30 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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Once a structure goes over PAGE_SIZE*2, we see occasional allocation
failures. Some people have chosen to switch over to things like vmalloc()
that will let them keep array-like access to such a large structures.
But, vmalloc() has plenty of downsides.Here's an alternative. I think it's what Andrew was suggesting here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/518
I call it a flexible array. It does all of its work in PAGE_SIZE bits, so
never does an order>0 allocation. The base level has
PAGE_SIZE-2*sizeof(int) bytes of storage for pointers to the second level.
So, with a 32-bit arch, you get about 4MB (4183112 bytes) of total
storage when the objects pack nicely into a page. It is half that on
64-bit because the pointers are twice the size. There's a table detailing
this in the code.There are kerneldocs for the functions, but here's an
overview:flex_array_alloc() - dynamically allocate a base structure
flex_array_free() - free the array and all of the
second-level pages
flex_array_free_parts() - free the second-level pages, but
not the base (for static bases)
flex_array_put() - copy into the array at the given index
flex_array_get() - copy out of the array at the given index
flex_array_prealloc() - preallocate the second-level pages
between the given indexes to
guarantee no allocs will occur at
put() time.We could also potentially just pass the "element_size" into each of the
API functions instead of storing it internally. That would get us one
more base pointer on 32-bit.I've been testing this by running it in userspace. The header and patch
that I've been using are here, as well as the little script I'm using to
generate the size table which goes in the kerneldocs.http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/flexarray/
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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This patch adds lib/gcd.c which contains a greatest common divider
implementation taken from sound/core/pcm_timer.cSeveral usages of this new library function will be sent to subsystem
maintainers.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use swap() (pointed out by Joe)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: just add gcd.o to obj-y, remove Kconfig changes]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov
Cc: Takashi Iwai
Cc: Simon Horman
Cc: Julius Volz
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
12 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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Fixes a merge conflict against the x86 tree caused by a fix to
atomic.h which I renamed to atomic_long.h.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
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Add a generic (unoptimized) implementation of checksum.c in pure C
for use by all architectures that cannot be bother with implementing
their own version.Based on microblaze code by Michal Simek
Cc: Michal Simek
Signed-off-by: Remis Lima Baima
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
11 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Provide a helper function to determine optimum numerator
denominator value pairs taking into account restricted
register size. Useful especially with PLL and other clock
configurations.Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked
with the kernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP.When CONFIG_SMP is undefined and find_last_bit is referenced only by
modules, linking fails with:ERROR: "find_last_bit" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined!
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
28 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
kernel/irq/handle.cSemantic merge:
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.hSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
27 Mar, 2009
2 commits
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* 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
sched: fix typos in documentation
sched: add avg_overlap decay
x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
dynamic debug: update docs
dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
driver core: fix passing platform_data
driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
driver core: move klist_children into private structure
driver core: create a private portion of struct device
driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
...Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually
25 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
to disable them:
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
05 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: add groundwork for DMA-API debugging
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel
04 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
16 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt:
>
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task':
> sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del'Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available
unconditionally.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Centralize the compression format detection to a common routine in the
lib directory, and use it for both initramfs and initrd.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
06 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: Partial resolution of build failure
Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make
sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as
they should.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
05 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features
This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch
The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast projectThis version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28
This part contains:
- support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and
old-style ramdisk
- config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions
not yet supported)Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
01 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: New API
As the name suggests. For the moment everyone uses the generic one.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
14 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
int ret = blah(new);
if (ret < 0) {
abort_creds(new);
return ret;
}
return commit_creds(new);There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:(1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.
(2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.
The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:
(1) execve().
This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
security code rather than altering the current creds directly.(2) Temporary credential overrides.
do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
on the thread being dumped.This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
the task's objective credentials.(3) LSM interface.
A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:
(*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
(*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()Removed in favour of security_capset().
(*) security_capset(), ->capset()
New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new
creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the
new creds, are now const.(*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()
Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
killed if it's an error.(*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()
Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().
(*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()
New. Free security data attached to cred->security.
(*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()
New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.
(*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()
New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
security by commit_creds().(*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()
Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().
(*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()
Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by
cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().(*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()
Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
directly to init's credentials.NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.(*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
(*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
refer to the security context.(4) sys_capset().
This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it
calls have been merged.(5) reparent_to_kthreadd().
This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
commit_thread() to point that way.(6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()
__sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
successful.switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting
__sigqueue_alloc().(7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.
The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
it.security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This
guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().
Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
commit_creds().The get functions all simply access the data directly.
(8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().
security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
rather than through an argument.Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
if it doesn't end up using it.(9) Keyrings.
A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:
(a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
They may want separating out again later.(b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.(c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
keyring.(d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.(e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
process or session keyrings (they're shared).(10) Usermode helper.
The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set
of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
after it has been cloned.call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A
special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
supplied keyring as the new session keyring.(11) SELinux.
SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
interface changes mentioned above:(a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that
the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
lock.(12) is_single_threaded().
This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
wants to use it too.The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want
to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).(13) nfsd.
The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials
down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
in this series have been applied.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: James Morris
Signed-off-by: James Morris
21 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.
I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, /dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define
their own debug levels and flags.Usage:
Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file,
/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:
.
.
.: Name of the module in which the debug call resides
: whether the messages are enabled or notFor example:
snd_hda_intel enabled=0
fixup enabled=1
driver enabled=0Enable a module:
$echo "set enabled=1 " > dynamic_printk/modules
Disable a module:
$echo "set enabled=0 " > dynamic_printk/modules
Enable all modules:
$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
Disable all modules:
$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules
Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
04 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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This patch adds the ability to print sizes in either units of 10^3 (SI)
or 2^10 (Binary) units. It rounds up to three significant figures and
can be used for either memory or storage capacities.Oh, and I'm fully aware that 64 bits is only 16EiB ... the Zetta and
Yotta units are added for future proofing against the day we have 128
bit computers ...[fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp: fix missed unsigned long long cast]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
27 Jul, 2008
2 commits
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This implements a platform-independent version of show_mem().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Bryan Wu
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This adds the new function task_current_syscall() on machines where the
asm/syscall.h interface is supported (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK). It's
exported for modules to use in the future. This function safely samples
the state of a blocked thread to collect what system call it is blocked
in, and the six system call argument registers.Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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This updates to define the key routines as constant
functions, which the macros will then call. Newer code can now call
bcd2bin() instead of SCREAMING BCD2BIN() TO THE FOUR WINDS.This lets each driver shrink their codespace by using N function calls to
a single (global) copy of those routines, instead of N inlined copies of
these functions per driver.These routines aren't used in speed-critical code. Almost all callers are
in the RTC framework. Typical per-driver savings is near 300 bytes.Signed-off-by: David Brownell
Acked-by: Adrian Bunk
Cc: Alessandro Zummo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2008
2 commits
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make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions.
We've already got a sizable list of exceptions:
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
# Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
# Also do not profile any debug utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg
endif... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed
up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing
hard to debug lockups.So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by
default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes
anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id()
and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup:calling anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130
initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
[ hard hang ]So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (102 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related build errors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix bogus sym_que_entry re-implementation of container_of
[SCSI] scsi_cmnd.h: remove double inclusion of linux/blkdev.h
[SCSI] make struct scsi_{host,target}_type static
[SCSI] fix locking in host use of blk_plug_device()
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup external header file
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup code in zfcp_erp.c
[SCSI] zfcp: zfcp_fsf cleanup.
[SCSI] zfcp: consolidate sysfs things into one file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_aux.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_scsi.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Move status accessors from zfcp to SCSI include file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Small QDIO cleanups
[SCSI] zfcp: Adapter reopen for large number of unsolicited status
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix error checking for ELS ADISC requests
[SCSI] zfcp: wait until adapter is finished with ERP during auto-port
[SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver
[SCSI] sg: Add target reset support
[SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
[SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h
...
12 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity
of each data sector. crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing
I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
24 May, 2008
3 commits
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This patch removes the Makefile turd and uses the nice CFLAGS_REMOVE macro
in the lib directory.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -
The debug functions in spin_lock debugging pollute the output of the
function tracer. This patch adds the debug files in the lib director
to those that should not be compiled with mcount tracing.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -
Most archs define the string and memory compare functions in assembly.
Some do not. But these functions may be used in some archs at early
boot up.Since most archs define this code in assembly and they are not usually
traced, there's no need to trace them when they are not defined in
assembly.This patch removes the -pg from the CFLAGS for lib/string.o.
This prevents the string functions use in either vdso or early bootup
from crashing the system.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
30 Apr, 2008
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We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objectsBoth problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem listEach operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2008
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Due to the rcupreempt.h WARN_ON trigged, I got 2G syslog file. For some
serious complaining of kernel, we need repeat the warnings, so here I isolate
the ratelimit part of printk.c to a standalone file.Signed-off-by: Dave Young
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2008
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Generic versions of __find_first_bit and __find_first_zero_bit
are introduced as simplified versions of __find_next_bit and
__find_next_zero_bit. Their compilation and use are guarded by
a new config variable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT.The generic versions of find_first_bit and find_first_zero_bit
are implemented in terms of the newly introduced __find_first_bit
and __find_first_zero_bit.This patch does not remove the i386-specific implementation,
but it does switch i386 to use the generic functions by setting
GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT=y for X86_32.Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
22 Apr, 2008
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* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
[POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
[POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
[POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
[POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
[POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
[POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
[POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
[POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
[POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
[POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
[POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
[POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
[POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
[POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
[POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
[POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
[POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
[POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
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19 Apr, 2008
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits)
[NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices
[IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add().
[NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found
[PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init().
[INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call.
[INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call.
SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked.
[netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal
phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device
PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver
cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg.
tc35815: Statistics cleanup
natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
[TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code
[TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table
[TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines
e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
sb1000.c: make const arrays static
sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions
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17 Apr, 2008
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Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
29 Mar, 2008
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The knock-out. The pcounter abstraction is not used any longer in the
kernel.Not sure whether this should go via netdev tree, but as far as I
remember it was added via this one, and besides Eric thinks that
Andrew shouldn't mind this.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
