linux-stable/kernel
Frederic Weisbecker b639e86bae kmod: add up-to-date explanations on the purpose of each asynchronous levels
There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to
changes that came after them.

Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous code
to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail the
reason of this layout.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
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bpf bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() loop upper bound 2015-08-12 16:42:50 -07:00
configs kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper 2015-06-16 11:04:29 +01:00
debug debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception. 2015-02-19 12:39:03 -06:00
events Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-09-03 08:08:17 -07:00
gcov gcov: add support for GCC 5.1 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 14:33:35 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Improve error handling in klp_disable_func() 2015-07-14 22:48:06 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-09-05 20:34:28 -07:00
power Merge branch 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-09-02 13:10:25 -07:00
printk printk: improve the description of /dev/kmsg line format 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -07:00
rcu rcu,locking: Privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() 2015-08-04 08:49:21 -07:00
sched userfaultfd: waitqueue: add nr wake parameter to __wake_up_locked_key 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 14:04:50 -07:00
trace Mostly this is just clean ups and micro optimizations. 2015-09-08 14:04:14 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS 2015-05-12 09:46:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile libnvdimm for 4.3: 2015-09-08 14:35:59 -07:00
acct.c acct: check FMODE_CAN_WRITE 2015-04-11 22:27:55 -04:00
async.c
audit.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit.h Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: clean simple fsnotify implementation 2015-08-06 16:14:53 -04:00
audit_tree.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
audit_watch.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: implement audit by executable 2015-08-06 16:17:25 -04:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-09-08 13:34:59 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroup: fix seq_show_option merge with legacy_name 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: allow a cgroup subsystem to reject a fork 2015-07-14 17:29:23 -04:00
cgroup_pids.c cgroup: pids: fix invalid get/put usage 2015-08-25 14:19:25 -04:00
compat.c compat: cleanup coding in compat_get_bitmap() and compat_put_bitmap() 2015-06-04 23:57:18 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches 2015-05-07 12:02:51 +02:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-08-31 20:26:22 -07:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c cpuset: use trialcs->mems_allowed as a temp variable 2015-08-10 11:18:41 -04:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c kernel/cred.c: remove unnecessary kdebug atomic reads 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c Remove rest of exec domains. 2015-04-12 21:03:31 +02:00
exit.c kernel: exit: fix typo in comment 2015-08-07 13:59:49 +02:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
fork.c userfaultfd: add VM_UFFD_MISSING and VM_UFFD_WP 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Make should_fail_futex() static 2015-07-20 21:43:54 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: change hung_task.c to use for_each_process_thread() 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c locking/static_keys: Add selftest 2015-08-03 11:34:16 +02:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
kexec.c kernel/panic/kexec: fix "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option issue in oops path 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
kmod.c kmod: add up-to-date explanations on the purpose of each asynchronous levels 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
kprobes.c perf/x86/hw_breakpoints: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe 2015-08-04 10:16:54 +02:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
latencytop.c
memremap.c add devm_memremap_pages 2015-08-27 19:40:58 -04:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: weaken locking assertion for oops path. 2015-07-29 06:13:22 +09:30
module_signing.c PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type 2015-08-12 17:01:01 +01:00
notifier.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:38 -08:00
panic.c kernel/panic/kexec: fix "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option issue in oops path 2015-06-30 19:44:57 -07:00
params.c Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
pid.c rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() 2015-07-22 15:27:32 -07:00
pid_namespace.c
profile.c mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
ptrace.c seccomp: add ptrace options for suspend/resume 2015-07-15 11:52:52 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: add orderly_reboot for graceful reboot 2015-04-15 16:35:23 -07:00
relay.c kernel/relay.c: use kvfree() in relay_free_page_array() 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -07:00
resource.c mm: enhance region_is_ram() to region_intersects() 2015-08-10 23:07:05 -04:00
seccomp.c Merge tag 'seccomp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux into next 2015-07-20 17:19:19 +10:00
signal.c signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
smp.c smp: Fix error case handling in smp_call_function_*() 2015-04-19 13:19:23 -07:00
smpboot.c smpboot: allow passing the cpumask on per-cpu thread registration 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Remove cpu_stop_work's from list in cpu_stop_park() 2015-08-03 12:21:28 +02:00
sys.c vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. 2015-07-10 10:39:25 -05:00
sys_ni.c userfaultfd: activate syscall 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2015-07-03 15:20:57 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
task_work.c task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee 2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() 2015-05-27 12:56:15 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c capabilities: ambient capabilities 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c watchdog: rename watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume() 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2015-09-02 08:02:20 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h