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Linus Torvalds
cb41838bbc Merge branch 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hweight: Use a 32-bit popcnt for __arch_hweight32()
  arch, hweight: Fix compilation errors
  x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
  bitops: Optimize hweight() by making use of compile-time evaluation
2010-05-18 09:17:01 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d9c5841e22 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic
Merge reason:
	Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
	pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-29 16:53:17 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
d61931d89b x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.

A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-06 15:52:11 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
2cda2728aa block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments.  The supplied
arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
sufficiently large input.  That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID).

Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the
function from blk-settings.c to lib.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15 12:47:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b8fa05719b Revert "lib: build list_sort() only if needed"
This reverts commit a069c266ae.

It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it,
but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new
modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses
list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more.

So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it
compiled in.  It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience
isn't worth it.

Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-07 09:54:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
66b89159c2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs:
  [LogFS] Change magic number
  [LogFS] Remove h_version field
  [LogFS] Check feature flags
  [LogFS] Only write journal if dirty
  [LogFS] Fix bdev erases
  [LogFS] Silence gcc
  [LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index
  [LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths
  [LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry
  [LogFS] add new flash file system

Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in
fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use
writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4
("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")
2010-03-06 13:18:03 -08:00
Don Mullis
a069c266ae lib: build list_sort() only if needed
Build list_sort() only for configs that need it -- those that don't save
~581 bytes (i386).

Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:35 -08:00
Luca Barbieri
86a8938078 lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
This patch adds self-test on boot code for atomic64_t.

This has been used to test the later changes in this patchset.

Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-4-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-25 20:47:12 -08:00
Dave Chinner
2c761270d5 lib: Introduce generic list_sort function
There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM
code, another in ubifs.  Now XFS needs this as well.  Create a generic
list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users
to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-12 21:02:00 -08:00
Albin Tonnerre
cacb246f8d Add LZO compression support for initramfs and old-style initrd
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
Joern Engel
5db53f3e80 [LogFS] add new flash file system
This is a new flash file system. See
Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
2009-11-20 20:13:39 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
b411b3637f The DRBD driver
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2009-10-01 21:17:49 +02:00
Dave Hansen
534acc057b lib: flexible array implementation
Once a structure goes over PAGE_SIZE*2, we see occasional allocation
failures.  Some people have chosen to switch over to things like vmalloc()
that will let them keep array-like access to such a large structures.
But, vmalloc() has plenty of downsides.

Here's an alternative.  I think it's what Andrew was suggesting here:

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/518

I call it a flexible array.  It does all of its work in PAGE_SIZE bits, so
never does an order>0 allocation.  The base level has
PAGE_SIZE-2*sizeof(int) bytes of storage for pointers to the second level.
 So, with a 32-bit arch, you get about 4MB (4183112 bytes) of total
storage when the objects pack nicely into a page.  It is half that on
64-bit because the pointers are twice the size.  There's a table detailing
this in the code.

There are kerneldocs for the functions, but here's an
overview:

flex_array_alloc() - dynamically allocate a base structure
flex_array_free() - free the array and all of the
		    second-level pages
flex_array_free_parts() - free the second-level pages, but
			  not the base (for static bases)
flex_array_put() - copy into the array at the given index
flex_array_get() - copy out of the array at the given index
flex_array_prealloc() - preallocate the second-level pages
			between the given indexes to
			guarantee no allocs will occur at
			put() time.

We could also potentially just pass the "element_size" into each of the
API functions instead of storing it internally.  That would get us one
more base pointer on 32-bit.

I've been testing this by running it in userspace.  The header and patch
that I've been using are here, as well as the little script I'm using to
generate the size table which goes in the kerneldocs.

	http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/flexarray/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
Florian Fainelli
d282922461 lib: add lib/gcd.c
This patch adds lib/gcd.c which contains a greatest common divider
implementation taken from sound/core/pcm_timer.c

Several usages of this new library function will be sent to subsystem
maintainers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use swap() (pointed out by Joe)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: just add gcd.o to obj-y, remove Kconfig changes]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:04:05 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
09d4e0edd4 lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.

This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity.  For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks.  That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.

On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation.  In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 13:27:38 +10:00
Arnd Bergmann
5b02ee3d21 asm-generic: merge branch 'master' of torvalds/linux-2.6
Fixes a merge conflict against the x86 tree caused by a fix to
atomic.h which I renamed to atomic_long.h.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2009-06-12 11:32:58 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
26a28fa4fe add generic lib/checksum.c
Add a generic (unoptimized) implementation of checksum.c in pure C
for use by all architectures that cannot be bother with implementing
their own version.

Based on microblaze code by Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>

Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2009-06-11 21:02:51 +02:00
Oskar Schirmer
8759ef32d9 lib: isolate rational fractions helper function
Provide a helper function to determine optimum numerator
denominator value pairs taking into account restricted
register size. Useful especially with PLL and other clock
configurations.

Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11 08:51:08 -07:00
Fred Isaman
a5422a5111 lib: find_last_bit.o needed by a module only, move it from lib to obj
Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked
with the kernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP.

When CONFIG_SMP is undefined and find_last_bit is referenced only by
modules, linking fails with:

  ERROR: "find_last_bit" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined!

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-24 13:28:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b0d44c0dbb Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
2009-03-28 23:05:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
831576fe40 Merge branch 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
  sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
  sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
  sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
  sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
  sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
  sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
  sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
  sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
  sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
  sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
  sched: fix typos in documentation
  sched: add avg_overlap decay
  x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
  sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
  sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
  sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
  ...
2009-03-26 16:05:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0c93ea4064 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
  Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
  Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
  dynamic debug: update docs
  dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
  sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
  kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
  sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
  Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
  Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
  Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
  vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
  driver core: fix passing platform_data
  driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
  sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
  driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
  driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
  driver core: move klist_children into private structure
  driver core: create a private portion of struct device
  driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
  sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
  ...

Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually
2009-03-26 11:17:04 -07:00
Jason Baron
e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Joerg Roedel
f2f45e5f3c dma-debug: add header file and core data structures
Impact: add groundwork for DMA-API debugging

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-03-05 15:11:12 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
e9cc8bddae netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-03-04 14:53:30 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ceacc2c1c8 sched: make plist a library facility
Ingo Molnar wrote:

> here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt:
>
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task':
> sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del'

Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available
unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 15:01:31 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
889c92d21d bzip2/lzma: centralize format detection
Centralize the compression format detection to a common routine in the
lib directory, and use it for both initramfs and initrd.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-08 15:14:17 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c8531ab343 bzip2/lzma: proper Kconfig dependencies for the ramdisk options
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure

Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make
sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as
they should.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-05 13:48:31 -08:00
Alain Knaff
30d65dbfe3 bzip2/lzma: config and initramfs support for bzip2/lzma decompression
Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features

This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch

The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip.  Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.

It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.

The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast project

This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28

This part contains:
- support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and
old-style ramdisk
- config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions
not yet supported)

Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-04 15:53:35 -08:00
Rusty Russell
ab53d472e7 bitmap: find_last_bit()
Impact: New API

As the name suggests.  For the moment everyone uses the generic one.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:19 +10:30
David Howells
d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret < 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
Steven Rostedt
606576ce81 ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 18:27:03 +02:00
Jason Baron
346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
James Bottomley
3c9f3681d0 [SCSI] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range
This patch adds the ability to print sizes in either units of 10^3 (SI)
or 2^10 (Binary) units.  It rounds up to three significant figures and
can be used for either memory or storage capacities.

Oh, and I'm fully aware that 64 bits is only 16EiB ... the Zetta and
Yotta units are added for future proofing against the day we have 128
bit computers ...

[fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp: fix missed unsigned long long cast]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-03 11:46:14 -05:00
Johannes Weiner
454c63b02e lib: generic show_mem()
This implements a platform-independent version of show_mem().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:10 -07:00
Roland McGrath
bbc698636e task_current_syscall
This adds the new function task_current_syscall() on machines where the
asm/syscall.h interface is supported (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK).  It's
exported for modules to use in the future.  This function safely samples
the state of a blocked thread to collect what system call it is blocked
in, and the six system call argument registers.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:10 -07:00
David Brownell
d3de851a44 rtc: BCD codeshrink
This updates <linux/bcd.h> to define the key routines as constant
functions, which the macros will then call.  Newer code can now call
bcd2bin() instead of SCREAMING BCD2BIN() TO THE FOUR WINDS.

This lets each driver shrink their codespace by using N function calls to
a single (global) copy of those routines, instead of N inlined copies of
these functions per driver.

These routines aren't used in speed-critical code.  Almost all callers are
in the RTC framework.  Typical per-driver savings is near 300 bytes.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
2464a609de ftrace: do not trace library functions
make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions.

We've already got a sizable list of exceptions:

 ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
 # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
 # Also do not profile any debug utilities
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg
 endif

... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed
up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing
hard to debug lockups.

So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by
default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes
anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-17 17:40:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9fa111372a ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP
MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id()
and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup:

  calling  anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130
  initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
  calling  acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
  [ hard hang ]

So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-17 17:38:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
89a93f2f48 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (102 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related build errors
  [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix bogus sym_que_entry re-implementation of container_of
  [SCSI] scsi_cmnd.h: remove double inclusion of linux/blkdev.h
  [SCSI] make struct scsi_{host,target}_type static
  [SCSI] fix locking in host use of blk_plug_device()
  [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup external header file
  [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup code in zfcp_erp.c
  [SCSI] zfcp: zfcp_fsf cleanup.
  [SCSI] zfcp: consolidate sysfs things into one file.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_aux.c
  [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_scsi.c
  [SCSI] zfcp: Move status accessors from zfcp to SCSI include file.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Small QDIO cleanups
  [SCSI] zfcp: Adapter reopen for large number of unsolicited status
  [SCSI] zfcp: Fix error checking for ELS ADISC requests
  [SCSI] zfcp: wait until adapter is finished with ERP during auto-port
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver
  [SCSI] sg: Add target reset support
  [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
  [SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h
  ...
2008-07-15 18:58:04 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
f11f594edb [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity
of each data sector.  crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing
I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 08:22:32 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
654e478768 ftrace: use the new kbuild CFLAGS_REMOVE for lib directory
This patch removes the Makefile turd and uses the nice CFLAGS_REMOVE macro
in the lib directory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:46:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
9d0a420b73 ftrace: remove function tracing from spinlock debug
The debug functions in spin_lock debugging pollute the output of the
function tracer. This patch adds the debug files in the lib director
to those that should not be compiled with mcount tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 21:14:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3594136ad6 ftrace: do not profile lib/string.o
Most archs define the string and memory compare functions in assembly.
Some do not. But these functions may be used in some archs at early
boot up.

Since most archs define this code in assembly and they are not usually
traced, there's no need to trace them when they are not defined in
assembly.

This patch removes the -pg from the CFLAGS for lib/string.o.
This prevents the string functions use in either vdso or early bootup
from crashing the system.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:56:43 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:

1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects

Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore.  One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.

While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause.  This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.

The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.

Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.

The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash.  Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.

Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.

The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.

The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list

Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation.  When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.

The list of operations can be extended if the need arises.  For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).

The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets.  The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree.  Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.

The debug code can be compiled in without being active.  The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives.  A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.

Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Dave Young
5f97a5a879 isolate ratelimit from printk.c for other use
Due to the rcupreempt.h WARN_ON trigged, I got 2G syslog file.  For some
serious complaining of kernel, we need repeat the warnings, so here I isolate
the ratelimit part of printk.c to a standalone file.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00
Alexander van Heukelum
77b9bd9c49 x86: generic versions of find_first_(zero_)bit, convert i386
Generic versions of __find_first_bit and __find_first_zero_bit
are introduced as simplified versions of __find_next_bit and
__find_next_zero_bit. Their compilation and use are guarded by
a new config variable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT.

The generic versions of find_first_bit and find_first_zero_bit
are implemented in terms of the newly introduced __find_first_bit
and __find_first_zero_bit.

This patch does not remove the i386-specific implementation,
but it does switch i386 to use the generic functions by setting
GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT=y for X86_32.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 19:21:16 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9a64388d83 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
  [POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
  [POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
  [POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
  [POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
  [POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
  [POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
  [POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
  [POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
  [POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
  [POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
  [POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
  [POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
  [POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
  [POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
  [POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
  [POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
  [POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
  [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
  ...
2008-04-21 15:50:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
334d094504 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits)
  [NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices
  [IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add().
  [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found
  [PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init().
  [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call.
  [INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call.
  SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked.
  [netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal
  phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device
  PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver
  cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg.
  tc35815: Statistics cleanup
  natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
  [TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code
  [TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table
  [TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines
  e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  sb1000.c: make const arrays static
  sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions
  ...
2008-04-18 18:02:35 -07:00