22 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • ia64's sched_clock() accesses per-cpu data which isn't set up at boot time.
    Hence ia64 cannot use printk timestamping, because printk() will crash in
    sched_clock().

    So make printk() use printk_clock(), defaulting to sched_clock(), overrideable
    by the architecture via attribute(weak).

    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andrew Morton
     

08 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • The attached patch prevents oopses interleaving with characters from
    other printks on other CPUs by only breaking the lock if the oops is
    happening on the machine holding the lock.

    It might be better if the oops generator got the lock and then called an
    inner vprintk routine that assumed the caller holds the lock, thus
    making oops reports "atomic".

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

26 Jun, 2005

1 commit

  • In the cpu hotplug case, per-cpu data possibly isn't initialized even the
    system state is 'running'. As the comments say in the original code, some
    console drivers assume per-cpu resources have been allocated. radeon fb is
    one such driver, which uses kmalloc. After a CPU is down, the per-cpu data
    of slab is freed, so the system crashed when printing some info.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Shaohua Li
     

24 Jun, 2005

1 commit

  • According to include/linux/console.h, CON_CONSDEV flag should be set on
    the last console specified on the boot command line:

    86 #define CON_PRINTBUFFER (1)
    87 #define CON_CONSDEV (2) /* Last on the command line */
    88 #define CON_ENABLED (4)
    89 #define CON_BOOT (8)

    This does not currently happen if there is more than one console specified
    on the boot commandline. Instead, it gets set on the first console on the
    command line. This can cause problems for things like kdb that look for
    the CON_CONSDEV flag to see if the console is valid.

    Additionaly, it doesn't look like CON_CONSDEV is reassigned to the next
    preferred console at unregister time if the console being unregistered
    currently has that bit set.

    Example (from sn2 ia64):

    elilo vmlinuz root= console=ttyS0 console=ttySG0

    in this case, the flags on ttySG console struct will be 0x4 (should be
    0x6).

    Attached patch against bk fixes both issues for the cases I looked at. It
    uses selected_console (which gets incremented for each console specified on
    the command line) as the indicator of which console to set CON_CONSDEV on.
    When adding the console to the list, if the previous one had CON_CONSDEV
    set, it masks it out. Tested on ia64 and x86.

    The problem with the current behavior is it breaks overriding the default from
    the boot line. In the ia64 case, there may be a global append line defining
    console=a in elilo.conf. Then you want to boot your kernel, and want to
    override the default by passing console=b on the boot line. elilo constructs
    the kernel cmdline by starting with the value of the global append line, then
    tacks on whatever else you specify, which puts console=b last.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Greg Edwards
     

17 May, 2005

1 commit


01 May, 2005

1 commit

  • Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops. Only available if
    CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

    This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal
    configs.

    Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matt Mackall
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds