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2009-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (39 commits) cpumask: Move deprecated functions to end of header. cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86 cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: um cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mips cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mn10300 cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: m32r cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: arm cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: um cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: powerpc cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: mips cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: m32r cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: s390 cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: powerpc cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64 ...
2009-09-24headers: utsname.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h -- not needed after kref conversion * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related headers and files alone. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cpumask: remove unused cpu_mask_allRusty Russell
It's only defined for NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG; cpu_all_mask is always defined (and const). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits) Use macros for .data.page_aligned section. Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section. Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files. kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts. arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0 kbuild: add static to prototypes kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5 kbuild: echo the record_mcount command gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it ctags: usability fix kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option kbuild: introduce ld-option ... Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
2009-09-23Merge branch 'sfi-release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6 * 'sfi-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6: SFI: remove unneeded includes sfi: Remove unused code SFI: Hook PCI MMCONFIG x86: add arch-specific SFI support SFI: add capability to parse ACPI tables SFI: add platform-independent core support SFI: create linux/sfi.h SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig
2009-09-22mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pagesJan Beulich
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as storage should instead be used as a basis here. Some of the calculations (i.e. those not intending to use high memory) should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Tidy up after the big rename perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Fix whitespace inconsistencies rcu: Fix thinko, actually initialize full tree rcu: Apply results of code inspection of kernel/rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Add WARN_ON_ONCE() consistency checks covering state transitions rcu: Fix synchronize_rcu() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Simplify rcu_read_unlock_special() quiescent-state accounting rcu: Add debug checks to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for premature grace periods rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales down rcutorture: Occasionally delay readers enough to make RCU force_quiescent_state rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable
2009-09-21perf: Tidy up after the big renameIngo Molnar
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects - small indentation fixups - fix up MAINTAINERS - fix small x86 printout fallout - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register) Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from GeneralRandy Dunlap
Sam suggested moving STRIP_ASM_SYMS into the Kernel hacking menu from the General Setup menu. It makes more sense there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'linus' into sfi-releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c drivers/acpi/power.c init/main.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-18tracing: Remove markersChristoph Hellwig
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales downPaul E. McKenney
To quote Valdis: This leaves somebody who has a laptop wondering which choice is best for a system with only one or two cores that has CONFIG_PREEMPT defined. One choice says it scales down nicely, the other explicitly has a 'depends on PREEMPT' attached to it... So add "scales down nicely" to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU to match that of TREE_RCU. Suggested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12528585112362-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd. debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI. debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200 debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt hpilo: add poll f_op hpilo: add interrupt handler hpilo: staging for interrupt handling driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup() Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base mem_class: fix bug mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array driver model: constify attribute groups UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits) powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas() vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() percpu: add chunk->base_addr percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[] percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page percpu: improve boot messages percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking ... Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-11Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits) sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now sched: Keep kthreads at default priority sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies sched: Turn off child_runs_first sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork() sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine() sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair() sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE sched: Clean up topology.h sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats() sched: Try to deal with low capacity sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power sched: Add smt_gain sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING ...
2009-09-04rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlierPaul E. McKenney
Ingo was getting warnings from rcu_scheduler_starting() indicating that context switches had occurred before RCU ended its special early-boot handling of grace periods. This is a dangerous condition, as it indicates that RCU might have prematurely ended grace periods. This exploratory fix moves rcu_scheduler_starting() earlier in boot. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28SFI: add platform-independent core supportFeng Tang
drivers/sfi/sfi_core.c contains the generic SFI implementation. It has a private header, sfi_core.h, for its own use and the private use of future files in drivers/sfi/ Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-27init: Move sched_clock_init after late_time_initThomas Gleixner
Some architectures initialize clocks and timers in late_time_init and x86 wants to do the same to avoid FIXMAP hackery for calibrating the TSC. That would result in undefined sched_clock readout and wreckaged printk timestamps again. We probably have those already on archs which do all their time/clock setup in late_time_init. There is no harm to move that after late_time_init except that a few more boot timestamps are stale. The scheduler is not active at that point so no real wreckage is expected. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-08-25Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall() tracing: handle broken names in ftrace filter ftrace: Unify effect of writing to trace_options and option/*
2009-08-23rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCUPaul E. McKenney
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-21tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()Ingo Molnar
One of my testboxes triggered this nasty stack overflow crash during SCSI probing: [ 5.874004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 5.875004] device: 'sda': device_add [ 5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c [ 5.878004] IP: [<b1008321>] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110 [ 5.878004] *pde = 00000000 [ 5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted [ 5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 5.878004] last sysfs file: [ 5.878004] [ 5.878004] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc6-tip-01272-g9919e28-dirty #5685) [ 5.878004] EIP: 0060:[<b1008321>] EFLAGS: 00010083 CPU: 0 [ 5.878004] EIP is at print_context_stack+0x81/0x110 [ 5.878004] EAX: cf8a3000 EBX: cf8a3fe4 ECX: 00000049 EDX: 00000000 [ 5.878004] ESI: b1cfce84 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cf8a3018 ESP: cf8a2ff4 [ 5.878004] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 5.878004] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=cf8a2000 task=cf8a8000 task.ti=cf8a3000) [ 5.878004] Stack: [ 5.878004] b1004867 fffff000 cf8a3ffc [ 5.878004] Call Trace: [ 5.878004] [<b1004867>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c [ 5.878004] IP: [<b1008321>] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110 [ 5.878004] *pde = 00000000 [ 5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted [ 5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC The oops did not reveal any more details about the real stack that we have and the system got into an infinite loop of recursive pagefaults. So i booted with CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y and the 'stacktrace' boot parameter. The box did not crash (timings/conditions probably changed a tiny bit to trigger the catastrophic crash), but the /debug/tracing/stack_trace file was rather revealing: Depth Size Location (72 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 3704 52 __change_page_attr+0xb8/0x290 1) 3652 24 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x43/0x90 2) 3628 60 kernel_map_pages+0x108/0x120 3) 3568 40 prep_new_page+0x7d/0x130 4) 3528 84 get_page_from_freelist+0x106/0x420 5) 3444 116 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd7/0x550 6) 3328 36 allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100 7) 3292 36 new_slab+0x1c/0x160 8) 3256 36 __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0 9) 3220 4 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0 10) 3216 108 create_object+0x28/0x250 11) 3108 40 kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0 12) 3068 24 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0 13) 3044 52 scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70 14) 2992 20 scsi_host_alloc_command+0x22/0x70 15) 2972 24 __scsi_get_command+0x1b/0x90 16) 2948 28 scsi_get_command+0x35/0x90 17) 2920 24 scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd+0xd4/0x100 18) 2896 128 sd_prep_fn+0x332/0xa70 19) 2768 36 blk_peek_request+0xe7/0x1d0 20) 2732 56 scsi_request_fn+0x54/0x520 21) 2676 12 __generic_unplug_device+0x2b/0x40 22) 2664 24 blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x59/0x80 23) 2640 172 blk_execute_rq+0x6b/0xb0 24) 2468 32 scsi_execute+0xe0/0x140 25) 2436 64 scsi_execute_req+0x152/0x160 26) 2372 60 scsi_vpd_inquiry+0x6c/0x90 27) 2312 44 scsi_get_vpd_page+0x112/0x160 28) 2268 52 sd_revalidate_disk+0x1df/0x320 29) 2216 92 rescan_partitions+0x98/0x330 30) 2124 52 __blkdev_get+0x309/0x350 31) 2072 8 blkdev_get+0xf/0x20 32) 2064 44 register_disk+0xff/0x120 33) 2020 36 add_disk+0x6e/0xb0 34) 1984 44 sd_probe_async+0xfb/0x1d0 35) 1940 44 __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0 36) 1896 8 async_schedule+0x12/0x20 37) 1888 60 sd_probe+0x305/0x360 38) 1828 44 really_probe+0x63/0x170 39) 1784 36 driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60 40) 1748 16 __device_attach+0x49/0x50 41) 1732 32 bus_for_each_drv+0x5b/0x80 42) 1700 24 device_attach+0x6b/0x70 43) 1676 16 bus_attach_device+0x47/0x60 44) 1660 76 device_add+0x33d/0x400 45) 1584 52 scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x6a/0x2c0 46) 1532 108 scsi_add_lun+0x44b/0x460 47) 1424 116 scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x182/0x4e0 48) 1308 36 __scsi_add_device+0xd9/0xe0 49) 1272 44 ata_scsi_scan_host+0x10b/0x190 50) 1228 24 async_port_probe+0x96/0xd0 51) 1204 44 __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0 52) 1160 8 async_schedule+0x12/0x20 53) 1152 48 ata_host_register+0x171/0x1d0 54) 1104 60 ata_pci_sff_activate_host+0xf3/0x230 55) 1044 44 ata_pci_sff_init_one+0xea/0x100 56) 1000 48 amd_init_one+0xb2/0x190 57) 952 8 local_pci_probe+0x13/0x20 58) 944 32 pci_device_probe+0x68/0x90 59) 912 44 really_probe+0x63/0x170 60) 868 36 driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60 61) 832 20 __driver_attach+0x89/0xa0 62) 812 32 bus_for_each_dev+0x5b/0x80 63) 780 12 driver_attach+0x1e/0x20 64) 768 72 bus_add_driver+0x14b/0x2d0 65) 696 36 driver_register+0x6e/0x150 66) 660 20 __pci_register_driver+0x53/0xc0 67) 640 8 amd_init+0x14/0x16 68) 632 572 do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x1d0 69) 60 12 do_basic_setup+0x56/0x6a 70) 48 20 kernel_init+0x84/0xce 71) 28 28 kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 There's a lot of fat functions on that stack trace, but the largest of all is do_one_initcall(). This is due to the boot trace entry variables being on the stack. Fixing this is relatively easy, initcalls are fundamentally serialized, so we can move the local variables to file scope. Note that this large stack footprint was present for a couple of months already - what pushed my system over the edge was the addition of kmemleak to the call-chain: 6) 3328 36 allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100 7) 3292 36 new_slab+0x1c/0x160 8) 3256 36 __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0 9) 3220 4 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0 10) 3216 108 create_object+0x28/0x250 11) 3108 40 kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0 12) 3068 24 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0 13) 3044 52 scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70 This pushes the total to ~3800 bytes, only a tiny bit more was needed to corrupt the on-kernel-stack thread_info. The fix reduces the stack footprint from 572 bytes to 28 bytes. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-14Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-nextTejun Heo
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c mm/percpu.c Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved from arch code to mm/percpu.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14init: set nr_cpu_ids before setup_per_cpu_areas()Tejun Heo
nr_cpu_ids is dependent only on cpu_possible_map and setup_per_cpu_areas() already depends on cpu_possible_map and will use nr_cpu_ids. Initialize nr_cpu_ids before setting up percpu areas. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-04perf_counter: Set the CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS default to y if CONFIG_PROFILING=yIngo Molnar
If user has already enabled profiling support in the kernel (for oprofile, old-style profiling of ftrace) then offer up perfcounters with a y default in interactive kconfig sessions. Still keep it off by default otherwise. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02tracing, perf_counter: Add help text to CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILEPeter Zijlstra
Explain what tracepoint profiling sources are about. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> LKML-Reference: <1248856508.6987.3041.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-13perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcountersChris Wilson
Fix a missed rename in EVENT_PROFILE support so that it gets built and allows tracepoint tracing from the 'perf' tool. Fix a typo in the (never before built & enabled) portion in perf_counter.c as well, and update that code to the attr.config changes as well. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1246869094-21237-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-03Merge branch 'master' into for-nextTejun Heo
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute. Conflicts: arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-06-24rcu: Remove Classic RCUPaul E. McKenney
Remove Classic RCU, given that the combination of Tree RCU and the proposed Bloatwatch RCU do everything that Classic RCU can with fewer bugs. Tree RCU has been default in x86 builds for almost six months, and seems to be quite reliable, so there does not seem to be much justification for keeping the Classic RCU code and config complexity around anymore. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocatorTejun Heo
This patch makes most !CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA archs use dynamic percpu allocator. The first chunk is allocated using embedding helper and 8k is reserved for modules. This ensures that the new allocator behaves almost identically to the original allocator as long as static percpu variables are concerned, so it shouldn't introduce much breakage. s390 and alpha use custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() to work around addressing range limit the addressing model imposes. Unfortunately, this breaks if the address is specified using a variable, so for now, the two archs aren't converted. The following architectures are affected by this change. * sh * arm * cris * mips * sparc(32) * blackfin * avr32 * parisc (broken, under investigation) * m32r * powerpc(32) As this change makes the dynamic allocator the default one, CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is replaced with its invert - CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA, which is added to yet-to-be converted archs. These archs implement their own setup_per_cpu_areas() and the conversion is not trivial. * powerpc(64) * sparc(64) * ia64 * alpha * s390 Boot and batch alloc/free tests on x86_32 with debug code (x86_32 doesn't use default first chunk initialization). Compile tested on sparc(32), powerpc(32), arm and alpha. Kyle McMartin reported that this change breaks parisc. The problem is still under investigation and he is okay with pushing this patch forward and fixing parisc later. [ Impact: use dynamic allocator for most archs w/o custom percpu setup ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release
2009-06-23mm/init: cpu_hotplug_init() must be initialized before SLABLinus Torvalds
SLAB uses get/put_online_cpus() which use a mutex which is itself only initialized when cpu_hotplug_init() is called. Currently we hang suring boot in SLAB due to doing that too late. Reported by James Bottomley and Sachin Sant (and possibly others). Debugged by Benjamin Herrenschmidt. This just removes the dynamic initialization of the data structures, and replaces it with a static one, avoiding this dependency entirely, and removing one unnecessary special initcall. Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Tested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocatorBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The page allocator also needs the masking of gfp flags during boot, so this moves it out of slab/slub and uses it with the page allocator as well. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18kernel: constructor supportPeter Oberparleiter
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-17mm: Move pgtable_cache_init() earlierBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Some architectures need to initialize SLAB caches to be able to allocate page tables. They do that from pgtable_cache_init() so the later should be called earlier now, best is before vmalloc_init(). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-17Merge branch 'akpm'Linus Torvalds
* akpm: (182 commits) fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb? s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[] acornfb: remove fb_mmap function mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct ... Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-17cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in timeMiao Xie
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is changed. In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task. But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes, then clear newly disallowed ones. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy(). Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new(). Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL 'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new(). Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for 'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to verify this assumption.] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive enough to differentiate it from mpol_new(). This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on 'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions that we need to call this function to "set nodes". Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits) signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: introduce __getname_gfp() trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event net: annotate struct sock bitfield c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report ieee1394: annotate bitfield net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot x86: unify pte_hidden x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings kmemcheck: don't track page tables ...
2009-06-16driver core: set default SYSFS_DEPRECATED=nKay Sievers
All recent distros depend on the non-deprecated sysfs layout, so change the default value of the option to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEADVegard Nossum
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warningVegard Nossum
This false positive is due to the fact that do_mount_root() fakes a mount option (which is normally read from userspace), and the kernel unconditionally reads a whole page for the mount option. Hide the false positive by using the new __getname_gfp() with the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits) .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config kallsyms: generalize text region handling kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory documentation: make version fix kbuild: fix a compile warning gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory vmlinux.lds.h update kernel-doc: cleanup perl script Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check", ignore *.patch files Remove bashisms from scripts menu: fix embedded menu presentation ...
2009-06-13kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck coreVegard Nossum
General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been written to, a message is printed to the kernel log. Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution. Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [export kmemcheck_mark_initialized] [build fix for setup_max_cpus] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-13ACPI: move declaration acpi_early_init() to acpi.hLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-12Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf_counter: Start documenting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS requirements perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility perf record: Explicity program a default counter perf_counter: Remove PERF_TYPE_RAW special casing perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too powerpc, perf_counter: Fix performance counter event types perf_counter/x86: Add a quirk for Atom processors perf_counter tools: Remove one L1-data alias