user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v3.3.5

vfork: kill PF_STARTING

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Previously it was (ab)used by utrace. Then it was wrongly used by the scheduler code. Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs complete_vfork_done(). zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set. mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfork: make it killable

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Make vfork() killable. Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable(). If it fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared with our child. However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other. Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs some complications. NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including SIGKILL/SIGSTOP. However this is obviously the user-visible change. Not only a fatal signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

No functional changes. Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper, complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix race in process_vm_rw_core

2012-02-02T20:55:17Z

This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-01-26T20:45:41Z

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Add missing __cpuinit annotation in rcutorture code sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter rcu: Make rcutorture bool parameters really bool (core code) memblock: Fix alloc failure due to dumb underflow protection in memblock_find_in_range_node()

kernel-doc: fix kernel-doc warnings in sched

2012-01-23T16:44:54Z

Fix new kernel-doc notation warnings: Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): No description found for parameter 'p' Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): Excess function parameter 'tsk' description in 'is_idle_task' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): No description found for parameter 'newpri' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): Excess function parameter 'pri' description in 'cpupri_set' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:208): Excess function parameter 'bootmem' description in 'cpupri_init' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent

2012-01-17T08:44:17Z

sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter

2012-01-16T17:44:00Z

This patch fixes a build warning in -next due to a const pointer being passed to is_idle_task(). Because is_idle_task() does not modify anything, this commit adds the "const" to is_idle_task()'s argument declaration. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses

2012-01-13T04:13:03Z

It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it. Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds