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2007-11-14pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALEric W. Biederman1-0/+12
This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs with a single blow. After some intensive review (my apologies for not having gotten to this sooner) what we have looks like a good base to build on with the current pid namespace code but it is not complete, and it is still much to simple to find issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial pid namespace. Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and the implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep process ID namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs we find as long as they are minor. Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply by ensuring their kernel does not have support for multiple pid namespaces. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@swsoft.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14revert "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem"Andrew Morton1-7/+0
Revert 62d0df64065e7c135d0002f069444fbdfc64768f. This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make this clear enough to Andrew. The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this patch actually provides it. If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably have to support this interface for ever. Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init()Adrian Bunk1-3/+1
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in include/linux/sched.h Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check the return value it also changes the function to return void. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24sched: mark CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED as !EXPERIMENTALIngo Molnar1-1/+0
mark CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED as !EXPERIMENTAL. All bugs have been fixed and it's perfect ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-21[PATCH] audit: watching subtreesAl Viro1-0/+4
New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree". The part that can be sanely implemented, that is. Limitations: * if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously) * if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees * if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there. New command tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false positives. Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places (multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does _not_ depend on which one we are using for access. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-20spelling fixes: init/Simon Arlott1-1/+1
Spelling fix in init/. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Drop the superfluous test for an old version of gcc.Robert P. J. Day1-8/+0
The header file <linux/compiler.h> already enforces a suitably recent version of gcc, so there's no point checking for that again. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Hook up group scheduler with control groupsSrivatsa Vaddagiri1-0/+10
Enable "cgroup" (formerly containers) based fair group scheduling. This will let administrator create arbitrary groups of tasks (using "cgroup" pseudo filesystem) and control their cpu bandwidth usage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cpp condition] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystemSerge E. Hallyn1-7/+16
When a task enters a new namespace via a clone() or unshare(), a new cgroup is created and the task moves into it. This version names cgroups which are automatically created using cgroup_clone() as "node_<pid>" where pid is the pid of the unsharing or cloned process. (Thanks Pavel for the idea) This is safe because if the process unshares again, it will create /cgroups/(...)/node_<pid>/node_<pid> The only possibilities (AFAICT) for a -EEXIST on unshare are 1. pid wraparound 2. a process fails an unshare, then tries again. Case 1 is unlikely enough that I ignore it (at least for now). In case 2, the node_<pid> will be empty and can be rmdir'ed to make the subsequent unshare() succeed. Changelog: Name cloned cgroups as "node_<pid>". [clg@fr.ibm.com: fix order of cgroup subsystems in init/Kconfig] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystemPaul Menage1-0/+10
This example subsystem exports debugging information as an aid to diagnosing refcount leaks, etc, in the cgroup framework. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystemPaul Menage1-0/+7
This example demonstrates how to use the generic cgroup subsystem for a simple resource tracker that counts, for the processes in a cgroup, the total CPU time used and the %CPU used in the last complete 10 second interval. Portions contributed by Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Task Control Groups: make cpusets a client of cgroupsPaul Menage1-1/+6
Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets a cgroup subsystem The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19Task Control Groups: basic task cgroup frameworkPaul Menage2-0/+11
Generic Process Control Groups -------------------------- There have recently been various proposals floating around for resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy cgroups, and others. These all need the basic abstraction of being able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in different ways. This patchset provides a framework for tracking and grouping processes into arbitrary "cgroups" and assigning arbitrary state to those groupings, in order to control the behaviour of the cgroup as an aggregate. The intention is that the various resource management and virtualization/cgroup efforts can also become task cgroup clients, with the result that: - the userspace APIs are (somewhat) normalised - it's easier to test e.g. the ResGroups CPU controller in conjunction with the BeanCounters memory controller, or use either of them as the resource-control portion of a virtual server system. - the additional kernel footprint of any of the competing resource management systems is substantially reduced, since it doesn't need to provide process grouping/containment, hence improving their chances of getting into the kernel This patch: Add the main task cgroups framework - the cgroup filesystem, and the basic structures for tracking membership and associating subsystem state objects to tasks. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sparse pointer use of zero as nullStephen Hemminger1-3/+3
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included KconfigAvi Kivity1-0/+3
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k). On those archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt). So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by everyone. Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup ... Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.
2007-10-16remove PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITYMel Gorman1-13/+0
Grouping pages by mobility can be disabled at compile-time. This was considered undesirable by a number of people. However, in the current stack of patches, it is not a simple case of just dropping the configurable patch as it would cause merge conflicts. This patch backs out the configuration option. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16Add a configure option to group pages by mobilityMel Gorman1-0/+13
The grouping mechanism has some memory overhead and a more complex allocation path. This patch allows the strategy to be disabled for small memory systems or if it is known the workload is suffering because of the strategy. It also acts to show where the page groupings strategy interacts with the standard buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16slow down printk during bootRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk. Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.): "lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100" to the kernel command line. It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is usually a valuable clue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static] [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15sched: group scheduler, fix coding style issuesSrivatsa Vaddagiri1-7/+7
Fix coding style issues reported by Randy Dunlap and others Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: enable CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y by defaultIngo Molnar1-1/+1
enable CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y by default. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: fair-group sched, cleanupsIngo Molnar1-4/+4
fair-group sched, cleanups. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: add fair-user schedulerSrivatsa Vaddagiri1-0/+13
Enable user-id based fair group scheduling. This is useful for anyone who wants to test the group scheduler w/o having to enable CONFIG_CGROUPS. A separate scheduling group (i.e struct task_grp) is automatically created for every new user added to the system. Upon uid change for a task, it is made to move to the corresponding scheduling group. A /proc tunable (/proc/root_user_share) is also provided to tune root user's quota of cpu bandwidth. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHEDSrivatsa Vaddagiri1-6/+5
With the view of supporting user-id based fair scheduling (and not just container-based fair scheduling), this patch renames several functions and makes them independent of whether they are being used for container or user-id based fair scheduling. Also fix a problem reported by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (wrt allocating less-sized array for tg->cfs_rq[] and tf->se[]). Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: group-scheduler coreSrivatsa Vaddagiri1-0/+9
Add interface to control cpu bandwidth allocation to task-groups. (not yet configurable, due to missing CONFIG_CONTAINERS) Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-14kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CCSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CFLAGS=... to specify additional gcc commandline options. One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other use cases has been requested too. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check that nothing got rebuild. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-09-19disable sys_timerfd() for 2.6.23Andrew Morton1-0/+1
There is still some confusion and disagreement over what this interface should actually do. So it is best that we disable it in 2.6.23 until we get that fully sorted out. (sys_timerfd() was present in 2.6.22 but it was apparently broken, so here we assume that nobody is using it yet). Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-19Fix failure to resume from initrdsNigel Cunningham1-1/+3
Commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 (Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default) breaks freezing when attempting to resume from an initrd, because the init (which is freezeable) spins while waiting for another thread to run /linuxrc, but doesn't check whether it has been told to enter the refrigerator. The original patch replaced a call to try_to_freeze() with a call to yield(). I believe a simple reversion is wrong because if !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP, try_to_freeze() is a noop. It should still yield. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-30fix maxcpus=1 oops in show_stat()Hugh Dickins1-8/+0
Alexey Dobriyan reports that maxcpus=1 is still broken in 2.6.23-rc4: if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, x86_64 bootup oopses in show_stat() - for_each_possible_cpu accesses a per-cpu area which was never set up. Alexey identified commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4 (ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0") as the origin; but it's not really to blame, just exposes a bug in 2.6.23-rc1's commit 8b3b295502444340dd0701855ac422fbf32e161d (Especially when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, avoid needlessy allocating resources for CPUs that can never become available). rc1's test for max_cpus < 2 in start_kernel() wasn't working because max_cpus was still NR_CPUS at that point: until rc4 moved the maxcpus parsing earlier. Now it sets cpu_possible_map to 1 before allocating all possible per-cpu areas; then smp_init() expands cpu_possible_map to cpu_present_map (0xf in my case) later on. rc1's commit has good intentions, but expects cpu_present_map to be limited by maxcpus, which is only the case on i386. cpus_and(possible, possible,present) might be good, but needs an audit of cpu_present_map uses - there may well be assumptions that any cpu present is possible. So stay safe for now and just revert those #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU optimizations in rc1's commit. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-27fix maxcpus=N parsingHugh Dickins1-1/+1
Commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4 ('ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"') broke 'maxcpus=' handling on x86[-64]. maxcpus=N is now having no effect on x86_64, and freezing bootup on i386 (because of inconsistency with the separate maxcpus parsing down in arch/i386, I guess). That's because early_param parsing is a little different from __setup parsing, and needs the "=" omitted: then it seems to work as the original commit intended (no mention of IO-APIC in /proc/interrupts when maxcpus=0). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-21ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"Len Brown1-2/+10
In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled. However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed. init/main.c: Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply. i386: delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic() delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup() x86_64: rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386 define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641 Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-31Kconfig: remove top level menu "Code maturity level options"Al Boldi1-4/+1
Remove the top level menu "Code maturity level options", and moves its options into menu "General setup". This makes Kconfig less cluttered and easier to setup. Signed-off-by: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31ANON_INODES shouldn't be user visibleAdrian Bunk1-11/+5
There doesn't seem to be a good reason for ANON_INODES being an user visible option. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-30Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.23Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.23: sh: Fix fs.h removal from mm.h regressions. sh: fix get_wchan() for SH kernels without framepointers sh: arch/sh/boot - fix shell usage rtc: rtc-sh: Correct sh_rtc_set_time() for some SH-3 parts. sh: remove support for sh7300 and solution engine 7300 sh: Add sh to the CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE dependencies. sh: Kill off virt_to_bus()/bus_to_virt(). sh: sh-sci - fix SH7708 support sh: Restrict DSP support to specific CPUs. sh: Silence sq compile warning on sh4 nommu. sh: Kill the rest of the SE73180 cruft. sh: remove support for sh73180 and solution engine 73180 sh: remove old broken pint code sh: Reclaim beginning of P3 space for vmalloc area. sh: Fix Dreamcast DMA issues. sh: Add kmap_coherent()/kunmap_coherent() interface for SH-4.
2007-07-26initramfs: missing __initAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26sh: Add sh to the CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE dependencies.Paul Mundt1-1/+1
Presently we only use this with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, but it is something that can be supported commonly. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki1-5/+2
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Make SLUB the default allocatorChristoph Lameter1-1/+1
There are some reports that 2.6.22 has SLUB as the default. Not true! This will make SLUB the default for 2.6.23. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16adjust nosmp handlingJan Beulich1-15/+27
Especially when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, avoid needlessy allocating resources for CPUs that can never become available. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Allow softlockup to be runtime disabledDave Jones1-1/+11
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime. Especially if it triggers during a distro install. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16user namespace: add the frameworkCedric Le Goater1-0/+9
Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table, resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated accounting. A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation. Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?) The unshare is not included in this patch. Changes since [try #4]: - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and get_user_ns to return the namespace. Changes since [try #3]: - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h} Changes since [try #2]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() Changes since [try #1]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() - added a root_user per user namespace Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NSCedric Le Goater1-17/+0
CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS have very little value as they only deactivate the unshare of the uts and ipc namespaces and do not improve performance. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devicesPierre Ossman1-2/+22
Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device specified in root= to actually show up. If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be turned on via the command line option "rootwait". [bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static] Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Use menuconfig objects II - module menuJan Engelhardt1-4/+1
Change menuconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without entering its menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: sparsemem supportPaul Mundt1-1/+1
Currently slob is disabled if we're using sparsemem, due to an earlier patch from Goto-san. Slob and static sparsemem work without any trouble as it is, and the only hiccup is a missing slab_is_available() in the case of sparsemem extreme. With this, we're rid of the last set of restrictions for slob usage. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu1-1/+4
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-10block/Kconfig already has its own "menuconfig" so remove theseJan Engelhardt1-2/+0
"menu, endmenu" that did not get cleaned up in the block patch [ http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/10/251 ] Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-09sched: add init_idle_bootup_task()Ingo Molnar1-2/+3
add the init_idle_bootup_task() callback to the bootup thread, unused at the moment. (CFS will use it to switch the scheduling class of the boot thread to the idle class) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-05-19init/main: use __init_refok to fix section mismatchSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
Kill a special case in modpost by introducing the __init_refok marker. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-17SLUB: Remove depends on EXPERIMENTAL and !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCTChristoph Lameter1-1/+0
No arch sets ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT anymore. Remove the experimental dependency as well since we want to have it as a real alternative to SLAB. It all comes down to killing a single line from init/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>