- 26 Jun, 2006 40 commits
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Anil S Keshavamurthy authored
Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary components in the do_page_fault() code path. Signed-off-by:
Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Anil S Keshavamurthy authored
Currently in the do_page_fault() code path, we call notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, ...) to notify the page fault. Since notify_die() is highly overloaded, this page fault notification is currently being sent to all the components registered with register_die_notification() which uses the same die_chain to loop for all the registered components which is unnecessary. In order to optimize the do_page_fault() code path, this critical page fault notification is now moved to different call chain and the test results showed great improvements. And the kprobes which is interested in this notifications, now registers onto this new call chain only when it need to, i.e Kprobes now registers for page fault notification only when their are an active probes and unregisters from this page fault notification when no probes are active. I have incorporated all the feedback given by Ananth and Keith and everyone, and thanks for all the review feedback. This patch: Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary components in the do_page_fault() code path. Signed-off-by:
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mao, bibo authored
If there are multi kprobes on the same probepoint, there will be one extra aggr_kprobe on the head of kprobe list. The aggr_kprobe has aggr_post_handler/aggr_break_handler whether the other kprobe post_hander/break_handler is NULL or not. This patch modifies this, only when there is one or more kprobe in the list whose post_handler is not NULL, post_handler of aggr_kprobe will be set as aggr_post_handler. [soshima@redhat.com: !CONFIG_PREEMPT fix] Signed-off-by:
bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Previous kprobe-booster patch has not handled any 2byte opcodes and prefixes. I checked whole IA32 opcode map and classified it. This patch enables kprobe to boost those 2byte opcodes and prefixes. Signed-off-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jim Cromie authored
Add a GTOD clocksource driver based on the Geode SCx200's Hi-Res Timer. Signed-off-by:
Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This fixes the clock source updates in update_wall_time() to correctly track the time coming in via current_tick_length(). Optimize the fast paths to be as short as possible to keep the overhead low. Signed-off-by:
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by:
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Here is the PIT fix against the TOD patches that Tim pointed out. Many thanks to Tim for hunting this down. Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jim Cromie authored
Add a CLOCKSOURCE_MASK macro to simplify initializing the mask for a struct clocksource, and use it to replace literal mask constants in the various clocksource drivers. Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
- written on init only, accessed for every timer read --> __read_mostly - fix broken sentence Signed-off-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the namespace. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc). With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping code should be complete. The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup] Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Remove the old timers/timer_opts infrastructure which has been disabled. It is a fairly straightforward set of deletions Note that this does not provide any i386 clocksources, so you will only have the jiffies clocksource. To get full replacements for the code being removed here, the timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will be needed. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
This converts the i386 arch to use the generic timeofday subsystem. It enabled the GENERIC_TIME option, disables the timer_opts code and other arch specific timekeeping code and reworks the delay code. While this patch enables the generic timekeeping, please note that this patch does not provide any i386 clocksource. Thus only the jiffies clocksource will be available. To get full replacements for the code being disabled here, the timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will needed. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
As part of the i386 conversion to the generic timekeeping infrastructure, this introduces a new tsc.c file. The code in this file replaces the TSC initialization, management and access code currently in timer_tsc.c (which will be removed) that we want to preserve. The code also introduces the following functionality: o tsc_khz: like cpu_khz but stores the TSC frequency on systems that do not change TSC frequency w/ CPU frequency o check/mark_tsc_unstable: accessor/modifier flag for TSC timekeeping usability o minor cleanups to calibration math. This patch also includes a one line __cpuinitdata fix from Zwane Mwaikambo. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
A simple cleanup for the i386 arch in preparation of moving to the generic timeofday infrastructure. It simply moves the PIT initialization code, locks, and other code we want to keep from some code from timer_pit.c (which will be removed) to i8253.c. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
John's about to nuke x86's monotonic clock without grepping for it first. The patch lamely borrows the ppc64 code for x86. hangcheck-timer shouldn't be doing it this way a) HAVE_MONOTONIC should be CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK and it should be defined in arch/xxx/Kconfig. b) That ifdef tangle shouldn't be in hangcheck-timer.c. It should be using arch-provided helper functions, which CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK-enabling architectures implement in arch/something.c Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor functions that use the clocksource infrastructure. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Instead of incrementing xtime by tick_nsec + ntp adjustments, use the clocksource abstraction to increment and scale time. Using the clocksource abstraction allows other clocksources to be used consistently in the face of late or lost ticks, while preserving the existing behavior via the jiffies clocksource. This removes the need to keep time_phase adjustments as we just use the current_tick_length() function as the NTP interface and accumulate time using shifted nanoseconds. The basics of this design was by Roman Zippel, however it is my own interpretation and implementation, so the credit should go to him and the blame to me. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Change the current_tick_length() function so it takes an argument which specifies how much precision to return in shifted nanoseconds. This provides a simple way to convert between NTPs internal nanoseconds shifted by (SHIFT_SCALE - 10) to other shifted nanosecond units that are used by the clocksource abstraction. Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies. Since the only clocksource driver currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no functional change. Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping state. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet] Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure. A clocksource is a driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter. This code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources. Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads. This option is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems. Signed-off-by:
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
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Michael Buesch authored
This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number Generator support by a fully generic RNG API. This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules. With this patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG available now. Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap" devices. (Written by Deepak Saxena). This patch series includes the old patches by Deepak Saxena. The old x86-rng driver has beed split. The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes. Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael LeMay authored
Add a /proc/<pid>/attr/keycreate entry that stores the appropriate context for newly-created keys. Modify the selinux_key_alloc hook to make use of the new entry. Update the flask headers to include a new "setkeycreate" permission for processes. Update the flask headers to include a new "create" permission for keys. Use the create permission to restrict which SIDs each task can assign to newly-created keys. Add a new parameter to the security hook "security_key_alloc" to indicate whether it is being invoked by the kernel, or from userspace. If it is being invoked by the kernel, the security hook should never fail. Update the documentation to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by:
Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael LeMay authored
Restrict /proc/keys such that only those keys to which the current task is granted View permission are presented. The documentation is also updated to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by:
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Michael LeMay authored
Cause key_alloc_serial() to generate key serial numbers randomly rather than in linear sequence. Using an linear sequence permits a covert communication channel to be established, in which one process can communicate with another by creating or not creating new keys within a certain timeframe. The second process can probe for the expected next key serial number and judge its existence by the error returned. This is a problem as the serial number namespace is globally shared between all tasks, regardless of their context. For more information on this topic, this old TCSEC guide is recommended: http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/NCSC-TG-030.htmlSigned-off-by:
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Fredrik Tolf authored
Let keyctl_chown() change a key's owner, including attempting to transfer the quota burden to the new user. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Cause the keys linked to a keyring to be unlinked from it when revoked and it causes the data attached to a user-defined key to be discarded when revoked. This frees up most of the quota a key occupied at that point, rather than waiting for the key to actually be destroyed. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Add the ability for key creation to overrun the user's quota in some circumstances - notably when a session keyring is created and assigned to a process that didn't previously have one. This means it's still possible to log in, should PAM require the creation of a new session keyring, and fix an overburdened key quota. Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to list_move(A, B) under fs/. Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Acked-by:
Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to list_move(A, B) under drivers/. Acked-by:
Corey Minyard <minyard@mvista.com> Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Acked-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <dm-devel@redhat.com> Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Andrew Vasquez <linux-driver@qlogic.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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