Not all i2c adapters support I2C-level messaging. Check that the adapter
does before probing for a PCF8583 chip, as the driver makes use of
i2c_transfer and i2c_master_send.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The rtc-ds1742 platform driver name doesn't match its module name,
which might prevents it from properly hotplugging. There is only two
in-tree user of its driver, which are fixed by this patch too.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The rtc-ds1553 platform driver name doesn't match its module name, which
might prevent it from properly hotplugging. This driver has no in-tree
users.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In rtc-dev.c, when a rtc device is opened, file->private_data is already
attached with the rtc device pointer, so there is no need to call
to_rtc_device() to convert file->private_data to a rtc device pointer.
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Mark Zhan <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
RTC periodic IRQs are only defined to work for 2^N Hz values. This patch
moves that validity check into the infrastructure, so drivers don't need to
check it; and adds kerneldoc for the two interface functions related to
periodic IRQs. (One of which was quite mysterious until its first use was
recently checked in!)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add kernel/kernel and kernel/user locking for the periodic irq feature of
the rtc class.
PIE ioctls are also supported.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The functions that eventually call down to ecryptfs_read_lower(),
ecryptfs_decrypt_page(), and ecryptfs_copy_up_encrypted_with_header()
should have the responsibility of managing the page Uptodate
status. This patch gets rid of some of the ugliness that resulted from
trying to push some of the page flag setting too far down the stack.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace some magic numbers with sizeof() equivalents.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The switch to read_write.c routines and the persistent file make a number of
functions unnecessary. This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update data types and add casts in order to avoid potential overflow
issues.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert readpage, prepare_write, and commit_write to use read_write.c
routines. Remove sync_page; I cannot think of a good reason for implementing
that in eCryptfs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rather than open a new lower file for every eCryptfs file that is opened,
truncated, or setattr'd, instead use the existing lower persistent file for
the eCryptfs inode. Change truncate to use read_write.c functions. Change
ecryptfs_getxattr() to use the common ecryptfs_getxattr_lower() function.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the metadata read/write functions and grow_file() to use the
read_write.c routines. Do not open another lower file; use the persistent
lower file instead. Provide a separate function for
crypto.c::ecryptfs_read_xattr_region() to get to the lower xattr without
having to go through the eCryptfs getxattr.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch sets up and destroys the persistent lower file for each eCryptfs
inode.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace page encryption and decryption routines and inode size write routine
with versions that utilize the read_write.c functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a set of functions through which all I/O to lower files is consolidated.
This patch adds a new inode_info reference to a persistent lower file for each
eCryptfs inode; another patch later in this series will set that up. This
persistent lower file is what the read_write.c functions use to call
vfs_read() and vfs_write() on the lower filesystem, so even when reads and
writes come in through aops->readpage and aops->writepage, we can satisfy them
without resorting to direct access to the lower inode's address space.
Several function declarations are going to be changing with this patchset.
For now, in order to keep from breaking the build, I am putting dummy
parameters in for those functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The error paths and the module exit code need work. sysfs
unregistration is not the right place to tear down the crypto
subsystem, and the code to undo subsystem initializations on various
error paths is unnecessarily duplicated. This patch addresses those
issues.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no point to keeping a separate header_extent_size and an extent_size.
The total size of the header can always be represented as some multiple of
the regular data extent size.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: ecryptfs: fix printk format warning]
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
eCryptfs is currently just passing through splice reads to the lower
filesystem. This is obviously incorrect behavior; the decrypted data is
what needs to be read, not the lower encrypted data. I cannot think of any
good reason for eCryptfs to implement splice_read, so this patch points the
eCryptfs fops splice_read to use generic_file_splice_read.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Please check that all the newly-added global symbols do indeed need
> to be global.
Change symbols in keystore.c and crypto.o to static if they do not
need to be global.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> > struct mutex *tfm_mutex = NULL;
>
> This initialisation looks like it's here to kill bogus gcc warning
> (if it is, it should have been commented). Please investigate
> uninitialized_var() and __maybe_unused sometime.
Remove some unnecessary variable initializations. There may be a few
more such intializations remaining in the code base; a future patch
will take care of those.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
From: mhalcrow@us.ibm.com <mhalcrow@halcrow.austin.ibm.com>
> > +/**
> > + * decrypt_passphrase_encrypted_session_key - Decrypt the session key
> > + * with the given auth_tok.
> > *
> > * Returns Zero on success; non-zero error otherwise.
> > */
>
> That comment purports to be a kerneldoc-style comment. But
>
> - kerneldoc doesn't support multiple lines on the introductory line
> which identifies the name of the function (alas). So you'll need to
> overflow 80 cols here.
>
> - the function args weren't documented
>
> But the return value is! People regularly forget to do that. And
> they frequently forget to document the locking prerequisites and the
> permissible calling contexts (process/might_sleep/hardirq, etc)
>
> (please check all ecryptfs kerneldoc for this stuff sometime)
This patch cleans up some of the existing comments and makes a couple
of line break tweaks. There is more work to do to bring eCryptfs into
full kerneldoc-compliance.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +int ecryptfs_destruct_crypto(void)
>
> ecryptfs_destroy_crypto would be more grammatically correct ;)
Grammatical fix for some function names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> > + crypt_stat->flags |= ECRYPTFS_ENCRYPTED;
> > + crypt_stat->flags |= ECRYPTFS_KEY_VALID;
>
> Maybe the compiler can optimise those two statements, but we'd
> normally provide it with some manual help.
This patch provides the compiler with some manual help for
optimizing the setting of some flags.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> > + mutex_lock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
> > + BUG_ON(mount_crypt_stat->num_global_auth_toks == 0);
> > + mutex_unlock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
>
> That's odd-looking. If it was a bug for num_global_auth_toks to be
> zero, and if that mutex protects num_global_auth_toks then as soon
> as the lock gets dropped, another thread can make
> num_global_auth_toks zero, hence the bug is present. Perhaps?
That was serving as an internal sanity check that should not have made
it into the final patch set in the first place. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'parse_tag_1_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:557: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'parse_tag_3_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:690: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'parse_tag_11_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:836: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'write_tag_1_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1413: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1413: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'write_tag_11_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1472: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'write_tag_3_packet':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1663: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1663: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function 'ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set':
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1778: warning: passing argument 2 of 'write_tag_11_packet' from incompatible pointer type
fs/ecryptfs/main.c: In function 'ecryptfs_parse_options':
fs/ecryptfs/main.c:363: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Trivial updates to comment and debug statement.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up the Tag 11 writing code to handle size limits and boundaries more
explicitly. It looks like the packet length was 1 shorter than it should have
been, chopping off the last byte of the key identifier. This is largely
inconsequential, since it is not much more likely that a key identifier
collision will occur with 7 bytes rather than 8. This patch fixes the packet
to use the full number of bytes that were originally intended to be used for
the key identifier.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up the Tag 11 parsing code to handle size limits and boundaries more
explicitly. Pay attention to *8* bytes for the key identifier (literal data),
no more, no less.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up the Tag 3 parsing code to handle size limits and boundaries more
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up the Tag 1 parsing code to handle size limits and boundaries more
explicitly. Initialize the new auth_tok's flags.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce kmem_cache objects for handling multiple keys per inode. Add calls
in the module init and exit code to call the key list
initialization/destruction functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() when wiping the authentication token list.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support structures for handling multiple keys. The list in crypt_stat
contains the key identifiers for all of the keys that should be used for
encrypting each file's File Encryption Key (FEK). For now, each inode
inherits this list from the mount-wide crypt_stat struct, via the
ecryptfs_copy_mount_wide_sigs_to_inode_sigs() function.
This patch also removes the global key tfm from the mount-wide crypt_stat
struct, instead keeping a list of tfm's meant for dealing with the various
inode FEK's. eCryptfs will now search the user's keyring for FEK's parsed
from the existing file metadata, so the user can make keys available at any
time before or after mounting.
Now that multiple FEK packets can be written to the file metadata, we need to
be more meticulous about size limits. The updates to the code for writing out
packets to the file metadata makes sizes and limits more explicit, uniformly
expressed, and (hopefully) easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- exp_get_by_name()
- exp_parent()
- exp_find()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call to
get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then we'll be
dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line.
(Found by Coverity checker as bug #402)
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we fail to allocate an skb in
drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c::send_message(), then we'll end up
dereferencing a NULL pointer.
Since out of memory conditions are not unheard of, I believe it
is better to print a error message and just return rather than
bring down the whole kernel.
Sure, doing this may upset some application, but that's still
better than crashing the whole system.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ISDN subsystem common functions use a semaphore as mutex. Use the
mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove pointless taking of spinlock around reading a single pointer-sized
or smaller variable.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.
This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the SPI framework and drivers stop using class_device. Update docs
accordingly ... highlighting just which sysfs paths should be
"safe"/stable.
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Constify two char pointers and a struct in Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c.
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, all QE SPI controllers are almost the same comparing to
MPC83xx's, thus let's use that driver for them.
Tested to work on MPC85xx in loopback mode.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Shrink the runtime footprint of various SPI drivers:
- Move the probe() routine into the init section where practical,
using platform_driver_probe() to make that safe. This often saves
around 1KB. Using platform_driver_probe() can also be a correctness
fix, if the probe routine is already marked __init but the driver
struct keeps a dangling pointer to it after init section removal.
- Likewise move remove() routines into the exit sections.
These changes would be inappropriate iff the platform devices were
actually hotpluggable (e.g. they're found on optional addon cards,
or in an FPGA that's dynamically reprogrammed). In these cases,
that's not the situation; it's an SOC controller and the only device
is initialized before these drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
drivers/spi/
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting
of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag.
The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the
parent.
This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a
partitioning of a system.
It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched
domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on
one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that
cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other
cpu_exclusive cpusets.
Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the
result.
Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go.
Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no
successful use has been made of this. One real time group did use it to
affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts. They are willing
to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate
the list of isolated CPUs on a running system. They can do without this
present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative.
There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users
accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired
load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the
cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag.
Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was
doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code.
Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they
will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's
behaviour.
Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment. My
(probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a
rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for
defining sched domains is borked. There is no concensus on the
replacement. But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its
continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers
load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the
replacement scheduler domain mechanisms.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
