linux/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v2.6.28

epoll: introduce resource usage limits

2008-12-02T03:55:24Z

It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Reported-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent

2008-10-27T09:50:54Z

Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-10-23T16:37:16Z

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: disable the hrtick for now sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks sched: optimize group load balancer sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup sched: kill unused scheduler decl. sched: fix the wrong mask_len sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock

Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgent

2008-10-22T07:08:14Z

ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER

2008-10-20T16:27:03Z

Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl

2008-10-20T15:52:31Z

This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them. Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual nodes' zones. Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of these pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: optimize group load balancer

2008-10-20T12:05:02Z

I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus in the sched_domain. This hurts. We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value. This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance in semi-stable situations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Configure out AIO support

2008-10-16T18:21:51Z

This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data: text data bss dec hex filename 1115067 119180 217088 1451335 162547 vmlinux 1108025 119048 217088 1444161 160941 vmlinux.new -7042 -132 0 -7174 -1C06 +/- This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall , and is part of the Linux Tiny project. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Zach Brown Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: simplify ->strategy

2008-10-16T18:21:47Z

name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array may be needed (name). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: David S. Miller [ networking bits ] Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: David Howells Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make the taint flags reliable

2008-10-16T18:21:31Z

It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion. Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit operations on it. Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it anymore. It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit (since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds