There's a typo / wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (28 commits)
[MIPS] Rework cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Use RTC_CMOS for Cobalt
[MIPS] Use platform_device for Cobalt UART
[MIPS] Separate Alchemy processor based boards config
[MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchg
[MIPS] Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI
[MIPS] tlbex: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] excite: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Remove unused CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BOARDS
[MIPS] Rename tb0229_defconfig to tb0219_defconfig
[MIPS] Update tb0229_defconfig; add CONFIG_GPIO_TB0219.
[MIPS] Add minimum defconfig for RBHMA4200
[MIPS] SB1: Build fix.
[MIPS] Drop __devinit tag from allocate_irqno() and free_irqno()
[MIPS] clocksource: use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() macro
[MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G support
[MIPS] FPU hazard handling
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCK
When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls
* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes
[PATCH] match audit name data
[PATCH] complete message queue auditing
[PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls
[PATCH] initialize name osid
[PATCH] audit signal recipients
[PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)
[PATCH] auditing ptrace
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
USB HID: hiddev - fix race between hiddev_send_event() and hiddev_release()
HID: add hooks for getkeycode() and setkeycode() methods
HID: switch to using input_dev->dev.parent
USB HID: Logitech wheel 0x046d/0xc294 needs HID_QUIRK_NOGET quirk
USB HID: usb_buffer_free() cleanup
USB HID: report descriptor of Cypress USB barcode readers needs fixup
Bluetooth HID: HIDP - don't initialize force feedback
USB HID: update CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK description
HID: add input mappings for non-working keys on Logitech S510 remote
Enable devices to signal interrupts via PCI memory cycles.
rev6:
* fix enable/disable typo, Michael Ellerman
rev5:
* fix up ack, enable, and disable for iop13xx_msi_chip
rev4:
* move smp compile fix to separate patch
* use dynamic_irq_init in create_irq()
* hookup mask/unmask routines in iop13xx_msi_chip
rev3:
* change msi.c to use linux/smp.h instead of asm/smp.h
* call dynamic_irq_cleanup at destroy_irq time
rev2:
* destroy_irq did not take the full 128 bits of msi_irq_in_use into account
* added missing '&' for calls to test_and_set_bit and clear_bit
[ebiederm@xmission.com: review comments/suggestions]
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: cleanups/forward port to 2.6-git]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wolstenholme <daniel.e.wolstenholme@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
IA64 is the origin of the quicklist implementation. So cut out the pieces
that are now in core code and modify the functions called.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
ab1b6f03a1 said
- remove the unused task argument to save_stack_trace, it's always current
then broke arm:
arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c:56: error: conflicting types for 'save_stack_trace'
include/linux/stacktrace.h:11: error: previous declaration of 'save_stack_trace' was here
arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.c:56: error: conflicting types for 'save_stack_trace'
include/linux/stacktrace.h:11: error: previous declaration of 'save_stack_trace' was here
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
In case of reentrance i.e when a probe handler calls a functions which
inturn has a probe, we save a previous kprobe information and just single
step the reentrant probe without calling the actual probe handler. During
this reentracy period, if an interrupt occurs and if probe happens to
trigger in the inturrupt path, then we were corrupting the previous kprobe(
as we were overriding the previous kprobe info) info their by crashing the
system. This patch fixes this issues by having a an array of previous
kprobe info struct(with the array size of 2).
This similar technique is not needed on i386 and x86_64 because by default
interrupts are turn off in the break/int3 exception handler.
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Remove the apparently useless config option GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK,
since nothing in the source tree refers to it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On SN, only allow one bit to be set in the smp_affinty mask when
redirecting an interrupt. Currently setting multiple bits is allowed, but
only the first bit is used in determining the CPU to redirect to. This has
caused confusion among some customers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes]
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Add base kernel support for the TI DaVinci platform.
This patch only includes interrupts, timers, CPU identification,
serial support and basic power and sleep controller init. More
drivers to come.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Resolve the circular dependency in the AT91 header files (io.h and
hardware.h) by moving the at91_sys_read() and at91_sys_write() functions
to io.h
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Trying to build current git tree fails. The failure is due to commit
25ff0a6530. The patch title say it's for
OMAP board while it's applied on S3C2410 Kconfig entry. Moreover, the
OMAP entry is already selecting GENERIC_TIME.
This patch reverts the offending commit.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Attached you can find a patch needed to make the LEDS for 'CPU-Idle'
and 'Timer' work on the AT91SAM9261-EK board. The kernel configuration
options are already there, but the implementation is not available.
Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <l.pinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/io.c:106: error: conflicting types for 'readsw'
arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/io.c:116: error: conflicting types for 'readsl'
arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/io.c:161: error: conflicting types for 'writesw'
arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/io.c:171: error: conflicting types for 'writesl'
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds a small driver responsible for configuring the UART used
for the bluetooth chip and for enabling the bluetooth chipset.
Additionnaly, can trigger a led if the H1940 led driver is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This adds the ac97 clock to the s3c2443 machine files. It seems to
have been simply missed out previously.
Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <gg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This update for trizeps4 SoM contains:
- support for new TFT on more recent ConXS evalboard
- correct partition of flash device
- update of "trizeps4_defconfig"
Signed-off-by: Jrgen Schindele (linux@schindele.name)
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Building on the previous two ecard infrastructure changes, this patch
fixes the pata_icside build errors caused by the recent libata changes.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add devres ecardm_iomap() and ecardm_iounmap() for Acorn expansion
cards. Convert all expansion card drivers to use them.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Rather than having every driver fiddle about setting its private
IRQ operations and data, provide a helper function to contain
this functionality in one place.
Arrange to remove the driver-private IRQ operations and data when
the device is removed from the driver, and remove the driver
private code to do this.
This fixes potential problems caused by drivers forgetting to
remove these hooks.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits)
[NETFILTER]: xt_conntrack: add compat support
[NETFILTER]: iptable_raw: ignore short packets sent by SOCK_RAW sockets
[NETFILTER]: iptable_{filter,mangle}: more descriptive "happy cracking" message
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: Clears helper private area when NATing
[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: clear helper area and handle unchanged helper
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes unused destroy operation of l3proto
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes duplicated declarations
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused argument of function allocating binding
[NETFILTER]: Clean up table initialization
[NET_SCHED]: Avoid requeue warning on dev_deactivate
[NET_SCHED]: Reread dev->qdisc for NETDEV_TX_OK
[NET_SCHED]: Rationalise return value of qdisc_restart
[NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case
[UDP]: Fix AF-specific references in AF-agnostic code.
[IrDA]: KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA dongle support.
[IPV6] ROUTE: Assign rt6i_idev for ip6_{prohibit,blk_hole}_entry.
[IPV6]: Do no rely on skb->dst before it is assigned.
[IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations.
[SCTP]: Do not include ABORT chunk header in the notification.
[SCTP]: Correctly copy addresses in sctp_copy_laddrs
...
When exporting input device bitmaps via compat_ioctl on BIG_ENDIAN
platforms evdev calculates data size incorrectly. This causes buffer
overflow if user specifies buffer smaller than maxlen.
Signed-off-by: Kenichi Nagai <kenichi3.nagai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
During a 'resync' or similar activity, md checks if the devices in the
array are otherwise active and winds back resync activity when they are.
This test in done in is_mddev_idle, and it is somewhat fragile - it
sometimes thinks there is non-sync io when there isn't.
The test compares the total sectors of io (disk_stat_read) with the sectors
of resync io (disk->sync_io). This has problems because total sectors gets
updated when a request completes, while resync io gets updated when the
request is submitted. The time difference can cause large differenced
between the two which do not actually imply non-resync activity. The test
currently allows for some fuzz (+/- 4096) but there are some cases when it
is not enough.
The test currently looks for any (non-fuzz) difference, either positive or
negative. This clearly is not needed. Any non-sync activity will cause
the total sectors to grow faster than the sync_io count (never slower) so
we only need to look for a positive differences.
If we do this then the amount of in-flight sync io will never cause the
appearance of non-sync IO. Once enough non-sync IO to worry about starts
happening, resync will be slowed down and the measurements will thus be
more precise (as there is less in-flight) and control of resync will still
be suitably responsive.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the obsolete "if [ ]" construct from the video console Kconfig
file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert internal wait_pm2() function to fb API fb_sync() method.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Let the user enable debugging messages in nvidiafb.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds a framebuffer driver to ATMEL AT91SAM9x and AT32 aka AVR32 platforms.
Those chips share quite the same IP and this code is suitable for both
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a basic port from 2.4 kernel to 2.6. Acceleration is lost and big
endian support probably too. The driver works in 8, 16 and 32 bit mode.
[adaplas]
- change VESA_* to FB_BLANK_* constants
- removed unused function clear_memory
- fix uninitialized variable compiler warning
- some whitespace cleaning
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Nuke pestiferous CVS string]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Re-arrange epoll code to avoid static functions pre-declarations, and apply
akpm-filter on it.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Epoll is either compiled it, or not (if EMBEDDED). Remove the module code
and use fs_initcall().
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cut out lots of code from epoll, by reusing the anonymous inode source
patch (fs/anon_inodes.c).
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code,
in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence
compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd
fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd. This patch
uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd
file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request
completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result
to a struct io_event. I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it
runs fine here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c
The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll
too.
This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices
requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll. In a typical
scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and
will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the
addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete),
and then would:
epoll_wait(...);
for_each_event {
if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) {
aio_getevents();
dispatch_aio_events();
} else {
dispatch_epoll_event();
}
}
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch wires the eventfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a very simple and light file descriptor, that can be used as event
wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel
(dispatch only). It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those
would simply be used to signal events. Their kernel overhead is much lower
than pipes, and they do not consume two fds. When used in the kernel, it can
offer an fd-bridge to enable, for example, functionalities like KAIO or
syslets/threadlets to signal to an fd the completion of certain operations.
But more in general, an eventfd can be used by the kernel to signal readiness,
in a POSIX poll/select way, of interfaces that would otherwise be incompatible
with it. The API is:
int eventfd(unsigned int count);
The eventfd API accepts an initial "count" parameter, and returns an eventfd
fd. It supports poll(2) (POLLIN, POLLOUT, POLLERR), read(2) and write(2).
The POLLIN flag is raised when the internal counter is greater than zero.
The POLLOUT flag is raised when at least a value of "1" can be written to the
internal counter.
The POLLERR flag is raised when an overflow in the counter value is detected.
The write(2) operation can never overflow the counter, since it blocks (unless
O_NONBLOCK is set, in which case -EAGAIN is returned).
But the eventfd_signal() function can do it, since it's supposed to not sleep
during its operation.
The read(2) function reads the __u64 counter value, and reset the internal
value to zero. If the value read is equal to (__u64) -1, an overflow happened
on the internal counter (due to 2^64 eventfd_signal() posts that has never
been retired - unlickely, but possible).
The write(2) call writes an __u64 count value, and adds it to the current
counter. The eventfd fd supports O_NONBLOCK also.
On the kernel side, we have:
struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd);
int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, unsigned int n);
The eventfd_fget() should be called to get a struct file* from an eventfd fd
(this is an fget() + check of f_op being an eventfd fops pointer).
The kernel can then call eventfd_signal() every time it wants to post an event
to userspace. The eventfd_signal() function can be called from any context.
An eventfd() simple test and bench is available here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-bench.c
This is the eventfd-based version of pipetest-4 (pipe(2) based):
http://www.xmailserver.org/pipetest-4.c
Not that performance matters much in the eventfd case, but eventfd-bench
shows almost as double as performance than pipetest-4.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_eventfd to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch implements the necessary compat code for the timerfd system call.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch wires the timerfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered though
file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with standard POSIX
poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of supporting the Linux
f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with epoll(2) too.
The system call is defined as:
int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct itimerspec *utmr);
The "ufd" parameter allows for re-use (re-programming) of an existing timerfd
w/out going through the close/open cycle (same as signalfd). If "ufd" is -1,
s new file descriptor will be created, otherwise the existing "ufd" will be
re-programmed.
The "clockid" parameter is either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME. The time
specified in the "utmr->it_value" parameter is the expiry time for the timer.
If the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME flag is set in "flags", this is an absolute time,
otherwise it's a relative time.
If the time specified in the "utmr->it_interval" is not zero (.tv_sec == 0,
tv_nsec == 0), this is the period at which the following ticks should be
generated.
The "utmr->it_interval" should be set to zero if only one tick is requested.
Setting the "utmr->it_value" to zero will disable the timer, or will create a
timerfd without the timer enabled.
The function returns the new (or same, in case "ufd" is a valid timerfd
descriptor) file, or -1 in case of error.
As stated before, the timerfd file descriptor supports poll(2), select(2) and
epoll(2). When a timer event happened on the timerfd, a POLLIN mask will be
returned.
The read(2) call can be used, and it will return a u32 variable holding the
number of "ticks" that happened on the interface since the last call to
read(2). The read(2) call supportes the O_NONBLOCK flag too, and EAGAIN will
be returned if no ticks happened.
A quick test program, shows timerfd working correctly on my amd64 box:
http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_timerfd to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch implements the necessary compat code for the signalfd system call.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch wires the signalfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call.
I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be
broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same
signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard
kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on
the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This
seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test
program for it:
http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c
The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor
receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API:
int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize);
The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going
to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new
signalfd file.
The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested
in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask".
The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2)
will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct
consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use
used together with epoll(2) too.
The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in
the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied
in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also
return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached,
has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will
return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available.
If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct
signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also
return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the
struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code &
__SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would:
struct signalfd_siginfo {
__u32 signo; /* si_signo */
__s32 err; /* si_errno */
__s32 code; /* si_code */
__u32 pid; /* si_pid */
__u32 uid; /* si_uid */
__s32 fd; /* si_fd */
__u32 tid; /* si_fd */
__u32 band; /* si_band */
__u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */
__u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */
__s32 status; /* si_status */
__s32 svint; /* si_int */
__u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */
__u64 utime; /* si_utime */
__u64 stime; /* si_stime */
__u64 addr; /* si_addr */
};
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need
and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an
inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in
the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*).
This allow code reuse, and will be used by epoll, signalfd and timerfd
(and whatever else there'll be).
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove initialization of pgrp and __session in INIT_SIGNALS, as these are
later set by the call to __set_special_pids() in init/main.c by the patch:
explicitly-set-pgid-and-sid-of-init-process.patch
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Satyam Sharma