linux/kernel/timer.c, branch v3.6

alpha: take a bunch of syscalls into osf_sys.c

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

New helper: current_thread_info(). Allows to do a bunch of odd syscalls in C. While we are at it, there had never been a reason to do osf_getpriority() in assembler. We also get "namespace"-aware (read: consistent with getuid(2), etc.) behaviour from getx?id() syscalls now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

timers: Improve get_next_timer_interrupt()

2012-06-06T11:49:02Z

Gilad reported at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336056962-10465-2-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com "Current timer code fails to correctly return a value meaning that there is no future timer event, with the result that the timer keeps getting re-armed in HZ one shot mode even when we could turn it off, generating unneeded interrupts. What is happening is that when __next_timer_interrupt() wishes to return a value that signifies "there is no future timer event", it returns (base->timer_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA). However, the code in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(), which called __next_timer_interrupt() via get_next_timer_interrupt(), compares the return value to (last_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA) to see if the timer needs to be re-armed. base->timer_jiffies != last_jiffies and so tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() interperts the return value as indication that there is a distant future event 12 days from now and programs the timer to fire next after KTIME_MAX nsecs instead of avoiding to arm it. This ends up causing a needless interrupt once every KTIME_MAX nsecs." Fix this by using the new active timer accounting. This avoids scans when no active timer is enqueued completely, so we don't have to rely on base->timer_next and base->timer_jiffies anymore. Reported-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.317535385@linutronix.de

timers: Add accounting of non deferrable timers

2012-06-06T11:49:01Z

The code in get_next_timer_interrupt() is suboptimal as it has to run through the cascade to find the next expiring timer. On a completely idle core we should only do that when there is an active timer enqueued and base->next_timer does not give us a fast answer. Add accounting of the active timers to the now consolidated attach/detach code. I deliberately avoided sanity checks because the code is fully symetric and any fiddling with timers w/o using the API functions will lead to cute explosions anyway. ulong is big enough even on 32bit and if we really run into the situation to have more than 1<<32 timers enqueued there, then we are definitely not in a state to go idle and run through that code. This allows us to fix another shortcoming of get_next_timer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.236377028@linutronix.de

timers: Consolidate base->next_timer update

2012-06-06T11:49:01Z

Another bunch of mindlessly copied code. All callers of internal_add_timer() except the recascading code updates base->next_timer. Move this into internal_add_timer() and let the cascading code call __internal_add_timer(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.189946224@linutronix.de

timers: Create detach_if_pending() and use it

2012-06-06T11:49:01Z

Most callers of detach_timer() have the same pattern around them. Check whether the timer is pending and eventually updating base->next_timer. Create detach_if_pending() and replace the duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.131246037@linutronix.de

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2012-05-24T00:42:39Z

Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman: "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete implementation. Highlights: - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe. - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe. - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared uids remains the same. - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or better than it is today. - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or operationally with the user namespace enabled. - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1 billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to 164ns per stat operation). - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value. Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause entertaining failures in userspace. - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails. I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and handle the case where setuid fails. - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we can't map. - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities. My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1." Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) userns: Silence silly gcc warning. cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids. userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate. userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace. userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs ...

Merge branch 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2012-05-23T00:36:56Z

Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Nothing exciting. Most are updates to debug stuff and related fixes. Two not-too-critical bugs are fixed - WARN_ON() triggering spurious during cpu offlining and unlikely lockdep related oops." * 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work() workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer

lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue

2012-05-15T15:08:31Z

Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[]. Because it's permissible to free a work_struct from its callout function, the map used is an onstack copy of the map given in the work_struct: and that copy is made without any locking. Surprisingly, gcc (4.5.1 in Hugh's case) uses "rep movsl" rather than "rep movsq" for that structure copy: which might race with a workqueue user's wait_on_work() doing lock_map_acquire() on the source of the copy, putting a pointer into the class_cache[], but only in time for the top half of that pointer to be copied to the destination map. Boom when process_one_work() subsequently does lock_map_acquire() on its onstack copy of the lockdep_map. Fix this, and a similar instance in call_timer_fn(), with a lockdep_copy_map() function which additionally NULLs the class_cache[]. Note: this oops was actually seen on 3.4-next, where flush_work() newly does the racing lock_map_acquire(); but Tejun points out that 3.4 and earlier are already vulnerable to the same through wait_on_work(). * Patch orginally from Peter. Hugh modified it a bit and wrote the description. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Hugh Dickins LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid

2012-05-03T10:28:41Z

Convert setregid, setgid, setreuid, setuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setfsuid, setfsgid, getuid, geteuid, getgid, getegid, waitpid, waitid, wait4. Convert userspace uids and gids into kuids and kgids before being placed on struct cred. Convert struct cred kuids and kgids into userspace uids and gids when returning them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment

2012-04-26T19:28:03Z

The mod_timer_pinned() header comment states that it prevents timers from being migrated to a different CPU. This is not the case, instead, it ensures that the timer is posted to the current CPU, but does nothing to prevent CPU-hotplug operations from migrating the timer. This commit therefore brings the comment header into alignment with reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt