This allows us to use the commong sys_rt_sigsuspend instead of
having our own.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places. One of these should never
have called it. In the other two, using it broke the existing
semantics. This was presumably accidental. If the function had not
been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those
patches were changing the behavior. We don't need this function.
In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer.
In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't
need it.
In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ACPI and APM used "pm_active" to guarantee that
they would not be simultaneously active.
But pm_active was recently moved under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY,
so that without CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_active became a NOP --
allowing ACPI and APM to both be simultaneously enabled.
This caused unpredictable results, including boot hangs.
Further, the code under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY is scheduled
for removal.
So replace pm_active with pm_flags.
pm_flags depends only on CONFIG_PM,
which is present for both CONFIG_APM and CONFIG_ACPI.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9194
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
I realize that sg chaining is a ploy to make the rest of the kernel
devs feel the pain of the SCSI subsystem. But this was a little
unsubtle.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Before we register the SLB shadow buffer, we need to invalidate the
entries in the buffer, otherwise we can end up stale entries from when
we previously offlined the CPU.
This does this invalidate as well as unregistering the buffer with
PHYP before we offline the cpu. Tested and fixes crashes seen on
970MP (thanks to tonyb) and POWER5.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
It is important that these resources be reserved
to avoid conflicts with well known ACPI registers.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
When the thread_info->addr_limit changes were introduced, __access_ok()
was missed in the conversion, allowing user processes to perform P1/P2
accesses under certain conditions.
This has already been corrected with the nommu refactoring in later
kernels.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
If only a single CPU type is selected, __cpu_is_xxx() doesn't
use its argument. This causes the compiler to issue a warning
about an unused variable in the parent function.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
It seems commit fda9ef5d67 introduced a RCU
protection for sk_filter(), without a rcu_dereference()
Either we need a rcu_dereference(), either a comment should explain why we
dont need it. I vote for the former.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
alg_key_len is the length in bits of the key, not in bytes.
Best way to fix this is to move alg_len() function from net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
to include/net/xfrm.h, and to use it in xfrm_algo_clone()
alg_len() is renamed to xfrm_alg_len() because of its global exposition.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Both NetLabel and SELinux (other LSMs may grow to use it as well) rely
on the 'iif' field to determine the receiving network interface of
inbound packets. Unfortunately, at present this field is not
preserved across a skb clone operation which can lead to garbage
values if the cloned skb is sent back through the network stack. This
patch corrects this problem by properly copying the 'iif' field in
__skb_clone() and removing the 'iif' field assignment from
skb_act_clone() since it is no longer needed.
Also, while we are here, put the assignments in the same order as the
offsets to reduce cacheline bounces.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress.
This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically
break out of the ->poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending
napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would
otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish).
Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit
(to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired
the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared. Here, the test_and_set_bit()
provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops.
napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first
action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable
is pending.
As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in
netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves
this purpose. And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what
we really want.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is pointless, because everything that can make a device go away
will do a napi_disable() first.
The main impetus behind this is that now we can legally do a NAPI
completion in generic code like net_rx_action() which a following
changeset needs to do. net_rx_action() can only perform actions
in NAPI centric ways, because there may be a one to many mapping
between NAPI contexts and network devices (SKY2 is one example).
We also want to get rid of this because it's an extra atomic in the
NAPI paths, and also because it is one of the last instances where the
NAPI interfaces care about net devices.
The one remaining netdev detail the NAPI stuff cares about is the
netif_running() check which will be killed off in a subsequent
changeset.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The even should be called SCTP_AUTHENTICATION_INDICATION.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cleaning out all the incorrect 'no change made' checks for termios
settings showed up a problem with the PL2303. The hardware here seems to
lose sync and bits if you tell it to make no changes. This shows up with
a real world application.
To fix this the driver check for meaningful hardware changes is restored
but doing the tests correctly and as a tty layer function so it doesn't
get duplicated wrongly everywhere if other drivers turn out to need it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mirko Parthey <mirko.parthey@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 664cceb009 changed the parameters of
the function make_key_ref(). The macros that are used in case CONFIG_KEY
is not defined did not change.
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the do_execve() path, argument page handling used to explicitly call
flush_dcache_page() for each page, this has since been reworked and
uses flush_kernel_dcache_page() instead, which is presently a nop.
Doing a simple modprobe/rmmod in a loop under busybox consistently
manages to crash without providing a sane flush_kernel_dcache_page()
implementation, so, plug in a simple implementation.
Signed-off-by: Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo73@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
make randconfig bootup testing found that the cpufreq code
crashes on bootup, if the powernow-k8 driver is enabled and
if maxcpus=1 passed on the boot line to a !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
kernel.
First lockdep found out that there's an inconsistent unlock
sequence:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to release lock (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)) at:
[<ffffffff806ffd8e>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x3c/0x42
but there are no more locks to release!
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff806ffd8e>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x3c/0x42
[<ffffffff80251c29>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0x104/0x12c
[<ffffffff80252f3a>] mark_held_locks+0x56/0x94
[<ffffffff806ffd8e>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x3c/0x42
[<ffffffff807008b6>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x2a8/0x5c4
...
then shortly afterwards the cpufreq code crashed on an assert:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1068!
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff805145d6>] sysdev_driver_unregister+0x5b/0x91
[<ffffffff806ff520>] cpufreq_register_driver+0x15d/0x1a2
[<ffffffff80cc0596>] powernowk8_init+0x86/0x94
[...]
---[ end trace 1e9219be2b4431de ]---
the bug was caused by maxcpus=1 bootup, which brought up the
secondary core as !cpu_online() but !cpu_is_offline() either,
which on on !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is always 0 (include/linux/cpu.h):
/* CPUs don't go offline once they're online w/o CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
static inline int cpu_is_offline(int cpu) { return 0; }
but the cpufreq code uses cpu_online() and cpu_is_offline() in
a mixed way - the low-level drivers use cpu_online(), while
the cpufreq core uses cpu_is_offline(). This opened up the
possibility to add the non-initialized sysdev device of the
secondary core:
cpufreq-core: trying to register driver powernow-k8
cpufreq-core: adding CPU 0
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
cpufreq-core: initialization failed
cpufreq-core: adding CPU 1
cpufreq-core: initialization failed
which then blew up. The fix is to make cpu_is_offline() always
the negation of cpu_online(). With that fix applied the kernel
boots up fine without crashing:
Calling initcall 0xffffffff80cc0510: powernowk8_init+0x0/0x94()
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
initcall 0xffffffff80cc0510: powernowk8_init+0x0/0x94() returned -19.
initcall 0xffffffff80cc0510 ran for 19 msecs: powernowk8_init+0x0/0x94()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff80cc328f: init_lapic_nmi_sysfs+0x0/0x39()
We could fix this by making CPU enumeration aware of max_cpus, but that
would be more fragile IMO, and the cpu_online(cpu) != cpu_is_offline(cpu)
possibility was quite confusing and a continuous source of bugs too.
Most distributions have kernels with CPU hotplug enabled, so this bug
remained hidden for a long time.
Bug forensics:
The broken cpu_is_offline() API variant was introduced via:
commit a59d2e4e6977e7b94e003c96a41f07e96cddc340
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon Mar 8 06:06:03 2004 -0800
[PATCH] minor cleanups for hotplug CPUs
( this predates linux-2.6.git, this commit is available from Thomas's
historic git tree. )
Then 1.5 years later the cpufreq code made use of it:
commit c32b6b8e52
Author: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Date: Sun Oct 30 14:59:54 2005 -0800
[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers
+ if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
+ return 0;
which is a correct use of the subtly broken new API. v2.6.15 then
shipped with this bug included.
then it took two more years for random-kernel qa to hit it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit ac40532ef0, which gets
us back the original cleanup of 6f5391c283.
It turns out that the bug that was triggered by that commit was
apparently not actually triggered by that commit at all, and just the
testing conditions had changed enough to make it appear to be due to it.
The real problem seems to have been found by Peter Osterlund:
"pktcdvd sets it [block device size] when opening the /dev/pktcdvd
device, but when the drive is later opened as /dev/scd0, there is
nothing that sets it back. (Btw, 40944 is possible if the disk is a
CDRW that was formatted with "cdrwtool -m 10236".)
The problem is that pktcdvd opens the cd device in non-blocking mode
when pktsetup is run, and doesn't close it again until pktsetup -d is
run. The effect is that if you meanwhile open the cd device,
blkdev.c:do_open() doesn't call bd_set_size() because
bdev->bd_openers is non-zero."
In particular, to repeat the bug (regardless of whether commit
6f5391c283 is applied or not):
" 1. Start with an empty drive.
2. pktsetup 0 /dev/scd0
3. Insert a CD containing an isofs filesystem.
4. mount /dev/pktcdvd/0 /mnt/tmp
5. umount /mnt/tmp
6. Press the eject button.
7. Insert a DVD containing a non-writable filesystem.
8. mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/tmp
9. find /mnt/tmp -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sha1sum >/dev/null
10. If the DVD contains data beyond the physical size of a CD, you
get I/O errors in the terminal, and dmesg reports lots of
"attempt to access beyond end of device" errors."
which in turn is because the nested open after the media change won't
cause the size to be set properly (because the original open still holds
the block device, and we only do the bd_set_size() when we don't have
other people holding the device open).
The proper fix for that is probably to just do something like
bdev->bd_inode->i_size = (loff_t)get_capacity(disk)<<9;
in fs/block_dev.c:do_open() even for the cases where we're not the
original opener (but *not* call bd_set_size(), since that will also
change the block size of the device).
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I neglected to send Tony the most recent version of the
patch ("Fix Altix BTE error return status") applied
as commit: 64135fa97c
This patch gets it up to date. Without this patch
on shub2, if there is no error xpcBteUnmappedError is
returned instead of xpcSuccess.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Contents of /proc/*/maps is sensitive and may become sensitive after
open() (e.g. if target originally shares our ->mm and later does exec
on suid-root binary).
Check at read() (actually, ->start() of iterator) time that mm_struct
we'd grabbed and locked is
- still the ->mm of target
- equal to reader's ->mm or the target is ptracable by reader.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 6f5391c283 ("[SCSI]
Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done") that was supposed to be a cleanup commit,
but apparently it causes regressions:
Bug 9370 - v2.6.24-rc2-409-g9418d5d: attempt to access beyond end of device
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9370
this patch should be reintroduced in a more split-up form to make
testing of it easier.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for
/proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's.
This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB
and SLAB, and shares all the setup code. Maybe SLOB will want this some
day too.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use __asm__ and __volatile__ in code that is exported to userspace. Wrap
kernel functions with __KERNEL__ so they get scrubbed.
No code changed:
text data bss dec hex filename
9681036 1698924 3407872 14787832 e1a4f8 vmlinux.before
9681036 1698924 3407872 14787832 e1a4f8 vmlinux.after
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since asm-x86/byteorder.h is exported to userspace, use __asm__ rather than
asm in its code.
Signed-Off-By: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
a7839e9606
(PNP: increase the maximum number of resources)
increased PNP_MAX_PORT to 24 from 8.
It also added a test and a complaint when a
machine exceeded the limit, causing:
pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9535
We should have been squawking about this all along,
as this is a potentially serious issue.
For now, simply burn some dynamic bytes and
increase the limit by another 16 to 40.
There is no guarantee that this will satisfy
every system on Earth. It probably will not,
but it should be an improvement.
In the future, PNPACPI should allocate resource
structures as needed, rather than max-sized arrays.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This removes an OProfile dependency on the spufs module. This
dependency was causing a problem for multiplatform systems that are
built with support for Oprofile on Cell but try to load the oprofile
module on a non-Cell system.
Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Did not fix the reported issue. Apart from other weirdness this causes a
bad link between the TLB flushing logic and the quicklists. If there is
indeed an issue that an arch needs a tlb flush before free then the arch
code needs to set tlb->need_flush before calling quicklist_free.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move veth.h from net/ to linux/ since it is a user api, and add it to
user header processing Kbuild.
[ Use header-y as suggested by Sam Ravnborg. -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
iproute2 build needs tc_nat.h header from kernel make install_headers.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some users do "modprobe ip_conntrack hashsize=...". Since we have the
module aliases this loads nf_conntrack_ipv4 and nf_conntrack, the
hashsize parameter is unknown for nf_conntrack_ipv4 however and makes
it fail.
Allow to specify hashsize= for both nf_conntrack and nf_conntrack_ipv4.
Note: the nf_conntrack message in the ringbuffer will display an
incorrect hashsize since nf_conntrack is first pulled in as a
dependency and calculates the size itself, then it gets changed
through a call to nf_conntrack_set_hashsize().
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
quicklists must keep even off node pages on the quicklists until the TLB
flush has been completed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure dm honours max_hw_sectors of underlying devices
We still have no firm testing evidence in support of this patch but
believe it may help to resolve some bug reports. - agk
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
I included these operations vector cases for situations
where we never need to do anything, the entries aren't
filled in by any implementation, so we OOPS trying to
invoke NULL pointer functions.
Really make them NOPs, to fix the bug.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes an unused variable warning in mm/vmalloc.c.
Tony: also fix resulting fallout in uncached.c with a
typo in args to flush_tlb_kernel_range().
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The Altix shub2 BTE error detail bits are in a different location
than on shub1. The current code does not take this into account
resulting in all shub2 BTE failures mapping to "unknown".
This patch reads the error detail bits from the proper location,
so the correct BTE failure reason is returned for both shub1
and shub2.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
__clear_bit_unlock does not need to perform atomic operations on the
variable. Avoid a cmpxchg and simply do a store with release semantics.
Add a barrier to be safe that the compiler does not do funky things.
Tony: Use intrinsic rather than inline assembler
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The patch introducing this left out 64-bit x86 despite it also having
extra entries.
this solves Xen guest troubles.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
jprobe for x86-64 may cause kernel page fault when the jprobe_return()
is called from incorrect function.
- Use jprobe_saved_regs instead getting it from stack.
(Especially on x86-64, it may get incorrect data, because
pt_regs can not be get by using container_of(rsp))
- Change the type of stack pointer to unsigned long *.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add unlocked version for use by irq_chip.set_type handlers which may
wish to change handler to level or edge handler when IRQ type is
changed.
The normal set_irq_handler() call cannot be used because it tries to
take irq_desc.lock which is already held when the irq_chip.set_type
hook is called.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where
it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that
it's handled with a BUG_ON).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This ensures that the quicklists are drained. Otherwise draining may only
occur when the processor reaches an idle state.
Fixes fatal leakage of pgd_t's on 2.6.22 and later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 54f9f80d65 ("hugetlb:
Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl")
Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool
sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the
overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl
(pool enabled).
(Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change)
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl
While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I
became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient:
1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted
patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with
a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the
dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a
per-node basis seems inconsistent to me.
2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs
mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota
would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored.
To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node
control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate
sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark
for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low
watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition
nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0
indicates the same administrative setting as
hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1
Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a
per-mount basis.
A few caveats:
1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is
incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then
try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal
huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is
benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked
correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync.
2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the
number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be
allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased
sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed.
Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot,
modified to use the new sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These types define the size of data read from /dev/apm_bios. They should
not be hidden behind #ifdef __KERNEL__.
This is killing my xserver compile, apm_event_t is used in the xserver
source.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jean Delvare