17 Jun, 2009
4 commits
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Some architectures need to initialize SLAB caches to be able
to allocate page tables. They do that from pgtable_cache_init()
so the later should be called earlier now, best is before
vmalloc_init().Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* akpm: (182 commits)
fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
...Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
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Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
changed.In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly
manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the
task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
then clear newly disallowed ones.[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().
Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
verify this assumption.]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on
'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
that we need to call this function to "set nodes".Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
net: annotate struct sock bitfield
c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
ieee1394: annotate bitfield
net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
x86: unify pte_hidden
x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
kmemcheck: don't track page tables
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16 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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All recent distros depend on the non-deprecated sysfs layout, so
change the default value of the option to reflect that.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 Jun, 2009
3 commits
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Conflicts:
MAINTAINERSSigned-off-by: Vegard Nossum
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This false positive is due to the fact that do_mount_root() fakes a
mount option (which is normally read from userspace), and the kernel
unconditionally reads a whole page for the mount option.Hide the false positive by using the new __getname_gfp() with the
__GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag.Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum -
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
.gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
kallsyms: generalize text region handling
kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
documentation: make version fix
kbuild: fix a compile warning
gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
vmlinux.lds.h update
kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
ignore *.patch files
Remove bashisms from scripts
menu: fix embedded menu presentation
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13 Jun, 2009
3 commits
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General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.
Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum -
…x/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_counter: Start documenting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS requirements
perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
perf record: Explicity program a default counter
perf_counter: Remove PERF_TYPE_RAW special casing
perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too
powerpc, perf_counter: Fix performance counter event types
perf_counter/x86: Add a quirk for Atom processors
perf_counter tools: Remove one L1-data alias -
Help out arch porters who want to support perf counters by listing some
basic requirements.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
12 Jun, 2009
10 commits
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As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
even then you'll be missing some.For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
using that to do the test.Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators
in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts.Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
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Now, SLAB is configured in very early stage and it can be used in
init routine now.But replacing alloc_bootmem() in FLAT/DISCONTIGMEM's page_cgroup()
initialization breaks the allocation, now.
(Works well in SPARSEMEM case...it supports MEMORY_HOTPLUG and
size of page_cgroup is in reasonable size (< 1 << MAX_ORDER.)This patch revive FLATMEM+memory cgroup by using alloc_bootmem.
In future,
We stop to support FLATMEM (if no users) or rewrite codes for flatmem
completely.But this will adds more messy codes and overheads.Reported-by: Li Zefan
Tested-by: Li Zefan
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
fsnotify: allow groups to set freeing_mark to null
inotify/dnotify: should_send_event shouldn't match on FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD
dnotify: do not bother to lock entry->lock when reading mask
dnotify: do not use ?true:false when assigning to a bool
fsnotify: move events should indicate the event was on a child
inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify
fsnotify: handle filesystem unmounts with fsnotify marks
fsnotify: fsnotify marks on inodes pin them in core
fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to events
fsnotify: add correlations between events
fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible
fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq
dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify
fsnotify: parent event notification
fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes
fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend -
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
kmemleak: Add modules support
kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Add the base supportManual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
drivers/char/vt.c
init/main.c
mm/slab.c -
…el/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits)
perf_counter: Turn off by default
perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event
perf_counter: Better align code
perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache
perf_counter: Standardize event names
perf_counter: Rename enums
perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
perf_counter: More paranoia settings
perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors
perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
perf_counter: Accurate period data
perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data
perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion
perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment
perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors
perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors
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Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify. This should be feature for feature
exactly the same as the original inotify_user. This does not make any changes
to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit. Those patches (and the eventual
removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
working correctly.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig -
As suggested by Christoph Lameter, introduce mm_init() now that we initialize
all the kernel memory allocations together.Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
We can call vmalloc_init() after kmem_cache_init() and use kzalloc() instead of
the bootmem allocator when initializing vmalloc data structures.Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Acked-by: Nick Piggin
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get
rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to
kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some
changes to allocator boostrap code.Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps
before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar:We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code:
[ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000
[ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c
[ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001
[ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002
[ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc
[ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0
[ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003
[ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [] ? printk+0x14/0x16
[ 0.000000] [] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23
[ 0.000000] [] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64
[ 0.000000] [] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8
[ 0.000000] [] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7
[ 0.000000] [] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c
[ 0.000000] [] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6fAcked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by Linus Torvalds
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
11 Jun, 2009
4 commits
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/exit.c -
Perfcounters were enabled by default to help testing - but now that we
are submitting it upstream, make it default-disabled.Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
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* 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: rcu_sched_grace_period(): kill the bogus flush_signals()
rculist: use list_entry_rcu in places where it's appropriate
rculist.h: introduce list_entry_rcu() and list_first_entry_rcu()
rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending
rcu: Add __rcu_pending tracing to hierarchical RCU
RCU: make treercu be default
10 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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The STRIP_ASM_SYMS kconfig symbol mucks up the embedded menu because
STRIP_ASM_SYMS is in the middle of the embedded menu items but it does not
depend on EMBEDDED. Move it to beyond the end of the embedded menu so
that the menu is presented correctly.Or if STRIP_ASM_SYMS should depend on EMBEDDED, that can also be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
01 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Merge reason: merge almost-rc8 into perfcounters/core, which was -rc6
based - to pick up the latest upstream fixes.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
25 May, 2009
1 commit
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There is no format specifiers left in the linux_banner, and gcc-4.3
complains seeing the printk.Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 May, 2009
2 commits
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Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
to get the latest upstream fixes.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 May, 2009
2 commits
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Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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With the removal of duplicate unpack_to_rootfs() (commit
df52092f3c97788592ef72501a43fb7ac6a3cfe0) the messages displayed do not
actually correspond to what the kernel is doing. In addition, depending
if ramdisks are supported or not, the messages are not at all the same.So keep the messages more in sync with what is really doing the kernel,
and only display a second message in case of failure. This also ensure
that the printk message cannot be split by other printk's.Signed-off-by: Eric Piel
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
the latest upstream fixes.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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V3 of the early platform driver implementation.
Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses,
interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early
timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This
because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the
platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk
support. Early in this case means before initcalls.These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working
quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
driver. A single way would be better.The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the
probe is decided by the architecture code.See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kay Sievers
Cc: David Brownell
Cc: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Apr, 2009
4 commits
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Merge reason: new patches to be queued up depend on:
ef631b0: rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Change cb6ff208076b5f434db1b8c983429269d719cef5 ("NOMMU: Support XIP on
initramfs") seems to have broken booting from initramfs with /sbin/init
being a hardlink.It seems like the logic required for XIP on nommu, i.e. ftruncate to
reported cpio header file size (body_len) is broken for hardlinks, which
have a reported size of 0, and the truncate thus nukes the contents of the
file (in my case busybox), making boot impossible and ending with runaway
loop modprobe binfmt-0000 - and of course 0000 is not a valid binary
format.My fix is to only call ftruncate if size is non-zero which fixes things
for me, but I'm not certain whether this will break XIP for those files on
nommu systems, although I would guess not.Signed-off-by: Randy Robertson
Acked-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
init/initramfs.c:520: warning: 'clean_rootfs' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming changeSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
12 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: refactor code for future changes
Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepointsSigned-off-by: Zhao Lei
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
11 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux as
they cause vmlinux to balloon when CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y and they cause
dump_stack() and get_wchan() to produce useless information under some
circumstances.With this we add a config option (CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS) that will cause
the build to supply -X to the linker to tell it to strip temporary local
symbols.This doesn't seem to cause gdb any problems.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
