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2024-07-29profiling: remove prof_cpu_maskTetsuo Handa
syzbot is reporting uninit-value at profile_hits(), for there is a race window between if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask); in profile_init() and cpumask_available(prof_cpu_mask) && cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask)) in profile_tick(); prof_cpu_mask remains uninitialzed until cpumask_copy() completes while cpumask_available(prof_cpu_mask) returns true as soon as alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask) completes. We could replace alloc_cpumask_var() with zalloc_cpumask_var() and call cpumask_copy() from create_proc_profile() on only UP kernels, for profile_online_cpu() calls cpumask_set_cpu() as needed via cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN) on SMP kernels. But this patch removes prof_cpu_mask because it seems unnecessary. The cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask) test in profile_tick() is likely always true due to a CPU cannot call profile_tick() if that CPU is offline and cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, prof_cpu_mask) is called when that CPU becomes online and cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, prof_cpu_mask) is called when that CPU becomes offline . This test could be false during transition between online and offline. But according to include/linux/cpuhotplug.h , CPUHP_PROFILE_PREPARE belongs to PREPARE section, which means that the CPU subjected to profile_dead_cpu() cannot be inside profile_tick() (i.e. no risk of use-after-free bug) because interrupt for that CPU is disabled during PREPARE section. Therefore, this test is guaranteed to be true, and can be removed. (Since profile_hits() checks prof_buffer != NULL, we don't need to check prof_buffer != NULL here unless get_irq_regs() or user_mode() is such slow that we want to avoid when prof_buffer == NULL). do_profile_hits() is called from profile_tick() from timer interrupt only if cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask) is true and prof_buffer is not NULL. But syzbot is also reporting that sometimes do_profile_hits() is called while current thread is still doing vzalloc(), where prof_buffer must be NULL at this moment. This indicates that multiple threads concurrently tried to write to /sys/kernel/profiling interface, which caused that somebody else try to re-allocate prof_buffer despite somebody has already allocated prof_buffer. Fix this by using serialization. Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-02vmlinux: Avoid weak reference to notes sectionArd Biesheuvel
Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place relative relocations, resulting in GOT entries when using position independent code generation. The notes section should always exist, so the weak annotations can be omitted. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2024-03-21Merge tag 'driver-core-6.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.9-rc1. Nothing all that crazy here, just some good updates that include: - automatic attribute group hiding from Dan Williams (he fixed up my horrible attempt at doing this.) - kobject lock contention fixes from Eric Dumazet - driver core cleanups from Andy - kernfs rcu work from Tejun - fw_devlink changes to resolve some reported issues - other minor changes, all details in the shortlog All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (28 commits) device: core: Log warning for devices pending deferred probe on timeout driver: core: Use dev_* instead of pr_* so device metadata is added driver: core: Log probe failure as error and with device metadata of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "post-init-providers" property driver core: Add FWLINK_FLAG_IGNORE to completely ignore a fwnode link driver core: Adds flags param to fwnode_link_add() debugfs: fix wait/cancellation handling during remove device property: Don't use "proxy" headers device property: Move enum dev_dma_attr to fwnode.h driver core: Move fw_devlink stuff to where it belongs driver core: Drop unneeded 'extern' keyword in fwnode.h firmware_loader: Suppress warning on FW_OPT_NO_WARN flag sysfs:Addresses documentation in sysfs_merge_group and sysfs_unmerge_group. firmware_loader: introduce __free() cleanup hanler platform-msi: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API sysfs: Introduce DEFINE_SIMPLE_SYSFS_GROUP_VISIBLE() sysfs: Document new "group visible" helpers sysfs: Fix crash on empty group attributes array sysfs: Introduce a mechanism to hide static attribute_groups sysfs: Introduce a mechanism to hide static attribute_groups ...
2024-02-23crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.cBaoquan He
Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code even though the crash dumping functionality is not enabled. E.g -------------------- CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y --------------------- After splitting out crashkernel reservation code and vmcoreinfo exporting code, there's only crash related code left in kernel/crash_core.c. Now move crash related codes from kexec_core.c to crash_core.c and only build it in when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y. And also wrap up crash codes inside CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdeffery scope, or replace inappropriate CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE ifdef with CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdef in generic kernel files. With these changes, crash_core codes are abstracted from kexec codes and can be disabled at all if only kexec reboot feature is wanted. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-5-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-23crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.cBaoquan He
Now move the relevant codes into separate files: kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h. And add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling. And also update the old ifdeffery of CONFIG_CRASH_CORE, including of <linux/crash_core.h> and config item dependency on CRASH_CORE accordingly. And also do renaming as follows: - arch/xxx/kernel/{crash_core.c => vmcore_info.c} because they are only related to vmcoreinfo exporting on x86, arm64, riscv. And also Remove config item CRASH_CORE, and rely on CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to decide if build in crash_core.c. [yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com: remove duplicated include in vmcore_info.c] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126005744.16561-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-17kobject: make uevent_seqnum atomicEric Dumazet
We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls, and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast(). Make uevent_seqnum an atomic64_t to get its own protection. This fixes a race while reading /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-24crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()Eric DeVolder
The hotplug support for kexec_load() requires changes to the userspace kexec-tools and a little extra help from the kernel. Given a kdump capture kernel loaded via kexec_load(), and a subsequent hotplug event, the crash hotplug handler finds the elfcorehdr and rewrites it to reflect the hotplug change. That is the desired outcome, however, at kernel panic time, the purgatory integrity check fails (because the elfcorehdr changed), and the capture kernel does not boot and no vmcore is generated. Therefore, the userspace kexec-tools/kexec must indicate to the kernel that the elfcorehdr can be modified (because the kexec excluded the elfcorehdr from the digest, and sized the elfcorehdr memory buffer appropriately). To facilitate hotplug support with kexec_load(): - a new kexec flag KEXEC_UPATE_ELFCOREHDR indicates that it is safe for the kernel to modify the kexec_load()'d elfcorehdr - the /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size node communicates the preferred size of the elfcorehdr memory buffer - The sysfs crash_hotplug nodes (ie. /sys/devices/system/[cpu|memory]/crash_hotplug) dynamically take into account kexec_file_load() vs kexec_load() and KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR. This is critical so that the udev rule processing of crash_hotplug is all that is needed to determine if the userspace unload-then-load of the kdump image is to be skipped, or not. The proposed udev rule change looks like: # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" The table below indicates the behavior of kexec_load()'d kdump image updates (with the new udev crash_hotplug rule in place): Kernel |Kexec -------+-----+---- Old |Old |New | a | a -------+-----+---- New | a | b -------+-----+---- where kexec 'old' and 'new' delineate kexec-tools has the needed modifications for the crash hotplug feature, and kernel 'old' and 'new' delineate the kernel supports this crash hotplug feature. Behavior 'a' indicates the unload-then-reload of the entire kdump image. For the kexec 'old' column, the unload-then-reload occurs due to the missing flag KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR. An 'old' kernel (with 'new' kexec) does not present the crash_hotplug sysfs node, which leads to the unload-then-reload of the kdump image. Behavior 'b' indicates the desired optimized behavior of the kernel directly modifying the elfcorehdr and avoiding the unload-then-reload of the kdump image. If the udev rule is not updated with crash_hotplug node check, then no matter any combination of kernel or kexec is new or old, the kdump image continues to be unload-then-reload on hotplug changes. To fully support crash hotplug feature, there needs to be a rollout of kernel, kexec-tools and udev rule changes. However, the order of the rollout of these pieces does not matter; kexec_load()'d kdump images still function for hotplug as-is. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-7-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-24kernel/ksysfs.c: use sysfs_emit for sysfs show handlersThomas Weißschuh
sysfs_emit() is the recommended way to format strings for sysfs as per Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324-ksysfs-sysfs_emit-v1-1-67c03cddc8a6@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-20kernels/ksysfs.c: export kernel address bitsThomas Weißschuh
This can be used by userspace to determine the address size of the running kernel. It frees userspace from having to interpret this information from the UTS machine field. Userspace implementation: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/1966 Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221221-address-bits-v1-1-8446b13244ac@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-11-10kernel/ksysfs.c: export kernel cpu byteorderThomas Weißschuh
Certain files in procfs are formatted in byteorder-dependent formats. For example the IP addresses in /proc/net/udp. When using emulation like qemu-user, applications are not guaranteed to be using the same byteorder as the kernel. Therefore the kernel needs to provide a way for applications to discover the byteorder used in API-filesystems. Using systemcalls is not enough because these are intercepted and translated by the emulation. Also this makes it easier for non-compiled applications like shellscripts to discover the byteorder. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221103152407.3348-1-linux@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-11kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocksValentin Schneider
Patch series "kexec, panic: Making crash_kexec() NMI safe", v4. This patch (of 2): Most acquistions of kexec_mutex are done via mutex_trylock() - those were a direct "translation" from: 8c5a1cf0ad3a ("kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()") there have however been two additions since then that use mutex_lock(): crash_get_memory_size() and crash_shrink_memory(). A later commit will replace said mutex with an atomic variable, and locking operations will become atomic_cmpxchg(). Rather than having those mutex_lock() become while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock, 0, 1)), turn them into trylocks that can return -EBUSY on acquisition failure. This does halve the printable size of the crash kernel, but that's still neighbouring 2G for 32bit kernels which should be ample enough. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-1-vschneid@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-2-vschneid@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23kernel/ksysfs.c: use helper macro __ATTR_RWMiaohe Lin
Use helper macro __ATTR_RW to define kobj_attribute to make code more clear. Minor readability improvement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220222112034.48298-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 170Thomas Gleixner
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this file is release under the gplv2 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070034.216732358@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-12kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss sectionXunlei Pang
As Eric said, "what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate and keep this information in something like the control page. Definitely something like this needs a page all to itself, and ideally far away from any other kernel data structures. I clearly was not watching closely the data someone decided to keep this silly thing in the kernel's .bss section." This patch allocates extra pages for these vmcoreinfo_XXX variables, one advantage is that it enhances some safety of vmcoreinfo, because vmcoreinfo now is kept far away from other kernel data structures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-10kernel/ksysfs.c: constify attribute_group structures.Arvind Yadav
attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const. File size before: text data bss dec hex filename 1120 544 16 1680 690 kernel/ksysfs.o File size After adding 'const': text data bss dec hex filename 1160 480 16 1656 678 kernel/ksysfs.o Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aa224b3cc923fdbb3edd0c41b2c639c85408c9e8.1498737347.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-08crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_COREHari Bathini
Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4. Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel. crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such architecture specific infrastructure. This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel parameter and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec support. Also, crashkernel parameter is reused instead of fadump_reserve_mem to reserve memory for fadump. The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. The second patch reuses the definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note() functions under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE in IA64 arch code. The third patch removes dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC for firmware-assisted dump (fadump) in powerpc. The next patch reuses crashkernel parameter for reserving memory for fadump, instead of the fadump_reserve_mem parameter. This has the advantage of using all syntaxes crashkernel parameter supports, for fadump as well. The last patch updates fadump kernel documentation about use of crashkernel parameter. This patch (of 5): Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel. crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such architecture specific infrastructure. But currently, code related to vmcoreinfo and parsing of crashkernel parameter is built under CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. This patch introduces CONFIG_CRASH_CORE and moves the above mentioned code under this config, allowing code reuse without dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC. There is no functional change with this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035338104.6881.4550894432615189948.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24kernel/ksysfs.c: add __ro_after_init to bin_attribute structureBhumika Goyal
The object notes_attr of type bin_attribute is not modified after getting initailized by ksysfs_init. Apart from initialization in ksysfs_init it is also passed as an argument to the function sysfs_create_bin_file but this argument is of type const. Therefore, add __ro_after_init to its declaration. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486839969-16891-1-git-send-email-bhumirks@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-02kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() functionPetr Tesarik
Provide a wrapper function to be used by kernel code to check whether a crash kernel is loaded. It returns the same value that can be seen in /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded by userspace programs. I'm exporting the function, because it will be used by Xen, and it is possible to compile Xen modules separately to enable the use of PV drivers with unmodified bare-metal kernels. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713121955.14969.69080.stgit@hananiah.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-02kdump: arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return phys_addr_tRussell King
On PAE systems (eg, ARM LPAE) the vmcore note may be located above 4GB physical on 32-bit architectures, so we need a wider type than "unsigned long" here. Arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return a phys_addr_t, thereby allowing it to be located above 4GB. This makes no difference for kexec-tools, as they already assume a 64-bit type when reading from this file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1b8koK-0004HS-K9@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com> Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-07rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parametersPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case synchronous grace periods, both expedited and normal, are no-ops. However, these three symbols contribute several hundred bytes of bloat. This commit therefore uses CPP directives to avoid compiling this code in TINY_RCU kernels. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-12-04rcu: Add rcu_normal kernel parameter to suppress expeditingPaul E. McKenney
Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems for extreme real-time workloads. This commit therefore adds a rcu_normal kernel boot parameter (which can also be manipulated via sysfs) to suppress expedited grace periods, that is, to treat requests for expedited grace periods as if they were requests for normal grace periods. If both rcu_expedited and rcu_normal are specified, rcu_normal wins. This means that if you are relying on expedited grace periods to speed up boot, you will want to specify rcu_expedited on the kernel command line, and then specify rcu_normal via sysfs once boot completes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-09-10kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core codeDave Young
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load. kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c. And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse. The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking. Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work. Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to kexec_load syscall. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-25kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.Michael Marineau
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-07kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))Gideon Israel Dsouza
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>
2014-02-26rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.cPaul Gortmaker
This commit fixes the follwoing warning: kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> [ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-01-23kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo noteVivek Goyal
Right now we seem to be exporting the max data size contained inside vmcoreinfo note. But this does not include the size of meta data around vmcore info data. Like name of the note and starting and ending elf_note. I think user space expects total size and that size is put in PT_NOTE elf header. Things seem to be fine so far because we are not using vmcoreinfo note to the maximum capacity. But as it starts filling up, to capacity, at some point of time, problem will be visible. I don't think user space will be broken with this change. So there is no need to introduce vmcoreinfo2. This change is safe and backward compatible. More explanation on why this change is safe is below. vmcoreinfo contains information about kernel which user space needs to know to do things like filtering. For example, various kernel config options or information about size or offset of some data structures etc. All this information is commmunicated to user space with an ELF note present in ELF /proc/vmcore file. Currently vmcoreinfo data size is 4096. With some elf note meta data around it, actual size is 4132 bytes. But we are using barely 25% of that size. Rest is empty. So even if we tell user space that size of ELf note is 4096 and not 4132, nothing will be broken becase after around 1000 bytes, everything is zero anyway. But once we start filling up the note to the capacity, and not report the full size of note, bad things will start happening. Either some data will be lost or tools will be confused that they did not fine the zero note at the end. So I think this change is safe and should not break existing tools. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()Jingoo Han
The usage of strict_strto*() is not preferred, because strict_strto*() is obsolete. Thus, kstrto*() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU update from Ingo Molnar: "The major features of this tree are: 1. A first version of no-callbacks CPUs. This version prohibits offlining CPU 0, but only when enabled via CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y. Relaxing this constraint is in progress, but not yet ready for prime time. These commits were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/724. 2. Changes to SRCU that allows statically initialized srcu_struct structures. These commits were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/296. 3. Restructuring of RCU's debugfs output. These commits were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/341. 4. Additional CPU-hotplug/RCU improvements, posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/327. Note that the commit eliminating __stop_machine() was judged to be too-high of risk, so is deferred to 3.9. 5. Changes to RCU's idle interface, most notably a new module parameter that redirects normal grace-period operations to their expedited equivalents. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/739. 6. Additional diagnostics for RCU's CPU stall warning facility, posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/315. The most notable change reduces the default RCU CPU stall-warning time from 60 seconds to 21 seconds, so that it once again happens sooner than the softlockup timeout. 7. Documentation updates, which were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/280. A couple of late-breaking changes were posted at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/634 and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/547. 8. Miscellaneous fixes, which were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/30/309. 9. Finally, a fix for an lockdep-RCU splat was posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/7/486." * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits) context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem sched: Mark RCU reader in sched_show_task() rcu: Separate accounting of callbacks from callback-free CPUs rcu: Add callback-free CPUs rcu: Add documentation for the new rcuexp debugfs trace file rcu: Update documentation for TREE_RCU debugfs tracing rcu: Reduce default RCU CPU stall warning timeout rcu: Fix TINY_RCU rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle check rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives rcu: Add new rcutorture module parameters to start/end test messages rcu: Remove list_for_each_continue_rcu() rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem rcu: Add tracing for synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: Remove old debugfs interfaces and also RCU flavor name rcu: split 'rcuhier' to each flavor rcu: split 'rcugp' to each flavor rcu: split 'rcuboost' to each flavor rcu: split 'rcubarrier' to each flavor rcu: Fix tracing formatting rcu: Remove the interface "rcudata.csv" ...
2012-11-28kernel/ksysfs.c: remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG ifdefsBill Pemberton
Remove conditional code based on CONFIG_HOTPLUG being false. It's always on now in preparation of it going away as an option. Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-23rcu: Add a module parameter to force use of expedited RCU primitivesAntti P Miettinen
There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from use of expedited grace-period primitives. In some ways, this is similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of the kernel. This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the normal grace-period primitives. [ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error. Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.] Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-31kernel: ksysfs.c is implicitly using stat.hPaul Gortmaker
With the module.h usage cleanup, we'll get this: kernel/ksysfs.c:161: error: ‘S_IRUGO’ undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [kernel/ksysfs.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-04-19kernel/ksysfs.c: expose file_caps_enabled in sysfsLudwig Nussel
A kernel booted with no_file_caps allows to install fscaps on a binary but doesn't actually honor the fscaps when running the binary. Userspace currently has no sane way to determine whether installing fscaps actually has any effect. Since parsing /proc/cmdline is fragile this patch exposes the current setting (1 or 0) via /sys/kernel/fscaps Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacksChris Wright
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data (such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-08Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina
Conflicts: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-02-05fix comment typo boo -> boot in ksysfs.cThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-01-21sched: Remove USER_SCHEDDhaval Giani
Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in 2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2 Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16kexec: premit reduction of the reserved memory sizeAmerigo Wang
Implement shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more than enough. For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M, you can do: # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06kernel/ksysfs.c:fix dependence on CONFIG_NETMing Lei
Access to uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper does not need to depend on CONFIG_NET, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtimeDave Hansen
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too much system time and I wonder what is responsible. I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by default. Dang! The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and runtime-alloc it? To use: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile Then run readprofile like normal. This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-24Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobjectGreg Kroah-Hartman
kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now that we have kobj_attributes. We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24fix struct user_info export's sysfs interactionKay Sievers
Clean up the use of ksets and kobjects. Kobjects are instances of objects (like struct user_info), ksets are collections of objects of a similar type (like the uids directory containing the user_info directories). So, use kobjects for the user_info directories, and a kset for the "uids" directory. On object cleanup, the final kobject_put() was missing. Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver Core: switch all dynamic ksets to kobj_sysfs_opsKay Sievers
Switch all dynamically created ksets, that export simple attributes, to kobj_attribute from subsys_attribute. Struct subsys_attribute will be removed. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert kernel_subsys to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. We also rename kernel_subsys to kernel_kset to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-17add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's commentsKen'ichi Ohmichi
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html - vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that the compiler can check its use. - vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t. - Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec. - Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE. Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add vmcoreinfoKen'ichi Ohmichi
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system. makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is hard to install it into each system. To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html) Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation. (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html) And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models. (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html) Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunablesDhaval Giani
Add tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share. A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system. /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user. Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share. Ex: # cd /sys/kernel/uids/ # cat 512/cpu_share 1024 # echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share # cat 512/cpu_share 2048 # 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>
2007-07-20FRV: Fix linkage problemsDavid Howells
Make it possible to use __start_notes and __stop_notes without getting a GPREL overflow error from the FRV linker. Small variables that would otherwise be in .data or .bss may, depending on the arch, be placed in special sections (.sdata or .sbss) that permit single instruction references on fixed instruction width machines. __start_notes and __stop_notes aren't really char variables, and certainly don't refer to data in .data or .bss. Making them type "void" fools the compiler into not assuming anything about them. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>