kernel.git/kernel/sys.c, branch linux-2.6.22.y

Revert "Fix SMP poweroff hangs"

2007-12-14T18:32:00Z

This reverts the following changeset in 2.6.22.10 that caused a lot of reported problems. From: Mark Lord commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's new toybox. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman There still is a remaining shutdown problem in 2.6.22 with old APM based systems, but this fix is not the correct one Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-10-10T17:50:16Z

commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's new toybox. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread

2007-09-26T17:54:37Z

commit b07e35f94a7b6a059f889b904529ee907dc0634d in mainline tree Spotted by Marcin Kowalczyk . sys_setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread. Fix the "is it our child" check. The previous commit ee0acf90d320c29916ba8c5c1b2e908d81f5057d was not complete. (this patch asks for the new same_thread_group() helper, but mainline doesn't have it yet). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Tested-by: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

attach_pid() with struct pid parameter

2007-05-11T15:29:35Z

attach_pid() currently takes a pid_t and then uses find_pid() to find the corresponding struct pid. Sometimes we already have the struct pid. We can then skip find_pid() if attach_pid() were to take a struct pid parameter. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

use defines in sys_getpriority/sys_setpriority

2007-05-11T15:29:35Z

Switch to the defines for these two checks, instead of hard coding the values. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing include] Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

getrusage(): fill ru_inblock and ru_oublock fields if possible

2007-05-11T15:29:34Z

If CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING is defined, we update io accounting counters for each task. This patch permits reporting of values using the well known getrusage() syscall, filling ru_inblock and ru_oublock instead of null values. As TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING currently counts bytes counts, we approximate blocks count doing : nr_blocks = nr_bytes / 512 Example of use : ---------------------- After patch is applied, /usr/bin/time command can now give a good approximation of IO that the process had to do. $ /usr/bin/time grep tototo /usr/include/* Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.00user 0.02system 0:02.11elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 24288inputs+0outputs (0major+259minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile count=1000 1000+0 enregistrements lus 1000+0 enregistrements écrits 512000 octets (512 kB) copiés, 0,00326601 seconde, 157 MB/s 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 80%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+3000outputs (0major+299minor)pagefaults 0swaps Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-05-09T19:54:17Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8 general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8. remove broken URLs from net drivers' output Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/ fix file specification in comments drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc misc doc and kconfig typos Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text Fix occurrences of "the the " Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file. Fix more "deprecated" spellos. Fix "deprecated" typoes. ... Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.

Extend notifier_call_chain to count nr_calls made

2007-05-09T19:30:51Z

Since 2.6.18-something, the community has been bugged by the problem to provide a clean and a stable mechanism to postpone a cpu-hotplug event as lock_cpu_hotplug was badly broken. This is another proposal towards solving that problem. This one is along the lines of the solution provided in kernel/workqueue.c Instead of having a global mechanism like lock_cpu_hotplug, we allow the subsytems to define their own per-subsystem hot cpu mutexes. These would be taken(released) where ever we are currently calling lock_cpu_hotplug(unlock_cpu_hotplug). Also, in the per-subsystem hotcpu callback function,we take this mutex before we handle any pre-cpu-hotplug events and release it once we finish handling the post-cpu-hotplug events. A standard means for doing this has been provided in [PATCH 2/4] and demonstrated in [PATCH 3/4]. The ordering of these per-subsystem mutexes might still prove to be a problem, but hopefully lockdep should help us get out of that muddle. The patch set to be applied against linux-2.6.19-rc5 is as follows: [PATCH 1/4] : Extend notifier_call_chain with an option to specify the number of notifications to be sent and also count the number of notifications actually sent. [PATCH 2/4] : Define events CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE and send out notifications for these in _cpu_up and _cpu_down. This would help us standardise the acquire and release of the subsystem locks in the hotcpu callback functions of these subsystems. [PATCH 3/4] : Eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from kernel/sched.c. [PATCH 4/4] : In workqueue_cpu_callback function, acquire(release) the workqueue_mutex while handling CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE(CPU_LOCK_RELEASE). If the per-subsystem-locking approach survives the test of time, we can expect a slow phasing out of lock_cpu_hotplug, which has not yet been eliminated in these patches :) This patch: Provide notifier_call_chain with an option to call only a specified number of notifiers and also record the number of call to notifiers made. The need for this enhancement was identified in the post entitled "Slab - Eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab" (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/28/92) by Ravikiran G Thirumalai and Andrew Morton. This patch adds two additional parameters to notifier_call_chain API namely - int nr_to_calls : Number of notifier_functions to be called. The don't care value is -1. - unsigned int *nr_calls : Records the total number of notifier_funtions called by notifier_call_chain. The don't care value is NULL. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix] Credit: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PM: Separate hibernation code from suspend code

2007-05-09T19:30:48Z

[ With Johannes Berg ] Separate the hibernation (aka suspend to disk code) from the other suspend code. In particular: * Remove the definitions related to hibernation from include/linux/pm.h * Introduce struct hibernation_ops and a new hibernate() function to hibernate the system, defined in include/linux/suspend.h * Separate suspend code in kernel/power/main.c from hibernation-related code in kernel/power/disk.c and kernel/power/user.c (with the help of hibernation_ops) * Switch ACPI (the only user of pm_ops.pm_disk_mode) to hibernation_ops Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Greg KH Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Nigel Cunningham Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8

2007-05-09T06:58:20Z

Convert the "kernel" subdirectory of the tree to UTF-8. The only file modified is . Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk