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<title>proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat</title>
<updated>2011-03-27T19:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees.cook@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T23:42:53+00:00</published>
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commit 5883f57ca0008ffc93e09cbb9847a1928e50c6f3 upstream.

While mm-&gt;start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5 ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged
processes")), the start_code and end_code values were not.  This would
allow the text location of a PIE binary to leak, defeating ASLR.

Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value since
"ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave.  Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.

Addresses CVE-2011-0726

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 5883f57ca0008ffc93e09cbb9847a1928e50c6f3 upstream.

While mm-&gt;start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5 ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged
processes")), the start_code and end_code values were not.  This would
allow the text location of a PIE binary to leak, defeating ASLR.

Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value since
"ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave.  Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.

Addresses CVE-2011-0726

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps heap check</title>
<updated>2011-03-27T19:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaro Koskinen</name>
<email>aaro.koskinen@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T23:42:50+00:00</published>
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commit 0db0c01b53a1a421513f91573241aabafb87802a upstream.

The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is split
into multiple mappings.

Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
	1. vma matches exactly the heap
	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages

Test cases. In all cases, the process should have mapping(s) with
[heap] marking:

	(1) vma matches exactly the heap

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test1
	check /proc/553/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test1
	# cat /proc/553/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4006f000-40070000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(2) the heap vma is merged

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	char foo[4096] = "foo";
	char bar[4096];

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test2
	check /proc/556/maps
	[2] + Stopped                    ./test2
	# cat /proc/556/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00010000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00012000-00014000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4004a000-4004b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(3) the heap vma is splitted (this fails without the patch)

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if ((sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) &amp;&amp; !mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) &amp;&amp;
		    (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1)) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test3
	check /proc/559/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test3
	# cat /proc/559/maps|head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	00012000-00013000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]

It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in
some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the -stable
"critical issue" criteria.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 0db0c01b53a1a421513f91573241aabafb87802a upstream.

The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is split
into multiple mappings.

Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
	1. vma matches exactly the heap
	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages

Test cases. In all cases, the process should have mapping(s) with
[heap] marking:

	(1) vma matches exactly the heap

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test1
	check /proc/553/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test1
	# cat /proc/553/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4006f000-40070000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(2) the heap vma is merged

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	char foo[4096] = "foo";
	char bar[4096];

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test2
	check /proc/556/maps
	[2] + Stopped                    ./test2
	# cat /proc/556/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00010000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00012000-00014000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4004a000-4004b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(3) the heap vma is splitted (this fails without the patch)

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if ((sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) &amp;&amp; !mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) &amp;&amp;
		    (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1)) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test3
	check /proc/559/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test3
	# cat /proc/559/maps|head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	00012000-00013000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]

It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in
some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the -stable
"critical issue" criteria.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove task_show_regs</title>
<updated>2011-02-24T22:54:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-15T08:43:32+00:00</published>
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commit 261cd298a8c363d7985e3482946edb4bfedacf98 upstream.

task_show_regs used to be a debugging aid in the early bringup days
of Linux on s390. /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/status is a world readable file, it
is not a good idea to show the registers of a process. The only
correct fix is to remove task_show_regs.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 261cd298a8c363d7985e3482946edb4bfedacf98 upstream.

task_show_regs used to be a debugging aid in the early bringup days
of Linux on s390. /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/status is a world readable file, it
is not a good idea to show the registers of a process. The only
correct fix is to remove task_show_regs.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>/proc/kcore: fix seeking</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T23:14:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Anderson</name>
<email>anderson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T01:00:36+00:00</published>
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commit ceff1a770933e2ca2bf995b453dade4ec47a9878 upstream.

Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore.  This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode-&gt;i_sb-&gt;s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.

A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson &lt;anderson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit ceff1a770933e2ca2bf995b453dade4ec47a9878 upstream.

Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore.  This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode-&gt;i_sb-&gt;s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.

A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson &lt;anderson@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc"</title>
<updated>2010-12-06T00:39:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-05T23:51:21+00:00</published>
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Because it caused a chroot ttyname regression in 2.6.36.

As of 2.6.36 ttyname does not work in a chroot.  It has already been
reported that screen breaks, and for me this breaks an automated
distribution testsuite, that I need to preserve the ability to run the
existing binaries on for several more years.  glibc 2.11.3 which has a
fix for this is not an option.

The root cause of this breakage is:

    commit 8df9d1a4142311c084ffeeacb67cd34d190eff74
    Author: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
    Date:   Tue Aug 10 11:41:41 2010 +0200

    vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc

    Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
    from the current root.

    Two places updated are
     - the return string from getcwd()
     - and symlinks under /proc/$PID.

    Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
    software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;

So remove the nice sounding, but ultimately ill advised change to how
/proc/fd symlinks work.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Because it caused a chroot ttyname regression in 2.6.36.

As of 2.6.36 ttyname does not work in a chroot.  It has already been
reported that screen breaks, and for me this breaks an automated
distribution testsuite, that I need to preserve the ability to run the
existing binaries on for several more years.  glibc 2.11.3 which has a
fix for this is not an option.

The root cause of this breakage is:

    commit 8df9d1a4142311c084ffeeacb67cd34d190eff74
    Author: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
    Date:   Tue Aug 10 11:41:41 2010 +0200

    vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc

    Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
    from the current root.

    Two places updated are
     - the return string from getcwd()
     - and symlinks under /proc/$PID.

    Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
    software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;

So remove the nice sounding, but ultimately ill advised change to how
/proc/fd symlinks work.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pagemap: set pagemap walk limit to PMD boundary</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T21:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T20:57:13+00:00</published>
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Currently one pagemap_read() call walks in PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE bytes (== 512
pages.) But there is a corner case where walk_pmd_range() accidentally
runs over a VMA associated with a hugetlbfs file.

For example, when a process has mappings to VMAs as shown below:

  # cat /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps
  ...
  3a58f6d000-3a58f72000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd51853000-7fbd51855000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd5186c000-7fbd5186e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd51a00000-7fbd51c00000 rw-s 00000000 00:12 8614   /hugepages/test

then pagemap_read() goes into walk_pmd_range() path and walks in the range
0x7fbd51853000-0x7fbd51a53000, but the hugetlbfs VMA should be handled by
walk_hugetlb_range().  Otherwise PMD for the hugepage is considered bad
and cleared, which causes undesirable results.

This patch fixes it by separating pagemap walk range into one PMD.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently one pagemap_read() call walks in PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE bytes (== 512
pages.) But there is a corner case where walk_pmd_range() accidentally
runs over a VMA associated with a hugetlbfs file.

For example, when a process has mappings to VMAs as shown below:

  # cat /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps
  ...
  3a58f6d000-3a58f72000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd51853000-7fbd51855000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd5186c000-7fbd5186e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
  7fbd51a00000-7fbd51c00000 rw-s 00000000 00:12 8614   /hugepages/test

then pagemap_read() goes into walk_pmd_range() path and walks in the range
0x7fbd51853000-0x7fbd51a53000, but the hugetlbfs VMA should be handled by
walk_hugetlb_range().  Otherwise PMD for the hugepage is considered bad
and cleared, which causes undesirable results.

This patch fixes it by separating pagemap walk range into one PMD.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>BKL: remove extraneous #include &lt;smp_lock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T15:26:55+00:00</published>
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>switch procfs to -&gt;mount()</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-07-26T09:12:54+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>setting -&gt;proc_mnt doesn't belong in proc_get_sb()</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-07-26T09:09:36+00:00</published>
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take that to kern_mount_data()-using callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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take that to kern_mount_data()-using callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>/proc/stat: fix scalability of irq sum of all cpu</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:03:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-27T22:34:15+00:00</published>
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In /proc/stat, the number of per-IRQ event is shown by making a sum each
irq's events on all cpus.  But we can make use of kstat_irqs().

kstat_irqs() do the same calculation, If !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ,
it's not a big cost. (Both of the number of cpus and irqs are small.)

If a system is very big and CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ, it does

	for_each_irq()
		for_each_cpu()
			- look up a radix tree
			- read desc-&gt;irq_stat[cpu]
This seems not efficient. This patch adds kstat_irqs() for
CONFIG_GENRIC_HARDIRQ and change the calculation as

	for_each_irq()
		look up radix tree
		for_each_cpu()
			- read desc-&gt;irq_stat[cpu]

This reduces cost.

A test on (4096cpusp, 256 nodes, 4592 irqs) host (by Jack Steiner)

%time cat /proc/stat &gt; /dev/null

Before Patch:	 2.459 sec
After Patch :	  .561 sec

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unexport kstat_irqs, coding-style tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused variable 'per_irq_sum']
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In /proc/stat, the number of per-IRQ event is shown by making a sum each
irq's events on all cpus.  But we can make use of kstat_irqs().

kstat_irqs() do the same calculation, If !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ,
it's not a big cost. (Both of the number of cpus and irqs are small.)

If a system is very big and CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ, it does

	for_each_irq()
		for_each_cpu()
			- look up a radix tree
			- read desc-&gt;irq_stat[cpu]
This seems not efficient. This patch adds kstat_irqs() for
CONFIG_GENRIC_HARDIRQ and change the calculation as

	for_each_irq()
		look up radix tree
		for_each_cpu()
			- read desc-&gt;irq_stat[cpu]

This reduces cost.

A test on (4096cpusp, 256 nodes, 4592 irqs) host (by Jack Steiner)

%time cat /proc/stat &gt; /dev/null

Before Patch:	 2.459 sec
After Patch :	  .561 sec

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unexport kstat_irqs, coding-style tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused variable 'per_irq_sum']
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Steiner &lt;steiner@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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