01 Aug, 2012
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When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called to create new pgdat for a new node, a
fallback zonelist should be created for the new node. There's code to try
to achieve that in hotadd_new_pgdat() as below:/*
* The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding
* to access not-initialized zonelist, build here.
*/
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);But it doesn't work as expected. When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called, the
new node is still in offline state because node_set_online(nid) hasn't
been called yet. And build_all_zonelists() only builds zonelists for
online nodes as:for_each_online_node(nid) {
pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);build_zonelists(pgdat);
build_zonelist_cache(pgdat);
}Though we hope to create zonelist for the new pgdat, but it doesn't. So
add a new parameter "pgdat" the build_all_zonelists() to build pgdat for
the new pgdat too.Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Keping Chen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2012
3 commits
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…usty/linux-2.6-for-linus
Pull cpumask changes from Rusty Russell:
"Trivial comment changes to cpumask code. I guess it's getting boring."Boring is good.
* tag 'cpumask-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
cpumask: cpulist_parse() comments correction
init: add comments to keep initcall-names in sync with initcall levels
cpumask: add a few comments of cpumask functions -
main.c has initcall_level_names[] for parse_args to print in debug messages,
add comments to keep them in sync with initcalls defined in init.h.Also add "loadable" into comment re not using *_initcall macros in
modules, to disambiguate from kernel/params.c and other builtins.Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov
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Pul x86/efi changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds an EFI bootloader handover protocol, which, once
supported on the bootloader side, will make bootup faster and might
result in simpler bootloaders.The other change activates the EFI wall clock time accessors on x86-64
as well, instead of the legacy RTC readout."* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, efi: Handover Protocol
x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
23 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
(and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return
to userland (or exit). Note that for fput() from a kernel
thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but
sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before
you do anything else. There are two mechanisms for that -
a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit
__fput_sync(). Both should be used with care (as was the
case for fput() from kernel threads all along). See comments
in fs/file_table.c for details.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
08 Jun, 2012
2 commits
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9fb48c744ba6a ("params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback
signature") added similar lines to dmesg:initlevel:0=early, 4 registered initcalls
initlevel:1=core, 31 registered initcalls
initlevel:2=postcore, 11 registered initcalls
initlevel:3=arch, 7 registered initcalls
initlevel:4=subsys, 40 registered initcalls
initlevel:5=fs, 30 registered initcalls
initlevel:6=device, 250 registered initcalls
initlevel:7=late, 35 registered initcallsbut they don't contain any info for the general user staring at dmesg.
I'm very doubtful the count of initcalls registered per level helps
anyone so drop that output completely.Cc: Jim Cromie
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
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Commit 026cee0086fe1df4cf74691cf273062cc769617d "params:
_initcall-like kernel parameters" set old-style module
parameters to level 0. And we call those level 0 calls where we used
to, early in start_kernel().We also loop through the initcall levels and call the levelled
module_params before the corresponding initcall. Unfortunately level
0 is early_init(), so we call the standard module_param calls twice.(Turns out most things don't care, but at least ubi.mtd does).
Change the level to -1 for standard module_param calls.
Reported-by: Benoît Thébaudeau
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: stable@kernel.org
06 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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Other than ix86, x86-64 on EFI so far didn't set the
{g,s}et_wallclock accessors to the EFI routines, thus
incorrectly using raw RTC accesses instead.Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't
enough, however: While so far early get-time calls were done in
physical mode, this doesn't work properly for x86-64, as virtual
addresses would still need to be set up for all runtime regions
(which wasn't the case on the system I have access to), so
instead the patch moves the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode()
ahead (which in turn allows to drop all code related to calling
efi-get-time in physical mode).Additionally the earlier calling of efi_set_executable()
requires the CPA code to cope, i.e. during early boot it must be
avoided to call cpa_flush_array(), as the first thing this
function does is a BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()).Also make the two EFI functions in question here static -
they're not being referenced elsewhere.Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Tested-by: Matt Fleming
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBFBF5F020000780008637F@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
23 May, 2012
1 commit
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Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the driver core, and other driver subsystems, pull request for
the 3.5-rc1 merge window.Outside of a few minor driver core changes, we ended up with the
following different subsystem and core changes as well, due to
interdependancies on the driver core:
- hyperv driver updates
- drivers/memory being created and some drivers moved into it
- extcon driver subsystem created out of the old Android staging
switch driver code
- dynamic debug updates
- printk rework, and /dev/kmsg changesAll of this has been tested in the linux-next releases for a few weeks
with no reported problems.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "
Fix up conflicts in drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c where git noticed
that a patch to the deleted drivers/misc/max8997-muic.c driver needs to
be applied to this one.* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (90 commits)
uio_pdrv_genirq: get irq through platform resource if not set otherwise
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Remove empty *_remove()
printk() - isolate KERN_CONT users from ordinary complete lines
sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
Drivers: hv: util: Properly handle version negotiations.
Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp()
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Use dev_err_ratelimited()
driver core: Add dev_*_ratelimited() family
Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device()
printk() - restore prefix/timestamp printing for multi-newline strings
printk: add stub for prepend_timestamp()
ARM: tegra30: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra20: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra30: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
ARM: tegra20: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
printk: correctly align __log_buf
ARM: tegra30: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
ARM: tegra20: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
printk() - restore timestamp printing at console output
printk() - do not merge continuation lines of different threads
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22 May, 2012
1 commit
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During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up,
we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious)
configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in
scheduling events.We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the
code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the
scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the
initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody.And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason:
it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow
blocking allocations much too early.So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()'
(which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption
disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'. kernel_init() is run
in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as
opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what
will be the first idle thread.So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must
be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle
thread into the init thread.Reported-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2012
1 commit
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This was done to resolve a merge issue with the init/main.c file.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
01 May, 2012
1 commit
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Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked
from parse_args(). The arg is passed as:"Booting kernel" from start_kernel(),
initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(),
mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one()parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to
"doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above. parse_args() passes
it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the
unknown option handler callbacks.The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules,
since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a
"$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is
called, the module name is not otherwise available.Minor tweaks:
Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt
identify the param being handled, add it.Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall,
and number of registered initcalls at that level. This adds 7 lines
to dmesg output, like:initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls
Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the
pr_info() added above. This array is passed into parse_args() by
do_initcall_level().CC: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie
Acked-by: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
25 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Commit 026cee0086f had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from
the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment
variables. This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string
where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers
to the parsing subfunctions. Previously, unknown_bootoption() was
the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back
the '=' character. Now the ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last
one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the
envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer
seen as valid environment variables by init.Tested-by: Woody Suwalski
Acked-by: Pawel Moll
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf
29 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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…m/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
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Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h so that there's only one
and it's used by everything.Signed-off-by: David Howells
cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
26 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
21 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
typo fixes from Masanari.There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
Doc: Update numastat.txt
qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
compiler.h: Fix typo
security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
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15 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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s/countinuous/contiguous/, reword sentence.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
01 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Coccinelle based conversion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
12 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
x86: Fix mmap random address range
x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
06 Dec, 2011
2 commits
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When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
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This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:
[ 0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
[ 0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
[ 0.000000] [] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
[ 0.000000] [] 0xffffffffThe warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().
It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.Signed-off-by: Ming Lei
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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…/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializerConflicts:
- arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
removal of that function entirely
- kernel/stop_machine.c
same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
26 Oct, 2011
2 commits
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The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (neatened implementations) -
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
30 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls. But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
it really does look like we don't have much choice.I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
depending on config options that is in multiple places. We could do
the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch. It's not wonderful,
but it's simple and should work. We should revisit this some day,
though. - Linus ]Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:"I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
ports (aka NPEs). The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:
"The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls. By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options. This could make
debugging process quite tricky.This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Aug, 2011
2 commits
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The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled. We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.Problems related to an uninitialized
init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex
reported by various people.
Reported-by: Manuel Lauss
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier
Acked-by: Kay Sievers
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming. Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.The details of the crash are:
(1) 2nd kernel boots up
(2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
in start_kernel().(3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
&q->list.next.Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Milton Miller
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
30 May, 2011
1 commit
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Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
Call Trace:
[] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
[] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
[] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
[] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
[] mm_init+0xec/0x120
[] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumaskThomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 May, 2011
2 commits
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On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages,
the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the
log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the overflow by allocating the
new log buffer as soon as possible.On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from
kernel/init.c is the fallback.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Jack Steiner
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position.
It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio.This patch has two change.
1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask
is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability
2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory
footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future.In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var.
It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users.This patch has no functional change.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Koichi Yasutake
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 May, 2011
1 commit
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Kmemleak frees objects via RCU and when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
is enabled, the RCU callback triggers a call to free_object() in
lib/debugobjects.c. Since kmemleak is initialised before debug objects
initialisation, it may result in a kernel panic during booting. This
patch moves the kmemleak_init() call after debug_objects_mem_init().Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz
Tested-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Cc:
24 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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This patchset is a cleanup and a preparation to unshare the pid namespace.
These prerequisites prepare for Eric's patchset to give a file descriptor
to a namespace and join an existing namespace.This patch:
It turns out that the existing assignment in copy_process of the
child_reaper can handle the initial assignment of child_reaper we just
need to generalize the test in kernel/fork.cSigned-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Move setup_nr_cpu_ids(), smp_init() and some other SMP boot parameter
setup functions from init/main.c to kenrel/smp.c, saves some #ifdef
CONFIG_SMP.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Rakib Mullick
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized. During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available. While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Linus Torvalds
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
08 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
mmc: update workqueue usages
mfd: update workqueue usages
dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
...Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun.