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I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the
incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name.
Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does.
Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this
because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application
might want this behavior.
We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior.
For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new
flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new
behavior could be invoked.
I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the
parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we
get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the
syscall API?
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The *at patches introduced fstatat and, due to inusfficient research, I
used the newfstat functions generally as the guideline. The result is that
on 32-bit platforms we don't have all the information needed to implement
fstatat64.
This patch modifies the code to pass up 64-bit information if
__ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined. I renamed the syscall entry point to make
this clear. Other archs will continue to use the existing code. On x86-64
the compat code is implemented using a new sys32_ function. this is what
is done for the other stat syscalls as well.
This patch might break some other archs (those which define
__ARCH_WANT_STAT64 and which already wired up the syscall). Yet others
might need changes to accomodate the compatibility mode. I really don't
want to do that work because all this stat handling is a mess (more so in
glibc, but the kernel is also affected). It should be done by the arch
maintainers. I'll provide some stand-alone test shortly. Those who are
eager could compile glibc and run 'make check' (no installation needed).
The patch below has been tested on x86 and x86-64.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Most of the 64 bit architectures will zero extend the first argument to
compat_sys_{openat,newfstatat,futimesat} which will fail if the 32 bit
syscall was passed AT_FDCWD (which is a small negative number). Declare
the first argument to be an unsigned int which will force the correct
sign extension when the internal functions are called in each case.
Also, do some small white space cleanups in fs/compat.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Here's the follow-up patch which introduces the prototypes for the new
syscalls. There was also a typo in one of the new symbols.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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All standard system calls should be declared in include/linux/syscalls.h.
Add some of the new additions that were previously missed.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration
This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.
The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process. A process may
have migrated to another node. Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
context. sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.
sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory. Paul
Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
migration if the cpuset of a process is changed. However, a user may decide
to manually control the migration.
This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
functions that are also needed for mbind and friends. The patch also provides
a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
move memory. sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
implementation.
The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
nodeset (which may be a cpuset). When direct page migration becomes available
then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
between different nodesets. The current implementation simply evicts all
pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.
Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is the current version of the spu file system, used
for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.
This release is almost identical to the version for the
2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.
The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
spu application, but does not have any support for
debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.
See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
spufs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should. Also move the common
prototype to <linux/syscalls.h>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Make ioprio syscalls return long, like set/getpriority syscalls.
- Move function prototypes into syscalls.h so we can pick them up in the
32/64bit compat code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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o Following patch provides purely cosmetic changes and corrects CodingStyle
guide lines related certain issues like below in kexec related files
o braces for one line "if" statements, "for" loops,
o more than 80 column wide lines,
o No space after "while", "for" and "switch" key words
o Changes:
o take-2: Removed the extra tab before "case" key words.
o take-3: Put operator at the end of line and space before "*/"
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.
Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.
In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented. It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I realized that the best way to get the sys_time/sys_stime problem fixed is
to make sys_time 64 bit safe by using "time_t *" instead of "int *" and to
introduce two proper compat functions compat_sys_time and compat_sys_stime.
The prototype change of sys_time is transparent for 32 bit architectures
because both "int" and "time_t" are 32 bit. For 64 bit the type change
would be wrong but luckily no 64 bit architecture uses sys_time/sys_stime
in 64 bit mode. The patch makes the following change:
ia64 : Remove sys32_time, use compat_sys_time and
add (!!) compat_sys_stime to compat syscall table.
mips : Use compat_sys_time/compat_sys_stime in 32 bit syscall table.
Add #ifdef magic to compile sys_time/sys_stime and
compat_sys_time/compat_sys_stime only if needed.
parisc : Remove sys32_time, use compat_sys_time and compat_sys_stime.
ppc64 : remove sys32_time, ppc64_sys32_stime and ppc64_sys_stime.
Use common compat_sys_time, compat_sys_stime and sys_stime.
s390 : Use compat_sys_stime. Add #ifdef magic to compile
sys_time/sys_stime and compat_sys_time/compat_sys_stime only
if needed.
sparc64 : Use compat_sys_time/compat_Sys_stime in 32 bit syscall table.
um : Remove um_time and um_stime. Use common functions sys_time and
sys_stime. This adds a CAP_SYS_TIME check to UMs stime call.
x86_64 : Remove sys32_time. Use compat_sys_time and compat_sys_stime
in 32 bit syscall table.
The original stime bug is fixed for mips, parisc, s390, sparc64 and
x86_64. Can the arch-maintainers please take a look at this?
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Convert compat_time_t to time_t in 32 bit emulation for sys_stime and
consolidate all the different implementation of sys_time, sys_stime and
their 32-bit emulation parts.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We decided to do this a different way.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The feature set the patch includes:
- Key attributes:
- Key type
- Description (by which a key of a particular type can be selected)
- Payload
- UID, GID and permissions mask
- Expiry time
- Keyrings (just a type of key that holds links to other keys)
- User-defined keys
- Key revokation
- Access controls
- Per user key-count and key-memory consumption quota
- Three std keyrings per task: per-thread, per-process, session
- Two std keyrings per user: per-user and default-user-session
- prctl() functions for key and keyring creation and management
- Kernel interfaces for filesystem, blockdev, net stack access
- JIT key creation by usermode helper
There are also two utility programs available:
(*) http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keyctl.c
A comprehensive key management tool, permitting all the interfaces
available to userspace to be exercised.
(*) http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/request-key
An example shell script (to be installed in /sbin) for instantiating a
key.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a new system call setaltroot(2).
Currently, using the altroot feature is accessible only via the
set_personality() system call. It is accessible to user space only if there
is more than one exec domain in the system. This patch allows using the
altroot feature on systems where there is only one exec domain.
It is possible to work around the issue by adding a dummy exec domain, but it
was rejected for not being very elegant.
If this feature is implemented in userspace, it adds a 16% overhead on a test
case which greps for a single word in the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nanhai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fixes a warning in kernel/compat.c.
Signed-off-by: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch updates the x86-64's compat code to handle the new argument
to waitid.
Sorry for the oversight.
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This patch adds a new system call `waitid'. This is a new POSIX call that
subsumes the rest of the wait* family and can do some things the older
calls cannot. A minor addition is the ability to select what kinds of
status to check for with a mask of independent bits, so you can wait for
just stops and not terminations, for example. A more significant
improvement is the WNOWAIT flag, which allows for polling child status
without reaping. This interface fills in a siginfo_t with the same details
that a SIGCHLD for the status change has; some of that info (e.g. si_uid)
is not available via wait4 or other calls.
I've added a new system call that has the parameter conventions of the
POSIX function because that seems like the cleanest thing. This patch
includes the actual system call table additions for i386 and x86-64; other
architectures will need to assign the system call number, and 64-bit ones
may need to implement 32-bit compat support for it as I did for x86-64.
The new features could instead be provided by some new kludge inventions in
the wait4 system call interface (that's what BSD did). If kludges are
preferable to adding a system call, I can work up something different.
I added a struct rusage field si_rusage to siginfo_t in the SIGCHLD case
(this does not affect the size or layout of the struct). This is not part
of the POSIX interface, but it makes it so that `waitid' subsumes all the
functionality of `wait4'. Future kernel ABIs (new arch's or whatnot) can
have only the `waitid' system call and the rest of the wait* family
including wait3 and wait4 can be implemented in user space using waitid.
There is nothing in user space as yet that would make use of the new field.
Most of the new functionality is implemented purely in the waitid system
call itself. POSIX also provides for the WCONTINUED flag to report when a
child process had been stopped by job control and then resumed with
SIGCONT. Corresponding to this, a SIGCHLD is now generated when a child
resumes (unless SA_NOCLDSTOP is set), with the value CLD_CONTINUED in
siginfo_t.si_code. To implement this, some additional bookkeeping is
required in the signal code handling job control stops.
The motivation for this work is to make it possible to implement the POSIX
semantics of the `waitid' function in glibc completely and correctly. If
changing either the system call interface used to accomplish that, or any
details of the kernel implementation work, would improve the chances of
getting this incorporated, I am more than happy to work through any issues.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al missed this one in his sparse fixes
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
sys_remap_file_pages is declared as asmlinkage in mm/fremap.c, but is the one
syscall declared without asmlinkage in include/linux/syscalls.h.
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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
kexec is a fairly major and popular feature. People are shipping it in
products, although it is not known if Linux distributors plan to ship it.
The patch reserves the kexec syscall slots to pin the ABI down for
everyone.
- add kexec_load prototype to syscalls.h
- add LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC to reboot.h
- add kexec_load syscall for ia32, ia64, x86_64, ppc32, ppc64
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I have tested the code with the open posix test suite and found the same
four failures for both 64-bit and compat mode, most tests pass. The patch
is against -mc1, but I guess it also applies to the other trees around.
What worries me more than mq_attr compatibility is the conversion of struct
sigevent, which might turn out really hard when more fields in there are
used. AFAICS, the only other part in the kernel ABI is sys_timer_create(),
so maybe it's not too late to deprecate the current structure and create a
structure that can be used properly for compat syscalls.
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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Add -ENOSYS stubs for the posix message queue syscalls. The API is a direct
mapping of the api from the unix spec, with two exceptions:
- mq_close() doesn't exist. Message queue file descriptors can be closed
with close().
- mq_notify(SIGEV_THREAD) cannot be implemented in the kernel. The kernel
returns a pollable file descriptor . User space must poll (or read) this
descriptor and call the notifier function if the file descriptor is
signaled.
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Every pointer in <syscalls.h> had better be a user
pointer. Also add some others that a quick sanity check
picked up on.
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Sparse noticed a bunch of mismatched prototypes in the new syscalls.h file
when compiling net/socket.c Whilst most of them are just missing __user
tags, the last argument of sys_socketpair was completely different.
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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Add syscalls.h, which contains prototypes for the kernel's system calls.
Replace open-coded declarations all over the place. This patch found a
couple of prior bugs. It appears to be more important with -mregparm=3 as we
discover more asmlinkage mismatches.
Some syscalls have arch-dependent arguments, so their prototypes are in the
arch-specific unistd.h. Maybe it should have been asm/syscalls.h, but there
were already arch-specific syscall prototypes in asm/unistd.h...
Tested on x86, ia64, x86_64, ppc64, s390 and sparc64. May cause
trivial-to-fix build breakage on other architectures.
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