25 May, 2012
1 commit
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner.
Various trivial conflict fixups in arch Kconfig due to addition of
unrelated entries nearby. And one slightly more subtle one for sparc32
(new user of GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS), fixed up as per Thomas.* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
timekeeping: Fix a few minor newline issues.
time: remove obsolete declaration
ntp: Fix a stale comment and a few stray newlines.
ntp: Correct TAI offset during leap second
timers: Fixup the Kconfig consolidation fallout
x86: Use generic time config
unicore32: Use generic time config
um: Use generic time config
tile: Use generic time config
sparc: Use: generic time config
sh: Use generic time config
score: Use generic time config
s390: Use generic time config
openrisc: Use generic time config
powerpc: Use generic time config
mn10300: Use generic time config
mips: Use generic time config
microblaze: Use generic time config
m68k: Use generic time config
m32r: Use generic time config
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24 May, 2012
2 commits
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Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman:
"This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can
reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete
implementation.Highlights:
- Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and
code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe.- Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the
config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable
user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission
checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe.- All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial
user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add
an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared
uids remains the same.- With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or
better than it is today.- For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or
operationally with the user namespace enabled.- The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1
billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code
enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to
164ns per stat operation).- (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value.
Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially
anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause
entertaining failures in userspace.- If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails.
I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I
could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and
handle the case where setuid fails.- If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which
we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS
experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be
better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I
can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we
can't map.- Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it
safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities.My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core
kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1."Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
userns: Silence silly gcc warning.
cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns
userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace.
userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids
userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid
userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs
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Pull exception table generation updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change here is to allow the build-time sorting of the
exception table, to speed up booting. This is achieved by the
architecture enabling BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT. This option is enabled
for x86 and MIPS currently.On x86 a number of fixes and changes were needed to allow build-time
sorting of the exception table, in particular a relocation invariant
exception table format was needed. This required the abstracting out
of exception table protocol and the removal of 20 years of accumulated
assumptions about the x86 exception table format.While at it, this tree also cleans up various other aspects of
exception handling, such as early(er) exception handling for
rdmsr_safe() et al.All in one, as the result of these changes the x86 exception code is
now pretty nice and modern. As an added bonus any regressions in this
code will be early and violent crashes, so if you see any of those,
you'll know whom to blame!"Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{mips,x86}/Kconfig files due to nearby
modifications of other core architecture options.* 'x86-extable-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
Revert "x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now"
scripts/sortextable: Handle relative entries, and other cleanups
x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries
x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now
x86, extable: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_EX() macro
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
x86, extable: Remove the now-unused __ASM_EX_SEC macros
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/um/checksum_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/putuser.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_nocache_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/test_rodata.c
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
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23 May, 2012
2 commits
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of changes:- (much) improved assembly annotation support in perf report, with
jump visualization, searching, navigation, visual output
improvements and more.- kernel support for AMD IBS PMU hardware features. Notably 'perf
record -e cycles:p' and 'perf top -e cycles:p' should work without
skid now, like PEBS does on the Intel side, because it takes
advantage of IBS transparently.- the libtracevents library: it is the first step towards unifying
tracing tooling and perf, and it also gives a tracing library for
external tools like powertop to rely on.- infrastructure: various improvements and refactoring of the UI
modules and related code- infrastructure: cleanup and simplification of the profiling
targets code (--uid, --pid, --tid, --cpu, --all-cpus, etc.)- tons of robustness fixes all around
- various ftrace updates: speedups, cleanups, robustness
improvements.- typing 'make' in tools/ will now give you a menu of projects to
build and a short help text to explain what each does.- ... and lots of other changes I forgot to list.
The perf record make bzImage + perf report regression you reported
should be fixed."* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (166 commits)
tracing: Remove kernel_lock annotations
tracing: Fix initial buffer_size_kb state
ring-buffer: Merge separate resize loops
perf evsel: Create events initially disabled -- again
perf tools: Split term type into value type and term type
perf hists: Fix callchain ip printf format
perf target: Add uses_mmap field
ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER
ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code()
ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use
ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location()
ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved()
ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address
ftrace: Remove extra helper functions
ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page
tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask
tracing: Check return value of tracing_dentry_percpu()
ring-buffer: Reset head page before running self test
ring-buffer: Add integrity check at end of iter read
ring-buffer: Make addition of pages in ring buffer atomic
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Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the driver core, and other driver subsystems, pull request for
the 3.5-rc1 merge window.Outside of a few minor driver core changes, we ended up with the
following different subsystem and core changes as well, due to
interdependancies on the driver core:
- hyperv driver updates
- drivers/memory being created and some drivers moved into it
- extcon driver subsystem created out of the old Android staging
switch driver code
- dynamic debug updates
- printk rework, and /dev/kmsg changesAll of this has been tested in the linux-next releases for a few weeks
with no reported problems.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "
Fix up conflicts in drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c where git noticed
that a patch to the deleted drivers/misc/max8997-muic.c driver needs to
be applied to this one.* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (90 commits)
uio_pdrv_genirq: get irq through platform resource if not set otherwise
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Remove empty *_remove()
printk() - isolate KERN_CONT users from ordinary complete lines
sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
Drivers: hv: util: Properly handle version negotiations.
Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp()
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Use dev_err_ratelimited()
driver core: Add dev_*_ratelimited() family
Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device()
printk() - restore prefix/timestamp printing for multi-newline strings
printk: add stub for prepend_timestamp()
ARM: tegra30: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra20: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra30: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
ARM: tegra20: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
printk: correctly align __log_buf
ARM: tegra30: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
ARM: tegra20: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
printk() - restore timestamp printing at console output
printk() - do not merge continuation lines of different threads
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22 May, 2012
4 commits
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Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet. I wish I'd had
something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
horror..."Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
score: Use common threadinfo allocator
sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
fork: Remove the weak insanity
sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
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Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with
more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
the other commits for the convenience of the tester).2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that
survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches
of that set remain.4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new
implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the
execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier
implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to
LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
subsequent updates posted to LKML."* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive
rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration
rcu: Update RCU maintainership
rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate
rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation
rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU
rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu()
rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine
rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods
rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality
rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier()
rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm
rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments
rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period
rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()
rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu()
rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation
rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()
timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment
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Sigh, I missed to check which architecture Kconfig files actually
include the core Kconfig file. There are a few which did not. So we
broke them.Instead of adding the includes to those, we are better off to move the
include to init/Kconfig like we did already with irqs and others.This does not change anything for the architectures using the old
style periodic timer mode. It just solves the build wreckage there.For those architectures which use the clock events infrastructure it
moves the include of the core Kconfig file to "General setup" which is
a way more logical place than having it at random locations specified
by the architecture specific Kconfigs.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner
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During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up,
we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious)
configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in
scheduling events.We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the
code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the
scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the
initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody.And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason:
it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow
blocking allocations much too early.So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()'
(which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption
disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'. kernel_init() is run
in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as
opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what
will be the first idle thread.So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must
be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle
thread into the init thread.Reported-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2012
1 commit
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Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch:
"perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object"
That depends on:
commit e7c72d8
perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsingConflicts:
tools/perf/builtin-stat.cConflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the
result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope
with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits
were not used.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
16 May, 2012
12 commits
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Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
Add a new internal Kconfig option UIDGID_CONVERTED that is true when the selected
Kconfig options have been converted to be user namespace safe, and guard
USER_NS and guard the UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECK options with it.This keeps innocent kernel users from having the choice to enable
the user namespace in the cases where it is known not to work.Most of the rest of the conversions are simple and straight forward but
their sheer number means it is good not to count on having them all done
and reviwed before thinking of merging this code.Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
14 May, 2012
1 commit
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…/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney:
1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature
(with more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4),
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with
the other commits for the convenience of the tester).2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs
that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322.3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction
between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all
that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's
__rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to
LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and
third patches of that set remain.4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes
call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new
implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs
the execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier
implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to
LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82.5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were
posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with
subsequent updates posted to LKML.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
08 May, 2012
1 commit
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Reason: Pull in the separate branch which was created so arch/tile can
base further work on it.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
06 May, 2012
1 commit
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Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is
UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as
well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since
mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to
doing the proper mount:[ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
[ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18.Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries
when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail
and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying,
which has revealed the issue this patch fixes.This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when
we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS.This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be
'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR
major. This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through
the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root
("/dev/nfs").Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 May, 2012
2 commits
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Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and
let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASKSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.867948914@linutronix.de -
All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is
no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a
generic instance so all archs can be converted over.The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are
converted over.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Chen Liqin
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: David Howells
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley
Cc: Jesper Nilsson
Cc: Jonas Bonn
Cc: Mark Salter
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Richard Kuo
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de
03 May, 2012
1 commit
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This was done to resolve a merge issue with the init/main.c file.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
01 May, 2012
1 commit
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Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked
from parse_args(). The arg is passed as:"Booting kernel" from start_kernel(),
initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(),
mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one()parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to
"doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above. parse_args() passes
it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the
unknown option handler callbacks.The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules,
since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a
"$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is
called, the module name is not otherwise available.Minor tweaks:
Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt
identify the param being handled, add it.Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall,
and number of registered initcalls at that level. This adds 7 lines
to dmesg output, like:initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls
Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the
pr_info() added above. This array is passed into parse_args() by
do_initcall_level().CC: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie
Acked-by: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
26 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Renaming remaining PERF_COUNTERS options into PERF_EVENTS.
Think we can get rid of PERF_COUNTERS now.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643084-26776-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
25 Apr, 2012
3 commits
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Commit 026cee0086f had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from
the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment
variables. This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string
where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers
to the parsing subfunctions. Previously, unknown_bootoption() was
the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back
the '=' character. Now the ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last
one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the
envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer
seen as valid environment variables by init.Tested-by: Woody Suwalski
Acked-by: Pawel Moll
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Commit #0209f649 (rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout) set an upper
limit of 16 on the leaf-level fanout for the rcu_node tree. This was
needed to reduce lock contention that was induced by the synchronization
of scheduling-clock interrupts, which was in turn needed to improve
energy efficiency for moderate-sized lightly loaded servers.However, reducing the leaf-level fanout means that there are more
leaf-level rcu_node structures in the tree, which in turn means that
RCU's grace-period initialization incurs more cache misses. This is
not a problem on moderate-sized servers with only a few tens of CPUs,
but becomes a major source of real-time latency spikes on systems with
many hundreds of CPUs. In addition, the workloads running on these large
systems tend to be CPU-bound, which eliminates the energy-efficiency
advantages of synchronizing scheduling-clock interrupts. Therefore,
these systems need maximal values for the rcu_node leaf-level fanout.This commit addresses this problem by introducing a new kernel parameter
named RCU_FANOUT_LEAF that directly controls the leaf-level fanout.
This parameter defaults to 16 to handle the common case of a moderate
sized lightly loaded servers, but may be set higher on larger systems.Reported-by: Mike Galbraith
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
The old text confused real-time applications with real-time threads, so
that you pretty much needed to understand how this kernel configuration
parameter worked to understand the help text. This commit therefore
attempts to make the help text human-readable.Reported-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
20 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.Signed-off-by: David Daney
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
08 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Make it possible to easily switch between strong mandatory
type checks and relaxed type checks so that the code can
easily be tested with the type checks and then built
with the strong type checks disabled so the resulting
code can be used.Require strong mandatory type checks when enabling the user namespace.
It is very simple to make a typo and use the wrong type allowing
conversions to/from userspace values to be bypassed by accident,
the strong type checks prevent this.Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
02 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
"(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98ac2 ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
01 Apr, 2012
2 commits
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... implemented that way since the next commit will leave it
almost alone in ext2_fs.h - most of the file (including
struct ext2_super_block) is going to move to fs/ext2/ext2.h.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
29 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
misc comments.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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…m/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
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