- 31 Jan, 2012 1 commit
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Dan Carpenter authored
"links" is never used, so we can remove it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 25 Jan, 2012 29 commits
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Eric W. Biederman authored
The plan is to convert all callers of register_sysctl_table and register_sysctl_paths to register_sysctl. The interface to register_sysctl is enough nicer this should make the callers a bit more readable. Additionally after the conversion the 230 lines of backwards compatibility can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
One of the most important jobs of sysctl is to export network stack tunables. Several of those tunables are per network device. In several instances people are running with 1000+ network devices in there network stacks, which makes the simple per directory linked list in sysctl a scaling bottleneck. Replace O(N^2) sysctl insertion and lookup times with O(NlogN) by using an rbtree to index the sysctl directories. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.074s rmmod dummy -> 0.070s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 3.4s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s Benchmark after (without dev_snmp6): make-dummies 0 9999 -> 0.75s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 11s rmmod dummy -> 4.3s At 10,000 dummy devices the bottleneck becomes the time to add and remove the files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6. I have commented out the code that adds and removes files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6 and taken measurments of creating and destroying 100,000 dummies to verify the sysctl continues to scale. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Slightly enhance efficiency and clarity of the code by making the header list per directory instead of per set. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Simplify the callers of insert_header by removing explicit calls to check for duplicates and instead have insert_header do the work. This makes the code slightly more maintainable by enabling changes to data structures where the insertion of new entries without duplicate suppression is not possible. There is not always a convenient path string where insert_header is called so modify sysctl_check_dups to use sysctl_print_dir when printing the full path when a duplicate is discovered. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
An nsproxy argument here has always been awkard and now the nsproxy argument is completely unnecessary so remove it, replacing it with the set we want the registered tables to show up in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Piecing together directories by looking first in one directory tree, than in another directory tree and finally in a third directory tree makes it hard to verify that some directory entries are not multiply defined and makes it hard to create efficient implementations the sysctl filesystem. Replace the sysctl wide list of roots with autogenerated links from the core sysctl directory tree to the other sysctl directory trees. This simplifies sysctl directory reading and lookups as now only entries in a single sysctl directory tree need to be considered. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s The slowdown is caused by the lookups used in insert_headers and put_links to see if we need to add links or remove links. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
When there are errors it is very nice to know the full sysctl path. Add a simple function that computes the sysctl path and prints it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Simplify the code and the sysctl semantics by autogenerating sysctl directories when a sysctl table is registered that needs the directories and autodeleting the directories when there are no more sysctl tables registered that need them. Autogenerating directories keeps sysctl tables from depending on each other, removing all of the arcane register/unregister ordering constraints and makes it impossible to get the order wrong when reigsering and unregistering sysctl tables. Autogenerating directories yields one unique entity that dentries can point to, retaining the current effective use of the dcache. Add struct ctl_dir as the type of these new autogenerated directories. The attached_by and attached_to fields in ctl_table_header are removed as they are no longer needed. The child field in ctl_table is no longer needed by the core of the sysctl code. ctl_table.child can be removed once all of the existing users have been updated. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.07s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Add a ctl_table_root pointer to ctl_table set so it is easy to go from a ctl_table_set to a ctl_table_root. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Replace sysctl_head_next with first_entry and next_entry. These new iterators operate at the level of sysctl table entries and filter out any sysctl tables that should not be shown. Utilizing two specialized functions instead of a single function removes conditionals for handling awkward special cases that only come up at the beginning of iteration, making the iterators easier to read and understand. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Replace the helpers that proc_sys_lookup uses with helpers that work in terms of an entire sysctl directory. This is worse for sysctl_lock hold times but it is much better for code clarity and the code cleanups to come. find_in_table is no longer needed so it is removed. find_entry a general helper to find entries in a directory is added. lookup_entry is a simple wrapper around find_entry that takes the sysctl_lock increases the use count if an entry is found and drops the sysctl_lock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Every other directory has a .child member and we look at the .child for our entries. Do the same for the root_table. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Factor out a routing to initialize the sysctl_table_header. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Add nreg to ctl_table_header. When nreg drops to 0 the ctl_table_header will be unregistered. Factor out drop_sysctl_table from unregister_sysctl_table, and add the logic for decrementing nreg. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Instead of relying on sysct_head_next(NULL) to magically return the right header for the root directory instead explicitly transform NULL into the root directories header. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can safely remove it. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
- Stop validating subdirectories now that we only register leaf tables - Cleanup and improve the duplicate filename check. * Run the duplicate filename check under the sysctl_lock to guarantee we never add duplicate names. * Reduce the duplicate filename check to nearly O(M*N) where M is the number of entries in tthe table we are registering and N is the number of entries in the directory before we got there. - Move the duplicate filename check into it's own function and call it directtly from __register_sysctl_table - Kill the config option as the sanity checks are now cheap enough the config option is unnecessary. The original reason for the config option was because we had a huge table used to verify the proc filename to binary sysctl mapping. That table has now evolved into the binary_sysctl translation layer and is no longer part of the sysctl_check code. - Tighten up the permission checks. Guarnateeing that files only have read or write permissions. - Removed redudant check for parents having a procname as now everything has a procname. - Generalize the backtrace logic so that we print a backtrace from any failure of __register_sysctl_table that was not caused by a memmory allocation failure. The backtrace allows us to track down who erroneously registered a sysctl table. Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=y): make-dummies 0 999 -> 12s rmmod dummy -> 0.08s Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=n): make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.06s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 1m13s rmmod dummy -> 0.38s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.65s rmmod dummy -> 0.055s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.39s The sysctl sanity checks now impose no measurable cost. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Split the registration of a complex ctl_table array which may have arbitrary numbers of directories (->child != NULL) and tables of files into a series of simpler registrations that only register tables of files. Graphically: register('dir', { + file-a + file-b + subdir1 + file-c + subdir2 + file-d + file-e }) is transformed into: wrapper->subheaders[0] = register('dir', {file1-a, file1-b}) wrapper->subheaders[1] = register('dir/subdir1', {file-c}) wrapper->subheaders[2] = register('dir/subdir2', {file-d, file-e}) return wrapper This guarantees that __register_sysctl_table will only see a simple ctl_table array with all entries having (->child == NULL). Care was taken to pass the original simple ctl_table arrays to __register_sysctl_table whenever possible. This change is derived from a similar patch written by Lucrian Grijincu. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
For any component of table passed to __register_sysctl_paths that actually serves as a path, add that to the cstring path that is passed to __register_sysctl_table. The result is that for most calls to __register_sysctl_paths we only pass a table to __register_sysctl_table that contains no child directories. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Make __register_sysctl_table the core sysctl registration operation and make it take a char * string as path. Now that binary paths have been banished into the real of backwards compatibility in kernel/binary_sysctl.c where they can be safely ignored there is no longer a need to use struct ctl_path to represent path names when registering ctl_tables. Start the transition to using normal char * strings to represent pathnames when registering sysctl tables. Normal strings are easier to deal with both in the internal sysctl implementation and for programmers registering sysctl tables. __register_sysctl_paths is turned into a backwards compatibility wrapper that converts a ctl_path array into a normal char * string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Creating local copies of directory names is a good idea for two reasons. - The dynamic names used by callers must be copied into new strings by the callers today to ensure the strings do not change between register and unregister of the sysctl table. - Sysctl directories have a potentially different lifetime than the time between register and unregister of any particular sysctl table. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
In sysctl_net register the two networking roots in the proper order. In register_sysctl walk the sysctl sets in the reverse order of the sysctl roots. Remove parent from ctl_table_set and setup_sysctl_set as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
This adds a small helper retire_sysctl_set to remove the intimate knowledge about the how a sysctl_set is implemented from net/sysct_net.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
I goofed when I made sysctl directories have nlink == 0. nlink == 0 means the directory has been deleted. nlink == 1 meands a directory does not count subdirectories. Use the default nlink == 1 for sysctl directories. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them. Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for simpler maintenance. For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Simplify the code by treating the base sysctl table like any other sysctl table and register it with register_sysctl_table. To ensure this table is registered early enough to avoid problems call sysctl_init from proc_sys_init. Rename sysctl_net.c:sysctl_init() to net_sysctl_init() to avoid name conflicts now that kernel/sysctl.c:sysctl_init() is no longer static. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
- In sysctl.h move functions only available if CONFIG_SYSCL is defined inside of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - Move the stub function definitions for !CONFIG_SYSCTL into sysctl.h and make them static inlines. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Lucas De Marchi authored
Remove checks for conditions that will never happen. If procname is NULL the loop would already had bailed out, so there's no need to check it again. At the same time this also compacts the function find_in_table() by refactoring it to be easier to read. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 19 Jan, 2012 10 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branches 'sched-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-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/accounting, proc: Fix /proc/stat interrupts sum * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tracepoints/module: Fix disabling tracepoints with taint CRAP or OOT x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore x86/kprobes: Fix typo transferred from Intel manual * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, syscall: Need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC for 32 bits x86, tsc: Fix SMI induced variation in quick_pit_calibrate() x86, opcode: ANDN and Group 17 in x86-opcode-map.txt x86/kconfig: Move the ZONE_DMA entry under a menu x86/UV2: Add accounting for BAU strong nacks x86/UV2: Ack BAU interrupt earlier x86/UV2: Remove stale no-resources test for UV2 BAU x86/UV2: Work around BAU bug x86/UV2: Fix BAU destination timeout initialization x86/UV2: Fix new UV2 hardware by using native UV2 broadcast mode x86: Get rid of dubious one-bit signed bitfield
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git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
gpio bug fixes for v3.3 * tag 'gpio-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: gpio: tps65910: Use correct offset for gpio initialization gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86. gpio-ml-ioh: cleanup __iomem annotation usage gpio-ml-ioh: cleanup NULL pointer checking gpio-pch: cleanup __iomem annotation usage gpio-pch: cleanup NULL pointer checking
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: qnx4: don't leak ->BitMap on late failure exits qnx4: reduce the insane nesting in qnx4_checkroot() qnx4: di_fname is an array, for crying out loud... vfs: remove printk from set_nlink() wake up s_wait_unfrozen when ->freeze_fs fails
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H. Peter Anvin authored
In checkin 303395ac x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables the feature macros in <asm/unistd.h> were unified between 32 and 64 bits. Unfortunately 32 bits requires __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC and this was inadvertently dropped. Reported-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALLzPKbeXN5gdngo8uYYU8mAow=XhrwBFBhKfG811f37BubQOg@mail.gmail.com
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H. Peter Anvin authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-securityLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: KEYS: Permit key_serial() to be called with a const key pointer keys: fix user_defined key sparse messages ima: fix cred sparse warning MPILIB: Add a missing ENOMEM check
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
(struct qnx4_inode_entry *)(bh->b_data + some_offset)->di_fname is not going to be NULL, TYVM... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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