25 May, 2011

2 commits

  • Most arches define CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE exactly the same way. Move it
    to lib/Kconfig.debug so each arch doesn't have to define it. This
    obviously makes the option generic, but that's fine because the config is
    already used in generic code.

    It's not obvious to me that sysrq-P actually does anything caution by
    keeping the most inclusive wording.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
    Cc: Chris Metcalf
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Acked-by: Richard Weinberger
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Chen Liqin
    Cc: Lennox Wu
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Boyd
     
  • DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is used in lib/cpumask.c as well as in
    inlcude/linux/cpumask.h and thus it has outgrown its use within x86 and
    powerpc alone. Any arch with SMP support may want to get some more
    debugging, so make this option generic.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
    Cc:
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Boyd
     

24 May, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
    b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
    Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
    cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
    Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
    doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
    perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
    md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
    treewide: fix a few typos in comments
    regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
    Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
    audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
    rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
    treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
    ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
    include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
    tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
    xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
    m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
    arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
    treewide: remove extra semicolons
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

20 May, 2011

4 commits

  • * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits)
    Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree()
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()
    perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu()
    security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …el/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    seqlock: Don't smp_rmb in seqlock reader spin loop
    watchdog, hung_task_timeout: Add Kconfig configurable default
    lockdep: Remove cmpxchg to update nr_chain_hlocks
    lockdep: Print a nicer description for simple irq lock inversions
    lockdep: Replace "Bad BFS generated tree" message with something less cryptic
    lockdep: Print a nicer description for irq inversion bugs
    lockdep: Print a nicer description for simple deadlocks
    lockdep: Print a nicer description for normal deadlocks
    lockdep: Print a nicer description for irq lock inversions

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm:
    kmemleak: Initialise kmemleak after debug_objects_mem_init()
    kmemleak: Select DEBUG_FS unconditionally in DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
    kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • In the past DEBUG_FS used to depend on SYSFS and DEBUG_KMEMLEAK selected
    it conditionally. This is no longer the case, so always select DEBUG_FS
    via DEBUG_KMEMLEAK.

    Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

    Catalin Marinas
     

19 May, 2011

1 commit

  • Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John
    To: Catalin Marinas
    Cc: Daniel Baluta
    Cc: naveen yadav
    Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2244/
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

    Maxin John
     

06 May, 2011

2 commits

  • The prohibition of DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD from !PREEMPT was due to the
    fixup actions. So just produce a warning from !PREEMPT.

    Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Mathieu Desnoyers
     
  • The RCU CPU stall warnings can now be controlled using the
    rcu_cpu_stall_suppress boot-time parameter or via the same parameter
    from sysfs. There is therefore no longer any reason to have
    kernel config parameters for this feature. This commit therefore
    removes the RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR and RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
    kernel config parameters. The RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT parameter remains
    to allow the timeout to be tuned and the RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE parameter
    remains to allow task-stall information to be suppressed if desired.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

28 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • This patch allows the default value for sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs
    to be set at build time. The feature carries virtually no overhead,
    so it makes sense to keep it enabled. On heavily loaded systems, though,
    it can end up triggering stack traces when there is no bug other than
    the system being underprovisioned. We use this patch to keep the hung task
    facility available but disabled at boot-time.

    The default of 120 seconds is preserved. As a note, commit e162b39a may
    have accidentally reverted commit fb822db4, which raised the default from
    120 seconds to 480 seconds.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DB8600C.8080000@suse.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Jeff Mahoney
     

26 Apr, 2011

1 commit


10 Apr, 2011

1 commit


05 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • mm/kmemleak-test.c is used to provide an example of how kmemleak
    tool works.

    Memory is leaked at module unload-time, so building the test
    in kernel (Y) makes the leaks impossible and the test useless.

    Qualify DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST config symbol with "depends on m",
    to restrict module-only building.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
    Acked-by: Catalin Marinas
    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Daniel Baluta
     

23 Mar, 2011

3 commits

  • 1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty,
    libc way to indicate failure.
    2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and
    comments pretend they do.
    3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants,
    but users want strtou8()
    4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong:
    Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist
    because conversion should be strict by default.

    The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types.
    Enter
    kstrtoull()
    kstrtoll()
    kstrtoul()
    kstrtol()
    kstrtouint()
    kstrtoint()

    kstrtou64()
    kstrtos64()
    kstrtou32()
    kstrtos32()
    kstrtou16()
    kstrtos16()
    kstrtou8()
    kstrtos8()

    Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well.

    strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and
    eventually will be removed altogether.

    Use kstrto*() in code today!

    Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if
    they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution,
    because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these
    functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and
    __alignof__ at least always works.

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

    Alexey Dobriyan
     
  • 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

    Mandeep Singh Baines
     
  • When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing
    a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the
    vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly
    while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with.

    Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic
    by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length]
    Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Reviewed-by: WANG Cong
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Don Zickus
     

22 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
    kbuild: Make DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH selectable, but not on by default
    genksyms: Regenerate lexer and parser
    genksyms: Track changes to enum constants
    genksyms: simplify usage of find_symbol()
    genksyms: Add helpers for building string lists
    genksyms: Simplify printing of symbol types
    genksyms: Simplify lexer
    genksyms: Do not paste the bison header file to lex.c
    modpost: fix trailing comma
    KBuild: silence "'scripts/unifdef' is up to date."
    kbuild: Add extra gcc checks
    kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis
    unifdef: update to upstream version 2.5

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Mar, 2011

1 commit


05 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
    at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
    past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
    everyone who participated in the hunt.

    The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
    most active in this, according to the recorded git
    history, in alphabetical order.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Acked-by: Alan Cox
    Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Andrew Hendry
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Hans Verkuil
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Jan Blunck
    Cc: John Kacur
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Oliver Neukum
    Cc: Paul Menage
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Trond Myklebust

    Arnd Bergmann
     

24 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • This was disabled in commit

    e5f95c8 (kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found)

    because there were too many warnings. Now we're down to a reasonable
    number again, so we start scaring people with the details.

    Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König
    Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

    Uwe Kleine-König
     

08 Feb, 2011

1 commit


21 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
    is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
    only small devices.

    This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
    references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
    option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
    can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
    considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

    Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
    expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
    are making should enable it.

    Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: David Woodhouse
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Robin Holt
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

23 Dec, 2010

1 commit

  • The x86 arch has shifted its use of the nmi_watchdog from a
    local implementation to the global one provide by
    kernel/watchdog.c. This shift has caused a whole bunch of
    compile problems under different config options. I attempt to
    simplify things with the patch below.

    In order to simplify things, I had to come to terms with the
    meaning of two terms ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and
    CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. Basically they mean the same thing,
    the former on a local level and the latter on a global level.

    With the old x86 nmi watchdog gone, there is no need to rely on
    defining the ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG variable because it doesn't
    make sense any more. x86 will now use the global
    implementation.

    The changes below do a few things. First it changes the few
    places that relied on ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG to use
    CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC (the former was an alias for the latter
    anyway, so nothing unusual here). Those pieces of code were
    relying more on local apic functionality the nmi watchdog
    functionality, so the change should make sense.

    Second, I removed the x86 implementation of
    touch_nmi_watchdog(). It isn't need now, instead x86 will rely
    on kernel/watchdog.c's implementation.

    Third, I removed the #define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG itself from
    x86. And tweaked the include/linux/nmi.h file to tell users to
    look for an externally defined touch_nmi_watchdog in the case of
    ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _or_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. This
    changes removes some of the ugliness in that file.

    Finally, I added a Kconfig dependency for
    CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR that said you can't have
    ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _and_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. You can
    only have one nmi_watchdog.

    Tested with
    ARCH=i386: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig, (various broken
    configs) ARCH=x86_64: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig,
    (various broken configs)

    Hopefully, after this patch I won't get any more compile broken
    emails. :-)

    v3:
    changed a couple of 'linux/nmi.h' -> 'asm/nmi.h' to pick-up correct function
    prototypes when CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set.

    Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Don Zickus
     

28 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (48 commits)
    DMAENGINE: move COH901318 to arch_initcall
    dma: imx-dma: fix signedness bug
    dma/timberdale: simplify conditional
    ste_dma40: remove channel_type
    ste_dma40: remove enum for endianess
    ste_dma40: remove TIM_FOR_LINK option
    ste_dma40: move mode_opt to separate config
    ste_dma40: move channel mode to a separate field
    ste_dma40: move priority to separate field
    ste_dma40: add variable to indicate valid dma_cfg
    async_tx: make async_tx channel switching opt-in
    move async raid6 test to lib/Kconfig.debug
    dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX1/21/27 DMA driver
    intel_mid_dma: change the slave interface
    intel_mid_dma: fix the WARN_ONs
    intel_mid_dma: Add sg list support to DMA driver
    intel_mid_dma: Allow DMAC2 to share interrupt
    intel_mid_dma: Allow IRQ sharing
    intel_mid_dma: Add runtime PM support
    DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for ste_dma40
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

27 Oct, 2010

3 commits

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
    arch/tile: convert a BUG_ON to BUILD_BUG_ON
    arch/tile: make ptrace() work properly for TILE-Gx COMPAT mode
    arch/tile: support new info op generated by compiler
    arch/tile: minor whitespace/naming changes for string support files
    arch/tile: enable single-step support for TILE-Gx
    arch/tile: parameterize system PLs to support KVM port
    arch/tile: add Tilera's header as an open-source header
    arch/tile: Bomb C99 comments to C89 comments in tile's
    arch/tile: prevent corrupt top frame from causing backtracer runaway
    arch/tile: various top-level Makefile cleanups
    arch/tile: change lower bound on syscall error return to -4095
    arch/tile: properly export __mb_incoherent for modules
    arch/tile: provide a definition of MAP_STACK
    kmemleak: add TILE to the list of supported architectures.
    char: hvc: check for error case
    arch/tile: Add a warning if we try to allocate too much vmalloc memory.
    arch/tile: update some comments to clarify register usage.
    arch/tile: use better "punctuation" for VMSPLIT_3_5G and friends
    arch/tile: Use
    tile: replace some BUG_ON checks with BUILD_BUG_ON checks

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • While hunting a non-existing bug in 'list_sort()', I've improved the
    'list_sort_test()' function which tests the 'list_sort()' library call.
    Although at the end I found a bug in my code, but not in 'list_sort()', I
    think my clean-ups and improvements are worth merging because they make
    the test function better.

    This patch:

    Make the self-tests selectable via Kconfig rather than by manual enabling
    of DEBUG_LIST_SORT.

    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Cc: Don Mullis
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Artem Bityutskiy
     
  • All percpu counters are linked to a global list on initialization and
    removed from it on destruction. The list is walked during CPU up/down.
    If a percpu counter is freed without being properly destroyed, the system
    will oops only on the next CPU up/down making it pretty nasty to track
    down. This patch adds debugobj support for percpu counters so that such
    problems can be found easily.

    As percpu counters don't make sense on stack and can't be statically
    initialized, debugobj support is pretty simple. It's initialized and
    activated on counter initialization, and deactivatd and destroyed on
    counter destruction. With this patch applied, the bug fixed by commit
    602586a83b719df0fbd94196a1359ed35aeb2df3 (shmem: put_super must
    percpu_counter_destroy) triggers the following warning on tmpfs unmount
    and the system won't oops on the next cpu up/down operation.

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:259 debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70()
    Hardware name: Bochs
    ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter
    Modules linked in:
    Pid: 3999, comm: umount Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-work+ #5
    Call Trace:
    [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
    [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
    [] debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70
    [] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x125/0x210
    [] kfree+0xb3/0x2f0
    [] shmem_put_super+0x1d/0x30
    [] generic_shutdown_super+0x56/0xe0
    [] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60
    [] kill_litter_super+0x27/0x30
    [] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60
    [] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
    [] mntput_no_expire+0x86/0xe0
    [] sys_umount+0x6f/0x360
    [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    ---[ end trace cce2a341ba3611a7 ]---

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tejun Heo
     

25 Oct, 2010

1 commit


23 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
    BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
    dabusb: remove the BKL
    sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
    init/main.c: remove BKL notations
    blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
    rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
    dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
    dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
    tlclk: remove big kernel lock
    fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
    uml: kill big kernel lock
    parisc: remove big kernel lock
    cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
    alpha: kill big kernel lock
    isapnp: BKL removal
    s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
    hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • …git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
    tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
    [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
    [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
    perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
    ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
    jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
    perf: Optimize sw events
    perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
    jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
    jump_label: Use more consistent naming
    perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
    perf: Find task before event alloc
    perf: Fix task refcount bugs
    perf: Fix group moving
    irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
    perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
    perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
    perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
    tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
    tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a
    few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even
    there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do
    about them, this patch illustrates one of the options:

    Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig,
    and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets
    disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL
    code itself is compiled out.

    The one exception is file locking, which is practically always
    enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces
    CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd
    mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Arnd Bergmann
     

15 Oct, 2010

1 commit


08 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • The prompt for "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" does not
    belong in the top level configuration menu. All the options in
    crypto/async_tx/Kconfig are selected and do not depend on CRYPTO.
    Kconfig.debug seems like a reasonable fit.

    Cc: Herbert Xu
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

    Dan Williams
     

06 Oct, 2010

1 commit


24 Sep, 2010

1 commit


01 Sep, 2010

1 commit

  • When CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER is set and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not, we
    get the following error:

    $ make oldconfig
    scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig arch/x86/Kconfig
    warning: (IRQSOFF_TRACER && TRACING_SUPPORT && FTRACE && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET) selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && PROVE_LOCKING)
    warning: (IRQSOFF_TRACER && TRACING_SUPPORT && FTRACE && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET) selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && PROVE_LOCKING)

    This is because IRQSOFF_TRACER selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS but TRACE_IRQFLAGS
    has PROVE_LOCKING as a dependency. This code is incorrect, and
    this patch changes the TRACE_IRQFLAGS to be just a simple bool that
    does not depend or select anything. Instead both IRQSOFF_TRACER and
    PROVE_LOCKING select it.

    Reported-by: Richard Kennedy
    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

    Steven Rostedt
     

20 Aug, 2010

3 commits

  • Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled
    immediately upon boot. They can be manually disabled via /sys (and
    also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic.
    However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time,
    but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting. For example, someone
    running a real-time application in production might not want the
    additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but
    might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes.

    This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
    kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior
    (enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured
    with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at
    boot time.

    Requested-by: Clark Williams
    Requested-by: John Kacur
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Also set the default to 60 seconds, up from the previous hard-coded timeout
    of 10 seconds. This allows people who care to set short timeouts, while
    avoiding people with unusual configurations (make randconfig!!!) from being
    bothered with spurious CPU stall warnings.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
    This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
    pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
    directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
    or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable
    such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
    kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are
    intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.

    There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
    accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
    example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
    or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.

    This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
    their age.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Christopher Li
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney