13 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
window.Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
(mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
mainline and with some I want more testing.This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
positive, might be a real regression..."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
kill generic_file_buffered_write()
ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
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02 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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it only makes control flow in __fput() and friends more convoluted.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
24 Feb, 2014
2 commits
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This commit adds the locking counterpart to rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
[ paulmck: Make n_lock_torture_errors and torture_spinlock static
as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett -
Because rcu_torture_random() will be used by the locking equivalent to
rcutorture, pull it out into its own module. This new module cannot
be separately configured, instead, use the Kconfig "select" statement
from the Kconfig options of tests depending on it.Suggested-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
05 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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It really isn't very interesting to have DEBUG_INFO when doing compile
coverage stuff (you wouldn't want to run the result anyway, that's kind
of the whole point of COMPILE_TEST), and it currently makes the build
take longer and use much more disk space for "all{yes,mod}config".There's somewhat active discussion about this still, and we might end up
with some new config option for things like this (Andi points out that
the silly X86_DECODER_SELFTEST option also slows down the normal
coverage tests hugely), but I'm starting the ball rolling with this
simple one-liner.DEBUG_INFO isn't that noticeable if you have tons of memory and a good
IO subsystem, but it hurts you a lot if you don't - for very little
upside for the common use.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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Pull firewire updates from Stefan Richter:
"IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem changes:- make remote debugging over 1394 a runtime option instead of a
buildtime option
- extend remote debug access past the 4 GB barrier on respectively
capable hardware
- documentation update"* tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB
firewire: ohci: Turn remote DMA support into a module parameter
Documentation/: update FireWire debugging documentation
24 Jan, 2014
2 commits
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To help avoid an architecture failing to correctly check kernel/user
boundaries when handling copy_to_user, copy_from_user, put_user, or
get_user, perform some simple tests and fail to load if any of them
behave unexpectedly.Specifically, this is to make sure there is a way to notice if things
like what was fixed in commit 8404663f81d2 ("ARM: 7527/1: uaccess:
explicitly check __user pointer when !CPU_USE_DOMAINS") ever regresses
again, for any architecture.Additionally, adds new "user" selftest target, which loads this module.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a pair of test modules I'd like to see in the tree. Instead of
putting these in lkdtm, where I've been adding various tests that trigger
crashes, these don't make sense there since they need to be either
distinctly separate, or their pass/fail state don't need to crash the
machine.These live in lib/ for now, along with a few other in-kernel test modules,
and use the slightly more common "test_" naming convention, instead of
"test-". We should likely standardize on the former:$ find . -name 'test_*.c' | grep -v /tools/ | wc -l
4
$ find . -name 'test-*.c' | grep -v /tools/ | wc -l
2The first is entirely a no-op module, designed to allow simple testing of
the module loading and verification interface. It's useful to have a
module that has no other uses or dependencies so it can be reliably used
for just testing module loading and verification.The second is a module that exercises the user memory access functions, in
an effort to make sure that we can quickly catch any regressions in
boundary checking (e.g. like what was recently fixed on ARM).This patch (of 2):
When doing module loading verification tests (for example, with module
signing, or LSM hooks), it is very handy to have a module that can be
built on all systems under test, isn't auto-loaded at boot, and has no
device or similar dependencies. This creates the "test_module.ko" module
for that purpose, which only reports its load and unload to printk.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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Record actively mapped pages and provide an api for asserting a given
page is dma inactive before execution proceeds. Placing
debug_dma_assert_idle() in cow_user_page() flagged the violation of the
dma-api in the NET_DMA implementation (see commit 77873803363c "net_dma:
mark broken").The implementation includes the capability to count, in a limited way,
repeat mappings of the same page that occur without an intervening
unmap. This 'overlap' counter is limited to the few bits of tag space
in a radix tree. This mechanism is added to mitigate false negative
cases where, for example, a page is dma mapped twice and
debug_dma_assert_idle() is called after the page is un-mapped once.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
Cc: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Vinod Koul
Cc: Russell King
Cc: James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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This makes it possible to debug kernel over FireWire without the need to
recompile it.[Stefan R: changed description from "...0" to "...N"]
Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
26 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option
'panic=x', or via /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not
sufficient when the panic occurs before we are able to set up
these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT so that we can
set the desired value from the .config.The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait
forever. Also adds set_arch_panic_timeout(new_timeout,
arch_default_timeout), which is intended to be used by arches in
arch_setup(). The idea being that the new_timeout is only set if
the user hasn't changed from the arch_default_timeout.Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a1674daec27c534df409697025ac568ebcee91e.1385418410.git.jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Tests various percpu operations.
Enable with CONFIG_PERCPU_TEST=m.
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver update for 3.13-rc1.There's some more minor n_tty work here, but nothing like previous
kernel releases. Also some new driver ids, driver updates for new
hardware, and other small things.All of this has been in linux-next for a while with no issues"
* tag 'tty-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (84 commits)
serial: omap: fix missing comma
serial: sh-sci: Enable the driver on all ARM platforms
serial: mfd: Staticize local symbols
serial: omap: fix a few checkpatch warnings
serial: omap: improve RS-485 performance
mrst_max3110: fix unbalanced IRQ issue during resume
serial: omap: Add support for optional wake-up
serial: sirf: remove duplicate defines
tty: xuartps: Fix build error when COMMON_CLK is not set
tty: xuartps: Fix build error due to missing forward declaration
tty: xuartps: Fix "may be used uninitialized" build warning
serial: 8250_pci: add Pericom PCIe Serial board Support (12d8:7952/4/8) - Chip PI7C9X7952/4/8
tty: xuartps: Update copyright information
tty: xuartps: Implement suspend/resume callbacks
tty: xuartps: Dynamically adjust to input frequency changes
tty: xuartps: Updating set_baud_rate()
tty: xuartps: Force enable the UART in xuartps_console_write
tty: xuartps: support 64 byte FIFO size
tty: xuartps: Add polled mode support for xuartps
tty: xuartps: Implement BREAK detection, add SYSRQ support
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29 Oct, 2013
1 commit
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Without the timer debugging, the delayed kobject release will just
result in undebuggable oopses if it triggers any latent bugs. That
doesn't actually help debugging at all.So make DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE depend on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS to avoid
having people enable one without the other.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2013
1 commit
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Turn the initial value of sysctl kernel.sysrq (SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE)
into a Kconfig variable.Original version by Bastian Blank .
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
13 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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After the last architecture switched to generic hard irqs the config
options HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS & GENERIC_HARDIRQS and the related code
for !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS can be removed.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
12 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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No reason require rbtree test code to be a module, allow it to be builtin
(streamlines my development process)Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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Pull ARC changes from Vineet Gupta:
- ARC MM changes:
- preparation for MMUv4 (accomodate new PTE bits, new cmds)
- Rework the ASID allocation algorithm to remove asid-mm reverse map
- Boilerplate code consolidation in Exception Handlers
- Disable FRAME_POINTER for ARC
- Unaligned Access Emulation for Big-Endian from Noam
- Bunch of fixes (udelay, missing accessors) from Mischa* tag 'arc-v3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: fix new Section mismatches in build (post __cpuinit cleanup)
Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC
ARC: Fix __udelay calculation
ARC: remove console_verbose() from setup_arch()
ARC: Add read*_relaxed to asm/io.h
ARC: Handle un-aligned user space access in BE.
ARC: [ASID] Track ASID allocation cycles/generations
ARC: [ASID] activate_mm() == switch_mm()
ARC: [ASID] get_new_mmu_context() to conditionally allocate new ASID
ARC: [ASID] Refactor the TLB paranoid debug code
ARC: [ASID] Remove legacy/unused debug code
ARC: No need to flush the TLB in early boot
ARC: MMUv4 preps/3 - Abstract out TLB Insert/Delete
ARC: MMUv4 preps/2 - Reshuffle PTE bits
ARC: MMUv4 preps/1 - Fold PTE K/U access flags
ARC: Code cosmetics (Nothing semantical)
ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Optimize away redundant IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE
ARC: Exception Handlers Code consolidation
ARC: Add some .gitignore entries
05 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack
unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage.
Thus it's explicit usage on ARC is discouraged (gcc is free to use it,
for some tricky stack frames even if -fomit-frame-pointer).Hence no point enabling it for ARC.
References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1593937.html
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
26 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Implement debugging for kobject release functions. kobjects are
reference counted, so the drop of the last reference to them is not
predictable. However, the common case is for the last reference to be
the kobject's removal from a subsystem, which results in the release
function being immediately called.This can hide subtle bugs, which can occur when another thread holds a
reference to the kobject at the same time that a kobject is removed.
This results in the release method being delayed.In order to make these kinds of problems more visible, the following
patch implements a delayed release; this has the effect that the
release function will be out of order with respect to the removal of
the kobject in the same manner that it would be if a reference was
being held.This provides us with an easy way to allow driver writers to debug
their drivers and fix otherwise hidden problems.Signed-off-by: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
14 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"MIPS updates:- All the things that didn't make 3.10.
- Removes the Windriver PPMC platform. Nobody will miss it.
- Remove a workaround from kernel/irq/irqdomain.c which was there
exclusivly for MIPS. Patch by Grant Likely.
- More small improvments for the SEAD 3 platform
- Improvments on the BMIPS / SMP support for the BCM63xx series.
- Various cleanups of dead leftovers.
- Platform support for the Cavium Octeon-based EdgeRouter Lite.Two large KVM patchsets didn't make it for this pull request because
their respective authors are vacationing"* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (124 commits)
MIPS: Kconfig: Add missing MODULES dependency to VPE_LOADER
MIPS: BCM63xx: CLK: Add dummy clk_{set,round}_rate() functions
MIPS: SEAD3: Disable L2 cache on SEAD-3.
MIPS: BCM63xx: Enable second core SMP on BCM6328 if available
MIPS: BCM63xx: Add SMP support to prom.c
MIPS: define write{b,w,l,q}_relaxed
MIPS: Expose missing pci_io{map,unmap} declarations
MIPS: Malta: Update GCMP detection.
Revert "MIPS: make CAC_ADDR and UNCAC_ADDR account for PHYS_OFFSET"
MIPS: APSP: Remove
SSB: Kconfig: Amend SSB_EMBEDDED dependencies
MIPS: microMIPS: Fix improper definition of ISA exception bit.
MIPS: Don't try to decode microMIPS branch instructions where they cannot exist.
MIPS: Declare emulate_load_store_microMIPS as a static function.
MIPS: Fix typos and cleanup comment
MIPS: Cleanup indentation and whitespace
MIPS: BMIPS: support booting from physical CPU other than 0
MIPS: Only set cpu_has_mmips if SYS_SUPPORTS_MICROMIPS
MIPS: GIC: Fix gic_set_affinity infinite loop
MIPS: Don't save/restore OCTEON wide multiplier state on syscalls.
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05 Jul, 2013
8 commits
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Merge Kconfig menu diet patches from Dave Hansen:
"I think the "Kernel Hacking" menu has gotten a bit out of hand. It is
over 120 lines long on my system with everything enabled and options
are scattered around it haphazardly.http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/kconfig-horror.png
Let's try to introduce some sanity. This set takes that 120 lines
down to 55 and makes it vastly easier to find some things. It's a
start.This set stands on its own, but there is plenty of room for follow-up
patches. The arch-specific debug options still end up getting stuck
in the top-level "kernel hacking" menu. OPTIMIZE_INLINING, for
instance, could obviously go in to the "compiler options" menu, but
the fact that it is defined in arch/ in a separate Kconfig file keeps
it on its own for the moment.The Signed-off-by's in here look funky. I changed employers while
working on this set, so I have signoffs from both email addresses"* emailed patches from Dave Hansen :
hang and lockup detection menu
kconfig: consolidate printk options
group locking debugging options
consolidate compilation option configs
consolidate runtime testing configs
order memory debugging Kconfig options
consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging options -
The hard/softlockup and hung-task entries take up 6 lines
of screen real-estate when enabled. I bet folks don't
mess with these _that_ often, so move them in a group
down a level.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Same deal, take the printk-related things and hide them in a menu.
This takes another 4 items out of the top-level menu.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Original posting:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184208.D9E5804D@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
There are quite a few of these, and we want to make sure that
there is one-stop-shopping for lock debugging.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Original Post:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184207.6E00DDEC@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
Again, trying to come up with some common themes of the stuff in
the kernel hacking menu... There are quite a few options to
tweak compilation in some way, or perform extra compile-time
checks. Give them their own menu.The diff here looks a bit funny... makes it look like I'm
moving debugfs even though I'm actually moving the options on
either side of it.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Original posting:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184206.FC11422F@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
These runtime tests are great, except that there are a lot of them,
and they are very rarely needed. Give them their own menu so that
only the folks who need them will have to go looking for them.Note that there are some other runtime tests that are not in here,
like for RCU or locking. This menu should only be used for tests
that do not have a more appropriate home.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Original posting:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184203.37E6C724@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
There are a *LOT* of memory debugging options. They are just scattered
all over the "Kernel Hacking" menu. Sure, "memory debugging" is a very
vague term and it's going to be hard to make absolute rules about what
goes in here, but this has to be better than what we had before.This does, however, leave out the architecture-specific memory
debugging options (like x86's DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX). There would need
to be some substantial changes to move those in here. Kconfig can not
easily mix arch-specific and generic options together: it really
requires a file per-architecture, and I think having an
arch/foo/Kconfig.debug-memory might be taking things a bit too farSigned-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Original posting:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184202.F54094D9@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com
Several architectures have similar stack debugging config options.
They all pretty much do the same thing, some with slightly
differing help text.This patch changes the architectures to instead enable a Kconfig
boolean, and then use that boolean in the generic Kconfig.debug
to present the actual menu option. This removes a bunch of
duplication and adds consistency across arches.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin
Reviewed-by: James Hogan
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf [for tile]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Injects EDEADLK conditions at pseudo-random interval, with
exponential backoff up to UINT_MAX (to ensure that every lock
operation still completes in a reasonable time).This way we can test the wound slowpath even for ww mutex users
where contention is never expected, and the ww deadlock
avoidance algorithm is only needed for correctness against
malicious userspace. An example would be protecting kernel
modesetting properties, which thanks to single-threaded X isn't
really expected to contend, ever.I've looked into using the CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
infrastructure, but decided against it for two reasons:- EDEADLK handling is mandatory for ww mutex users and should
never affect the outcome of a syscall. This is in contrast to -ENOMEM
injection. So fine configurability isn't required.- The fault injection framework only allows to set a simple
probability for failure. Now the probability that a ww mutex acquire
stage with N locks will never complete (due to too many injected
EDEADLK backoffs) is zero. But the expected number of ww_mutex_lock
operations for the completely uncontended case would be O(exp(N)).
The per-acuiqire ctx exponential backoff solution choosen here only
results in O(log N) overhead due to injection and so O(log N * N)
lock operations. This way we can fail with high probability (and so
have good test coverage even for fancy backoff and lock acquisition
paths) without running into patalogical cases.Note that EDEADLK will only ever be injected when we managed to
acquire the lock. This prevents any behaviour changes for users
which rely on the EALREADY semantics.Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113117.4001.21681.stgit@patser
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
22 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER selects FRAME_POINTER but
that symbol is not available for MIPS.Fixes the following problem on a randconfig:
warning: (LOCKDEP && FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER && LATENCYTOP &&
KMEMCHECK) selects FRAME_POINTER which has unmet direct dependencies
(DEBUG_KERNEL && (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN ||
MN10300 || METAG) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS)Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras
Acked-by: Steven J. Hill
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5441/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
01 May, 2013
3 commits
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The Kconfig help text for MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT and
OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT has mismatched module names.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files. Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs. ones which emit errors. The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Acked-by: Helge Deller
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There are several places in kernel where modules unescapes input to convert
C-Style Escape Sequences into byte codes.The patch provides generic implementation of such approach. Test cases are
also included into the patch.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export get_random_int() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko
Cc: Samuel Thibault
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: William Hubbs
Cc: Chris Brannon
Cc: Kirk Reiser
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
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03 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Add [!]METAG to a couple of Kconfig dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug.
Don't allow stack utilization instrumentation on metag, and allow
building with frame pointers.Signed-off-by: James Hogan
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Catalin Marinas
22 Feb, 2013
3 commits
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Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
- Florian has vanished so I appear to have become fbdev maintainer
again :(- Joel and Mark are distracted to welcome to the new OCFS2 maintainer
- The backlight queue
- Small core kernel changes
- lib/ updates
- The rtc queue
- Various random bits
* akpm: (164 commits)
rtc: rtc-davinci: use devm_*() functions
rtc: rtc-max8997: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-max8907: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-da9052: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-wm831x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-tps80031: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-lp8788: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-coh901331: use devm_clk_get()
rtc: rtc-vt8500: use devm_*() functions
rtc: rtc-tps6586x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
rtc: rtc-imxdi: use devm_clk_get()
rtc: rtc-cmos: use dev_warn()/dev_dbg() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
rtc: rtc-pcf8583: use dev_warn() instead of printk()
rtc: rtc-sun4v: use pr_warn() instead of printk()
rtc: rtc-vr41xx: use dev_info() instead of printk()
rtc: rtc-rs5c313: use pr_err() instead of printk()
rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: use dev_dbg()/dev_err() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
rtc: rtc-rs5c372: use dev_dbg()/dev_warn() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
rtc: rtc-ds2404: use dev_err() instead of printk()
rtc: rtc-efi: use dev_err()/dev_warn()/pr_err() instead of printk()
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CONFIG_EXPERT doesn't really make sense, and hides it unintentionally.
Remove superfluous "default n" pointed out by Ingo as well.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:- add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
able to check return values.- remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
updates"Fix up trivial conflicts
* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
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