user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.0

mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()

2011-05-29T18:32:28Z

Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0 Call Trace: [] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70 [] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80 [] pud_populate+0x35/0x50 [] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0 [] mm_init+0xec/0x120 [] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0 which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: extract exe_file handling from procfs

2011-05-27T00:12:36Z

Setup and cleanup of mm_struct->exe_file is currently done in fs/proc/. This was because exe_file was needed only for /proc//exe. Since we will need the exe_file functionality also for core dumps (so core name can contain full binary path), built this functionality always into the kernel. To achieve that move that out of proc FS to the kernel/ where in fact it should belong. By doing that we can make dup_mm_exe_file static. Also we can drop linux/proc_fs.h inclusion in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Acked-by: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS. If another part of the kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other system would both depend on. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Matt Helsley Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t

2011-05-25T15:39:21Z

cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position. It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio. This patch has two change. 1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability 2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future. In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var. It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: David Howells Cc: Koichi Yasutake Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex

2011-05-25T15:39:18Z

Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Miller Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Tony Luck Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak

2011-05-25T15:39:17Z

Hugh says: "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? " Counter points: - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched()) - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim ever can I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it. Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3c ("mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that caused its problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Miller Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()

2011-05-12T07:36:37Z

sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter 'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused. This patch removes the parameters. Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Get rid of lock_depth

2011-04-24T11:18:38Z

Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL removal work. Let's get rid of it now. Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with older kernels. Suggested-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-03-24T17:16:26Z

* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits) Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc. cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt. blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get() cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout. blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq. ... Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}