12 Sep, 2009
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
sched: Turn off child_runs_first
sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
sched: Clean up topology.h
sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
sched: Try to deal with low capacity
sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
sched: Add smt_gain
sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
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04 Sep, 2009
2 commits
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Ingo was getting warnings from rcu_scheduler_starting()
indicating that context switches had occurred before RCU ended
its special early-boot handling of grace periods.This is a dangerous condition, as it indicates that RCU might
have prematurely ended grace periods. This exploratory fix
moves rcu_scheduler_starting() earlier in boot.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
27 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Some architectures initialize clocks and timers in late_time_init and
x86 wants to do the same to avoid FIXMAP hackery for calibrating the
TSC. That would result in undefined sched_clock readout and wreckaged
printk timestamps again. We probably have those already on archs which
do all their time/clock setup in late_time_init.There is no harm to move that after late_time_init except that a few
more boot timestamps are stale. The scheduler is not active at that
point so no real wreckage is expected.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
LKML-Reference:
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
26 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()
tracing: handle broken names in ftrace filter
ftrace: Unify effect of writing to trace_options and option/*
23 Aug, 2009
2 commits
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Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
21 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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One of my testboxes triggered this nasty stack overflow crash
during SCSI probing:[ 5.874004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 5.875004] device: 'sda': device_add
[ 5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c
[ 5.878004] IP: [] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[ 5.878004] *pde = 00000000
[ 5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
[ 5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 5.878004] last sysfs file:
[ 5.878004]
[ 5.878004] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc6-tip-01272-g9919e28-dirty #5685)
[ 5.878004] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010083 CPU: 0
[ 5.878004] EIP is at print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[ 5.878004] EAX: cf8a3000 EBX: cf8a3fe4 ECX: 00000049 EDX: 00000000
[ 5.878004] ESI: b1cfce84 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cf8a3018 ESP: cf8a2ff4
[ 5.878004] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 5.878004] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=cf8a2000 task=cf8a8000 task.ti=cf8a3000)
[ 5.878004] Stack:
[ 5.878004] b1004867 fffff000 cf8a3ffc
[ 5.878004] Call Trace:
[ 5.878004] [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[ 5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c
[ 5.878004] IP: [] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[ 5.878004] *pde = 00000000
[ 5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
[ 5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOCThe oops did not reveal any more details about the real stack
that we have and the system got into an infinite loop of
recursive pagefaults.So i booted with CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y and the 'stacktrace' boot
parameter. The box did not crash (timings/conditions probably
changed a tiny bit to trigger the catastrophic crash), but the
/debug/tracing/stack_trace file was rather revealing:Depth Size Location (72 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 3704 52 __change_page_attr+0xb8/0x290
1) 3652 24 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x43/0x90
2) 3628 60 kernel_map_pages+0x108/0x120
3) 3568 40 prep_new_page+0x7d/0x130
4) 3528 84 get_page_from_freelist+0x106/0x420
5) 3444 116 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd7/0x550
6) 3328 36 allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100
7) 3292 36 new_slab+0x1c/0x160
8) 3256 36 __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0
9) 3220 4 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0
10) 3216 108 create_object+0x28/0x250
11) 3108 40 kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0
12) 3068 24 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0
13) 3044 52 scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70
14) 2992 20 scsi_host_alloc_command+0x22/0x70
15) 2972 24 __scsi_get_command+0x1b/0x90
16) 2948 28 scsi_get_command+0x35/0x90
17) 2920 24 scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd+0xd4/0x100
18) 2896 128 sd_prep_fn+0x332/0xa70
19) 2768 36 blk_peek_request+0xe7/0x1d0
20) 2732 56 scsi_request_fn+0x54/0x520
21) 2676 12 __generic_unplug_device+0x2b/0x40
22) 2664 24 blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x59/0x80
23) 2640 172 blk_execute_rq+0x6b/0xb0
24) 2468 32 scsi_execute+0xe0/0x140
25) 2436 64 scsi_execute_req+0x152/0x160
26) 2372 60 scsi_vpd_inquiry+0x6c/0x90
27) 2312 44 scsi_get_vpd_page+0x112/0x160
28) 2268 52 sd_revalidate_disk+0x1df/0x320
29) 2216 92 rescan_partitions+0x98/0x330
30) 2124 52 __blkdev_get+0x309/0x350
31) 2072 8 blkdev_get+0xf/0x20
32) 2064 44 register_disk+0xff/0x120
33) 2020 36 add_disk+0x6e/0xb0
34) 1984 44 sd_probe_async+0xfb/0x1d0
35) 1940 44 __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0
36) 1896 8 async_schedule+0x12/0x20
37) 1888 60 sd_probe+0x305/0x360
38) 1828 44 really_probe+0x63/0x170
39) 1784 36 driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60
40) 1748 16 __device_attach+0x49/0x50
41) 1732 32 bus_for_each_drv+0x5b/0x80
42) 1700 24 device_attach+0x6b/0x70
43) 1676 16 bus_attach_device+0x47/0x60
44) 1660 76 device_add+0x33d/0x400
45) 1584 52 scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x6a/0x2c0
46) 1532 108 scsi_add_lun+0x44b/0x460
47) 1424 116 scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x182/0x4e0
48) 1308 36 __scsi_add_device+0xd9/0xe0
49) 1272 44 ata_scsi_scan_host+0x10b/0x190
50) 1228 24 async_port_probe+0x96/0xd0
51) 1204 44 __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0
52) 1160 8 async_schedule+0x12/0x20
53) 1152 48 ata_host_register+0x171/0x1d0
54) 1104 60 ata_pci_sff_activate_host+0xf3/0x230
55) 1044 44 ata_pci_sff_init_one+0xea/0x100
56) 1000 48 amd_init_one+0xb2/0x190
57) 952 8 local_pci_probe+0x13/0x20
58) 944 32 pci_device_probe+0x68/0x90
59) 912 44 really_probe+0x63/0x170
60) 868 36 driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60
61) 832 20 __driver_attach+0x89/0xa0
62) 812 32 bus_for_each_dev+0x5b/0x80
63) 780 12 driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
64) 768 72 bus_add_driver+0x14b/0x2d0
65) 696 36 driver_register+0x6e/0x150
66) 660 20 __pci_register_driver+0x53/0xc0
67) 640 8 amd_init+0x14/0x16
68) 632 572 do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x1d0
69) 60 12 do_basic_setup+0x56/0x6a
70) 48 20 kernel_init+0x84/0xce
71) 28 28 kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10There's a lot of fat functions on that stack trace, but
the largest of all is do_one_initcall(). This is due to
the boot trace entry variables being on the stack.Fixing this is relatively easy, initcalls are fundamentally
serialized, so we can move the local variables to file scope.Note that this large stack footprint was present for a
couple of months already - what pushed my system over
the edge was the addition of kmemleak to the call-chain:6) 3328 36 allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100
7) 3292 36 new_slab+0x1c/0x160
8) 3256 36 __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0
9) 3220 4 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0
10) 3216 108 create_object+0x28/0x250
11) 3108 40 kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0
12) 3068 24 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0
13) 3044 52 scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70This pushes the total to ~3800 bytes, only a tiny bit
more was needed to corrupt the on-kernel-stack thread_info.The fix reduces the stack footprint from 572 bytes
to 28 bytes.Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc:
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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nr_cpu_ids is dependent only on cpu_possible_map and
setup_per_cpu_areas() already depends on cpu_possible_map and will use
nr_cpu_ids. Initialize nr_cpu_ids before setting up percpu areas.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
05 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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If user has already enabled profiling support in the kernel
(for oprofile, old-style profiling of ftrace) then offer up
perfcounters with a y default in interactive kconfig sessions.Still keep it off by default otherwise.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Explain what tracepoint profiling sources are about.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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Fix a missed rename in EVENT_PROFILE support so that it gets
built and allows tracepoint tracing from the 'perf' tool.Fix a typo in the (never before built & enabled) portion in
perf_counter.c as well, and update that code to the
attr.config changes as well.Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson
Cc: Ben Gamari
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Steven Rostedt
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
24 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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Remove Classic RCU, given that the combination of Tree RCU and
the proposed Bloatwatch RCU do everything that Classic RCU can
with fewer bugs.Tree RCU has been default in x86 builds for almost six months,
and seems to be quite reliable, so there does not seem to be
much justification for keeping the Classic RCU code and config
complexity around anymore.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
…bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release
23 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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SLAB uses get/put_online_cpus() which use a mutex which is itself only
initialized when cpu_hotplug_init() is called. Currently we hang suring
boot in SLAB due to doing that too late.Reported by James Bottomley and Sachin Sant (and possibly others).
Debugged by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.This just removes the dynamic initialization of the data structures, and
replaces it with a static one, avoiding this dependency entirely, and
removing one unnecessary special initcall.Tested-by: Sachin Sant
Tested-by: James Bottomley
Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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The page allocator also needs the masking of gfp flags during boot,
so this moves it out of slab/slub and uses it with the page allocator
as well.Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data
initialization.Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Huang Ying
Cc: Li Wei
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* '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
...
13 Jun, 2009
4 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 -
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
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…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
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
* '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
... -
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
