23 Mar, 2011
3 commits
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We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could have
been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to dmesg. To make
it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL
Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to KERN_NOTICE and audit any
messages
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joe Perches
Cc: Olof Johansson
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
For a platform with many consoles like:
"console=tty1 console=ttyMFD2 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=mrst"Each time when the non "selected_console" (tty1 and ttyMFD2 here) get
registered, the existing kernel message will be printed out on registered
consoles again, the "mrst" early console will get some same message for 3
times, and "tty1" will get some for twice.As suggested by Andrew Morton, every time a new console is registered, it
will be set as the "exclusive" console which will dump the already
existing kernel messages.Signed-off-by: Feng Tang
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot
console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console.This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the
console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is
available.If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console
is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash
rather 'interesting'.By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that
will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash.The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces
lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from
users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where
we crash.Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (50 commits)
printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixes
efivars: Add Documentation
efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers.
efivars: Parameterize operations.
efivars: Split out variable registration
efivars: parameterize efivars
efivars: Make efivars bin_attributes dynamic
efivars: move efivars globals into struct efivars
drivers:misc: ti-st: fix debugging code
kref: Fix typo in kref documentation
UIO: add PRUSS UIO driver support
Fix spelling mistakes in Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
firmware: Fix unaligned memory accesses in dmi-sysfs
firmware: Add documentation for /sys/firmware/dmi
firmware: Expose DMI type 15 System Event Log
firmware: Break out system_event_log in dmi-sysfs
firmware: Basic dmi-sysfs support
firmware: Add DMI entry types to the headers
Driver core: convert platform_{get,set}_drvdata to static inline functions
Translate linux-2.6/Documentation/magic-number.txt into Chinese
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14 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixes with /dev/kmsg
Log messages passed to the kernel log by using /dev/kmsg or /dev/ttyprintk
might contain a syslog prefix including the syslog facility value.This makes printk to recognize these headers properly, extract the real log
level from it to use, and add the prefix as a proper prefix to the
log buffer, instead of wrongly printing it as the log message text.Before:
$ echo 'text' > /dev/kmsg
$ dmesg -r
[135159.594810] textAfter:
$ echo 'text' > /dev/kmsg
$ dmesg -r
[ 50.750654] textCc: Lennart Poettering
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
11 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Reviewed-by: James Morris
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex. As a
result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all
acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex()This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make
implications about the underlying lock.The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is
inverted from try_acquire_console_sem()This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to
a mutex.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Jan, 2011
2 commits
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dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation,
kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention
on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be
lost.This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the
list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never
fail because of lock contention.Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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We need to know the reason why system rebooted in support service.
However, we can't inform our customers of the reason because final
messages are lost on current Linux kernel.This patch improves the situation above because the final messages are
saved by adding kmsg_dump() to reboot, halt, poweroff and
emergency_restart path.Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Marco Stornelli
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Conflicts:
security/smack/smack_lsm.cVerified and added fix by Stephen Rothwell
Ok'd by Casey SchauflerSigned-off-by: James Morris
08 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (36 commits)
serial: apbuart: Fixup apbuart_console_init()
TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.
tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
drivers: serial: apbuart: Handle OF failures gracefully
Serial: Avoid unbalanced IRQ wake disable during resume
tty: fix typos/errors in tty_driver.h comments
pch_uart : fix warnings for 64bit compile
8250: fix uninitialized FIFOs
ip2: fix compiler warning on ip2main_pci_tbl
specialix: fix compiler warning on specialix_pci_tbl
rocket: fix compiler warning on rocket_pci_ids
8250: add a UPIO_DWAPB32 for 32 bit accesses
8250: use container_of() instead of casting
serial: omap-serial: Add support for kernel debugger
serial: fix pch_uart kconfig & build
drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support
RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART description
serial: ifx6x60: fix memory leak
serial: ifx6x60: free IRQ on error
Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver
...Fixed up conflicts in drivers/serial/apbuart.c with evil merge that
makes the code look fairly sane (unlike either side).
17 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
Userspace can query the actual virtual console, and the configured
console devices behind /dev/tt0 and /dev/console.The last entry in the list of devices is the active device, analog
to the console= kernel command line option.The attribute supports poll(), which is raised when the virtual
console is changed or /dev/console is reconfigured.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartmanindex 0000000..b138b66
09 Dec, 2010
2 commits
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Eric Paris pointed out that it doesn't make sense to require
both CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_SYSLOG for certain syslog actions.
So require CAP_SYSLOG, not CAP_SYS_ADMIN, when dmesg_restrict
is set.(I'm also consolidating the now common error path)
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Acked-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Signed-off-by: James Morris -
__get_cpu_var() is a bit inefficient, lets use __this_cpu_read() and
__this_cpu_write() to manipulate printk_pending.printk_needs_cpu(cpu) is called only for the current cpu :
Use faster __this_cpu_read().Remove the redundant unlikely on (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) test:
# size kernel/printk.o*
text data bss dec hex filename
9942 756 263488 274186 42f0a kernel/printk.o.new
9990 756 263488 274234 42f3a kernel/printk.o.oldSigned-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
29 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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Privileged syslog operations currently require CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Split
this off into a new CAP_SYSLOG privilege which we can sanely take away
from a container through the capability bounding set.With this patch, an lxc container can be prevented from messing with
the host's syslog (i.e. dmesg -c).Changelog: mar 12 2010: add selinux capability2:cap_syslog perm
Changelog: nov 22 2010:
. port to new kernel
. add a WARN_ONCE if userspace isn't using CAP_SYSLOGSigned-off-by: Serge Hallyn
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan
Acked-By: Kees Cook
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Cc: "Christopher J. PeBenito"
Cc: Eric Paris
Signed-off-by: James Morris
26 Nov, 2010
2 commits
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This patch fixes a hang observed with 2.6.32 kernels where timers got enqueued
on offline cpus.printk_needs_cpu() may return 1 if called on offline cpus. When a cpu gets
offlined it schedules the idle process which, before killing its own cpu, will
call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(). That function in turn will call
printk_needs_cpu() in order to check if the local tick can be disabled. On
offline cpus this function should naturally return 0 since regardless if the
tick gets disabled or not the cpu will be dead short after. That is besides the
fact that __cpu_disable() should already have made sure that no interrupts on
the offlined cpu will be delivered anyway.In this case it prevents tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to call
select_nohz_load_balancer(). No idea if that really is a problem. However what
made me debug this is that on 2.6.32 the function get_nohz_load_balancer() is
used within __mod_timer() to select a cpu on which a timer gets enqueued. If
printk_needs_cpu() returns 1 then the nohz_load_balancer cpu doesn't get
updated when a cpu gets offlined. It may contain the cpu number of an offline
cpu. In turn timers get enqueued on an offline cpu and not very surprisingly
they never expire and cause system hangs.This has been observed 2.6.32 kernels. On current kernels __mod_timer() uses
get_nohz_timer_target() which doesn't have that problem. However there might be
other problems because of the too early exit tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in
case a cpu goes offline.Easiest way to fix this is just to test if the current cpu is offline and call
printk_tick() directly which clears the condition.Alternatively I tried a cpu hotplug notifier which would clear the condition,
however between calling the notifier function and printk_needs_cpu() something
could have called printk() again and the problem is back again. This seems to
be the safest fix.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
wake_up_klogd() may get called from preemptible context but uses
__raw_get_cpu_var() to write to a per cpu variable. If it gets preempted
between getting the address and writing to it, the cpu in question could be
offline if the process gets scheduled back and hence writes to the per cpu data
of an offline cpu.This buggy behaviour was introduced with fa33507a "printk: robustify
printk, fix #2" which was supposed to fix a "using smp_processor_id() in
preemptible" warning.Let's use this_cpu_write() instead which disables preemption and makes sure
that the outlined scenario cannot happen.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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Move it out of printk.c so that we can use it all over the code. There
are some potential users which will be converted to that macro in next
patches.Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
16 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build
failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. This is because the capabilities code
which used the new option was built even though the variable in question
didn't exist.The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the
LSM and into the caller. All (known) LSMs should have been calling the
capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization
better to eliminate the hook altogether.Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: James Morris
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Eugene Teo
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Oct, 2010
3 commits
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get_option() takes its 2nd arg as int * so passing boot_delay to it
caused following warnings from sparse:kernel/printk.c:223:27: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/printk.c:223:27: expected int *pint
kernel/printk.c:223:27: got unsigned int static [toplevel] *Since boot_delay can't grow more than 10,000 changing it to 'int *'
will not produce any problem.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
acquire_console_semaphore_for_printk() releases logbuf_lock but
was missing proper annotation. Add it.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move redundant 'const' after '*' to make pointer itself const
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real
mutex, but that needs more thought.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
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10 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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kmsg_dump takes care to sample the global variables
inside a spinlock, but then goes on to use the same
variables outside the spinlock region too.Use the correct variable. This will make the race
window smaller.Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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When a secondary CPU is being brought up, it is not uncommon for
printk() to be invoked when cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) == 0. The
case that I witnessed personally was on MIPS:http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/30/4
If (can_use_console() == 0), printk() will spool its output to log_buf
and it will be visible in "dmesg", but that output will NOT be echoed to
the console until somebody calls release_console_sem() from a CPU that
is online. Therefore, the boot time messages from the new CPU can get
stuck in "limbo" for a long time, and might suddenly appear on the
screen when a completely unrelated event (e.g. "eth0: link is down")
occurs.This patch modifies the console code so that any pending messages are
automatically flushed out to the console whenever a CPU hotplug
operation completes successfully or aborts.The issue was seen on 2.6.34.
Original patch by Kevin Cernekee with cleanups by akpm and additional fixes
by Santosh Shilimkar. This patch superseeds
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1357/.Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee
To:
To:
To:
To:
To:
Cc:
Cc:
Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1534/
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
21 May, 2010
2 commits
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Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of
these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the
kdb pager and processing can be used, as well as to properly channel
I/O to the polled I/O devices.CC: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel
Acked-by: Andrew Morton -
This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which
live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core
will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc...CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks
07 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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kernel/printk.c:72: warning: `saved_console_loglevel' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Mar, 2010
1 commit
04 Feb, 2010
2 commits
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Right now the syslog "type" action are just raw numbers which makes
the source difficult to follow. This patch replaces the raw numbers
with defined constants for some level of sanity.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: John Johansen
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: James Morris -
This allows the LSM to distinguish between syslog functions originating
from /proc/kmsg access and direct syscalls. By default, the commoncaps
will now no longer require CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read an opened /proc/kmsg
file descriptor. For example the kernel syslog reader can now drop
privileges after opening /proc/kmsg, instead of staying privileged with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN. MAC systems that implement security_syslog have unchanged
behavior.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Acked-by: John Johansen
Signed-off-by: James Morris
25 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33:
mtd: tests: fix read, speed and stress tests on NOR flash
mtd: Really add ARM pismo support
kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
01 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if
panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored
for this case.This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called
when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps,
the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The
mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the
same way as a panic.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
18 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c:
Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): No description found for parameter 'dumper'
Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_register'
Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): No description found for parameter 'dumper'
Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_unregister'Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits)
jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection.
mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk()
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance
Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text"
mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A
kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n
mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages
mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper
mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable
mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size
mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array
mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups
core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics
mtd: add ARM pismo support
mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer
mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem
mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode
mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr
mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC
mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver
...Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in
drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
kernel/printk.c
06 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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…l/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful
printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.h
ratelimit: Fix/allow use in atomic contexts
ratelimit: Use per ratelimit context locking
02 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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kmsg_dump() fails to build when CONFIG_PRINTK=n; provide stubs
for the kmsg_dump*() functions when CONFIG_PRINTK=n.kernel/printk.c: In function 'kmsg_dump':
kernel/printk.c:1501: error: 'log_buf_len' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/printk.c:1502: error: 'logged_chars' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/printk.c:1506: error: 'log_buf' undeclared (first use in this function)Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
30 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html
(with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has
been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on
crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic()
and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason.[dwmw2: Fix log_end handling]
Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom
Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom
Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
23 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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Today I got:
[39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
[40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed
[40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ...as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix.
Since this is always __ratelimit, this wont help much.This patch changes __ratelimit and printk_ratelimit to print the
function name that calls ratelimit.This will pinpoint the responsible function, as long as not several
different places call ratelimit with the same ratelimit state at
the same time. In that case we catch only one random function that
calls ratelimit after the wait period.Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
Cc: Dave Young
Cc: Linus Torvalds
CC: Andrew Morton
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
