linux/kernel/timer.c, branch v2.6.30

Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-09T17:35:30Z

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk futex: comment requeue key reference semantics * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF) posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork() timers: add missing kernel-doc

timers: add missing kernel-doc

2009-04-02T03:54:00Z

Add missing kernel-doc parameter notation and change function name to its new name: Warning(kernel/timer.c:543): No description found for parameter 'name' Warning(kernel/timer.c:543): No description found for parameter 'key' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: akpm Cc: Johannes Berg LKML-Reference: <20090401174723.f0bea0eb.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2009-03-31T00:17:35Z

* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits) lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging lockdep: use stringify.h lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq() lockdep: get_user_chars() redo lockdep: simplify get_user_chars() lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq() lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks() lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq() lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3 lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq() lockdep: generate usage strings lockdep: generate the state bit definitions ...

timers: add mod_timer_pending()

2009-02-18T18:26:33Z

Impact: new timer API Based on an idea from Martin Josefsson with the help of Patrick McHardy and Stephen Hemminger: introduce the mod_timer_pending() API which is a mod_timer() offspring that is an invariant on already removed timers. (regular mod_timer() re-activates non-pending timers.) This is useful for the networking code in that it can allow unserialized mod_timer_pending() timer-forwarding calls, but a single del_timer*() will stop the timer from being reactivated again. Also while at it: - optimize the regular mod_timer() path some more, the timer-stat and a debug check was needlessly duplicated in __mod_timer(). - make the exports come straight after the function, as most other exports in timer.c already did. - eliminate __mod_timer() as an external API, change the users to mod_timer(). The regular mod_timer() code path is not impacted significantly, due to inlining optimizations and due to the simplifications. Based-on-patch-from: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Patrick McHardy Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

timer: implement lockdep deadlock detection

2009-02-14T22:25:52Z

This modifies the timer code in a way to allow lockdep to detect deadlocks resulting from a lock being taken in the timer function as well as around the del_timer_sync() call. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27

2009-01-14T13:15:29Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 02

2009-01-14T13:15:19Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01

2009-01-14T13:15:18Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a long

2009-01-14T13:15:14Z

Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[PATCH] idle cputime accounting

2008-12-31T14:11:46Z

The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky