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* namespaces Kconfig: move namespace menu location after the cgroupDaniel Lezcano2010-10-271-52/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have the namespaces as a menuconfig like the cgroup. The cgroup and the namespace are two base bricks for the containers. It is more logical to put the namespace menu right after the cgroup menu. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* namespaces Kconfig: remove the cgroup device whitelist experimental tagDaniel Lezcano2010-10-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This subsystem is merged since a long time now, I think we can consider it mature enough. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* namespaces Kconfig: remove pointless cgroup dependencyDaniel Lezcano2010-10-271-10/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The different cgroup subsystems are under the cgroup submenu. The dependency between the cgroups and the menu subsystems is pointless. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* namespaces Kconfig: make namespace a submenuDaniel Lezcano2010-10-271-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make the namespaces config option a submenu. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* namespaces: default all the namespaces to 'yes' when CONFIG_NAMESPACES is ↵Daniel Lezcano2010-10-271-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | selected As the different namespaces depend on 'CONFIG_NAMESPACES', it is logical to enable all the namespaces when we enable NAMESPACES. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-By: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* namespaces: remove pid_ns and net_ns experimental statusDaniel Lezcano2010-10-271-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | The pid namespace is in the kernel since 2.6.27 and the net_ns since 2.6.29. They are enabled in the distro by default and used by userspace component. They are mature enough to remove the 'experimental' label. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-241-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) Update broken web addresses in arch directory. Update broken web addresses in the kernel. Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments Fix typo configue => configure in comments Fix typo: configuation => configuration Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed] Fix various typos of valid in comments ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
| * Kconfig: delete duplicate wordStephan Sperber2010-08-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Deleted a word which apeared twice. Signed-off-by: Stephan Sperber <sperberstephan@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-10-221-31/+33
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (31 commits) driver core: Display error codes when class suspend fails Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct Driver core: Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks Driver core: Move find_memory_block routine hpilo: Despecificate driver from iLO generation driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted. driver core: Introduce find_memory_block_hinted which utilizes kset_find_obj_hinted. kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted. driver core: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled driver-core: base: change to new flag variable sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented. FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUG uio: Statically allocate uio_class and use class .dev_attrs. uio: Support 2^MINOR_BITS minors uio: Cleanup irq handling. uio: Don't clear driver data uio: Fix lack of locking in init_uio_class SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devices ...
| * | SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layoutAndi Kleen2010-10-221-4/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them. This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option on the command line. The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing config files. Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code look nicer. v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems and that seems to work. Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devicesKay Sievers2010-10-221-31/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 config option, but it keeps the logic around to handle block devices in the old manner as some people like to run new kernel versions on old (pre 2007/2008) distros. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2010-10-221-3/+6
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386 blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O cfq: improve fsync performance for small files ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
| * | | blkio: Core implementation of throttle policyVivek Goyal2010-09-161-3/+6
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling comes in later patches. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | | Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bklLinus Torvalds2010-10-221-1/+1
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. dabusb: remove the BKL sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock init/main.c: remove BKL notations blktrace: remove the big kernel lock rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock tlclk: remove big kernel lock fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic uml: kill big kernel lock parisc: remove big kernel lock cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users alpha: kill big kernel lock isapnp: BKL removal s390/block: kill the big kernel lock hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
| * | | BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.Arnd Bergmann2010-10-211-1/+1
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do about them, this patch illustrates one of the options: Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig, and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL code itself is compiled out. The one exception is file locking, which is practically always enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | | Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-211-0/+2
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (96 commits) apic, x86: Use BIOS settings for IBS and MCE threshold interrupt LVT offsets apic, x86: Check if EILVT APIC registers are available (AMD only) x86: ioapic: Call free_irte only if interrupt remapping enabled arm: Use ARCH_IRQ_INIT_FLAGS genirq, ARM: Fix boot on ARM platforms genirq: Fix CONFIG_GENIRQ_NO_DEPRECATED=y build x86: Switch sparse_irq allocations to GFP_KERNEL genirq: Switch sparse_irq allocator to GFP_KERNEL genirq: Make sparse_lock a mutex x86: lguest: Use new irq allocator genirq: Remove the now unused sparse irq leftovers genirq: Sanitize dynamic irq handling genirq: Remove arch_init_chip_data() x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling x86: Use sane enumeration x86: uv: Clean up the direct access to irq_desc x86: Make io_apic.c local functions static genirq: Remove irq_2_iommu x86: Speed up the irq_remapped check in hot pathes intr_remap: Simplify the code further ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig
| * | | genirq: Provide KconfigThomas Gleixner2010-10-041-0/+2
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The generic irq Kconfig options are copied around all archs. Provide a generic Kconfig file which can be included. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100927121843.217333624@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-211-0/+8
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits) tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery perf: Optimize sw events perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks jump_label: Add atomic_t interface jump_label: Use more consistent naming perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation perf: Find task before event alloc perf: Fix task refcount bugs perf: Fix group moving irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in() perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers ...
| * | | irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacksPeter Zijlstra2010-10-181-0/+8
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney2010-08-201-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | | rcu: Fix RCU_FANOUT help messagePaul E. McKenney2010-08-191-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit cf244dc01bf68 added a fourth level to the TREE_RCU hierarchy, but the RCU_FANOUT help message still said "cube root". This commit fixes this to "fourth root" and also emphasizes that production systems are well-served by the default. (Stress-testing RCU itself uses small RCU_FANOUT values in order to test large-system code paths on small(er) systems.) Located-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | | rcu: restrict TREE_RCU to SMP builds with !PREEMPTPaul E. McKenney2010-08-191-0/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because both TINY_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU have been in mainline for several releases, it is time to restrict the use of TREE_RCU to SMP non-preemptible systems. This reduces testing/validation effort. This commit is a first step towards driving the selection of RCU implementation directly off of the SMP and PREEMPT configuration parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | memcg: remove experimental from swap account configKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-08-111-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's 11 months since we changed swap_map[] to indicates SWAP_HAS_CACHE. Since that, memcg's swap accounting has been very stable and it seems it can be maintained. So, I'd like to remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notifyLinus Torvalds2010-08-101-3/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits) fanotify: use both marks when possible fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists fsnotify: remove group->mask fsnotify: remove the global masks fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event fanotify: use the mark in handler functions audit: use the mark in handler functions dnotify: use the mark in handler functions inotify: use the mark in handler functions fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput fsnotify: store struct file not struct path ... Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
| * Audit: split audit watch KconfigEric Paris2010-07-281-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Audit watch should depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL and should select FSNOTIFY. This splits the spagetti like mixing of audit_watch and audit_filter code so they can be configured seperately. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
| * Audit: audit watches depend on fsnotifyEric Paris2010-07-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_AUDIT builds audit_watches which depend on fsnotify. Make CONFIG_AUDIT select fsnotify. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
| * audit: reimplement audit_trees using fsnotify rather than inotifyEric Paris2010-07-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simply switch audit_trees from using inotify to using fsnotify for it's inode pinning and disappearing act information. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* | slow-work: kill itTejun Heo2010-07-231-24/+0
|/ | | | | | | slow-work doesn't have any user left. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds2010-06-011-0/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits) kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts gconfig: remove show_debug option gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype() kconfig: fix zconfdump() kconfig: some small fixes add random binaries to .gitignore kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files headerdep: perlcritic warning scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope" kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin headers_install: use local file handles headers_check: fix perl warnings export_report: fix perl warnings ...
| * kconfig CROSS_COMPILE optionRoland McGrath2010-02-021-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds CROSS_COMPILE as a kconfig string so you can store it in .config. Then you can use plain "make" in the configured kernel build directory to do the right cross compilation without setting the command-line or environment variable every time. With this, you can set up different build directories for different kernel configurations, whether native or cross-builds, and then use the simple: make -C /build/dir M=module-source-dir idiom to build modules for any given target kernel, indicating which one by nothing but the build directory chosen. I tried a version that defaults the string with env="CROSS_COMPILE" so that in a "make oldconfig" with CROSS_COMPILE in the environment you can just hit return to store the way you're building it. But the kconfig prompt for strings doesn't give you any way to say you want an empty string instead of the default, so I punted that. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35Jens Axboe2010-05-211-2/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: fs/ext3/fsync.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | sched: Remove remaining USER_SCHED codeLi Zefan2010-04-021-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is left over from commit 7c9414385e ("sched: Remove USER_SCHED"") Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4BA9A05F.7010407@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangementVivek Goyal2010-04-261-0/+27
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues. o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception. Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers. o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED. This option currently does two things. - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat files in cgroup. If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of all the additional debug stat files which is not desired. Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED. This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which can be enabled through config menu. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notificationsKirill A. Shutemov2010-03-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups and implements memory notifications on top of it. It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage. Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs: Root cgroup before changes: make -j2 506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total Non-root cgroup before changes: make -j2 507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total This patch: Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup. To register new notification handler you need: - create an eventfd; - open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() must be defined for the control file; - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control. Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation; eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the cgroup is removed. To unregister notification handler just close eventfd. If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the struct cftype. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-281-51/+30
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power sched: Don't use possibly stale sched_class kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters percpu_counter: Make __percpu_counter_add an inline function on UP sched: Remove member rt_se from struct rt_rq sched: Change usage of rt_rq->rt_se to rt_rq->tg->rt_se[cpu] sched: Remove unused update_shares_locked() sched: Use for_each_bit sched: Queue a deboosted task to the head of the RT prio queue sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rt sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing sched: Remove USER_SCHED sched: Fix the place where group powers are updated sched: Assume *balance is valid sched: Remove load_balance_newidle() sched: Unify load_balance{,_newidle}() sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y sched: Remove from fwd decls sched: Remove rq_iterator from move_one_task ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/sched.c
| * \ Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2010-02-081-4/+14
| |\ \ | | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Remove USER_SCHEDDhaval Giani2010-01-211-51/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in 2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2 Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-281-13/+0
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
| * \ \ Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2010-01-131-4/+14
| |\ \ \ | | | |/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: queue up dependent patch, update to -rc4 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILELi Zefan2009-12-281-13/+0
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Quoted from Ingo: | This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE - | it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and | EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints. | | Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as | well. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-281-1/+1
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile/x86: fix msr access to reserved counters oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() oprofile/x86: fix perfctr nmi reservation for mulitplexing oprofile/x86: add comment to counter-in-use warning oprofile/x86: warn user if a counter is already active oprofile/x86: implement randomization for IBS periodic op counter oprofile/x86: implement lsfr pseudo-random number generator for IBS oprofile/x86: implement IBS cpuid feature detection oprofile/x86: remove node check in AMD IBS initialization oprofile/x86: remove OPROFILE_IBS config option oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description oprofile: remove tracing build dependency
| * | | oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option descriptionRobert Richter2010-02-261-1/+1
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* | | Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-281-0/+16
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits) rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist sched, cgroups: Fix module export rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use ...
| * | | rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPUPaul E. McKenney2010-02-251-0/+16
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the relevant grace periods to complete. However, if all the other CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period is instantly complete. This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete quickly. It does so a limited number of times in order to prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass itself to call_rcu(). However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug noted by Lai Jiangshan). Also, take advantage of last grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve Rostedt. And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by Frederic Weisbecker. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-02-261-0/+4
|\ \ \ | |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (31 commits) crypto: aes_generic - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: fcrypt - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: ecb - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: des_generic - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: deflate - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: crypto_null - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: cipher - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: crc32 - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: compress - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: cast6 - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: cast5 - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: camellia - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: authenc - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: api - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: anubis - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: algapi - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: blowfish - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: aead - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: ablkcipher - Fix checkpatch errors crypto: pcrypt - call the complete function on error ...
| * | padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interfaceSteffen Klassert2010-01-061-0/+4
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces an interface to process data objects in parallel. The parallelized objects return after serialization in the same order as they were before the parallelization. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* | lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernelsAlbin Tonnerre2010-01-111-4/+14
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images. Russell King said: : Testing on a Cortex A9 model: : - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel : - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel : : which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two. : : However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code: : - new is 99% of the size of the old code : - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code : : What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better: : - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image : - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took : : So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I : can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional : compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.) : : I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO. This patch: The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on: Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's much faster to extract, at least in that case. This part contains: - Makefile routine to support lzo compression - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in compressed kernels - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here - config dialog for kernel compression [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flagJie Zhang2009-12-151-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory. While this is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is allowed to return uninitialized memory. This can easily be a significant performance penalty. So for constrained embedded systems were security is irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily. This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised memory for the brk and stack region. Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysfs: deprecated features are to help old tools not to confuse themUwe Kleine-König2009-12-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-12-081-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits) security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl. security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount. sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler. sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions. sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic ...