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Al Viro 39429c5e4a new helper: ext2_image_size()
... implemented that way since the next commit will leave it
almost alone in ext2_fs.h - most of the file (including
struct ext2_super_block) is going to move to fs/ext2/ext2.h.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31 16:03:16 -04:00
Al Viro 2f99c36986 get rid of pointless includes of ext2_fs.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31 16:03:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 0195c00244 Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...
2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
David Howells 49a7f04a4b Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h so that there's only one
and it's used by everything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Pawel Moll 026cee0086 params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed.  We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level.  It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.

Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26 12:50:51 +10:30
Bernhard Walle 0e0cb892a8 init/do_mounts.c: print error code on mount failure
Printing the error code makes it easier to debug the cause of a mount
failure.  For example I had the problem that the root file system could
not be mounted read-writeable because my SD card was write-protected.
Without an error code it looks like the SD card was not detected at all.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
Diwakar Tundlam 8595c539f0 init: check printed flag to skip printing message
Otherwise the 'Calibration skipped' message gets printed everytime a CPU
is hotplugged in, cluttering console for systems that frequently hotplug
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@nvidia.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5375871d43 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window.  It is going to be a
  bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
  arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
  rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
  maintain and that nobody really used anymore.

  Here are some of the highlights:

   - Legacy iSeries is gone.  Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
     and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
     they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
     hopefully.

   - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
     previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"...  it's a rewrite of a
     mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
     new implementation hopefully being much more reliable.  Thanks
     Mahesh Salgaonkar.

   - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big
     spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
     new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.

     The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
     there.  Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
     not very nice and which Grant objects to.  I will have a patch soon
     that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
     before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
     getting rid of the need for that pointer completely).  Thanks Gavin
     Shan.

   - I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the
     way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
     "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed
     a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
     fault retry & fatal signals on page faults.

   - Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch
     of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."

I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
  powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
  powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
  powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
  init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
  powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
  tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
  powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
  powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
  powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
  powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
  powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
  Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
  powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
  powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
  powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
  powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
  powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
  powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
  ...
2012-03-21 18:55:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 69a7aebcf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
  typo fixes from Masanari.

  There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
  kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
  constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
  Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
  init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
  usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
  Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
  writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
  writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
  Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
  tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
  Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
  Doc: Update numastat.txt
  qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
  compiler.h: Fix typo
  security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
  Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
  Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
  mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
  mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
  power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
  ...
2012-03-20 21:12:50 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell bc58450b02 init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
It is no longer selectable, so remove the check for it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-03-21 11:16:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 2ba68940c8 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
  sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
  sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
  sched: Update yield() docs
  printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
  sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
  sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
  sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
  sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
  sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
  sched: Rename load-balancing fields
  sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
  sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
  sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
  sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
  sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
  sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
  sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
  ...
2012-03-20 10:31:44 -07:00
Jim Cromie 7fa87ce726 init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
s/countinuous/contiguous/, reword sentence.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-15 15:54:58 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner bd2f55361f sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-01 10:28:03 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 5c8806a037 rcu: Move RCU_TRACE to lib/Kconfig.debug
The RCU_TRACE kernel parameter has always been intended for debugging,
not for production use.  Formalize this by moving RCU_TRACE from
init/Kconfig to lib/Kconfig.debug.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:03:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f429ee3b80 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
  audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
  audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
  audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
  audit: comparison on interprocess fields
  audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
  audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
  audit: complex interfield comparison helper
  audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
  Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
  audit: do not call audit_getname on error
  audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
  audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
  audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
  audit: allow matching on obj_uid
  audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
  audit: reject entry,always rules
  audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
  audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
  audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
  audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
  ...

Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.

Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
Nathaniel Husted 29ef73b7a8 Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
This patch provides functionality to audit system call events on the
ARM platform. The implementation was based off the structure of the
MIPS platform and information in this
(http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2009-October/000382.html)
mailing list thread. The required audit_syscall_exit and
audit_syscall_entry checks were added to ptrace using the standard
registers for system call values (r0 through r3). A thread information
flag was added for auditing (TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT) and a meta-flag was
added (_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK) to simplify modifications to the syscall
entry/exit. Now, if either the TRACE flag is set or the AUDIT flag is
set, the syscall_trace function will be executed. The prober changes
were made to Kconfig to allow CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL to be enabled.

Due to platform availability limitations, this patch was only tested
on the Android platform running the modified "android-goldfish-2.6.29"
kernel. A test compile was performed using Code Sourcery's
cross-compilation toolset and the current linux-3.0 stable kernel. The
changes compile without error. I'm hoping, due to the simple modifications,
the patch is "obviously correct".

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Husted <nhusted@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:17:01 -05:00
Eric Paris 633b454545 audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
At the moment we allow tasks to set their loginuid if they have
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.  In reality we want tasks to set the loginuid when they
log in and it be impossible to ever reset.  We had to make it mutable even
after it was once set (with the CAP) because on update and admin might have
to restart sshd.  Now sshd would get his loginuid and the next user which
logged in using ssh would not be able to set his loginuid.

Systemd has changed how userspace works and allowed us to make the kernel
work the way it should.  With systemd users (even admins) are not supposed
to restart services directly.  The system will restart the service for
them.  Thus since systemd is going to loginuid==-1, sshd would get -1, and
sshd would be allowed to set a new loginuid without special permissions.

If an admin in this system were to manually start an sshd he is inserting
himself into the system chain of trust and thus, logically, it's his
loginuid that should be used!  Since we have old systems I make this a
Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:17:00 -05:00
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux

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* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool.
  intelfbdrv.c: bailearly is an int module_param
  paride/pcd: fix bool verbose module parameter.
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch)
  module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
  kernel/async: remove redundant declaration.
  printk: fix unnecessary module_param_name.
  lirc_parallel: fix module parameter description.
  module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.
  module_param: check type correctness for module_param_array
  modpost: use linker section to generate table.
  modpost: use a table rather than a giant if/else statement.
  modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize
  kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
  module: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug
  module: struct module_ref should contains long fields
  module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables
  module: Add comments describing how the "strmap" logic works

Fix up conflicts in scripts/mod/file2alias.c due to the new linker-
generated table approach to adding __mod_*_device_table entries.  The
ARM sa11x0 mcp bus needed to be converted to that too.
2012-01-14 12:32:16 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 067bce1a06 c/r: introduce CHECKPOINT_RESTORE symbol
For checkpoint/restore we need auxilary features being compiled into the
kernel, such as additional prctl codes, /proc/<pid>/map_files and etc...
but same time these features are not mandatory for a regular kernel so
CHECKPOINT_RESTORE config symbol should bring a way to disable them all at
once if one wish to get rid of additional functionality.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:12 -08:00
Rusty Russell 2329abfa34 module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-13 09:32:18 +10:30
Linus Torvalds b8bf17d311 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-break
  sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
  sched: Remove empty #ifdefs
2012-01-11 22:52:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9fc5c3e323 Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel config: Fix the APB_TIMER selection
  x86/mrst: Add additional debug prints for pb_keys
  x86/intel config: Revamp configuration to allow for Moorestown and Medfield
  x86/intel/scu/ipc: Match the changes in the x86 configuration
  x86/apb: Fix configuration constraints
  x86: Fix INTEL_MID silly
  x86/Kconfig: Cyclone-timer depends on x86-summit
  x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
  x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devices
  x86/sfi: Kill the IRQ as id hack
2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d0b9706c20 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
  mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
  x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
  x86: Fix mmap random address range
  x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
  x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
  x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
  x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
  x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
2012-01-11 19:12:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 57eccf1c2a Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
  NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
  NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
  pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
  pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
  NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
  NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
  nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
  NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
  NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
  NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
  NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
  nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
  NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
  NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
  SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
2012-01-10 14:57:40 -08:00
Fabio Estevam 6db9dc150e sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
The dependency bug was pointed out by this build warning:

 warning: (SCHED_AUTOGROUP) selects CGROUP_SCHED which has unmet direct dependencies (CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL)

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326192383-5113-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-10 13:44:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro d8c9584ea2 vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 9753dfe19a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1958 commits)
  net: pack skb_shared_info more efficiently
  net_sched: red: split red_parms into parms and vars
  net_sched: sfq: extend limits
  cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices
  cnic: Re-init dev->stats_addr after chip reset
  net_sched: Bug in netem reordering
  bna: fix sparse warnings/errors
  bna: make ethtool_ops and strings const
  xgmac: cleanups
  net: make ethtool_ops const
  vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const
  xen-netback: make ops structs const
  virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers.
  ixgbe: FCoE: Add support for ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  netdev: FCoE: Add new ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  igb: reset PHY after recovering from PHY power down
  igb: add basic runtime PM support
  igb: Add support for byte queue limits.
  e1000: cleanup CE4100 MDIO registers access
  e1000: unmap ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt in e1000_remove
  ...
2012-01-06 17:22:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 423d091dfe Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  cpu: Export cpu_up()
  rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
  Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
  docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
  rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
  rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
  rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
  driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
  rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
  rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
  rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
  rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
  rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
  rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
  rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
  rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
  rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
  rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
  rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
  rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
  ...
2012-01-06 08:02:40 -08:00
Chuck Lever 43717c7dae NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> reports that on his SPARC system,
booting with an NFS root file system stopped working after commit
56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing."

We found that the network switch to which Lukas' client was attached
was delaying access to the LAN after the client's NIC driver reported
that its link was up.  The delay was longer than the timeouts used in
the NFS client during mounting.

NFSROOT worked for Lukas before commit 56463e50 because in those
kernels, the client's first operation was an rpcbind request to
determine which port the NFS server was listening on.  When that
request failed after a long timeout, the client simply selected the
default NFS port (2049).  By that time the switch was allowing access
to the LAN, and the mount succeeded.

Neither of these client behaviors is desirable, so reverting 56463e50
is really not a choice.  Instead, introduce a mechanism that retries
the NFSROOT mount request several times.  This is the same tactic that
normal user space NFS mounts employ to overcome server and network
delays.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
[ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ]
[ cel: add exponential back-off ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # > 2.6.38
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-05 10:42:39 -05:00
Al Viro 685dd2d5be init/initramfs.c: should use umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:14 -05:00
Glauber Costa e5671dfae5 Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller
This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component
of the Memory Controller.

As of today, I am only laying down the following files:

 * memory.independent_kmem_limit
 * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored)
 * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero)

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12 19:03:55 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney b807fbff31 rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
The new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is compatible with preemptible
RCU, so this commit removes the Kconfig restriction that previously
prohibited this.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:45 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 54c29c635a mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.

To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
Ming Lei 73839c5b2e init/main.c: Execute lockdep_init() as early as possible
This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:

  [    0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
  [    0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
  [    0.000000]  [<c00164bc>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

The warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().

It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:16:53 +01:00
Jack Steiner b565201cf7 x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
Reduce the startup time for slave cpus.

Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration.
These hooks are used on x86.  If a newly started cpu has the
same phys_proc_id as a core already active, uses the TSC for the
delay loop and has a CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated
value of loops_per_jiffy.

This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a
4096 cpu system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW

This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes.
Nice...

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
[fix CONFIG_SMP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 17:12:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b32fc0a062 Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
2011-11-06 20:20:46 -08:00
WANG Cong c736de60ae sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to
keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely.  Then
just make it default to n and remove the doc from
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
Will Drewry 79975f1327 init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d support
Expand root=PARTUUID=UUID syntax to support selecting a root partition by
integer offset from a known, unique partition.  This approach provides
similar properties to specifying a device and partition number, but using
the UUID as the unique path prior to evaluating the offset.

For example,
  root=PARTUUID=99DE9194-FC15-4223-9192-FC243948F88B/PARTNROFF=1
selects the partition with UUID 99DE.. then select the next
partition.

This change is motivated by a particular usecase in Chromium OS where the
bootloader can easily determine what partition it is on (by UUID) but
doesn't perform general partition table walking.

That said, support for this model provides a direct mechanism for the user
to modify the root partition to boot without specifically needing to
extract each UUID or update the bootloader explicitly when the root
partition UUID is changed (if it is recreated to be larger, for instance).
 Pinning to a /boot-style partition UUID allows the arbitrary root
partition reconfiguration/modifications with slightly less ambiguity than
just [dev][partition] and less stringency than the specific root partition
UUID.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix init sections warning]
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Neil Armstrong f919b9235f init/do_mounts_rd.c: fix ramdisk identification for padded cramfs
When a cramfs ramdisk padded with 512 bytes is given to the kernel, the
current identify_ramdisk_image function fails to identify it.

Tested with a padded cramfs image on an ARM based board.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@neotion.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:06:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8a4a8918ed Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
  ...
2011-10-26 17:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 19b4a8d520 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
2011-10-26 16:26:53 +02:00
Michal Schmidt b1e4d20cbf params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
2011-10-26 13:10:39 +10:30
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 97ce2c88f9 jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-10-25 11:55:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 22f92bacbe Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:09:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 048b718029 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://github.com/paulmckrcu/linux into core/rcu 2011-10-01 14:21:36 +02:00
wangyanqing b0f84374b6 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier
Commit d5767c5353 ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-29 19:21:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8008e129dc rcu: Drive configuration directly from SMP and PREEMPT
This commit eliminates the possibility of running TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
when SMP=n and of running TINY_RCU when PREEMPT=y.  People who really
want these combinations can hand-edit init/Kconfig, but eliminating
them as choices for production systems reduces the amount of testing
required.  It will also allow cutting out a few #ifdefs.

Note that running TREE_RCU and TINY_RCU on single-CPU systems using
SMP-built kernels is still supported.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:36:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d5767c5353 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()
Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec8 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-28 10:23:44 -07:00
Alexander Sverdlin 808bf29b91 init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline.
When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-21 13:18:52 -07:00