In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error. As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.
If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred->magic == 0. Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL. This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().
Fix these bugs by
(1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().
(2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing
softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs
disabled.
Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing
softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from
happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled.
Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix update_curr_rt()
sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.
History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.
One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.
The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.
(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently only implemented for fair class tasks.
Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the
caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group,
task group.
Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the
target being selected. We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things
fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair
share of CPU time.
This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really
mean it. Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just
ignoring the hint.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair. This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.
We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next. We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree. When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The clear_buddies function does not seem to play well with the concept
of hierarchical runqueues. In the following tree, task groups are
represented by 'G', tasks by 'T', next by 'n' and last by 'l'.
(nl)
/ \
G(nl) G
/ \ \
T(l) T(n) T
This situation can arise when a task is woken up T(n), and the previously
running task T(l) is marked last.
When clear_buddies is called from either T(l) or T(n), the next and last
buddies of the group G(nl) will be cleared. This is not the desired
result, since we would like to be able to find the other type of buddy
in many cases.
This especially a worry when implementing yield_task_fair through the
buddy system.
The fix is simple: only clear the buddy type that the task itself
is indicated to be. As an added bonus, we stop walking up the tree
when the buddy has already been cleared or pointed elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.coM>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201094837.6b0962a9@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED, each task_group has its own cfs_rq.
Yielding to a task from another cfs_rq may be worthwhile, since
a process calling yield typically cannot use the CPU right now.
Therefor, we want to check the per-cpu nr_running, not the
cgroup local one.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201094715.798c4f86@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cpu_stopper_thread()
migration_cpu_stop()
__migrate_task()
deactivate_task()
dequeue_task()
dequeue_task_rq()
update_curr_rt()
Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is
rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and
thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task.
Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It is quite possible for the event to have been disabled between
perf_event_read() sending the IPI and the CPU servicing the IPI and
calling __perf_event_read(), hence revalidate the state.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Oleg reported that on architectures with
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI from
task_oncpu_function_call() can land before perf_event_task_sched_in()
and cause interesting situations for eg. perf_install_in_context().
This patch reworks the task_oncpu_function_call() interface to give a
more usable primitive as well as rework all its users to hopefully be
more obvious as well as remove the races.
While looking at the code I also found a number of races against
perf_event_task_sched_out() which can flip contexts between tasks so
plug those too.
Reported-and-reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
move_native_irq() masks and unmasks the interrupt line
unconditionally, but the interrupt line might be masked due to a
threaded oneshot handler in progress. Unmasking the line in that case
can lead to interrupt storms. Observed on PREEMPT_RT.
Originally-from: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This patch adds support for adding and removing posix clocks. The
clock lifetime cycle is patterned after usb devices. Each clock is
represented by a standard character device. In addition, the driver
may optionally implement custom character device operations.
The posix clock and timer system calls listed below now work with
dynamic posix clocks, as well as the traditional static clocks.
The following system calls are affected:
- clock_adjtime (brand new syscall)
- clock_gettime
- clock_getres
- clock_settime
- timer_create
- timer_delete
- timer_gettime
- timer_settime
[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup. Moved clock_posix_dynamic
to posix-clock.c and made all referenced functions static ]
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134420.164172635@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The
new call, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID and a
pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be requested
via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may not support
tuning.
[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup series. Avoid copy_to_user
in the error case ]
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.869804645@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Split out the compat timex accessors into separate
functions. Preparatory patch for a new syscall.
[ tglx: Split that patch from Richards "posix-timers: Introduce a
syscall for clock tuning.". Keeps the changes strictly
separate ]
Originally-from: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.772343089@linutronix.de>
This adds a kernel-internal timekeeping interface to add or subtract
a fixed amount from CLOCK_REALTIME. This makes it so kernel users or
interfaces trying to do so do not have to read the time, then add an
offset and then call settimeofday(), which adds some extra error in
comparision to just simply adding the offset in the kernel timekeeping
core.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.584311693@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Richard said: "I would think that we can require k_clocks to provide
the read function. This could be checked and enforced in
register_posix_clock()."
Add checks for clock_getres and clock_get in the register function.
Suggested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID implements stub functions for nanosleep and
nanosleep_restart, which return -EINVAL. That return value is
wrong. The correct return value is -ENOTSUP.
Remove the stubs and let the new dispatch code return the correct
error code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134418.422446502@linutronix.de>
New function to find the kclock for a given clockid.
Returns a pointer to clock_posix_cpu if clockid < 0. If clockid >=
MAXCLOCK or if the clock_getres pointer is not set it returns
NULL. For valid clocks it returns a pointer to the matching
posix_clock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.938447839@linutronix.de>
The CLOCK_DISPATCH() macro is a horrible magic. We call common
functions if a function pointer is not set. That's just backwards.
To support dynamic file decriptor based clocks we need to cleanup that
dispatch logic.
Create a k_clock struct clock_posix_cpu which has all the
posix-cpu-timer functions filled in. After the cleanup the functions
can be made static.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.841974553@linutronix.de>
