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<title>um: Make stack trace reliable against kernel mode faults</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T10:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
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<published>2013-09-23T15:38:02+00:00</published>
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Run UML in it's own session.</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:57:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:09+00:00</published>
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If UML is not run by a shell it can happen that UML
will kill unrelated proceses upon a fatal exit because
it issues a kill(0, ...).
To prevent such oddities we create a new session in main().

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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If UML is not run by a shell it can happen that UML
will kill unrelated proceses upon a fatal exit because
it issues a kill(0, ...).
To prevent such oddities we create a new session in main().

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Cleanup SIGTERM handling</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:08+00:00</published>
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:06+00:00</published>
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: Implement probe_kernel_read()</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:38:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-17T16:46:00+00:00</published>
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UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.

This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.

Cc: &lt;stian@nixia.no&gt;
Cc: &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.

This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.

Cc: &lt;stian@nixia.no&gt;
Cc: &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: siginfo cleanup</title>
<updated>2013-07-19T09:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-19T09:31:36+00:00</published>
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Currently we use both struct siginfo and siginfo_t.
Let's use struct siginfo internally to avoid ongoing
compiler warning. We are allowed to do so because
struct siginfo and siginfo_t are equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Currently we use both struct siginfo and siginfo_t.
Let's use struct siginfo internally to avoid ongoing
compiler warning. We are allowed to do so because
struct siginfo and siginfo_t are equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>uml: Fix which_tmpdir failure when /dev/shm is a symlink, and in other edge cases</title>
<updated>2013-07-19T08:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tristan Schmelcher</name>
<email>tschmelcher@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T20:19:49+00:00</published>
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which_tmpdir did the wrong thing if /dev/shm was a symlink (e.g., to /run/shm),
if there were multiple mounts on top of each other, if the mount(s) were
obscured by a later mount, or if /dev/shm was a prefix of another mount point.
This fixes these cases. Applies to 3.9.6.

Signed-off-by: Tristan Schmelcher &lt;tschmelcher@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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which_tmpdir did the wrong thing if /dev/shm was a symlink (e.g., to /run/shm),
if there were multiple mounts on top of each other, if the mount(s) were
obscured by a later mount, or if /dev/shm was a prefix of another mount point.
This fixes these cases. Applies to 3.9.6.

Signed-off-by: Tristan Schmelcher &lt;tschmelcher@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Fix wait_stub_done() error handling</title>
<updated>2013-07-19T08:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-17T12:21:01+00:00</published>
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If we die within a stub handler we only way to reliable
kill the (obviously) dying uml guest process is killing
it's host twin on the host side.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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If we die within a stub handler we only way to reliable
kill the (obviously) dying uml guest process is killing
it's host twin on the host side.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T15:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T15:37:49+00:00</published>
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T11:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T21:21:01+00:00</published>
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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