linux/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v2.6.26

[PATCH] avoid multiplication overflows and signedness issues for max_fds

2008-05-16T21:22:52Z

Limit sysctl_nr_open - we don't want ->max_fds to exceed MAX_INT and we don't want size calculation for ->fd[] to overflow. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root

2008-04-29T15:06:23Z

When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from, may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the table. The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch. All the rest is just pushing the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function. This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Denis V. Lunev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: clean from unneeded extern and forward declarations

2008-04-29T15:06:23Z

The do_sysctl_strategy isn't used outside kernel/sysctl.c, so this can be static and without a prototype in header. Besides, move this one and parse_table() above their callers and drop the forward declarations of the latter call. One more "besides" - fix two checkpatch warnings: space before a ( and an extra space at the end of a line. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Denis V. Lunev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c

2008-04-29T15:06:22Z

Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

keys: make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys

2008-04-29T15:06:17Z

Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys files: (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes Maximum number of keys that root may have and the maximum total number of bytes of data that root may have stored in those keys. (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes Maximum number of keys that each non-root user may have and the maximum total number of bytes of data that each of those users may have stored in their keys. Also increase the quotas as a number of people have been complaining that it's not big enough. I'm not sure that it's big enough now either, but on the other hand, it can now be set in /etc/sysctl.conf. Signed-off-by: David Howells Cc: Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: rt-group: synchonised bandwidth period

2008-04-19T17:44:57Z

Various SMP balancing algorithms require that the bandwidth period run in sync. Possible improvements are moving the rt_bandwidth thing into root_domain and keeping a span per rt_bandwidth which marks throttled cpus. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: remove sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity

2008-04-19T17:44:57Z

it's unused. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes

2008-03-04T16:54:06Z

The following commits cause a number of regressions: commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated commit 6b2d7700266b9402e12824e11e0099ae6a4a6a79 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups Namely: - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users. - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP - some latencies larger than 500ms While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now). Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

hugetlb: fix overcommit locking

2008-02-14T00:21:18Z

proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update nr_overcommit_huge_pages. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Reported-by: Miles Lane Cc: Adam Litke Cc: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: rt-group: interface

2008-02-13T14:45:39Z

Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us. This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio. Extend the /sys/kernel/uids// interface to allow setting the group's rt_runtime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar