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Davidlohr Bueso
d7e8af1afe futex: update documentation for ordering guarantees
Commits 11d4616bd0 ("futex: revert back to the explicit waiter
counting code") and 69cd9eba38 ("futex: avoid race between requeue and
wake") changed some of the finer details of how we think about futexes.
One was a late fix and the other a consequence of overlooking the whole
requeuing logic.

The first change caused our documentation to be incorrect, and the
second made us aware that we need to explicitly add more details to it.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-12 17:57:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5166701b36 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...
2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0a7418f5f5 This includes the final patch to clean up and fix the issue with the
design of tracepoints and how a user could register a tracepoint
 and have that tracepoint not be activated but no error was shown.
 
 The design was for an out of tree module but broke in tree users.
 The clean up was to remove the saving of the hash table of tracepoint
 names such that they can be enabled before they exist (enabling
 a module tracepoint before that module is loaded). This added more
 complexity than needed. The clean up was to remove that code and
 just enable tracepoints that exist or fail if they do not.
 
 This removed a lot of code as well as the complexity that it brought.
 As a side effect, instead of registering a tracepoint by its name,
 the tracepoint needs to be registered with the tracepoint descriptor.
 This removes having to duplicate the tracepoint names that are
 enabled.
 
 The second patch was added that simplified the way modules were
 searched for.
 
 This cleanup required changes that were in the 3.15 queue as well as
 some changes that were added late in the 3.14-rc cycle. This final
 change waited till the two were merged in upstream and then the
 change was added and full tests were run. Unfortunately, the
 test found some errors, but after it was already submitted to the
 for-next branch and not to be rebased. Sparse errors were detected
 by Fengguang Wu's bot tests, and my internal tests discovered that
 the anonymous union initialization triggered a bug in older gcc compilers.
 Luckily, there was a bugzilla for the gcc bug which gave a work around
 to the problem. The third and fourth patch handled the sparse error
 and the gcc bug respectively.
 
 A final patch was tagged along to fix a missing documentation for
 the README file.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes the final patch to clean up and fix the issue with the
  design of tracepoints and how a user could register a tracepoint and
  have that tracepoint not be activated but no error was shown.

  The design was for an out of tree module but broke in tree users.  The
  clean up was to remove the saving of the hash table of tracepoint
  names such that they can be enabled before they exist (enabling a
  module tracepoint before that module is loaded).  This added more
  complexity than needed.  The clean up was to remove that code and just
  enable tracepoints that exist or fail if they do not.

  This removed a lot of code as well as the complexity that it brought.
  As a side effect, instead of registering a tracepoint by its name, the
  tracepoint needs to be registered with the tracepoint descriptor.
  This removes having to duplicate the tracepoint names that are
  enabled.

  The second patch was added that simplified the way modules were
  searched for.

  This cleanup required changes that were in the 3.15 queue as well as
  some changes that were added late in the 3.14-rc cycle.  This final
  change waited till the two were merged in upstream and then the change
  was added and full tests were run.  Unfortunately, the test found some
  errors, but after it was already submitted to the for-next branch and
  not to be rebased.  Sparse errors were detected by Fengguang Wu's bot
  tests, and my internal tests discovered that the anonymous union
  initialization triggered a bug in older gcc compilers.  Luckily, there
  was a bugzilla for the gcc bug which gave a work around to the
  problem.  The third and fourth patch handled the sparse error and the
  gcc bug respectively.

  A final patch was tagged along to fix a missing documentation for the
  README file"

* tag 'trace-3.15-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add missing function triggers dump and cpudump to README
  tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call
  tracepoint: Fix sparse warnings in tracepoint.c
  tracepoint: Simplify tracepoint module search
  tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints
2014-04-12 13:06:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0b747172dc Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit
Pull audit updates from Eric Paris.

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits)
  AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC
  audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range
  audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly
  AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces
  audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header
  kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c
  sched: declare pid_alive as inline
  audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations
  syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments
  audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call
  audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages
  audit: include subject in login records
  audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages
  audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace
  audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace
  audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace.
  pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
  audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context()
  audit: Add generic compat syscall support
  audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
  ...
2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
Al Viro
a786c06d9f missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
that commit has fixed only the parts of that mess in fs/splice.c itself;
there had been more in several other ->splice_read() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-12 07:04:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
17a280ea81 tracing: Add missing function triggers dump and cpudump to README
The debugfs tracing README file lists all the function triggers except for
dump and cpudump. These should be added too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-10 22:43:37 -04:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
abb43f6998 tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call
gcc <= 4.5.x has significant limitations with respect to initialization
of anonymous unions within structures. They need to be surrounded by
brackets, _and_ they need to be initialized in the same order in which
they appear in the structure declaration.

Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397077568-3156-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-09 20:02:55 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
69cd9eba38 futex: avoid race between requeue and wake
Jan Stancek reported:
 "pthread_cond_broadcast/4-1.c testcase from openposix testsuite (LTP)
  occasionally fails, because some threads fail to wake up.

  Testcase creates 5 threads, which are all waiting on same condition.
  Main thread then calls pthread_cond_broadcast() without holding mutex,
  which calls:

      futex(uaddr1, FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PRIVATE, 1, 2147483647, uaddr2, ..)

  This immediately wakes up single thread A, which unlocks mutex and
  tries to wake up another thread:

      futex(uaddr2, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1)

  If thread A manages to call futex_wake() before any waiters are
  requeued for uaddr2, no other thread is woken up"

The ordering constraints for the hash bucket waiter counting are that
the waiter counts have to be incremented _before_ getting the spinlock
(because the spinlock acts as part of the memory barrier), but the
"requeue" operation didn't honor those rules, and nobody had even
thought about that case.

This fairly simple patch just increments the waiter count for the target
hash bucket (hb2) when requeing a futex before taking the locks.  It
then decrements them again after releasing the lock - the code that
actually moves the futex(es) between hash buckets will do the additional
required waiter count housekeeping.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-09 08:02:12 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
b725dfea24 tracepoint: Fix sparse warnings in tracepoint.c
Fix the following sparse warnings:

  CHECK   kernel/tracepoint.c
kernel/tracepoint.c:184:18: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
kernel/tracepoint.c:184:18:    expected struct tracepoint_func *tp_funcs
kernel/tracepoint.c:184:18:    got struct tracepoint_func [noderef] <asn:4>*funcs
kernel/tracepoint.c:216:18: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
kernel/tracepoint.c:216:18:    expected struct tracepoint_func *tp_funcs
kernel/tracepoint.c:216:18:    got struct tracepoint_func [noderef] <asn:4>*funcs
kernel/tracepoint.c:392:24: error: return expression in void function
  CC      kernel/tracepoint.o
kernel/tracepoint.c: In function tracepoint_module_going:
kernel/tracepoint.c:491:6: warning: symbol 'syscall_regfunc' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/tracepoint.c:508:6: warning: symbol 'syscall_unregfunc' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397049883-28692-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-09 10:12:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
eb7d035c59 tracepoint: Simplify tracepoint module search
Instead of copying the num_tracepoints and tracepoints_ptrs from
the module structure to the tp_mod structure, which only uses it to
find the module associated to tracepoints of modules that are coming
and going, simply copy the pointer to the module struct to the tracepoint
tp_module structure.

Also removed un-needed brackets around an if statement.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140408201705.4dad2c4a@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-08 20:45:34 -04:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
de7b297390 tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints
Register/unregister tracepoint probes with struct tracepoint pointer
rather than tracepoint name.

This change, which vastly simplifies tracepoint.c, has been proposed by
Steven Rostedt. It also removes 8.8kB (mostly of text) to the vmlinux
size.

From this point on, the tracers need to pass a struct tracepoint pointer
to probe register/unregister. A probe can now only be connected to a
tracepoint that exists. Moreover, tracers are responsible for
unregistering the probe before the module containing its associated
tracepoint is unloaded.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
10443444        4282528 10391552        25117524        17f4354 vmlinux.orig
10434930        4282848 10391552        25109330        17f2352 vmlinux

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396992381-23785-2-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
[ SDR - fixed return val in void func in tracepoint_module_going() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-08 20:43:28 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
26c12d9334 Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - the rest of MM
 - zram updates
 - zswap updates
 - exit
 - procfs
 - exec
 - wait
 - crash dump
 - lib/idr
 - rapidio
 - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs
 - cris
 - Kconfig things
 - initramfs
 - small amount of IPC material
 - percpu enhancements
 - early ioremap support
 - various other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (156 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer
  fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug
  arm64: add early_ioremap support
  arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot
  x86: use generic early_ioremap
  mm: create generic early_ioremap() support
  x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap
  lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP
  percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops
  vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks
  slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics
  net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc
  modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.
  mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node
  percpu: add raw_cpu_ops
  slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add
  ...
2014-04-07 16:38:06 -07:00
Josh Triplett
64b47e8fdb lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP
When the system has only one CPU, lglock is effectively a spinlock; map
it directly to spinlock to eliminate the indirection and duplicate code.

In addition to removing overhead, this drops 1.6k of code with a
defconfig modified to have !CONFIG_SMP, and 1.1k with a minimal config.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:14 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
08f141d3db modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.
The initialization of a structure is not subject to synchronization.
The use of __this_cpu would trigger a false positive with the additional
preemption checks for __this_cpu ops.

So simply disable the check through the use of raw_cpu ops.

Trace:

  __this_cpu_write operation in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/286
  caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60
  CPU: 3 PID: 286 Comm: modprobe Tainted: GF            3.12.0-rc4+ 
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
    check_preemption_disabled+0xec/0x110
    __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60
    load_module+0xcfd/0x2650
    SyS_init_module+0xa6/0xd0
    tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:14 -07:00
Gideon Israel Dsouza
52f5684c8e kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))
To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs.  Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)).  I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes
with the right macro in the kernel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
Fabian Frederick
d7c0847fe3 kernel/panic.c: display reason at end + pr_emerg
Currently, booting without initrd specified on 80x25 screen gives a call
trace followed by atkbd : Spurious ACK.  Original message ("VFS: Unable
to mount root fs") is not available.  Of course this could happen in
other situations...

This patch displays panic reason after call trace which could help lot
of people even if it's not the very last line on screen.

Also, convert all panic.c printk(KERN_EMERG to pr_emerg(

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: missed a couple of pr_ conversions]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:08 -07:00
Liu Hua
80df284765 hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is
larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in
watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print :

  schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83

and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible
again and again.  The screen will be filled with

	"schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83"

This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function
schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter.

Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
7c733eb3ea wait: WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED doesn't work if a zombie leader is traced by another process
Even if the main thread is dead the process still can stop/continue.
However, if the leader is ptraced wait_consider_task(ptrace => false)
always skips wait_task_stopped/wait_task_continued, so WSTOPPED or
WCONTINUED can never work for the natural parent in this case.

Move the "A zombie ptracee is only visible to its ptracer" check into the
"if (!delay_group_leader(p))" block.  ->notask_error is cleared by the
"fall through" code below.

This depends on the previous change, wait_task_stopped/continued must be
avoided if !delay_group_leader() and the tracer is ->real_parent.
Otherwise WSTOPPED|WEXITED could wrongly report "stopped" when the child
is already dead (single-threaded or not).  If it is traced by another task
then the "stopped" state is fine until the debugger detaches and reveals a
zombie state.

Stupid test-case:

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		sleep(1);	// wait for zombie leader
		raise(SIGSTOP);
		exit(0x13);
		return NULL;
	}

	int run_child(void)
	{
		pthread_t thread;

		if (!fork()) {
			int tracee = getppid();

			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, tracee, 0,0) == 0);
			do
				ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, 0,0);
			while (wait(NULL) > 0);

			return 0;
		}

		sleep(1);	// wait for PTRACE_ATTACH
		assert(pthread_create(&thread, NULL, tfunc, NULL) == 0);
		pthread_exit(NULL);
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		int child, stat;

		child = fork();
		if (!child)
			return run_child();

		assert(child == waitpid(-1, &stat, WSTOPPED));
		assert(stat == 0x137f);

		kill(child, SIGCONT);

		assert(child == waitpid(-1, &stat, WCONTINUED));
		assert(stat == 0xffff);

		assert(child == waitpid(-1, &stat, 0));
		assert(stat == 0x1300);

		return 0;
	}

Without this patch it hangs in waitpid(WSTOPPED), wait_task_stopped() is
never called.

Note: this doesn't fix all problems with a zombie delay_group_leader(),
WCONTINUED | WEXITED check is not exactly right.  debugger can't assume it
will be notified if another thread reaps the whole thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:06 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
377d75dafa wait: WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED hangs if a zombie child is traced by real_parent
"A zombie is only visible to its ptracer" logic in wait_consider_task()
is very wrong. Trivial test-case:

	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/ptrace.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <assert.h>

	int main(void)
	{
		int child = fork();

		if (!child) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
			return 0x23;
		}

		assert(waitid(P_ALL, child, NULL, WEXITED | WNOWAIT) == 0);
		assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WSTOPPED) == -1);
		return 0;
	}

it hangs in waitpid(WSTOPPED) despite the fact it has a single zombie
child.  This is because wait_consider_task(ptrace => 0) sees p->ptrace and
cleares ->notask_error assuming that the debugger should detach and notify
us.

Change wait_consider_task(ptrace => 0) to pretend that ptrace == T if the
child is traced by us.  This really simplifies the logic and allows us to
do more fixes, see the next changes.  This also hides the unwanted group
stop state automatically, we can remove another ptrace_reparented() check.

Unfortunately, this adds the following behavioural changes:

	1. Before this patch wait(WEXITED | __WNOTHREAD) does not reap
	   a natural child if it is traced by the caller's sub-thread.

	   Hopefully nobody will ever notice this change, and I think
	   that nobody should rely on this behaviour anyway.

	2. SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED is no longer hidden from debugger if
	   it is real parent.

	   While this change comes as a side effect, I think it is good
	   by itself. The group continued state can not be consumed by
	   another process in this case, it doesn't depend on ptrace,
	   it doesn't make sense to hide it from real parent.

	   Perhaps we should add the thread_group_leader() check before
	   wait_task_continued()? May be, but this shouldn't depend on
	   ptrace_reparented().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:06 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b3ab03160d wait: completely ignore the EXIT_DEAD tasks
Now that EXIT_DEAD is the terminal state it doesn't make sense to call
eligible_child() or security_task_wait() if the task is really dead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:06 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b436069059 wait: use EXIT_TRACE only if thread_group_leader(zombie)
wait_task_zombie() always uses EXIT_TRACE/ptrace_unlink() if
ptrace_reparented().  This is suboptimal and a bit confusing: we do not
need do_notify_parent(p) if !thread_group_leader(p) and in this case we
also do not need ptrace_unlink(), we can rely on ptrace_release_task().

Change wait_task_zombie() to check thread_group_leader() along with
ptrace_reparented() and simplify the final p->exit_state transition.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:05 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
abd50b39e7 wait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition
wait_task_zombie() first does EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD transition and
drops tasklist_lock.  If this task is not the natural child and it is
traced, we change its state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE for ->real_parent.

The last transition is racy, this is even documented in 50b8d25748
"ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE
race".  wait_consider_task() tries to detect this transition and clear
->notask_error but we can't rely on ptrace_reparented(), debugger can
exit and do ptrace_unlink() before its sub-thread sets EXIT_ZOMBIE.

And there is another problem which were missed before: this transition
can also race with reparent_leader() which doesn't reset >exit_signal if
EXIT_DEAD, assuming that this task must be reaped by someone else.  So
the tracee can be re-parented with ->exit_signal != SIGCHLD, and if
/sbin/init doesn't use __WALL it becomes unreapable.  This was fixed by
the previous commit, but it was the temporary hack.

1. Add the new exit_state, EXIT_TRACE. It means that the task is the
   traced zombie, debugger is going to detach and notify its natural
   parent.

   This new state is actually EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD. This way we
   can avoid the changes in proc/kgdb code, get_task_state() still
   reports "X (dead)" in this case.

   Note: with or without this change userspace can see Z -> X -> Z
   transition. Not really bad, but probably makes sense to fix.

2. Change wait_task_zombie() to use EXIT_TRACE instead of EXIT_DEAD
   if we need to notify the ->real_parent.

3. Revert the previous hack in reparent_leader(), now that EXIT_DEAD
   is always the final state we can safely ignore such a task.

4. Change wait_consider_task() to check EXIT_TRACE separately and kill
   the racy and no longer needed ptrace_reparented() case.

   If ptrace == T an EXIT_TRACE thread should be simply ignored, the
   owner of this state is going to ptrace_unlink() this task. We can
   pretend that it was already removed from ->ptraced list.

   Otherwise we should skip this thread too but clear ->notask_error,
   we must be the natural parent and debugger is going to untrace and
   notify us. IOW, this doesn't differ from "EXIT_ZOMBIE && p->ptrace"
   even if the task was already untraced.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:05 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
dfccbb5e49 wait: fix reparent_leader() vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race
wait_task_zombie() first does EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD transition and
drops tasklist_lock.  If this task is not the natural child and it is
traced, we change its state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE for ->real_parent.

The last transition is racy, this is even documented in 50b8d25748
"ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE
race".  wait_consider_task() tries to detect this transition and clear
->notask_error but we can't rely on ptrace_reparented(), debugger can
exit and do ptrace_unlink() before its sub-thread sets EXIT_ZOMBIE.

And there is another problem which were missed before: this transition
can also race with reparent_leader() which doesn't reset >exit_signal if
EXIT_DEAD, assuming that this task must be reaped by someone else.  So
the tracee can be re-parented with ->exit_signal != SIGCHLD, and if
/sbin/init doesn't use __WALL it becomes unreapable.

Change reparent_leader() to update ->exit_signal even if EXIT_DEAD.
Note: this is the simple temporary hack for -stable, it doesn't try to
solve all problems, it will be reverted by the next changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:05 -07:00
Guillaume Morin
ef9823939e kernel/exit.c: call proc_exit_connector() after exit_state is set
The process events connector delivers a notification when a process
exits.  This is really convenient for a process that spawns and wants to
monitor its children through an epoll-able() interface.

Unfortunately, there is a small window between when the event is
delivered and the child become wait()-able.

This is creates a race if the parent wants to make sure that it knows
about the exit, e.g

pid_t pid = fork();
if (pid > 0) {
	register_interest_for_pid(pid);
	if (waitpid(pid, NULL, WNOHANG) > 0)
	{
	  /* We might have raced with exit() */
	}
	return;
}

/* Child */
execve(...)

register_interest_for_pid() would be telling the the connector socket
reader to pay attention to events related to pid.

Though this is not a bug, I think it would make the connector a bit more
usable if this race was closed by simply moving the call to
proc_exit_connector() from just before exit_notify() to right after.

Oleg said:

: Even with this patch the code above is still "racy" if the child is
: multi-threaded.  Plus it should obviously filter-out subthreads.  And
: afaics there is no way to make it reliable, even if you change the code
: above so that waitpid() is called only after the last thread exits WNOHANG
: still can fail.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:04 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
4bcb8232cf exit: move check_stack_usage() to the end of do_exit()
It is not clear why check_stack_usage() is called so early and thus it
never checks the stack usage in, say, exit_notify() or
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint() or other functions which are only called by
do_exit().

Move the callsite down to the last preempt_disable/schedule.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:04 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
c39df5fa37 exit: call disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces()
Commit 8aac62706a ("move exit_task_namespaces() outside of
exit_notify()") breaks pppd and the exiting service crashes the kernel:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
    IP: ppp_register_channel+0x13/0x20 [ppp_generic]
    Call Trace:
      ppp_asynctty_open+0x12b/0x170 [ppp_async]
      tty_ldisc_open.isra.2+0x27/0x60
      tty_ldisc_hangup+0x1e3/0x220
      __tty_hangup+0x2c4/0x440
      disassociate_ctty+0x61/0x270
      do_exit+0x7f2/0xa50

ppp_register_channel() needs ->net_ns and current->nsproxy == NULL.

Move disassociate_ctty() before exit_task_namespaces(), it doesn't make
sense to delay it after perf_event_exit_task() or cgroup_exit().

This also allows to use task_work_add() inside the (nontrivial) code
paths in disassociate_ctty().

Investigated by Peter Hurley.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[v3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:03 -07:00
David Rientjes
539a13b47e res_counter: remove interface for locked charging and uncharging
The res_counter_{charge,uncharge}_locked() variants are not used in the
kernel outside of the resource counter code itself, so remove the
interface.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
David Rientjes
f0432d1596 mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag
PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users.
There's no significant performance degradation to checking
current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the
allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely().

Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with
64GB of memory and without a mempolicy:

	threads		before		after
	16		1249409		1244487
	32		1281786		1246783
	48		1239175		1239138
	64		1244642		1241841
	80		1244346		1248918
	96		1266436		1254316
	112		1307398		1312135
	128		1327607		1326502

Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever
possible and make them available.  We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom
reserves.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
David Rientjes
514ddb446c fork: collapse copy_flags into copy_process
copy_flags() does not use the clone_flags formal and can be collapsed
into copy_process() for cleaner code.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
615d6e8756 mm: per-thread vma caching
This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
thus further comparison with other approaches were needed.  There are
two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
the latency of find_vma().  Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
caching schemes can be too high to consider.

We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
up to 250%, for workloads with good locality.  On the other hand, this
simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
below 1%.

The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
number.  The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
flushed.  Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
page number that contains the virtual address in question.  Concretely,
the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:

1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
   scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
   the cache.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 50.61%   | 19.90            |
| patched        | 73.45%   | 13.58            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
   approach as we're dealing with good locality.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 75.28%   | 11.03            |
| patched        | 88.09%   | 9.31             |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 70.66%   | 17.14            |
| patched        | 91.15%   | 12.57            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
   approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
   about non-existent.  The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
   anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
   reduces it considerably.  For instance, with 80 threads:

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 1.06%    | 91.54            |
| patched        | 99.97%   | 14.18            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
[hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
Alex Thorlton
a0715cc226 mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE
Add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK, to allow us to set the default flags for VMs.  It
also adds a prctl control which allows us to set the THP disable bit in
mm->def_flags so that VMs will pick up the setting as they are created.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
dc5ed40686 Merge branch 'for-3.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Two patches to fix fallouts from the kernfs conversion:

  Li's patch to stop leaking cgroup_root refs across multiple mounts and
  the other fixes the 90s hang during shutdown caused by always using
  root's uid/gid for new cgroup dirs and files."

* 'for-3.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: newly created dirs and files should be owned by the creator
  cgroup: fix top cgroup refcnt leak
2014-04-07 15:20:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
467a9e1633 CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1
The purpose of this single series of commits from Srivatsa S Bhat (with
 a small piece from Gautham R Shenoy) touching multiple subsystems that use
 CPU hotplug notifiers is to provide a way to register them that will not
 lead to deadlocks with CPU online/offline operations as described in the
 changelog of commit 93ae4f978c (CPU hotplug: Provide lockless versions
 of callback registration functions).
 
 The first three commits in the series introduce the API and document it
 and the rest simply goes through the users of CPU hotplug notifiers and
 converts them to using the new method.
 
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Merge tag 'cpu-hotplug-3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The purpose of this single series of commits from Srivatsa S Bhat
  (with a small piece from Gautham R Shenoy) touching multiple
  subsystems that use CPU hotplug notifiers is to provide a way to
  register them that will not lead to deadlocks with CPU online/offline
  operations as described in the changelog of commit 93ae4f978c ("CPU
  hotplug: Provide lockless versions of callback registration
  functions").

  The first three commits in the series introduce the API and document
  it and the rest simply goes through the users of CPU hotplug notifiers
  and converts them to using the new method"

* tag 'cpu-hotplug-3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (52 commits)
  net/iucv/iucv.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  net/core/flow.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  mm, zswap: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  mm, vmstat: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  profile: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  trace, ring-buffer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  xen, balloon: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  hwmon, via-cputemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  hwmon, coretemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  thermal, x86-pkg-temp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  octeon, watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  oprofile, nmi-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  intel-idle: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  clocksource, dummy-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  drivers/base/topology.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  acpi-cpufreq: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  zsmalloc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  scsi, fcoe: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  scsi, bnx2fc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  scsi, bnx2i: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
  ...
2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
Tejun Heo
49957f8e2a cgroup: newly created dirs and files should be owned by the creator
While converting cgroup to kernfs, 2bd59d48eb ("cgroup: convert to
kernfs") accidentally dropped the logic which makes newly created
cgroup dirs and files owned by the current uid / gid.  This broke
cases where cgroup subtree management is delegated to !root as the sub
manager wouldn't be able to create more than single level of hierarchy
or put tasks into child cgroups it created.

Among other things, this breaks user session management in systemd and
one of the symptoms was 90s hang during shutdown.  User session
systemd running as the user creates a sub-service to initiate shutdown
and tries to put kill(1) into it but fails because cgroup.procs is
owned by root.  This leads to 90s hang during shutdown.

Implement cgroup_kn_set_ugid() which sets a kn's uid and gid to those
of the caller and use it from file and dir creation paths.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:44:47 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann
b8780c363d sched: remove sleep_on() and friends
This is the final piece in the puzzle, as all patches to remove the
last users of \(interruptible_\|\)sleep_on\(_timeout\|\) have made it
into the 3.15 merge window. The work was long overdue, and this
interface in particular should not have survived the BKL removal
that was done a couple of years ago.

Citing Jon Corbet from http://lwn.net/2001/0201/kernel.php3":

 "[...] it was suggested that the janitors look for and fix all code
  that calls sleep_on() [...] since (1) almost all such code is
  incorrect, and (2) Linus has agreed that those functions should
  be removed in the 2.5 development series".

We haven't quite made it for 2.5, but maybe we can merge this for 3.15.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 11:24:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6f4c98e1c2 Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke
a staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch
 but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here
 to avoid breaking build.
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a
  staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch but
  hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid
  breaking build"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  staging: fix up speakup kobject mode
  Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
  VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
  kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
  kallsyms: generalize address range checking
  module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro
  Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
  module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE
  module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module
  module: use pr_cont
2014-04-06 09:38:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2d1eb87ae1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm
Pull ARM changes from Russell King:

 - Perf updates from Will Deacon:
   - Support for Qualcomm Krait processors (run perf on your phone!)
   - Support for Cortex-A12 (run perf stat on your FPGA!)
   - Support for perf_sample_event_took, allowing us to automatically decrease
     the sample rate if we can't handle the PMU interrupts quickly enough
     (run perf record on your FPGA!).

 - Basic uprobes support from David Long:
     This patch series adds basic uprobes support to ARM. It is based on
     patches developed earlier by Rabin Vincent. That approach of adding
     hooks into the kprobes instruction parsing code was not well received.
     This approach separates the ARM instruction parsing code in kprobes out
     into a separate set of functions which can be used by both kprobes and
     uprobes. Both kprobes and uprobes then provide their own semantic action
     tables to process the results of the parsing.

 - ARMv7M (microcontroller) updates from Uwe Kleine-König

 - OMAP DMA updates (recently added Vinod's Ack even though they've been
   sitting in linux-next for a few months) to reduce the reliance of
   omap-dma on the code in arch/arm.

 - SA11x0 changes from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov and Alexander Shiyan

 - Support for Cortex-A12 CPU

 - Align support for ARMv6 with ARMv7 so they can cooperate better in a
   single zImage.

 - Addition of first AT_HWCAP2 feature bits for ARMv8 crypto support.

 - Removal of IRQ_DISABLED from various ARM files

 - Improved efficiency of virt_to_page() for single zImage

 - Patch from Ulf Hansson to permit runtime PM callbacks to be available for
   AMBA devices for suspend/resume as well.

 - Finally kill asm/system.h on ARM.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (89 commits)
  dmaengine: omap-dma: more consolidation of CCR register setup
  dmaengine: omap-dma: move IRQ handling to omap-dma
  dmaengine: omap-dma: move register read/writes into omap-dma.c
  ARM: omap: dma: get rid of 'p' allocation and clean up
  ARM: omap: move dma channel allocation into plat-omap code
  ARM: omap: dma: get rid of errata global
  ARM: omap: clean up DMA register accesses
  ARM: omap: remove almost-const variables
  ARM: omap: remove references to disable_irq_lch
  dmaengine: omap-dma: cleanup errata 3.3 handling
  dmaengine: omap-dma: provide register read/write functions
  dmaengine: omap-dma: use cached CCR value when enabling DMA
  dmaengine: omap-dma: move barrier to omap_dma_start_desc()
  dmaengine: omap-dma: move clnk_ctrl setting to preparation functions
  dmaengine: omap-dma: improve efficiency loading C.SA/C.EI/C.FI registers
  dmaengine: omap-dma: consolidate clearing channel status register
  dmaengine: omap-dma: move CCR buffering disable errata out of the fast path
  dmaengine: omap-dma: provide register definitions
  dmaengine: omap-dma: consolidate setup of CCR
  dmaengine: omap-dma: consolidate setup of CSDP
  ...
2014-04-05 13:20:43 -07:00
Li Zefan
c6b3d5bcd6 cgroup: fix top cgroup refcnt leak
As mount() and kill_sb() is not a one-to-one match, If we mount the same
cgroupfs in serveral mount points, and then umount all of them, kill_sb()
will be called only once.

Try:
        # mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup
        # mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup2
        # cat /proc/cgroups | grep cpuacct
        cpuacct 2       1       1
        # umount /cgroup
        # umount /cgroup2
        # cat /proc/cgroups | grep cpuacct
        cpuacct 2       1       1

You'll see cgroupfs will never be freed.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-04-04 08:22:27 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
76ca7d1cca Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Various misc bits
 - kmemleak fixes
 - small befs, codafs, cifs, efs, freexxfs, hfsplus, minixfs, reiserfs things
 - fanotify
 - I appear to have become SuperH maintainer
 - ocfs2 updates
 - direct-io tweaks
 - a bit of the MM queue
 - printk updates
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - some backlight things
 - lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - the rtc queue
 - nilfs2 updates
 - Small Documentation/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (237 commits)
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: remove references to patch-scripts
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs
  Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt: remove changelog reference
  Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates
  fs/reiserfs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache
  fs/reiserfs: move prototype declaration to header file
  fs/hfsplus/attributes.c: add __init to hfsplus_create_attr_tree_cache()
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: fix concurrent acess of alloc_blocks
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: remove unused variable in hfsplus_get_block
  nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txt
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries fix
  nilfs2: verify metadata sizes read from disk
  nilfs2: add FITRIM ioctl support for nilfs2
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_trim_fs to trim clean segs
  nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_set_suinfo to update segment usage
  nilfs2: add struct nilfs_suinfo_update and flags
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries
  fs/coda/inode.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  BEFS: logging cleanup
  ...
2014-04-03 16:22:16 -07:00
Jane Li
72581487a6 printk: fix one circular lockdep warning about console_lock
Fix a warning about possible circular locking dependency.

If do in following sequence:

    enter suspend ->  resume ->  plug-out CPUx (echo 0 > cpux/online)

lockdep will show warning as following:

  ======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  3.10.0  Tainted: G           O
  -------------------------------------------------------
  sh/1271 is trying to acquire lock:
  (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: console_cpu_notify+0x20/0x2c
  but task is already holding lock:
  (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2c/0x58
  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
  ->  (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
    lock_acquire+0x98/0x12c
    mutex_lock_nested+0x50/0x3d8
    cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2c/0x58
    _cpu_up+0x24/0x154
    cpu_up+0x64/0x84
    smp_init+0x9c/0xd4
    kernel_init_freeable+0x78/0x1c8
    kernel_init+0x8/0xe4
    ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c

  ->  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}:
    lock_acquire+0x98/0x12c
    mutex_lock_nested+0x50/0x3d8
    disable_nonboot_cpus+0x8/0xe8
    suspend_devices_and_enter+0x214/0x448
    pm_suspend+0x1e4/0x284
    try_to_suspend+0xa4/0xbc
    process_one_work+0x1c4/0x4fc
    worker_thread+0x138/0x37c
    kthread+0xa4/0xb0
    ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c

  ->  (console_lock){+.+.+.}:
    __lock_acquire+0x1b38/0x1b80
    lock_acquire+0x98/0x12c
    console_lock+0x54/0x68
    console_cpu_notify+0x20/0x2c
    notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84
    __cpu_notify+0x2c/0x48
    cpu_notify_nofail+0x8/0x14
    _cpu_down+0xf4/0x258
    cpu_down+0x24/0x40
    store_online+0x30/0x74
    dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24
    sysfs_write_file+0x16c/0x19c
    vfs_write+0xb4/0x190
    SyS_write+0x3c/0x70
    ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48

  Chain exists of:
     console_lock --> cpu_add_remove_lock --> cpu_hotplug.lock

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
         CPU0                    CPU1
         ----                    ----
  lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                 lock(cpu_add_remove_lock);
                                 lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
  lock(console_lock);
    *** DEADLOCK ***

There are three locks involved in two sequence:
a) pm suspend:
	console_lock (@suspend_console())
	cpu_add_remove_lock (@disable_nonboot_cpus())
	cpu_hotplug.lock (@_cpu_down())
b) Plug-out CPUx:
	cpu_add_remove_lock (@(cpu_down())
	cpu_hotplug.lock (@_cpu_down())
	console_lock (@console_cpu_notify()) => Lockdeps prints warning log.

There should be not real deadlock, as flag of console_suspended can
protect this.

Although console_suspend() releases console_sem, it doesn't tell lockdep
about it.  That results in the lockdep warning about circular locking
when doing the following: enter suspend -> resume -> plug-out CPUx (echo
0 > cpux/online)

Fix the problem by telling lockdep we actually released the semaphore in
console_suspend() and acquired it again in console_resume().

Signed-off-by: Jane Li <jiel@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:08 -07:00
Petr Mladek
fce6e0338a printk: do not compute the size of the message twice
This is just a tiny optimization.  It removes duplicate computation of
the message size.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Petr Mladek
39b25109b4 printk: use also the last bytes in the ring buffer
It seems that we have newer used the last byte in the ring buffer.  In
fact, we have newer used the last 4 bytes because of padding.

First problem is in the check for free space.  The exact number of free
bytes is enough to store the length of data.

Second problem is in the check where the ring buffer is rotated.  The
left side counts the first unused index.  It is unused, so it might be
the same as the size of the buffer.

Note that the first problem has to be fixed together with the second
one.  Otherwise, the buffer is rotated even when there is enough space
on the end of the buffer.  Then the beginning of the buffer is rewritten
and valid entries get corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Petr Mladek
e8c42d36ab printk: add comment about tricky check for text buffer size
There is no check for potential "text_len" overflow.  It is not needed
because only valid level is detected.  It took me some time to
understand why.  It would deserve a comment ;-)

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Petr Mladek
c64730b26f printk: remove obsolete check for log level "c"
The kernel log level "c" was removed in commit 61e99ab8e3 ("printk:
remove the now unnecessary "C" annotation for KERN_CONT").  It is no
longer detected in printk_get_level().  Hence we do not need to check it
in vprintk_emit.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Daeseok Youn
28ab49ff7f kernel/resource.c: make reallocate_resource() static
sparse says:

kernel/resource.c:518:5: warning:
 symbol 'reallocate_resource' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
c96d6660dc kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code
Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig
(built-in or absent) can never be modular.  So using module_init as an
alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading.

Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into
module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h
to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing.

The audit targets the following module_init users for change:
 kernel/user.c                  obj-y
 kernel/kexec.c                 bool KEXEC (one instance per arch)
 kernel/profile.c               bool PROFILING
 kernel/hung_task.c             bool DETECT_HUNG_TASK
 kernel/sched/stats.c           bool SCHEDSTATS
 kernel/user_namespace.c        bool USER_NS

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs.  one of the
priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets mapped onto
device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these
files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level
4-subsys (i.e.  slightly earlier).  However no observable impact of that
difference has been observed during testing.

Also, two instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed in kexec.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Josh Triplett
69369a7003 fs, kernel: permit disabling the uselib syscall
uselib hasn't been used since libc5; glibc does not use it.  Support
turning it off.

When disabled, also omit the load_elf_library implementation from
binfmt_elf.c, which only uselib invokes.

bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/4 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-785 (-785)
function                                     old     new   delta
padzero                                       39      36      -3
uselib_flags                                  20       -     -20
sys_uselib                                   168       -    -168
SyS_uselib                                   168       -    -168
load_elf_library                             426       -    -426

The new CONFIG_USELIB defaults to `y'.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
Wang YanQing
8f6c5ffc89 kernel/groups.c: remove return value of set_groups
After commit 6307f8fee2 ("security: remove dead hook task_setgroups"),
set_groups will always return zero, so we could just remove return value
of set_groups.

This patch reduces code size, and simplfies code to use set_groups,
because we don't need to check its return value any more.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove obsolete claims from set_groups() comment]
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
Fabian Frederick
6af9f7bf3c sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL
sys_sysfs is an obsolete system call no longer supported by libc.

 - This patch adds a default CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL=y

 - Option can be turned off in expert mode.

 - cond_syscall added to kernel/sys_ni.c

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig help text]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
Dave Hansen
5509a5d27b drop_caches: add some documentation and info message
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence and a load of blog posts
suggesting that using "drop_caches" periodically keeps your system
running in "tip top shape".  Perhaps adding some kernel documentation
will increase the amount of accurate data on its use.

If we are not shrinking caches effectively, then we have real bugs.
Using drop_caches will simply mask the bugs and make them harder to
find, but certainly does not fix them, nor is it an appropriate
"workaround" to limit the size of the caches.  On the contrary, there
have been bug reports on issues that turned out to be misguided use of
cache dropping.

Dropping caches is a very drastic and disruptive operation that is good
for debugging and running tests, but if it creates bug reports from
production use, kernel developers should be aware of its use.

Add a bit more documentation about it, a syslog message to track down
abusers, and vmstat drop counters to help analyze problem reports.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: add runtime suppression control]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:04 -07:00