linux/kernel/compat.c, branch v2.6.39

posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.

2011-02-02T14:28:19Z

A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The new call, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID and a pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be requested via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may not support tuning. [ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup series. Avoid copy_to_user in the error case ] Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Acked-by: John Stultz LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.869804645@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Splitout compat timex accessors

2011-02-02T14:28:18Z

Split out the compat timex accessors into separate functions. Preparatory patch for a new syscall. [ tglx: Split that patch from Richards "posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.". Keeps the changes strictly separate ] Originally-from: Richard Cochran Acked-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.772343089@linutronix.de>

compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()

2010-09-14T23:08:45Z

compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could introduce problems on some architectures. This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length. The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the implementation of the new global function. This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space() for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers can also be removed. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Tony Luck Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc:

rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls to do_prlimit

2010-07-16T07:48:48Z

After we added more generic do_prlimit, switch sys_getrlimit to that. Also switch compat handling, so we can get rid of ugly __user casts and avoid setting process' address limit to kernel data and back. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

cpumask: fix compat getaffinity

2010-05-19T18:48:18Z

Commit a45185d2d "cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c" broke libnuma, which abuses sched_getaffinity to find out NR_CPUS in order to parse /sys/devices/system/node/node*/cpumap. On NUMA systems with less than 32 possibly CPUs, the current compat_sys_sched_getaffinity now returns '4' instead of the actual NR_CPUS/8, which makes libnuma bail out when parsing the cpumap. The libnuma call sched_getaffinity(0, bitmap, 4096) at first. It mean the libnuma expect the return value of sched_getaffinity() is either len argument or NR_CPUS. But it doesn't expect to return nr_cpu_ids. Strictly speaking, userland requirement are 1) Glibc assume the return value mean the lengh of initialized of mask argument. E.g. if sched_getaffinity(1024) return 128, glibc make zero fill rest 896 byte. 2) Libnuma assume the return value can be used to guess NR_CPUS in kernel. It assume len-arg Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Reported-by: Ken Werner Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

signals: implement sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo

2009-04-30T17:24:24Z

sys_kill has the per thread counterpart sys_tgkill. sigqueueinfo is missing a thread directed counterpart. Such an interface is important for migrating applications from other OSes which have the per thread delivery implemented. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper

Allow times and time system calls to return small negative values

2009-01-06T23:59:13Z

At the moment, the times() system call will appear to fail for a period shortly after boot, while the value it want to return is between -4095 and -1. The same thing will also happen for the time() system call on 32-bit platforms some time in 2106 or so. On some platforms, such as x86, this is unavoidable because of the system call ABI, but other platforms such as powerpc have a separate error indication from the return value, so system calls can in fact return small negative values without indicating an error. On those platforms, force_successful_syscall_return() provides a way to indicate that the system call return value should not be treated as an error even if it is in the range which would normally be taken as a negative error number. This adds a force_successful_syscall_return() call to the time() and times() system calls plus their 32-bit compat versions, so that they don't erroneously indicate an error on those platforms whose system call ABI has a separate error indication. This will not affect anything on other platforms. Joakim Tjernlund added the fix for time() and the compat versions of time() and times(), after I did the fix for times(). Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c

2008-12-31T23:42:24Z

Impact: Reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API. Straightforward conversion; cpumasks' size is given by cpumask_size() (now a variable rather than fixed) and on-stack cpu masks use cpumask_var_t. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

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

2008-10-20T11:14:06Z