user/sven/linux.git/kernel/timer.c, branch v2.6.29.2

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27

2009-01-14T13:15:29Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 02

2009-01-14T13:15:19Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01

2009-01-14T13:15:18Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a long

2009-01-14T13:15:14Z

Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[PATCH] idle cputime accounting

2008-12-31T14:11:46Z

The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting

2008-12-31T14:11:46Z

The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time instead of the scaled user time. To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Hidetoshi Seto Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Chris Wright Cc: Michael Neuling Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge branch 'master' into next

2008-11-14T00:29:12Z

Conflicts: security/keys/internal.h security/keys/process_keys.c security/keys/request_key.c Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions. Signed-off-by: James Morris

CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernel

2008-11-13T23:39:12Z

Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: James Morris

Add round_jiffies_up and related routines

2008-11-06T07:42:48Z

This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except that they will never round down. The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus

2008-10-20T11:14:06Z