beacon frames, but
eventually, it should take a look at TIM IE and send PS-Poll if a
traffic bit is set for our AID.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:41 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
318884875b nl80211: Add TX queue parameter configuration
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, that can be used with
NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set TX queue
parameters (txop, cwmin, cwmax, aifs).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:40 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
90c97a040d nl80211: Add basic rate configuration for AP mode
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_BSS_BASIC_RATES, that can be used with
NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set which rates are
in the basic rate set.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1239cd58d2 wireless: move mesh config length constant
This is a constant from the 802.11 specification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:10:16 -05:00
Tejun Heo
8a8bc22332 libata: revert convert-to-block-tagging patches
This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to
use block layer tagging.

 43a49cbdf3
 e013e13bf6
 2fca5ccf97

Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the
tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and
hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with
the current conversion.

The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for
non-NCQ commands.  Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI
starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made.  I'm not
sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it
doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the
frailty of ATA controllers.

So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-10 08:04:47 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
f6d87f4bd2 genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
Impact: preserve user-modified affinities on interrupts

Kumar Galak noticed that commit
1840475676 (genirq: Expose default irq
affinity mask (take 3))

overrides an already set affinity setting across a free /
request_irq(). Happens e.g. with ifdown/ifup of a network device.

Change the logic to mark the affinities as set and keep them
intact. This also fixes the unlocked access to irq_desc in
irq_select_affinity() when called from irq_affinity_proc_write()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 22:23:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
cb56d98e2a Merge branch 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
  cpumask: new API, v2
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
2008-11-09 12:20:56 -08:00
Rusty Russell
984f2f377f cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
Impact: cleanup

Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others:

 - change to inline functions instead of macros
 - add __init to bootmem method
 - add a missing debug check

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 21:09:54 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
058e3739f6 clarify usage expectations for cnt32_to_63()
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU
architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user
mode preemption is disabled already.  It is nevertheless a good idea to
better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit
memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter
value in the wrong order.  On UP a simple compiler barrier is
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-09 11:17:33 -08:00
Kay Sievers
d1b2686308 mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2008-11-08 21:37:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Thomas Graf
f400923735 pkt_sched: Control group classifier
The classifier should cover the most common use case and will work
without any special configuration.

The principle of the classifier is to directly access the
task_struct via get_current(). In order for this to work,
classification requests from softirqs must be ignored. This is
not a problem because the vast majority of packets in softirq
context are not assigned to a task anyway. For this to work, a
mechanism is needed to trace softirq context. 

This repost goes back to the method of relying on the number of
nested bh disable calls for the sake of not adding too much
complexity and the option to come up with something more reliable
if actually needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07 22:56:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
505d4f73dd net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device. v2
I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace
cleanup.  In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have
and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going
on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the
loopback device is present.   Things like sending igmp unsubscribe
messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing
code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present.

Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard
to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the
loopback device directly from net_dev_init().    This guarantes
that the loopback device is the first device registered and
the last network device to go away.

But do it carefully so we register the loopback device after
we clear dev_boot_phase.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07 22:54:20 -08:00
David S. Miller
3d8160b149 Revert "net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device."
This reverts commit ae33bc40c0.
2008-11-07 22:52:14 -08:00
Thomas Renninger
c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
David Vrabel
307ba6dd73 uwb: don't unbind the radio controller driver when resetting
Use pre_reset and post_reset methods to avoid unbinding the radio
controller driver after a uwb_rc_reset_all() call.  This avoids a
deadlock in uwb_rc_rm() when waiting for the uwb event thread to stop.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
2008-11-07 17:37:33 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
8ec96e7bba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files
  PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation
  PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem
  PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
2008-11-07 09:18:14 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
52c642f33b sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well.

On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.87
usecs to 1.49 usecs:

 # before

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.89
    2 23.87

 # after

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.84
     2 1.49

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 16:09:23 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
1480098470 sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT:
unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE.

This improves vmark by 5%:

vmark         132102 125968 125497 messages/sec    avg 127855.66    .984
vmark         139404 131719 131272 messages/sec    avg 134131.66   1.033

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 # *DOCUMENTATION*
2008-11-07 15:35:11 +01:00
Rusty Russell
cd83e42c6b cpumask: new API, v2
- add cpumask_of()
- add free_bootmem_cpumask_var()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 12:52:30 +01:00
David S. Miller
167c6274c3 Merge branch 'davem-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2008-11-07 01:37:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
Niv Sardi
dcd7b4e5c0 Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/linux-2.6 2008-11-07 15:07:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
4bab0ea1d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
  iwl3945: fix deadlock on suspend
  iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count zero
  iwl3945: clear scanning bits upon failure
  ath5k: correct handling of rx status fields
  zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs
  Fix logic error in rfkill_check_duplicity
  iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context
  iwlwifi: clear scanning bits upon failure
  Revert "ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode"
  tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior.
  netfilter: netns ct: walk netns list under RTNL
  ipv6: fix run pending DAD when interface becomes ready
  net/9p: fix printk format warnings
  net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler
  xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
2008-11-06 16:44:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e252f4db18 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Block: use round_jiffies_up()
  Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
  block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices
  generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
  blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
  block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
  bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
  block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
2008-11-06 15:53:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
067ab19923 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: re-tune balancing
  sched: fix buddies for group scheduling
  sched: backward looking buddy
  sched: fix fair preempt check
  sched: cleanup fair task selection
2008-11-06 15:45:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
3b53fbf431 net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.

Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.

There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.

The idea for how to fix this is from Linus.  Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput().  Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-06 15:45:32 -08:00
David Howells
7597bc94d6 Fix accidental implicit cast in HR-timer conversion
Fix the hrtimer_add_expires_ns() function.  It should take a 'u64 ns' argument,
but rather takes an 'unsigned long ns' argument - which might only be 32-bits.

On FRV, this results in the kernel locking up because hrtimer_forward() passes
the result of a 64-bit multiplication to this function, for which the compiler
discards the top 32-bits - something that didn't happen when ktime_add_ns() was
called directly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:44:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c361948712 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [JFFS2] fix race condition in jffs2_lzo_compress()
  [MTD] [NOR] Fix cfi_send_gen_cmd handling of x16 devices in x8 mode (v4)
  [JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake()
  [JFFS2] Fix build failure with !CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
  [MTD] [NAND] OMAP2: remove duplicated #include
2008-11-06 15:43:13 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9c0aa1b87b fat: Cleanup FAT attribute stuff
This adds three helpers:

fat_make_attrs() - makes FAT attributes from inode.
fat_make_mode()  - makes mode_t from FAT attributes.
fat_save_attrs() - saves FAT attributes to inode.

Then this replaces: MSDOS_MKMODE() by fat_make_mode(), fat_attr() by
fat_make_attrs(), ->i_attrs = attr & ATTR_UNUSED by fat_save_attrs().
And for root inode, those is used with ATTR_DIR instead of bogus
ATTR_NONE.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:21 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9e975dae29 fat: split include/msdos_fs.h
This splits __KERNEL__ stuff in include/msdos_fs.h into fs/fat/fat.h.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:20 -08:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
fb68407b0d jbd2: Call journal commit callback without holding j_list_lock
Avoid freeing the transaction in __jbd2_journal_drop_transaction() so
the journal commit callback can run without holding j_list_lock, to
avoid lock contention on this spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-06 17:50:21 -05:00
David Miller
f8d570a474 net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.

Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.

There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.

The idea for how to fix this is from Linus.  Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput().  Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 13:51:50 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
6a60dd121c ftrace: split out hardirq ftrace code into own header
Impact: moving of function prototypes into own header file

ftrace.h is too big of a file for hardirq.h, and some archs will fail
to build because of the include dependencies not being met.

This patch pulls out the required prototypes for hardirq.h into a smaller
and safer ftrace_irq.h file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:20:46 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas
8950d89aca ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_EC
Remove CONFIG_ACPI_EC.  It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI,
and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything
other than "y".

Per section 6.5.4 of the ACPI 3.0b specification,

    OSPM must make Embedded Controller operation regions, accessed
    via the Embedded Controllers described in ECDT, available before
    executing any control method.

The ECDT table is optional, but if it is present, the above text
means that the EC it describes is a required part of the ACPI
subsystem, so CONFIG_ACPI_EC=n wouldn't make sense.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-06 15:52:28 -05:00