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This is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl
string fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even
if the full result wouldn't fit in the user-supplied buffer.
The returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can
tell when truncation has occurred.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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For the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a
sysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old
value is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of
string type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string. This
issue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to
sysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if
success.
Such strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1
because they do read and write for the sysctl entry.
The strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read
and write the sysctl entry.
According to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it
should return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and
write, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec.
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,
the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the
end of the buffer. Don't do that.
Noticed by Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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You could open the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<if>/<whatever> file, then
wait for interface to go away, try to grab as much memory as possible in
hope to hit the (kfreed) ctl_table. Then fill it with pointers to your
function. Then do read from file you've opened and if you are lucky,
you'll get it called as ->proc_handler() in kernel mode.
So this is at least an Oops and possibly more. It does depend on an
interface going away though, so less of a security risk than it would
otherwise be.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Various core kernel-doc cleanups:
- add missing function parameters in ipc, irq/manage, kernel/sys,
kernel/sysctl, and mm/slab;
- move description to just above function for kernel_restart()
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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AIO was adding a new context's max requests to the global total before
testing if that resulting total was over the global limit. This let
innocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task
that was crossing the limit. This serializes the _nr accounting with a
spinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals.
Individual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int's worth of
requests by the syscall interface.
The problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating
and destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context.
Before the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN
if it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the
limit.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Of this type, mostly:
CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done
inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock
before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of
retries before a cpu is yielded.
The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to
give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only
for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings
for spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is
1000.
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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This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from
"/proc/sys/fs". Also some related cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a new `suid_dumpable' sysctl:
This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid
or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are
0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed
privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped
1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is
owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended
for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.
2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but
not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will
not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when
adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.
(akpm:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable);
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> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
No problem to me.
> > if (current->euid == current->uid && current->egid == current->gid)
> > current->mm->dumpable = 1;
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> Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER?
Actually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines
should go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go
everywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used
as a bool in untouched code)
> Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy' or something. Doing that
> would help us catch any code which isn't using the #defines, too.
Fair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat
rather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic
diff because it is used all over the place.
)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Update function parameter description in block/fs code
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that
enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may
make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes down),
the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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- Rename various fields related to the lower-zone protection code to sync
up with 2.4.
- Remove the automatic determination of the values of the per-zone
protection levels from a single tunable. Replace this with a simple
per-zone sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Move 'panic_timeout' to linux/kernel.h.
ipmi_watchdog.c wanted to know why panic_timeout isn't in some header file.
However, ipmi_watchdog.c doesn't even use it, so that reference was
deleted. Other references now use kernel.h instead of straight extern int.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The attached patch fixes a number of problems in the VM routines:
(1) Some inline funcs don't compile if CONFIG_MMU is not set.
(2) swapper_pml4 needn't exist if CONFIG_MMU is not set.
(3) __free_pages_ok() doesn't counter set_page_refs() different behaviour if
CONFIG_MMU is not set.
(4) swsusp.c invokes TLB flushing functions without including the header file
that declares them.
CONFIG_SHMEM semantics:
- If MMU: Always enabled if !EMBEDDED
- If MMU && EMBEDDED: configurable
- If !MMU: disabled
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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This patch exports to userspace the boot loader ID which has been exported
by (b)zImage boot loaders since boot protocol version 2.
It is needed so that update tools that update kernels from vendors know which
bootloader file they need to update; eg right now those tools do all kinds of
hairy heuristics to find out if it's grub or lilo or .. that installed the
kernel. Those heuristics are fragile in the presence of more than one
bootloader (which isn't that uncommon in OS upgrade situations).
Tested on i386 and x86-64; as far as I know those are the only
architectures which use zImage/bzImage format.
Signed-Off-By: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ported from i386
Support a sysctl to raise an oops with an NMI
Signed-off-by: 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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Move hotplug_path[] out of kmod.[ch] to kobject_uevent.[ch] where
it belongs now. At some time in the future we should fix the remaining bad
hotplug calls (no SEQNUM, no netlink uevent):
./drivers/input/input.c (no DEVPATH on some hotplug events!)
./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
./drivers/s390/crypto/z90main.c
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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make dnotify configurable, via CONFIG_DNOTIFY. CONFIG_EMBEDDED is required
for disabling dnotify.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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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This patch adds "swap_token_timeout" parameter in /proc/sys/vm. The
parameter means expired time of token. Unit of the value is HZ, and the
default value is the same as current SWAP_TOKEN_TIMEOUT (i.e. HZ * 300).
Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <aoki@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The pid_max sysctl doesn't enforce PID_MAX_LIMIT or sane lower bounds.
RESERVED_PIDS + 1 is the minimum pid_max that won't break alloc_pidmap(), and
PID_MAX_LIMIT may not be aligned to 8*PAGE_SIZE boundaries for unusual values
of PAGE_SIZE, so this also rounds up PID_MAX_LIMIT to it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I found that the prototypes for sys_waitid and sys_fcntl in
<linux/syscalls.h> don't match the implementation. In order to keep all
prototypes in sync in the future, now include the header from each file
implementing any syscall.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
The patch below sets the tainted sysctl file to read only, otherwise
userspace can just overwrite/reset it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Create /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout. If this is non-zero, the kernel
will use the old mmap layout for all tasks. it presently defaults to zero
(the new layout).
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
hugetlb CONFIG_SYSCTL=n fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I made a patch for debugging with the help of NMI trigger switch.
When kernel hangs severely, keyboard operation(e.g.Ctrl-Alt-Del)
doesn't work properly. This patch enables debugging information
to be displayed on console in this case.
I think this feature is necessary as standard functionality.
Please feel free to use this patch and let me know if you have
any comments.
Background:
When a trouble occurs in kernel, we usually begin to investigate
with following information:
- panic >> panic message.
- oops >> CPU registers and stack trace.
- hang >> **NONE** no standard method established.
How it works:
Most IA32 servers have a NMI switch that fires NMI interrupt up.
The NMI interrupt can interrupt even if kernel is serious state,
for example deadlock under the interrupt disabled.
When the NMI switch is pressed after this feature is activated,
CPU registers and stack trace are displayed on console and then
panic occurs.
This feature is activated or deactivated with sysctl.
On IA32 architecture, only the following are defined as reason
of NMI interrupt:
- memory parity error
- I/O check error
The reason code of NMI switch is not defined, so this patch assumes
that all undefined NMI interrupts are fired by MNI switch.
However, oprofile and NMI watchdog also use undefined NMI interrupt.
Therefore this feature cannot be used at the same time with oprofile
and NMI watchdog. This feature hands NMI interrupt over to oprofile
and NMI watchdog. So, when they have been activated, this feature
doesn't work even if it is activated.
Supported architecture:
IA32
Setup:
Set up the system control parameter as follows:
# sysctl -w kernel.unknown_nmi_panic=1
kernel.unknown_nmi_panic = 1
If the NMI switch is pressed, CPU registers and stack trace will
be displayed on console and then panic occurs.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove both of the PPC32 && 6xx sysctls from kernel/sysctl.c to
arch/ppc/
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
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In the *ppos cleanups, proc_dol2crvec was updated, but the prototype
found at the top of kernel/sysctl.h was not, generating warning. This
corrects the prototype to match the code.
(I'm gonna take a stab at moving these into arch/ppc shortly)
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nobody ever fixed the big FIXME in sysctl - but we really need
to pass around the proper "loff_t *" to all the sysctl functions
if we want them to be well-behaved wrt the file pointer position.
This is all preparation for making direct f_pos accesses go
away.
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all sorts of minor stuff - basically, all chunks are independent here,
but IMO that one is not worth splitting. Contains:
* pmac_cpufreq.c: declaration in the middle of a block.
* sys_ia32.c: couple of trivial annotations.
* ipmi_si_intf.c: should be using asm/irq.h instead of linux/irq.h
* synclink_cs.c: assignment-in-conditional with nobody ever looking
at the variable we are assigning to afterwards; variable removed.
* sbni.c: s/__volatile/__volatile__
* matroxfb_base.h: got rid of ((u32 *)p)++
* asm-ppc/checksum.h and asm-sparc64/floppy.h: NULL noise removal
* amd64 compat.h: missing L in long constant.
* mtd-abi.h: annotated ioctl structure
* sysctl.c: corrected annotations in extern
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix a bug in do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() where the the string buffer was
too short to parse a 64-bit number expressed in decimal. That was causing
problems with entries in /proc/sys using long and allowing large number
(such as -1)
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Attached is a smallish patch for couple trivial sparse warnings in
allnoconfig build and more importantly an "excuses" text file explaining
why the rest have not been fixed.
Basically all of them (with the exception of the one in Andrews tree) need
some serious re-engineering.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some people want the dentry and inode caches shrink harder, others want them
shrunk more reluctantly.
The patch adds /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure, which tunes the vfs cache
versus pagecache scanning pressure.
- at vfs_cache_pressure=0 we don't shrink dcache and icache at all.
- at vfs_cache_pressure=100 there is no change in behaviour.
- at vfs_cache_pressure > 100 we reclaim dentries and inodes harder.
The number of megabytes of slab left after a slocate.cron on my 256MB test
box:
vfs_cache_pressure=100000 33480
vfs_cache_pressure=10000 61996
vfs_cache_pressure=1000 104056
vfs_cache_pressure=200 166340
vfs_cache_pressure=100 190200
vfs_cache_pressure=50 206168
Of course, this just left more directory and inode pagecache behind instead of
vfs cache. Interestingly, on this machine the entire slocate run fits into
pagecache, but not into VFS caches.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove unused queued_signals global accounting.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Both modprobe_path and hotplug_path are arbitrarily sized at 256 bytes and
that size is also expressed directly in the sysctl code. It seems
reasonable to define a standard length and use that for consitancy. This
patch introduces the constant KMOD_PATH_LEN and uses that.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add __user annotations to kernel/sysctl.c to satisfy sparse
for !CONFIG_SYSCTL, !CONFIG_PROC_FS.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
The sysctl interfaces for updating the uts entries such as hostname and
domainname are using the wrong length for these buffers; they are hard
coded to 64. Although safe, this artifically limits the size of these
fields to one less than the true maximum. This generates an inconsistency
between the various methods of update for these fields.
# hostname 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
hostname: name too long
# hostname 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
# hostname
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
# sysctl -w kernel.hostname=1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
kernel.hostname = 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
# hostname
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
#
The error originates from the fact the handler for strings (proc_dostring)
already allows for the string terminator. This patch corrects the limit,
taking the oppotunity to convert to use of sizeof().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
"Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
This patch addresses the longstanding problem wherein Oracle needs
CAP_IPC_LOCK to allocate SHM_HUGETLB shm memory, but people don't want to run
Oracle as root, and capabilties are busted.
Various ideas with rlimits didn't work out, mainly because these objects live
beyond the lifetime of the user processes which establish them.
What we do is to create root-writeable /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group which
specifies a single group ID. Users who belong to that group may allocate
hugepages for SHM_HUGETLB shm segments.
So the sysadmin will greate a new group, say `hugepageusers', will add the
oracle user to that group and will write that group's ID into
/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group.
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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch add a system control that allows to switch off the jiffies timer
interrupts while a cpu sleeps in idle. This is useful for a system running
with virtual cpus under z/VM.
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into nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/BK/sparc-2.6
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
The following patch consolidates redundant code in various hugetlb
implementations. I took the liberty of renaming a few things, since the
code was all moved anyway, and it has the benefit of helping to catch
missed conversions and/or consolidations.
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From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Adds /proc/sys/vm/laptop-mode: a special knob which says "this is a laptop".
In this mode the kernel will attempt to avoid spinning disks up.
Algorithm: the idea is to hold dirty data in memory for a long time, but to
flush everything which has been accumulated if the disk happens to spin up
for other reasons.
- Whenever a disk request completes (read or write), schedule a timer a few
seconds hence. If the timer was already pending, reset it to a few seconds
hence.
- When the timer expires, write back the whole world. We use
sync_filesystems() for this because it will force ext3 journal commits as
well.
- In balance_dirty_pages(), kick off background writeback when we hit the
high threshold (dirty_ratio), not when we hit the low threshold. This has
the effect of causing "lumpy" writeback which is something I spent a year
fixing, but in laptop mode, it is desirable.
- In try_to_free_pages(), only kick pdflush if the VM is getting into
distress: we want to keep scanning for clean pages, deferring writeback.
- In page reclaim, avoid writing back the odd random dirty page off the
LRU: only start I/O if the scanning is working harder.
The effect is to perform a sync() a few seconds after all I/O has ceased.
The value which was written into /proc/sys/vm/laptop-mode determines, in
seconds, the delay between the final I/O and the flush.
Additionally, the patch adds tools which help answer the question "why the
heck does my disk spin up all the time?". The user may set
/proc/sys/vm/block_dump to a non-zero value and the kernel will print out
information which will identify the process which is performing disk reads or
which is dirtying pagecache.
The user should probably disable syslogd before setting block-dump.
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