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<title>linux.git/kernel, branch v3.2-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2011-12-20T19:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-20T19:44:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a4a4923919f2d43583789b1f3603f4e5600d8321'/>
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* 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
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* 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-12-20T19:42:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-20T19:42:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5fbd305dd2b661a243013cf444d2a32bfec2f701'/>
<id>5fbd305dd2b661a243013cf444d2a32bfec2f701</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality
  rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
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* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality
  rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak</title>
<updated>2011-12-20T18:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michel Lespinasse</name>
<email>walken@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-20T01:12:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3d3c8f93a237b64580c5c5e138edeb1377e98230'/>
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<content type='text'>
binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache
slab usin __getname()

The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname()
which should be used only to match getname() allocations.

This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname
*instead* (not in addition) to __putname().  Then, if a syscall is in
progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects
the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen
only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e.  if the name was
allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname().  So,
__getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache
slab usin __getname()

The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname()
which should be used only to match getname() allocations.

This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname
*instead* (not in addition) to __putname().  Then, if a syscall is in
progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects
the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen
only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e.  if the name was
allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname().  So,
__getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask</title>
<updated>2011-12-20T18:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-20T01:11:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b246272ecc5ac68c743b15c9e41a2275f7ce70e2'/>
<id>b246272ecc5ac68c743b15c9e41a2275f7ce70e2</id>
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Kernels where MAX_NUMNODES &gt; BITS_PER_LONG may temporarily see an empty
nodemask in a tsk's mempolicy if its previous nodemask is remapped onto a
new set of allowed cpuset nodes where the two nodemasks, as a result of
the remap, are now disjoint.

c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing
cpuset's mems") adds get_mems_allowed() to prevent the set of allowed
nodes from changing for a thread.  This causes any update to a set of
allowed nodes to stall until put_mems_allowed() is called.

This stall is unncessary, however, if at least one node remains unchanged
in the update to the set of allowed nodes.  This was addressed by
89e8a244b97e ("cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one
node remains set"), but it's still possible that an empty nodemask may be
read from a mempolicy because the old nodemask may be remapped to the new
nodemask during rebind.  To prevent this, only avoid the stall if there is
no mempolicy for the thread being changed.

This is a temporary solution until all reads from mempolicy nodemasks can
be guaranteed to not be empty without the get_mems_allowed()
synchronization.

Also moves the check for nodemask intersection inside task_lock() so that
tsk-&gt;mems_allowed cannot change.  This ensures that nothing can set this
tsk's mems_allowed out from under us and also protects tsk-&gt;mempolicy.

Reported-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&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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Kernels where MAX_NUMNODES &gt; BITS_PER_LONG may temporarily see an empty
nodemask in a tsk's mempolicy if its previous nodemask is remapped onto a
new set of allowed cpuset nodes where the two nodemasks, as a result of
the remap, are now disjoint.

c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing
cpuset's mems") adds get_mems_allowed() to prevent the set of allowed
nodes from changing for a thread.  This causes any update to a set of
allowed nodes to stall until put_mems_allowed() is called.

This stall is unncessary, however, if at least one node remains unchanged
in the update to the set of allowed nodes.  This was addressed by
89e8a244b97e ("cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one
node remains set"), but it's still possible that an empty nodemask may be
read from a mempolicy because the old nodemask may be remapped to the new
nodemask during rebind.  To prevent this, only avoid the stall if there is
no mempolicy for the thread being changed.

This is a temporary solution until all reads from mempolicy nodemasks can
be guaranteed to not be empty without the get_mems_allowed()
synchronization.

Also moves the check for nodemask intersection inside task_lock() so that
tsk-&gt;mems_allowed cannot change.  This ensures that nothing can set this
tsk's mems_allowed out from under us and also protects tsk-&gt;mempolicy.

Reported-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc</title>
<updated>2011-12-19T17:09:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mandeep Singh Baines</name>
<email>msb@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-15T19:36:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e0197aae59e55c06db172bfbe1a1cdb8c0e1cab3'/>
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<content type='text'>
There is a BUG when migrating a PF_EXITING proc. Since css_set_prefetch()
is not called for the PF_EXITING case, find_existing_css_set() will return
NULL inside cgroup_task_migrate() causing a BUG.

This bug is easy to reproduce. Create a zombie and echo its pid to
cgroup.procs.

$ cat zombie.c
\#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

int main()
{
  if (fork())
      pause();
  return 0;
}
$

We are hitting this bug pretty regularly on ChromeOS.

This bug is already fixed by Tejun Heo's cgroup patchset which is
targetted for the next merge window:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/1/356

I've create a smaller patch here which just fixes this bug so that a
fix can be merged into the current release and stable.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines &lt;msb@chromium.org&gt;
Downstream-Bug-Report: http://crosbug.com/23953
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olofj@chromium.org&gt;
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There is a BUG when migrating a PF_EXITING proc. Since css_set_prefetch()
is not called for the PF_EXITING case, find_existing_css_set() will return
NULL inside cgroup_task_migrate() causing a BUG.

This bug is easy to reproduce. Create a zombie and echo its pid to
cgroup.procs.

$ cat zombie.c
\#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

int main()
{
  if (fork())
      pause();
  return 0;
}
$

We are hitting this bug pretty regularly on ChromeOS.

This bug is already fixed by Tejun Heo's cgroup patchset which is
targetted for the next merge window:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/1/356

I've create a smaller patch here which just fixes this bug so that a
fix can be merged into the current release and stable.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines &lt;msb@chromium.org&gt;
Downstream-Bug-Report: http://crosbug.com/23953
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olofj@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warnings</title>
<updated>2011-12-19T10:41:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kusanagi Kouichi</name>
<email>slash@ac.auone-net.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-19T09:13:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b1b73d095084e754562961c443aa8f6587a55f8e'/>
<id>b1b73d095084e754562961c443aa8f6587a55f8e</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix various KernelDoc build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ac.auone-net.jp&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219091320.0D5AF6FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Fix various KernelDoc build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ac.auone-net.jp&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;johnstul@us.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219091320.0D5AF6FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-12-17T22:03:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-17T22:03:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab347d94d6515ea9a5be04faccd9b14a319b0a7a'/>
<id>ab347d94d6515ea9a5be04faccd9b14a319b0a7a</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bug

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling
  MAINTAINERS: Update tip.git related git trees
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<pre>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bug

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling
  MAINTAINERS: Update tip.git related git trees
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling</title>
<updated>2011-12-16T08:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-15T19:47:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab2789213d224202237292d78aaa0c386c7b28b2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Mike Galbraith reported that this recent commit:

   commit 4dcfe1025b513c2c1da5bf5586adb0e80148f612
   Author: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
   Date:   Thu Nov 10 13:01:10 2011 +0100

       sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

stopped selecting an idle SMT sibling when there are no idle
cores in a single socket system.

Intent of the select_idle_sibling() was to fallback to an idle
SMT sibling, if it fails to identify an idle core. But this
fallback was not happening on systems where all the scheduler
domains had `SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES' flag set.

Fix it. Slightly bigger patch of cleaning all these goto's etc
is queued up for the next release.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323978421.1984.244.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Mike Galbraith reported that this recent commit:

   commit 4dcfe1025b513c2c1da5bf5586adb0e80148f612
   Author: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
   Date:   Thu Nov 10 13:01:10 2011 +0100

       sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

stopped selecting an idle SMT sibling when there are no idle
cores in a single socket system.

Intent of the select_idle_sibling() was to fallback to an idle
SMT sibling, if it fails to identify an idle core. But this
fallback was not happening on systems where all the scheduler
domains had `SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES' flag set.

Fix it. Slightly bigger patch of cleaning all these goto's etc
is queued up for the next release.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323978421.1984.244.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bug</title>
<updated>2011-12-14T07:44:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-13T19:40:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=44b7f4b98d8877e2a4427f2a2f2e42ae8227a58f'/>
<id>44b7f4b98d8877e2a4427f2a2f2e42ae8227a58f</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 10c6db11 ("perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event")
seems to unconditionally dereference event-&gt;rb in the wakeup handler,
this is wrong, there might not be a buffer attached.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213152651.GP20297@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Commit 10c6db11 ("perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event")
seems to unconditionally dereference event-&gt;rb in the wakeup handler,
this is wrong, there might not be a buffer attached.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213152651.GP20297@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-12-09T16:07:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-09T16:07:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=975e32c287a9b144cf115d3f42ca18664b3331df'/>
<id>975e32c287a9b144cf115d3f42ca18664b3331df</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none
  lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate -&gt;lock in lockdep_init_map()
  perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name
  perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
</content>
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<pre>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none
  lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate -&gt;lock in lockdep_init_map()
  perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name
  perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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