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Biederman \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b278240839e20fa9384ea430df463b367b90e04e", "tree": "f99f0c8cdd4cc7f177cd75440e6bd181cded7fb3", "parents": [ "dd77a4ee0f3981693d4229aa1d57cea9e526ff47", "3f75f42d7733e73aca5c78326489efd4189e0111" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 13:07:55 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 13:07:55 2006 -0700" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027for-linus\u0027 of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6\n\n* \u0027for-linus\u0027 of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)\n [PATCH] Don\u0027t set calgary iommu as default y\n [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags\n [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.\n [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.\n [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing\n [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)\n [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c\n [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci\u003dnoearly or disallowing conf1\n [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line\n [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI\n [PATCH] Don\u0027t leak NT bit into next task\n [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder\n [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c\n [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.\n [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion\n [PATCH] Don\u0027t synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems\n [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code\n [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear\n [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume\n [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.\n ...\n" }, { "commit": "0ff38490c836dc379ff7ec45b10a15a662f4e5f6", "tree": "cb42d5d3cace3c8d12f0b304879039c503807981", "parents": [ "972d1a7b140569084439a81265a0f15b74e924e0" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Mon Sep 25 23:31:52 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 08:48:51 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaim\n\nCurrently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in\n/proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final\noption if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free\nenough pages to allow a local allocation.\n\nHowever, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory\nof a node may be used by slabs. We have had a case where a machine with\n46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab. Zone reclaim was effective in\ndealing with pagecache pages. However, slab reclaim was only done during\nglobal reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems).\n\nThis patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim. Zone reclaim\noccurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation. At that point we\n\n1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache\n pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone.\n\n2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages\n (patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter)\n are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable).\n\nThe shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node\nspecific. So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach\n(current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be\nallocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is\nunsuccessful or we have reached the limit. I hope we will have zone based\nslab reclaim at some point which will make that easier.\n\nThe default for the min_slab_ratio is 5%\n\nAlso remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8da5adda91df3d2fcc5300e68da491694c9af019", "tree": "bae152dabd728ba2f7fead421276e3cc9a779141", "parents": [ "e33e89ab1a8d295de0500b697f4f31c3ceee9aa2" ], "author": { "name": "Don Zickus", "email": "dzickus@redhat.com", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI\n\nTo quote Alan Cox:\n\nThe default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to\ncontinue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing\nit is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than\nan uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.\n\nA small number of systems do generate NMI\u0027s for bizarre random reasons\nsuch as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects\nthe new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in\nthat directory.\n\nThis is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to\nhandle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least\npanic rather than cause problems further down the line.\n\nSigned-off-by: Don Zickus \u003cdzickus@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "407984f1af259b31957c7c05075a454a751bb801", "tree": "1e9318b4255957c27a4dbacd84711604bf789393", "parents": [ "2fbe7b25c8edaf2d10e6c1a4cc9f8afe714c4764" ], "author": { "name": "Don Zickus", "email": "dzickus@redhat.com", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctl\n\nAdds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi\nwatchdog.\n\nSigned-off-by: Don Zickus \u003cdzickus@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2fbe7b25c8edaf2d10e6c1a4cc9f8afe714c4764", "tree": "e4012ae3cd4519cba1836668237f077c60fb1086", "parents": [ "957dc87c1bd849440f0eef27e2ade67387001e13" ], "author": { "name": "Don Zickus", "email": "dzickus@redhat.com", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "message": "[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions\n\nRemoves the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as\nthey are no longer needed. The various subsystems are modified to register\nwith the die_notifier instead.\n\nAlso includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.\n\nSigned-off-by: Don Zickus \u003cdzickus@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9614634fe6a138fd8ae044950700d2af8d203f97", "tree": "9b020c1d36d8625f4048c057058efb2e17c81973", "parents": [ "cb6358eb69d9854f65f2979c0ce9280eee041828" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Mon Jul 03 00:24:13 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 03 15:26:59 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O\n\nIt turns out that it is advantageous to leave a small portion of unmapped file\nbacked pages if all of a zone\u0027s pages (or almost all pages) are allocated and\nso the page allocator has to go off-node.\n\nThis allows recently used file I/O buffers to stay on the node and\nreduces the times that zone reclaim is invoked if file I/O occurs\nwhen we run out of memory in a zone.\n\nThe problem is that zone reclaim runs too frequently when the page cache is\nused for file I/O (read write and therefore unmapped pages!) alone and we have\nalmost all pages of the zone allocated. Zone reclaim may remove 32 unmapped\npages. File I/O will use these pages for the next read/write requests and the\nunmapped pages increase. After the zone has filled up again zone reclaim will\nremove it again after only 32 pages. This cycle is too inefficient and there\nare potentially too many zone reclaim cycles.\n\nWith the 1% boundary we may still remove all unmapped pages for file I/O in\nzone reclaim pass. However. it will take a large number of read and writes\nto get back to 1% again where we trigger zone reclaim again.\n\nThe zone reclaim 2.6.16/17 does not show this behavior because we have a 30\nsecond timeout.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: rename the /proc file and the variable]\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "22a3e233ca08a2ddc949ba1ae8f6e16ec7ef1a13", "tree": "7ef158ba2c30e0dde2dc103d1904fae243759a6b", "parents": [ "39302175c26d74be35715c05a0f342c9e64c21bf", "6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 30 15:39:30 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 30 15:39:30 2006 -0700" }, "message": "Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial\n\n* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:\n Remove obsolete #include \u003clinux/config.h\u003e\n remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt\n arch/arm26/Kconfig typos\n Documentation/IPMI typos\n Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig\n v9fs: do not include linux/version.h\n Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes\n typo fixes: specfic -\u003e specific\n typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt\n typo fixes: occuring -\u003e occurring\n typo fixes: infomation -\u003e information\n typo fixes: disadvantadge -\u003e disadvantage\n typo fixes: aquire -\u003e acquire\n typo fixes: mecanism -\u003e mechanism\n typo fixes: bandwith -\u003e bandwidth\n fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text\n smb is no longer maintained\n\nManually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S\n" }, { "commit": "34aa1330f9b3c5783d269851d467326525207422", "tree": "a47db4fa53527ea937dee9e763267ab21865ce11", "parents": [ "f3dbd34460ff54962d3e3244b6bcb7f5295356e6" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Fri Jun 30 01:55:37 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 30 11:25:35 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] zoned vm counters: zone_reclaim: remove /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval\n\nThe zone_reclaim_interval was necessary because we were not able to determine\nhow many unmapped pages exist in a zone. Therefore we had to scan in\nintervals to figure out if any pages were unmapped.\n\nWith the zoned counters and NR_ANON_PAGES we now know the number of pagecache\npages and the number of mapped pages in a zone. So we can simply skip the\nreclaim if there is an insufficient number of unmapped pages. We use\nSWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary.\n\nDrop all support for /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7", "tree": "6d98881fe91fd9583c109208d5c27131b93fa248", "parents": [ "e02169b682bc448ccdc819dc8639ed34a23cedd8" ], "author": { "name": "Jörn Engel", "email": "joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de", "time": "Fri Jun 30 19:25:36 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Fri Jun 30 19:25:36 2006 +0200" }, "message": "Remove obsolete #include \u003clinux/config.h\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Jörn Engel \u003cjoern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "23f78d4a03c53cbd75d87a795378ea540aa08c86", "tree": "27dfe06337990911380fe8c5949ae9acd8e9568a", "parents": [ "b29739f902ee76a05493fb7d2303490fc75364f4" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Tue Jun 27 02:54:53 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jun 27 17:32:47 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core\n\nCore functions for the rt-mutex subsystem.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e6e5494cb23d1933735ee47cc674ffe1c4afed6f", "tree": "c8945bb3ae5bec38693d801fb589d22d48d6f8eb", "parents": [ "d5fb34261dcd32c9cb3b28121fdc46308db513a1" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Tue Jun 27 02:53:50 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jun 27 17:32:38 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma\n\nMove the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.\n\nBesides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which\ncan COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do\nsingle-stepping and other debugging features.\n\nIt\u0027s good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same\nhigh-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they\nget lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which\nslows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the\nVDSO).\n\nThere\u0027s a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default\u003dy) option, which provides support\nfor older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer\ndistributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning\nit off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the\npredictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.\n\nThere is a new vdso\u003d[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime\n/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned\non/off.\n\n(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF\ncoredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)\n\nThis code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization\ncode and Gerd Hoffmann\u0027s hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell\nstarted this patch and i completed it.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]\n[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]\n[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]\n[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]\n[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@infradead.org\u003e\nCc: Gerd Hoffmann \u003ckraxel@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Zachary Amsden \u003czach@vmware.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@muc.de\u003e\nCc: Jan Beulich \u003cjbeulich@novell.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "bebfa1013eee1d91b3242e5801cc8fbdfaf148ec", "tree": "d1abf916c29bbb5c312717f57798987268aff9a9", "parents": [ "f201611fcecdfa825471dc425ee007997228fae4" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Mon Jun 26 13:56:52 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jun 26 10:48:16 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Add compat_printk and sysctl to turn off compat layer warnings\n\nSometimes e.g. with crashme the compat layer warnings can be noisy.\nAdd a way to turn them off by gating all output through compat_printk\nthat checks a global sysctl. The default is not changed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "eab03ac7bd3e0da99eb9dc068772a85a5e3f3577", "tree": "042447058f59b2e485a24a5175a6d7ab83baa9e1", "parents": [ "8ad2914d9cc55be651ef3bd676981a72c9001a47" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Hemminger", "email": "shemminger@osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jun 25 05:48:31 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jun 25 10:01:15 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc\n\nThe table is empty, why does it still exist?\n\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Hemminger \u003cshemminger@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "57ae2508610d50893cb3e3bbb869ff70ff724a2a", "tree": "33109c6d78be1b6e5db085a57a4509fcfd88ee95", "parents": [ "deb0e9b234af24f4a827757fae9ff5542a3d2a12" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 02:05:47 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 07:43:06 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] CONFIG_NET\u003dn build fix\n\nCc: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nCc: Russell King \u003crmk@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b", "tree": "547cdee6203b769773521118a4dd19e95a7ef3fd", "parents": [ "67de648211fa041fe08a0c25241a4980bbb90698" ], "author": { "name": "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki", "email": "kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Fri Jun 23 02:03:13 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 07:42:47 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] support for panic at OOM\n\nThis patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.\n\nWhen sysctl vm.panic_on_oom \u003d 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue\nprocesses. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in\nthe same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only\nroot can modifies it.\n\nIn general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole\nsystem can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable\nrather than kill some processes.\n\nSigned-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki \u003ckamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667", "tree": "1df2ca6780d403f3209cf445f8b0b27f45098434", "parents": [ "90204e0b7b51e9f2a6905adca12dc331128602c7" ], "author": { "name": "Amy Griffis", "email": "amy.griffis@hp.com", "time": "Thu Jun 01 13:10:59 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Tue Jun 20 05:25:17 2006 -0400" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support\n\nThe following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,\nmaking it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify\u0027s\nmechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will\nmaintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct\ninotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a\ncorresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and\nspecifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be\ncalled per inotify_watch.\n\nSigned-off-by: Amy Griffis \u003camy.griffis@hp.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nAcked-by: John McCutchan \u003cjohn@johnmccutchan.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "cba9f33d13a8ca3125b2a30abe2425ce562d8a83", "tree": "e93e3da369be7e9f55d15d02908606a43cecfbb9", "parents": [ "ed5b43f15a8e86e3ae939b98bc161ee973ecedf2" ], "author": { "name": "Bart Samwel", "email": "bart@samwel.tk", "time": "Fri Mar 24 03:15:50 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 07:33:20 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv\n\nWhen (integer) sysctl values are in either seconds or centiseconds, but\nrepresented internally as jiffies, the allowable value range is decreased.\nThis patch adds range checks to the conversion routines.\n\nFor values in seconds: maximum LONG_MAX / HZ.\n\nFor values in centiseconds: maximum (LONG_MAX / HZ) * USER_HZ.\n\n(BTW, does anyone else feel that an interface in seconds should not be\naccepting negative values?)\n\nSigned-off-by: Bart Samwel \u003cbart@samwel.tk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ed5b43f15a8e86e3ae939b98bc161ee973ecedf2", "tree": "dcd5bc0b5817d6452b0897a08293317f470f4db9", "parents": [ "f6ef943813ac3085ece7252ea101d663581219f6" ], "author": { "name": "Bart Samwel", "email": "bart@samwel.tk", "time": "Fri Mar 24 03:15:49 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 07:33:20 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Represent laptop_mode as jiffies internally\n\nMake that the internal value for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is stored as\njiffies instead of seconds. Let the sysctl interface do the conversions,\ninstead of doing on-the-fly conversions every time the value is used.\n\nAdd a description of the fact that laptop_mode doubles as a flag and a\ntimeout to the comment above the laptop_mode variable.\n\nSigned-off-by: Bart Samwel \u003cbart@samwel.tk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f6ef943813ac3085ece7252ea101d663581219f6", "tree": "e32d3e57ba6ae235ec1f510b16d77fe9bfa8f96e", "parents": [ "36f574135e36b86bb6ae794bf1d0fce3efa5601f" ], "author": { "name": "Bart Samwel", "email": "bart@samwel.tk", "time": "Fri Mar 24 03:15:48 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 07:33:20 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally\n\nMake that the internal values for:\n\n/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs\n/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs\n\nare stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds. Let the sysctl interface do\nthe conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of\ndoing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are\nused.\n\nCons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of\nconversion back and forth. This is a common problem for all sysctl values\nthat use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies. (There is only one other in-tree\nuse, in net/core/neighbour.c.)\n\nSigned-off-by: Bart Samwel \u003cbart@samwel.tk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714", "tree": "38514bb3941c4ac2a79266e4483663b79efa2f22", "parents": [ "21a1ea9eb40411d4ee29448c53b9e4c0654d6ceb" ], "author": { "name": "Dipankar Sarma", "email": "dipankar@in.ibm.com", "time": "Tue Mar 07 21:55:35 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Mar 08 14:14:01 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] fix file counting\n\nI have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant\nperformance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.\n\nThe way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched\nfreeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was\nconstructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented\nonly when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible\nto slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched\nfreeing and a test program like Serge\u0027s, we just speed this up and end up\nwith a very fragmented slab -\n\nllm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr\n587730 0 758844\n\nAt the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following\npatch I fixes this problem.\n\nThis patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.\nInstead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all\naccesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for\nnr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.\n\nCounting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to\ninside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.\n\nSigned-off-by: Dipankar Sarma \u003cdipankar@in.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: \"Paul E. McKenney\" \u003cpaulmck@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: \"David S. Miller\" \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7f99f06f01aa9460b5a18f1b0e0900c90d0a84fc", "tree": "f78c227f7a154e6ed0b2d25982d34bf21c53c734", "parents": [ "46f6dac259717551916405ee3388de89fb152bca" ], "author": { "name": "Stefan Seyfried", "email": "seife@suse.de", "time": "Thu Mar 02 02:54:34 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Mar 02 08:33:07 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] fix acpi_video_flags on x86-64\n\nacpi_video_flags variable is unsigned long, so it should be set as such.\nThis actually matters on x86-64.\n\nSigned-off-by: Stefan Seyfried \u003cseife@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nCc: \"Brown, Len\" \u003clen.brown@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@muc.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d2b176ed878d4d5fcc0bd35656dfd373f3702af9", "tree": "f5febd7d77fc374ddef9cbe549732bcb3b125c8b", "parents": [ "c8c1635faa7c97329111ce32b927d37306521822" ], "author": { "name": "Jes Sorensen", "email": "jes@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Feb 28 09:42:23 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Tony Luck", "email": "tony.luck@intel.com", "time": "Tue Feb 28 09:42:23 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[IA64] sysctl option to silence unaligned trap warnings\n\nAllow sysadmin to disable all warnings about userland apps\nmaking unaligned accesses by using:\n # echo 1 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap\nRather than having to use prctl on a process by process basis.\n\nDefault behaivour leaves the warnings enabled.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jes Sorensen \u003cjes@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7a9166e3b037296366cea6f3c97f705d33e209e6", "tree": "275c713bc92309b6f90e5c66699753c0268c6be5", "parents": [ "c8b8b1f2e0eeb91cca22211950742b5f51564672" ], "author": { "name": "Luke Yang", "email": "luke.adi@gmail.com", "time": "Mon Feb 20 18:28:07 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Feb 20 20:00:11 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix undefined symbols for nommu architecture\n\nSigned-off-by: Luke Yang \u003cluke.adi@gmail.com\u003e\nAcked-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c255d844dd73616f23e4b4733edcc2e5fa4042b2", "tree": "33665c47a67c3e168095e13329e71c6b5d18fd4d", "parents": [ "6303dbf570e410067380daec670fdb4137ac0d1d" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Machek", "email": "pavel@ucw.cz", "time": "Mon Feb 20 18:27:58 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Feb 20 20:00:10 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] suspend-to-ram: allow video options to be set at runtime\n\nCurrently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line. That\u0027s\nlittle inflexible; I\u0027d like userland s2ram application that just works, and\nmodifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun. It is better\nto just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend\n(according to the whitelist).\n\nThis implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot.\n\n(akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..)\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nCc: \"Brown, Len\" \u003clen.brown@intel.com\u003e\nCc: \"Antonino A. Daplas\" \u003cadaplas@pol.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a62eaf151d9cb478d127cfbc2e93c498869785b0", "tree": "b13d62257ada7e0a9d37fdc9a69a7afa6f028b30", "parents": [ "99019e919969be88e7e4042f3afa296bd55ad9ec" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Feb 16 23:41:58 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Feb 17 08:00:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanup\n\nAMD SimNow!\u0027s JIT doesn\u0027t like them at all in the guest. For distribution\ninstallation it\u0027s easiest if it\u0027s a boot time option.\n\nAlso I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make\nit independent from sysctl\n\nAnd marked __read_mostly which it is.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2a11ff06d7d12be5d1bbcf592fff649b45ac2388", "tree": "cef86d3f60b6ae5b3dab277a554a92a8e08d903b", "parents": [ "a92f71263af9d0ab77c260f709c0c079656221aa" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@engr.sgi.com", "time": "Wed Feb 01 03:05:33 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Feb 01 08:53:16 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.\n\nCurrently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node\nallocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim\nwill be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless\nscans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off\nnode allocation chunks to relieve the local node.\n\nIt may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.\nFor example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up\nfor longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want\nto shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.\n\nThis patch allows just that....\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c84db23c6e587d3ab00a41c51fedf758e1f6ecd4", "tree": "f1e31810b14a71ccbb9963e018076212eb267ee9", "parents": [ "52a8363eae3872af15880292ff4e06d0fab36986" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@engr.sgi.com", "time": "Wed Feb 01 03:05:29 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Feb 01 08:53:15 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] zone_reclaim: minor fixes\n\n- If we only reclaim nr_pages then its okay to stay on node.\n Switch from \u003e to \u003e\u003d for the comparison.\n\n- vm_table[] entry for zone_reclaim_mode is a bit screwed up.\n\n- Add empty lines around shrink_zone to show that this is the\n central function to be called.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1743660b911bfb849b1fb33830522254561b9f9b", "tree": "82bfd84f534e7a571667916f90e2492c7148cbac", "parents": [ "9eeff2395e3cfd05c9b2e6074ff943a34b0c5c21" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Wed Jan 18 17:42:32 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jan 18 19:20:17 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override\n\nproc support for zone reclaim\n\nThis patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be\nused to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on\nbootup.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0152fb37603e3a776768794030b809ae77027aa4", "tree": "dc1df7a4e474e6e8c4b6987a22e09c727bb97433", "parents": [ "68c119177890afff4759abda8da2b4ff5e06efa1" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Schwidefsky", "email": "schwidefsky@de.ibm.com", "time": "Sat Jan 14 13:21:00 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jan 14 18:27:09 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] s390: spinlock fixes\n\nRemove useless spin_retry_counter and fix compilation for UP kernels.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky \u003cschwidefsky@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c59ede7b78db329949d9cdcd7064e22d357560ef", "tree": "f9dc9d464fdad5bfd464d983e77c1af031389dda", "parents": [ "e16885c5ad624a6efe1b1bf764e075d75f65a788" ], "author": { "name": "Randy.Dunlap", "email": "rdunlap@xenotime.net", "time": "Wed Jan 11 12:17:46 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jan 11 18:42:13 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h\n\n- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;\n\n- Use \u003clinux/capability.h\u003e where capable() is used\n\t(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,\n\tmm/, security/, \u0026 sound/;\n\tmany more drivers/ to go)\n\nSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8ad4b1fb8205340dba16b63467bb23efc27264d6", "tree": "9f5c237ead93976e5454c5da5d3bba350a2419c5", "parents": [ "9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232" ], "author": { "name": "Rohit Seth", "email": "rohit.seth@intel.com", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:00:40 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:12:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable\n\nAs recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and\nhigh water marks for per_cpu_pagelists. This patch makes these two\nvariables configurable through /proc interface.\n\nA new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added. This entry\ncontrols the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for\neach per cpu page list. The min value for this is 8. It means that we\ndon\u0027t allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any\nsingle per_cpu_pagelist.\n\nThe batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It\nis set to pcp-\u003ehigh/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)\n\nSigned-off-by: Rohit Seth \u003crohit.seth@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232", "tree": "a3a0a763bf83a483282dc1c3caab587941a98fc2", "parents": [ "bec6b0c89b234090681a4516e20ac5debe3e7c59" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:00:39 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:12:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] drop-pagecache\n\nAdd /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to\ndiscard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis\noperation requires root permissions.\n\nIt won\u0027t drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync\u0027 first.\n\nCaveats:\n\na) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.\n\nb) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through\n so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.\n\nThis is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between\nfilesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but\nit\u0027s less than 300 bytes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "347a8dc3b815f0c0fa62a1df075184ffe4cbdcf1", "tree": "a6ec76690127e87fe6efa42b6238caadd6c07e7b", "parents": [ "9bbc8346fb21fad3f678220b067450e436e45dbf" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Schwidefsky", "email": "schwidefsky@de.ibm.com", "time": "Fri Jan 06 00:19:28 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jan 06 08:33:53 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig\n\nSanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,\nARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by\nS390, 64BIT and COMPAT.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky \u003cschwidefsky@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "312c004d36ce6c739512bac83b452f4c20ab1f62", "tree": "e61e8331680a0da29557fe21414d3b31e62c9293", "parents": [ "5f123fbd80f4f788554636f02bf73e40f914e0d6" ], "author": { "name": "Kay Sievers", "email": "kay.sievers@suse.de", "time": "Wed Nov 16 09:00:00 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Wed Jan 04 16:18:08 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] driver core: replace \"hotplug\" by \"uevent\"\n\nLeave the overloaded \"hotplug\" word to susbsystems which are handling\nreal devices. The driver core does not \"plug\" anything, it just exports\nthe state to userspace and generates events.\n\nSigned-off-by: Kay Sievers \u003ckay.sievers@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0296b2281352e4794e174b393c37f131502e09f0", "tree": "874e1de7ffaf56ab14f031d2818b69853c4914d8", "parents": [ "034382117725f6b6b26fbb138498139c5c012c1b" ], "author": { "name": "Kay Sievers", "email": "kay.sievers@suse.de", "time": "Fri Nov 11 05:33:52 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Wed Jan 04 16:18:07 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT option\n\nIt makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink\nevents enabled today. Remove this option and merge the\nkobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file.\n\nSigned-off-by: Kay Sievers \u003ckay.sievers@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "de9e007d9105bf8fa613a89810feff32a43add03", "tree": "ef7805d1e03e8648fbaca3713d1a749c27770339", "parents": [ "35f349ee082de0be45eb23926d9fc7569f5011f0" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Dec 31 17:00:29 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Dec 31 17:00:29 2005 -0800" }, "message": "sysctl: make sure to terminate strings with a NUL\n\nThis is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl\nstring fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even\nif the full result wouldn\u0027t fit in the user-supplied buffer.\n\nThe returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can\ntell when truncation has occurred.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "82c9df820112c6286a8e8fbe482e94b65b49062c", "tree": "6f52b0ae3db256de9a3ac46083229d96f2d130e9", "parents": [ "8febdd85adaa41fa1fc1cb31286210fc2cd3ed0c" ], "author": { "name": "Yi Yang", "email": "yang.y.yi@gmail.com", "time": "Fri Dec 30 16:37:10 2005 +0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 30 17:22:08 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix false old value return of sysctl\n\nFor the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a\nsysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old\nvalue is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of\nstring type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string. This\nissue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to\nsysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if\nsuccess.\n\nSuch strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1\nbecause they do read and write for the sysctl entry.\n\nThe strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read\nand write the sysctl entry.\n\nAccording to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it\nshould return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and\nwrite, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec.\n\nSigned-off-by: Yi Yang \u003cyang.y.yi@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8febdd85adaa41fa1fc1cb31286210fc2cd3ed0c", "tree": "2e1aaa5e4e68057a4e96a606e2ad0bcccedcd6df", "parents": [ "8b90db0df7187a01fb7177f1f812123138f562cf" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 30 17:18:53 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 30 17:18:53 2005 -0800" }, "message": "sysctl: don\u0027t overflow the user-supplied buffer with \u0027\\0\u0027\n\nIf the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,\nthe sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the\nend of the buffer. Don\u0027t do that.\n\nNoticed by Yi Yang \u003cyang.y.yi@gmail.com\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "330d57fb98a916fa8e1363846540dd420e99499a", "tree": "841d5e5eeda46fd95ac03c36964919818a9bc3a6", "parents": [ "8546df6f357dadf1989ad8da9309c9524fd56cdf" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Fri Nov 04 10:18:40 2005 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Nov 08 17:57:30 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix sysctl unregistration oops (CVE-2005-2709)\n\nYou could open the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/\u003cif\u003e/\u003cwhatever\u003e file, then\nwait for interface to go away, try to grab as much memory as possible in\nhope to hit the (kfreed) ctl_table. Then fill it with pointers to your\nfunction. Then do read from file you\u0027ve opened and if you are lucky,\nyou\u0027ll get it called as -\u003eproc_handler() in kernel mode.\n\nSo this is at least an Oops and possibly more. It does depend on an\ninterface going away though, so less of a security risk than it would\notherwise be.\n\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1e5d533142c1c178a31d4cc81837eb078f9269bc", "tree": "7708cc8667035ad7903f3c2c617a54240f2d6e77", "parents": [ "8a0d4900697f2d615a77cd99585e743c1af555a3" ], "author": { "name": "Randy Dunlap", "email": "rdunlap@xenotime.net", "time": "Mon Nov 07 01:01:06 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 07:53:55 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] more kernel-doc cleanups, additions\n\nVarious core kernel-doc cleanups:\n- add missing function parameters in ipc, irq/manage, kernel/sys,\n kernel/sysctl, and mm/slab;\n- move description to just above function for kernel_restart()\n\nSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d55b5fdaf40846221d543937b786956e27837fda", "tree": "ecdf572d7d2b08b4f7b31d804542a920934b6d9a", "parents": [ "0f6ed7c2641fe4cea83cd09c21928ca30c0983ec" ], "author": { "name": "Zach Brown", "email": "zach.brown@oracle.com", "time": "Mon Nov 07 00:59:31 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 07:53:38 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] aio: remove aio_max_nr accounting race\n\nAIO was adding a new context\u0027s max requests to the global total before\ntesting if that resulting total was over the global limit. This let\ninnocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task\nthat was crossing the limit. This serializes the _nr accounting with a\nspinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals.\nIndividual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int\u0027s worth of\nrequests by the syscall interface.\n\nThe problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating\nand destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context.\nBefore the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN\nif it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the\nlimit.\n\nSigned-off-by: Zach Brown \u003czach.brown@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Benjamin LaHaise \u003cbcrl@kvack.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "20380731bc2897f2952ae055420972ded4cd786e", "tree": "abd31e5ebfadcf4f9024634eec8b11855029e512", "parents": [ "9deff7f2365958c5c5aa8cb5a0dd651c4dd83f8f" ], "author": { "name": "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo", "email": "acme@mandriva.com", "time": "Tue Aug 16 02:18:02 2005 -0300" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Aug 29 16:01:32 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[NET]: Fix sparse warnings\n\nOf this type, mostly:\n\nCHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c\nnet/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol \u0027ipv6_netfilter_init\u0027 was not declared. Should it be static?\nnet/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol \u0027ipv6_netfilter_fini\u0027 was not declared. Should it be static?\n\nSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo \u003cacme@mandriva.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "951f22d5b1f0eaae35dafc669e3774a0c2084d10", "tree": "66c0131b576dadb98026da11d624df453c4c9a7c", "parents": [ "8449d003f323ca7a00eec38905d984ba5ec83a29" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Schwidefsky", "email": "schwidefsky@de.ibm.com", "time": "Wed Jul 27 11:44:57 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jul 27 16:26:04 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] s390: spin lock retry\n\nSplit spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done\ninline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock\nbefore doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of\nretries before a cpu is yielded.\n\nThe reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to\ngive up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only\nfor a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings\nfor spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is\n1000.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky \u003cschwidefsky@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0399cb08c54708db231d616f106f64d920e0b723", "tree": "f0424d43c578f7c5c1e7aa6ea6ca1c906c7ac289", "parents": [ "153f805781d35c91ab2f54aa2b8930cc4cfc7e89" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Love", "email": "rml@novell.com", "time": "Wed Jul 13 12:38:18 2005 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jul 13 11:09:31 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify: move sysctl\n\nThis moves the inotify sysctl knobs to \"/proc/sys/fs/inotify\" from\n\"/proc/sys/fs\". Also some related cleanup.\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443", "tree": "7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85", "parents": [ "bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Love", "email": "rml@novell.com", "time": "Tue Jul 12 17:06:03 2005 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jul 12 20:38:38 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify\n\ninotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly\nits inability to scale and its terrible user interface:\n\n * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory\n that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many\n open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.\n * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to\n directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects\n the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of\n stat structures.\n * dnotify\u0027s interface to user-space is awful. Signals?\n\ninotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change\nnotification:\n\n * inotify\u0027s interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.\n\t You get a single fd, which is select()-able.\n * inotify has an event that says \"the filesystem that the item\n you were watching is on was unmounted.\"\n * inotify can watch directories or files.\n\nInotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),\nGamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.\n\nSee Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nCc: John McCutchan \u003cttb@tentacle.dhs.org\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5a6b454f8024bac68495b6cd51615feb0b54baa9", "tree": "5514a66b49478b01c67527bb34b0f16aae4511e7", "parents": [ "486fd404fbc840e28a959d2f2842b6c46ed6b250" ], "author": { "name": "Jesper Juhl", "email": "juhl-lkml@dif.dk", "time": "Sat Jun 25 14:58:48 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jun 25 16:24:59 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c\n\nSigned-off-by: Jesper Juhl \u003cjuhl-lkml@dif.dk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d6e711448137ca3301512cec41a2c2ce852b3d0a", "tree": "f0765ebd90fdbdf270c05fcd7f3d32b24ba56681", "parents": [ "8b0914ea7475615c7c8965c1ac8fe4069270f25c" ], "author": { "name": "Alan Cox", "email": "alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:09:43 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:26 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] setuid core dump\n\nAdd a new `suid_dumpable\u0027 sysctl:\n\nThis value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid\nor otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are\n\n0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed\n privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped\n\n1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is\n owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended\n for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.\n\n2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped\n readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but\n not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will\n not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when\n adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.\n\n(akpm:\n\n\u003e \u003e +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable);\n\u003e\n\u003e EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?\n\nNo problem to me.\n\n\u003e \u003e \tif (current-\u003eeuid \u003d\u003d current-\u003euid \u0026\u0026 current-\u003eegid \u003d\u003d current-\u003egid)\n\u003e \u003e \t\tcurrent-\u003emm-\u003edumpable \u003d 1;\n\u003e\n\u003e Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER?\n\nActually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines\nshould go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go\neverywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used\nas a bool in untouched code)\n\n\u003e Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy\u0027 or something. Doing that\n\u003e would help us catch any code which isn\u0027t using the #defines, too.\n\nFair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat\nrather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic\ndiff because it is used all over the place.\n\n)\n\nSigned-off-by: Alan Cox \u003calan@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "67be2dd1bace0ec7ce2dbc1bba3f8df3d7be597e", "tree": "317d114a0288d3b19ef9902f94b536a5a8731dbd", "parents": [ "6013d5445f9a6d0b28090027868f455c5012d1cc" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Waitz", "email": "tali@admingilde.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:26 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:26 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions\n\nSome KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.\nNo code changes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Waitz \u003ctali@admingilde.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }