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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints</title>
<updated>2011-05-23T18:22:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-07T14:53:20+00:00</published>
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commit bf26c018490c2fce7fe9b629083b96ce0e6ad019 upstream.

When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit bf26c018490c2fce7fe9b629083b96ce0e6ad019 upstream.

When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits</title>
<updated>2010-05-26T21:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Holt</name>
<email>holt@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-11T21:06:46+00:00</published>
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commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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>sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T16:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaidyanathan Srinivasan</name>
<email>svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-08T10:05:55+00:00</published>
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commit 28f5318167adf23b16c844b9c2253f355cb21796 upstream.

Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms.
Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have
SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting.

Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 28f5318167adf23b16c844b9c2253f355cb21796 upstream.

Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms.
Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have
SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting.

Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-02-05T00:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-05T00:07:41+00:00</published>
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
  futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
  futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
  softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
  futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
  futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
  softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume</title>
<updated>2010-02-01T07:22:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wessel</name>
<email>jason.wessel@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-27T22:25:22+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() --&gt;
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() --&gt;
softlockup_tick() --&gt; check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) --&gt;
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--&gt; reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--&gt; sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() --&gt;
softlockup_tick() --&gt; "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s &gt; 60s --&gt; printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 --&gt;cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 --&gt;sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 --&gt;__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng &lt;Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() --&gt;
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() --&gt;
softlockup_tick() --&gt; check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) --&gt;
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--&gt; reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--&gt; sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() --&gt;
softlockup_tick() --&gt; "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s &gt; 60s --&gt; printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 --&gt;cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 --&gt;sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 --&gt;__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng &lt;Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions</title>
<updated>2010-01-29T16:22:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-29T06:14:42+00:00</published>
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'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
it is pretty badly misnamed.  It doesn't just flush the old executable
environment, it also starts up the new one.

Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.

As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
(TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
the actual personality magic.

This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
(still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()).  All callers are changed
to trivially comply with the new world order.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
it is pretty badly misnamed.  It doesn't just flush the old executable
environment, it also starts up the new one.

Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.

As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
(TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
the actual personality magic.

This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
(still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()).  All callers are changed
to trivially comply with the new world order.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nommu: don't need get_unmapped_area() for NOMMU</title>
<updated>2010-01-16T20:15:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-16T01:01:35+00:00</published>
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get_unmapped_area() is unnecessary for NOMMU as no-one calls it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.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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get_unmapped_area() is unnecessary for NOMMU as no-one calls it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.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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<title>resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits</title>
<updated>2010-01-04T10:35:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2009-11-19T16:16:37+00:00</published>
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We want to be sure that compiler fetches the limit variable only
once, so add helpers for fetching current and maximal resource
limits which do that.

Add them to sched.h (instead of resource.h) due to circular dependency
 sched.h-&gt;resource.h-&gt;task_struct
Alternative would be to create a separate res_access.h or similar.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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We want to be sure that compiler fetches the limit variable only
once, so add helpers for fetching current and maximal resource
limits which do that.

Add them to sched.h (instead of resource.h) due to circular dependency
 sched.h-&gt;resource.h-&gt;task_struct
Alternative would be to create a separate res_access.h or similar.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-12-19T17:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-12-19T17:47:49+00:00</published>
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* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  sched: Fix broken assertion
  sched: Assert task state bits at build time
  sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states
  sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR
  sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits
  sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU
  sched: Make warning less noisy
  sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()
  sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks
  sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c
  sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues
  sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing
  sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks
  sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups
  sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE
  sched: Fix task_hot() test order
  sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()
  sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init()
  sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
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* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  sched: Fix broken assertion
  sched: Assert task state bits at build time
  sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states
  sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR
  sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits
  sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU
  sched: Make warning less noisy
  sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()
  sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks
  sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c
  sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues
  sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing
  sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks
  sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups
  sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE
  sched: Fix task_hot() test order
  sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()
  sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init()
  sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus</title>
<updated>2009-12-18T01:00:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T01:00:20+00:00</published>
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* 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
  cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
  cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask
  cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
  cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
  cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
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* 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
  cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
  cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask
  cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
  cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
  cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
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