- 03 Oct, 2002 40 commits
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Convert send_sigurg() to the for_each_task_pid() mechanism. Also in the case where we were trying to send a signal to a non-existent PID, don't bother searching for -PID in the PGID array; we won't find it.
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The following patch removes the export of the sys_call_table. There are no uses of this export that are valid and correct. The uses I've found so far are 1. Calling syscalls from inside kernel modules iBCS/Linux-abi used to do this (and this is the reason for the export in the first place), however it does no longer, because newer gcc's (2.96/3.x) don't allow function pointer calls with a mismatching type. Also it's much better to just call the sys_foo functions directly (most are export symbol'd already and exporting more if needed wouldn't be a problem, they are clearly a stable interface). Since gcc does no longer allow this (and I doubt older ones allowed it for all platforms) this I consider invalid and unneeded use. 2. Install new syscalls from kernel modules LiS seems to be doing this. The correct way to do this is how NFS does it for its syscall, and that doesn't need the syscall table to be exported for this. Without an in-kernel helper like NFS has, it is not possible to do this race free wrt module-unloads etc. Eg this use of the export is unneeded and incorrect. 3. Intercept system calls OProfile (and intel's vtune which is similar in function) used to do this; however what they really need is a notification on certain events (exec() mostly). The way modules do this is store the original function pointer, install a new one that calls the old one after storing whatever info they need. This mechanism breaks badly in the light of multiple such modules doing this versus modules unloading/uninstalling their handlers (by restoring their saved pointer that may or may not point to a valid handler anymore). Eg the use of the export in this just a bandaid due to lack of a proper mechanism, and also incorrect and crash prone. 4. Extend system calls The mechanism for this is identical to the previous one, except that now the actual syscall behavior is changed. I don't think open source modules do this (generally they don't need to, just adding things to the kernel proper works for them), however I've seen IBM's closed source cluster fs do this. The objections to the mechanism are the same as in 3. Also this changes the userspace ABI effectively, something which is undesireable.
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Alan Cox authored
Forward port from 2.4
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
Someone tweaked the PC110 documents changing touchpad to touchscreen, this changes it back because it is a touchpad and _not_ a touchscreen
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Alan Cox authored
The GMX code in the DRI is unfinished stuff. You need the old 4.0 DRM for the GMX2000 until 4.3 at least
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Alan Cox authored
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bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net/linus-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Manfred Spraul authored
pipe_write contains a wakeup storm, 2 writers that write into the same fifo can wake each other up, and spend 100% cpu time with wakeup/schedule, without making any progress. The only regression I'm aware of is that $ dd if=/dev/zero | grep not_there will fail due to OOM, because grep does something like for(;;) { rlen = read(fd, buf, len); if (rlen == len) { len *= 2; buf = realloc(buf, len); } } if it operates on pipes, and due to the improved syscall merging, read will always return the maximum possible amount of data. But that's a grep bug, not a kernel problem.
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Ingo Molnar authored
patch from DaveM
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Ingo Molnar authored
This does a number of timer subsystem enhancements: - simplified timer initialization, now it's the cheapest possible thing: static inline void init_timer(struct timer_list * timer) { timer->base = NULL; } since the timer functions already did a !timer->base check this did not have any effect on their fastpath. - the rule from now on is that timer->base is set upon activation of the timer, and cleared upon deactivation. This also made it possible to: - reorganize all the timer handling code to not assume anything about timer->entry.next and timer->entry.prev - this also removed lots of unnecessery cleaning of these fields. Removed lots of unnecessary list operations from the fastpath. - simplified del_timer_sync(): it now uses del_timer() plus some simple synchronization code. Note that this also fixes a bug: if mod_timer (or add_timer) moves a currently executing timer to another CPU's timer vector, then del_timer_sync() does not synchronize with the handler properly. - bugfix: moved run_local_timers() from scheduler_tick() into update_process_times() .. scheduler_tick() might be called from the fork code which will not quite have the intended effect ... - removed the APIC-timer-IRQ shifting done on SMP, Dipankar Sarma's testing shows no negative effects. - cleaned up include/linux/timer.h: - removed the timer_t typedef, and fixes up kernel/workqueue.c to use the 'struct timer_list' name instead. - removed unnecessery includes - renamed the 'list' field to 'entry' (it's an entry not a list head) - exchanged the 'function' and 'data' fields. This, besides being more logical, also unearthed the last few remaining places that initialized timers by assuming some given field ordering, the patch also fixes these places. (fs/xfs/pagebuf/page_buf.c, net/core/profile.c and net/ipv4/inetpeer.c) - removed the defunct sync_timers(), timer_enter() and timer_exit() prototypes. - added docbook-style comments. - other kernel/timer.c changes: - base->running_timer does not have to be volatile ... - added consistent comments to all the important functions. - made the sync-waiting in del_timer_sync preempt- and lowpower- friendly. i've compiled, booted & tested the patched kernel on x86 UP and SMP. I have tried moderately high networking load as well, to make sure the timer changes are correct - they appear to be.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes all known signal semantics problems. sigwait() is really evil - i had to re-introduce ->real_blocked. When a signal has no handler defined then the actual action taken by the kernel depends on whether the sigwait()-ing thread was blocking the signal originally or not. If the signal was blocked => specific delivery to the thread, if the signal was not blocked => kill-all. fortunately this meant that PF_SIGWAIT could be killed - the real_blocked field contains all the necessery information to do the right decision at signal-sending time. i've also cleaned up and made the shared-pending code more robust: now there's a single central dequeue_signal() function that handles all the details. Plus upon unqueueing a shared-pending signal we now re-queue the signal to the current thread, which this time around is not going to end up in the shared-pending queue. This change handles the following case correctly: a signal was blocked in every signal, then one thread unblocks it and gets the signal delivered - but there's no handler for the signal => the correct action is to do a kill-all. i removed the unused shared_unblocked field as well, reported by Oleg Nesterov. now we pass both signal-tst1 and signal-tst2, so i'm confident that we got most of the details right.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This does a number of futex bugfixes, performance improvements and cleanups. The bugfixes are: - fix locking bug noticed by Martin Wirth: the ordering of page_table_lock, vcache_lock and futex_lock was inconsistent and created the possibility of an SMP deadlock. - fix spurious wakeup noticed by Andrew Morton: the get_user() in futex_wait() can set the task state to TASK_RUNNING. - fix futex_wake COW race, noticed by Martin Wirth - futex_wake() has to go through the same lookup rules as the futex_wait() code, otherwise it might end up trying to wake up based on the wrong physical page. Improvements: - speed up the basic addrs => page lookup done by the futex code. It used to do an unconditional get_user_pages() call, which did a vma lookup and other heavy-handed tactics - while the common case is that the page is mapped and available. Furthermore, due to the COW-race code we had to re-check the mapping anyway, which made the get_user_pages() thing pretty unnecessery. This inefficiency was noticed by Martin Wirth. the new lookup code first does a lightweight follow_page(), then if no page is present we do the get_user_pages() thing. - locking cleanups - the new lookup code made some things simpler, eg. the hash calculation can now be done in queue_me(). - added comments - reduced include file use. - increased the futex hashtable.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This modifies x86's dump_stack() to print out just the backtrace, not the stack contents. The patch also adds one more whitespace after the numeric EIP value. The old dump looked this way: bad: scheduling while atomic! Stack: ffffffff c041c72f 0000006a 00000068 000000f0 c13e1f28 c04c49c0 c13e1f28 c02a4099 c04c49c0 000000f0 00000000 00003104 c012592e 00003104 00003104 ffffffff 34000286 00000282 00000000 00000000 c13e1f28 c04c49c0 c04c4468 Call Trace: [<c011f009>]sys_gettimeofday+0x89/0x90 [<c0113e40>]do_page_fault+0x0/0x49e [<c0107d63>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb the new output is: bad: scheduling while atomic! Call Trace: [<c011f009>] sys_gettimeofday+0x89/0x90 [<c0113e40>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x49e [<c0107d63>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb much nicer and much more compact.
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
- alpha/kernel/signal.c: sigmask_lock to sig->siglock transition; - alpha/lib/Makefile: fix EV6 targets (restore EXTRA_AFLAGS accidentally killed by previous patch).
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Richard Henderson authored
Ported across from a nearly identical fix to the glibc tree. Under some conditions we'd read one too many source words and segfault.
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
Some pci devices may have base address registers locked with non-zero values. Examples: - AGP aperture BAR of AMD-7xx host bridges: if the AGP window disabled, this BAR is read-only and read as 0x00000008; - BAR0-4 of ALi IDE controllers can be non-zero and read-only. Obviously, we can't calculate correct size of the respective region in this case (for AMD AGP window we'll get 4 GB resource - ouch). So I think that we should ignore r/o BARs (let the device specific fixups deal with them if needed). Patch appended (note that extra write(0)/read-back pair is required, as the BAR might be programmed with all 1s).
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Linus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Hugh Dickins authored
Regularize the erratic whitespace conventions in mm/shmem.c. Removal of blank line changes BUG_ON line numbers, otherwise builds the same.
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Hugh Dickins authored
If PAGE_CACHE_SIZE were to differ from PAGE_SIZE, the VM_ACCT macro, and shmem_nopage's vm_pgoff manipulation, were still not quite right. Slip a cond_resched_lock into shmem_truncate's long loop; but not into shmem_unuse_inode's, since other locks held, and swapoff awful anyway. Move SetPageUptodate to where it's not already set. Replace copy_from_user by __copy_from_user since access already verified. Replace BUG()s by BUG_ON()s. Remove an uninteresting PAGE_BUG().
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Hugh Dickins authored
If we're going to rely on struct page *s rather than virtual addresses for the metadata pages, let's count nr_swapped in the private field: these pages are only for storing swp_entry_ts, and need not be examined at all when nr_swapped is zero.
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Hugh Dickins authored
wli suffered OOMs because tmpfs was allocating GFP_USER, for its metadata pages. This patch allocates them GFP_HIGHUSER (default mapping->gfp_mask) and uses atomic kmaps to access (KM_USER0 for upper levels, KM_USER1 for lowest level). shmem_unuse_inode and shmem_truncate rewritten alike to avoid repeated maps and unmaps of the same page: cr's truncate was much more elegant, but I couldn't quite see how to convert it. I do wonder whether this patch is a bloat too far for tmpfs, and even non-highmem configs will be penalised by page_address overhead (perhaps a further patch could get over that). There is an attractive alternative (keep swp_entry_ts in the existing radix-tree, no metadata pages at all), but we haven't worked out an unhacky interface to that. For now at least, let's give tmpfs highmem metadata a spin.
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Hugh Dickins authored
akpm and wli each discovered unfortunate behaviour of dbench on tmpfs: after tmpfs has reached its data memory limit, dbench continues to lseek and write, and tmpfs carries on allocating unlimited metadata blocks to accommodate the data it then refuses. That particular behaviour could be simply fixed by checking earlier; but I think tmpfs metablocks should be subject to the memory limit, and included in df and du accounting. Also, manipulate inode->i_blocks under lock, was missed before.
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Hugh Dickins authored
The distinction between shmem_getpage and shmem_getpage_locked is not helpful, particularly now info->sem is gone; and shmem_getpage confusingly tailored to shmem_nopage's expectations. Put the code of shmem_getpage_locked into the frame of shmem_getpage, leaving its callers to unlock_page afterwards.
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Hugh Dickins authored
Between inode->i_sem and info->lock comes info->sem; but it doesn't guard thoroughly against the difficult races (truncate during read), and serializes reads from tmpfs unlike other filesystems. I'd prefer to work with just i_sem and info->lock, backtracking when necessary (when another task allocates block or metablock at the same time). (I am not satisfied with the locked setting of next_index at the start of shmem_getpage_locked: it's one lock hold too many, and it doesn't really fix races against truncate better than before: another patch in a later batch will resolve that.)
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Hugh Dickins authored
The earlier partial truncation fix in shmem_truncate admits it is racy, and I've now seen that (though perhaps more likely when mpage_writepages was writing pages it shouldn't). A cleaner fix is, not to repeat the memclear in shmem_truncate, but to hold the partial page in memory throughout truncation, by shmem_holdpage from shmem_notify_change.
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Hugh Dickins authored
Give tmpfs its own shmem_vm_writeback (and empty shmem_writepages): going through the default mpage_writepages is very wrong for tmpfs, since that may write nearby pages while still mapped into mms, but "writing" converts pages from tmpfs file identity to swap backing identity: doing so while mapped breaks assumptions throughout e.g. the shared file is liable to disintegrate into private instances.
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Hugh Dickins authored
tmpfs contributes to the AltSysRqM swapcache add and delete statistics, but not to its find statistics: use lookup_swap_cache wrapper to find_get_page, to contribute to those statistics too. Elsewhere, use existing info pointer and NAME_MAX definition. (I'll be sending 2.4 version to Marcelo shortly.)
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Hugh Dickins authored
Apparently some applications are confused by tmpfs's practice of returning zero for the size of diretories. In 2.4.20-pre6 Peter Anvin submitted a change to make tmpfs directories always have a size of "1". In the same spirit, this patch arranges for tmpfs directories to show up as having 20 * number_of_entries, including "." and "..". Apparently counting up the size of all the entries isn't worth the hassle.
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Hugh Dickins authored
shmem_rename still didn't get parent directory link count quite right, in the case where you rename a directory in place of an empty directory (with rename syscall: doesn't happen like that with mv command); and it forgot to update new directory's ctime and mtime. (I'll be sending 2.4 version to Marcelo shortly.)
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Hugh Dickins authored
I've had this patch hanging around for a couple of months (you liked an earlier version, but I never found time to resubmit it), remove some unnecessary PageDirty and PageUptodate manipulations. add_to_page_cache can only receive a dirty page in the add_to_swap case, so deal with it there. add_to_swap is better off using add_to_page_cache directly than add_to_swap_cache. Keep move_to_ and _from_swap_cache simple, and don't fiddle with flags without reason. It's a little less efficient to correct clean->dirty list as an afterthought, but cuts unusual code from slow path.
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Hugh Dickins authored
tmpfs 1/5 swapoff deadlock: my igrab/iput around the yield in shmem_unuse_inode was rubbish, seems my testing never really hit the case until last week, when truncation of course deadlocked on the page held locked across the iput (at least I had the foresight to say "ugh!" there). Don't yield here, switch over to the simple backoff I'd been using for months in the loopable tmpfs patch (yes, it could loop indefinitely for memory, that's already an issue to be dealt with later). The return convention from shmem_unuse to try_to_unuse is inelegant (commented at both ends), but effective.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Badari Pavlati. Use bio_add_page() in direct-io.c.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Rik adds "I/O wait" statistics to /proc/stat. This allows us to determine how much system time is being spent awaiting IO completion. This is an important statistic, as it tends to directly subtract from job completion time. procps-2.0.9 is OK with this, but doesn't report it.
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Andrew Morton authored
Tells us how many pages were reclaimed by kswapd. The `pgsteal' statistic tells us how many pages were reclaimed altogether. So kswapd_steal - pgsteal is the number of pages which were directly reclaimed by page allocating processes. Also, the `pgscan' data is currently counting the number of pages scanned in shrink_cache() plus the number of pages scanned in refill_inactive_zone(). These are rather separate concepts, so I created the new `pgrefill' counter for refill_inactive_zone(). `pgscan' is now just the number of pages scanned in shrink_cache().
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Andrew Morton authored
Moves the VM accounting out of /proc/stat and into /proc/vmstat. The VM accounting is now per-cpu. It also moves kstat.pgpgin and kstat.pgpgout into /proc/vmstat. Which is a bit of a duplication of /proc/diskstats (SARD), but it's easy, super-cheap and makes life a lot easier for all the system monitoring applications which we just broke. We now require procps 2.0.9. Updated versions of top and vmstat are available at http://surriel.com and the Cygnus CVS is uptodate for these changes. (Rik has the CVS info at the above site). This tidies up kernel_stat quite a lot - it now only contains CPU things (interrupts and CPU loads) and disk things. So we now have: /proc/stat: CPU things and disk things /proc/vmstat: VM things (plus pgpgin, pgpgout) The SARD patch removes the disk things from /proc/stat as well.
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Andrew Morton authored
Rewrite these functions to use gang lookup. - This probably has similar performance to the old code in the common case. - It will be vastly quicker than current code for the worst case (single-page truncate). - invalidate_inode_pages() has been changed. It used to use page_count(page) as the "is it mapped into pagetables" heuristic. It now uses the (page->pte.direct != 0) heuristic. - Removes the worst cause of scheduling latency in the kernel. - It's a big code cleanup. - invalidate_inode_pages() has been changed to take an address_space *, not an inode *. - the maximum hold times for mapping->page_lock are enormously reduced, making it quite feasible to turn this into an irq-safe lock. Which, it seems, is a requirement for sane AIO<->direct-io integration, as well as possibly other AIO things. (Thanks Hugh for fixing a bug in this one as well). (Christoph added some stuff too)
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