linux/kernel
Zach Brown d55b5fdaf4 [PATCH] aio: remove aio_max_nr accounting race
AIO was adding a new context's max requests to the global total before
testing if that resulting total was over the global limit.  This let
innocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task
that was crossing the limit.  This serializes the _nr accounting with a
spinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals.
Individual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int's worth of
requests by the syscall interface.

The problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating
and destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context.
Before the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN
if it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the
limit.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:38 -08:00
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irq Don't call a NULL ack function in the generic IRQ code. 2005-09-28 20:29:44 +10:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: remove unused variable 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
acct.c [PATCH] mm: rss = file_rss + anon_rss 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
audit.c [PATCH] gfp_t: kernel/* 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] gfp_t: kernel/* 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
capability.c [PATCH] kernel/capability.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] kernel: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage 2005-09-10 10:06:37 -07:00
configs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cpu.c [PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers 2005-10-30 17:37:14 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding 2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
crash_dump.c [PATCH] kernel/crash_dump.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
dma.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exec_domain.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] Process Events Connector 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
extable.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] Process Events Connector 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
futex.c [PATCH] mm: follow_page with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
intermodule.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] itimer fixes 2005-07-27 16:25:51 -07:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kexec.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] Keys: Get rid of warning in kmod.c if keys disabled 2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
ksysfs.c [PATCH] Kdump: Export crash notes section address through sysfs 2005-06-25 16:24:51 -07:00
kthread.c [PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem() 2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
module.c [PATCH] use add_taint() for setting tainted bit flags 2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
panic.c [PATCH] Call emergency_reboot from panic 2005-07-26 14:35:43 -07:00
params.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
pid.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers `unlikely' rejig 2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers: use schedule_timeout() in common_nsleep() 2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] cleanup for kernel/printk.c 2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] mostly_read data section 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] ptrace/coredump/exit_group deadlock 2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
resource.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] Remove duplicate code in signal.c 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] spinlock consolidation 2005-09-10 10:06:21 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup 2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] Process Events Connector 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() 2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] aio: remove aio_max_nr accounting race 2005-11-07 07:53:38 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup 2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
timer.c [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanup 2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
uid16.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
wait.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00