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2010-08-08Merge branch 'bkl/core' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing * 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing: do_coredump: Do not take BKL init: Remove the BKL from startup code
2010-08-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits) workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall() workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL slow-work: kill it gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work fscache: drop references to slow-work fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker() async: use workqueue for worker pool workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead workqueue: implement unbound workqueue workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works ... Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
2010-08-07block: push BKL into blktrace ioctlsArnd Bergmann
The blktrace driver currently needs the BKL, but we should not need to take that in the block layer, so just push it down into the driver itself. It is quite likely that the BKL is not actually required in blktrace code and could be removed in a follow-on patch. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: unify flags for struct bio and struct requestChristoph Hellwig
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too. This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them. Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: remove wrappers for request type/flagsChristoph Hellwig
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in struct requests. This allows much easier grepping for different request types instead of unwinding through macros. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: Do not suspend IPI IRQs. powerpc: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupts ixp4xx-beeper: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupt irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout kgdb: Do not access xtime directly powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME time: Implement timespec_add x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e28c ("Merge branch 'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt timer: Added usleep_range timer Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer" clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() timer: Added usleep[_range] timer timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
2010-08-06Merge 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: (28 commits) driver core: device_rename's new_name can be const sysfs: Remove owner field from sysfs struct attribute powerpc/pci: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in PCI bridge init regulator: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in regulator core driver leds: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in bd2802 driver scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in ARCMSR driver scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in LPFC driver cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on Driver core: Add BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER driver core: fix memory leak on one error path in bus_register() debugfs: no longer needs to depend on SYSFS sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs. sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentation dcdbas: remove a redundant smi_data_buf_free in dcdbas_exit dmi-id: fix a memory leak in dmi_id_init error path sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be const firmware: Update hotplug script Driver core: move platform device creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n) Driver core: reduce duplicated code for platform_device creation Driver core: use kmemdup in platform_device_add_resources ...
2010-08-06tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundaryHuang Ying
With the configuration: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y and Shaohua's patch: [PATCH]x86: make spurious_fault check correct pte bit Function call graph trace with the following will trigger a page fault. # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo function_graph > current_tracer # cat per_cpu/cpu1/trace_pipe_raw > /dev/null BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880006e99000 IP: [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f PGD 1b19063 PUD 1b1d063 PMD 3f067 PTE 6e99160 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/operstate CPU 1 Modules linked in: Pid: 1982, comm: cat Not tainted 2.6.35-rc6-aes+ #300 /Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81085572>] [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f RSP: 0018:ffff880006475e38 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 0000000000000ff0 RBX: ffff88000786c630 RCX: 000000000000001d RDX: ffff880006e98000 RSI: 0000000000000ff0 RDI: ffff880006e99000 RBP: ffff880006475eb8 R08: 000000145d7008bd R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000008000 R11: ffffffff815d9336 R12: ffff880006d08000 R13: ffff880006e605d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000018 FS: 00007f2b83e456f0(0000) GS:ffff880002100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff880006e99000 CR3: 00000000064a8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process cat (pid: 1982, threadinfo ffff880006474000, task ffff880006e40770) Stack: ffff880006475eb8 ffffffff8108730f 0000000000000ff0 000000145d7008bd <0> ffff880006e98010 ffff880006d08010 0000000000000296 ffff88000786c640 <0> ffffffff81002956 0000000000000000 ffff8800071f4680 ffff8800071f4680 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8108730f>] ? ring_buffer_read_page+0x15a/0x24a [<ffffffff81002956>] ? return_to_handler+0x15/0x2f [<ffffffff8108a575>] tracing_buffers_read+0xb9/0x164 [<ffffffff810debfe>] vfs_read+0xaf/0x150 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f [<ffffffff810248b0>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x17e/0x1a1 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f [<ffffffff810248e6>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x15 Code: 80 25 b2 16 b3 00 fe c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 f0 80 0d a4 16 b3 00 02 c9 c3 55 31 c0 48 89 e5 48 83 3d 94 16 b3 00 01 c9 0f 94 c0 c3 55 <8a> 0f 48 89 e5 83 e1 1f b8 08 00 00 00 0f b6 d1 83 fa 1e 74 27 RIP [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f RSP <ffff880006475e38> CR2: ffff880006e99000 ---[ end trace a6877bb92ccb36bb ]--- The root cause is that ring_buffer_read_page() may read out of page boundary, because the boundary checking is done after reading. This is fixed via doing boundary checking before reading. Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1280297641.2771.307.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-06Merge 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: (27 commits) sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug sched: No need for bootmem special cases sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus sched: Fix spelling of sibling sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check() sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand() sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy sched: Fix fix_small_capacity powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model ...
2010-08-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/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: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU" mce: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check() net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU vfs: add fs.h to define struct file lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function rcu: add __rcu API for later sparse checking rcu: add an rcu_dereference_index_check() tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects mm: remove all rcu head initializations fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations
2010-08-06tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graphShaohua Li
With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, I observed an unallocated memory access in function_graph trace. It appears we find a small size entry in ring buffer, but we access it as a big size entry. The access overflows the page size and touches an unallocated page. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1280217994.32400.76.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> [ Added a comment to explain the problem - SDR ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'kms-merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'kms-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kms drm_fb_helper: Preserve capability to use atomic kms i915: when kgdb is active display compression should be off drm/i915: use new fb debug hooks drm: add KGDB/KDB support fb: add hooks to handle KDB enter/exit kgdboc: Add call backs to allow kernel mode switching vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable vt,console,kdb: implement atomic console enter/leave functions
2010-08-05Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4 kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set() gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86 kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
2010-08-05cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs onGreg KH
We really shouldn't be asking userspace to create new root filesystems. So follow along with all of the other in-kernel filesystems, and provide a mount point in sysfs. For cgroupfs, this should be in /sys/fs/cgroup/ This change provides that mount point when the cgroup filesystem is registered in the kernel. Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05hotplug: Support kernel/hotplug sysctl variable when !CONFIG_NETIan Abbott
The kernel/hotplug sysctl variable (/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file) was made conditional on CONFIG_NET by commit f743ca5e10f4145e0b3e6d11b9b46171e16af7ce (applied in 2.6.18) to fix problems with undefined references in 2.6.16 when CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y && !CONFIG_NET, but this restriction is no longer needed. This patch makes the kernel/hotplug sysctl variable depend only on CONFIG_HOTPLUG. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.COM> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'modules' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: cleanup comments, remove noinline module: group post-relocation functions into post_relocation() module: move module args strndup_user to just before use module: pass load_info into other functions module: fix sysfs cleanup for !CONFIG_SYSFS module: sysfs cleanup module: layout_and_allocate module: fix crash in get_ksymbol() when oopsing in module init module: kallsyms functions take struct load_info module: refactor out section header rewriting: FIX modversions module: refactor out section header rewriting module: add load_info module: reduce stack usage for each_symbol() module: refactor load_module part 5 module: refactor load_module part 4 module: refactor load_module part 3 module: refactor load_module part 2 module: refactor load_module module: module_unload_init() cleanup
2010-08-05Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (79 commits) powerpc/8xx: Add support for the MPC8xx based boards from TQC powerpc/85xx: Introduce support for the Freescale P1022DS reference board powerpc/85xx: Adding DTS for the STx GP3-SSA MPC8555 board powerpc/85xx: Change deprecated binding for 85xx-based boards powerpc/tqm85xx: add a quirk for ti1520 PCMCIA bridge powerpc/tqm85xx: update PCI interrupt-map attribute powerpc/mpc8308rdb: support for MPC8308RDB board from Freescale powerpc/fsl_pci: add quirk for mpc8308 pcie bridge powerpc/85xx: Cleanup QE initialization for MPC85xxMDS boards powerpc/85xx: Fix booting for P1021MDS boards powerpc/85xx: Fix SWIOTLB initalization for MPC85xxMDS boards powerpc/85xx: kexec for SMP 85xx BookE systems powerpc/5200/i2c: improve i2c bus error recovery of/xilinxfb: update tft compatible versions powerpc/fsl-diu-fb: Support setting display mode using EDID powerpc/5121: doc/dts-bindings: update doc of FSL DIU bindings powerpc/5121: shared DIU framebuffer support powerpc/5121: move fsl-diu-fb.h to include/linux powerpc/5121: fsl-diu-fb: fix issue with re-enabling DIU area descriptor powerpc/512x: add clock structure for Video-IN (VIU) unit ...
2010-08-05Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (150 commits) MIPS: PowerTV: Separate PowerTV USB support from non-USB code MIPS: strip the un-needed sections of vmlinuz MIPS: Clean up the calculation of VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS MIPS: Clean up arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c MIPS: Clean up arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script MIPS: Unify the suffix of compressed vmlinux.bin MIPS: PowerTV: Add Gaia platform definitions. MIPS: BCM47xx: Fix nvram_getenv return value. MIPS: Octeon: Allow more than 3.75GB of memory with PCIe MIPS: Clean up notify_die() usage. MIPS: Remove unused task_struct.trap_no field. Documentation: Mention that KProbes is supported on MIPS SAMPLES: kprobe_example: Make it print something on MIPS. MIPS: kprobe: Add support. MIPS: Add instrunction format for BREAK and SYSCALL MIPS: kprobes: Define regs_return_value() MIPS: Ritually kill stupid printk. MIPS: Octeon: Disallow MSI-X interrupt and fall back to MSI interrupts. MIPS: Octeon: Support 256 MSI on PCIe MIPS: Decode core number for R2 CPUs. ...
2010-08-05vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variableJason Wessel
The kernel console interface stores the number of lines it is configured to use. The kdb debugger can greatly benefit by knowing how many lines there are on the console for the pager functionality without having the end user compile in the setting or have to repeatedly change it at run time. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single stepJason Wessel
When an arch such as mips and microblaze does not implement either HW or software single stepping the debug core should re-enter kdb. The kdb code will properly ignore the single step operation. Attempting to single step the kernel without software or hardware support causes unpredictable kernel crashes. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdumpJason Wessel
In systems with more than one processor it is desirable to look at the per cpu trace buffers. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-05ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace bufferJason Wessel
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace buffer. Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace buffer in a read only capacity. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-05gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()Jason Wessel
Presently the usable registers definitions on x86 are not contiguous for kgdb. The x86 kgdb uses a case statement for the sparse register accesses. The array which defines the registers (dbg_reg_def) should not be used directly in order to safely work with sparse register definitions. Specifically there was a problem when gdb accesses ORIG_AX, which is accessed only through the case statement. This patch encodes register memory using the size information provided from the debugger which avoids the need to look up the size of the register. The dbg_set_reg() function always further validates the inputs from the debugger. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
2010-08-05gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packetsJason Wessel
The gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets allow gdb to individually get and set registers instead of querying for all the available registers. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get APIJason Wessel
The kdb shell specification includes the ability to get and set architecture specific registers by name. For the time being individual register get and set will be implemented on a per architecture basis. If an architecture defines DBG_MAX_REG_NUM > 0 then kdb and the gdbstub will use the capability for individually getting and setting architecture specific registers. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocolJason Wessel
The gdb debugger understands how to parse short versions of the thread reference string as long as the bytes are paired in sets of two characters. The kgdb implementation was always sending 8 leading zeros which could be omitted, and further optimized in the case of non-negative thread numbers. The negative numbers are used to reference a specific cpu in the case of kgdb. An example of the previous i386 stop packet looks like: T05thread:00000000000003bb; New stop packet response: T05thread:03bb; The previous ThreadInfo response looks like: m00000000fffffffe,0000000000000001,0000000000000002,0000000000000003,0000000000000004,0000000000000005,0000000000000006,0000000000000007,000000000000000c,0000000000000088,000000000000008a,000000000000008b,000000000000008c,000000000000008d,000000000000008e,00000000000000d4,00000000000000d5,00000000000000dd New ThreadInfo response: mfffffffe,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,0c,88,8a,8b,8c,8d,8e,d4,d5,dd A few bytes saved means better response time when using kgdb over a serial line. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementationAndy Shevchenko
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05printk: fix delayed messages from CPU hotplug eventsKevin Cernekee
When a secondary CPU is being brought up, it is not uncommon for printk() to be invoked when cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) == 0. The case that I witnessed personally was on MIPS: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/30/4 If (can_use_console() == 0), printk() will spool its output to log_buf and it will be visible in "dmesg", but that output will NOT be echoed to the console until somebody calls release_console_sem() from a CPU that is online. Therefore, the boot time messages from the new CPU can get stuck in "limbo" for a long time, and might suddenly appear on the screen when a completely unrelated event (e.g. "eth0: link is down") occurs. This patch modifies the console code so that any pending messages are automatically flushed out to the console whenever a CPU hotplug operation completes successfully or aborts. The issue was seen on 2.6.34. Original patch by Kevin Cernekee with cleanups by akpm and additional fixes by Santosh Shilimkar. This patch superseeds https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1357/. Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> To: <mingo@elte.hu> To: <akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> To: <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> To: <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1534/ LKML-Reference: <ede63b5a20af951c755736f035d1e787772d7c28@localhost> LKML-Reference: <EAF47CD23C76F840A9E7FCE10091EFAB02C5DB6D1F@dbde02.ent.ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/sched.h Merge reason: Add the leftover .35 urgent bits, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-08-05Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05module: cleanup comments, remove noinlineRusty Russell
On my (32-bit x86) machine, sys_init_module() uses 124 bytes of stack once load_module() is inlined. This effectively reverts ffb4ba76 which inlined it due to stack pressure. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: group post-relocation functions into post_relocation()Rusty Russell
This simply hoists more code out of load_module; we also put the identification of the extable and dynamic debug table in with the others in find_module_sections(). We move the taint check to the actual add/remove of the dynamic debug info: this is certain (find_module_sections is too early). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
2010-08-05module: move module args strndup_user to just before useRusty Russell
Instead of copying and allocating the args and storing it in load_info, we can just allocate them right before we need them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: pass load_info into other functionsRusty Russell
Pass the struct load_info into all the other functions in module loading. This neatens things and makes them more consistent. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: fix sysfs cleanup for !CONFIG_SYSFSRusty Russell
Restore the stub module_remove_modinfo_attrs, remove the now-unused !CONFIG_SYSFS module_sysfs_init. Also, rename mod_kobject_remove() to mod_sysfs_teardown() as it is the logical counterpart to mod_sysfs_setup now. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: sysfs cleanupRusty Russell
We change the sysfs functions to take struct load_info, and call them all in mod_sysfs_setup(). We also clean up the #ifdefs a little. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: layout_and_allocateRusty Russell
layout_and_allocate() does everything up to and including the final struct module placement inside the allocated module memory. We have to store the symbol layout information in our struct load_info though. This avoids the nasty code we had before where 'mod' pointed first to the version inside the temporary allocation containing the entire file, then later was moved to point to the real struct module: now the main code only ever sees the final module address. (Includes fix for the Tony Luck-found Linus-diagnosed failure path error). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: fix crash in get_ksymbol() when oopsing in module initRusty Russell
Andrew had the sole pleasure of tickling this bug in linux-next; when we set up "info->strtab" it's pointing into the temporary copy of the module. For most uses that is fine, but kallsyms keeps a pointer around during module load (inside mod->strtab). If we oops for some reason inside a module's init function, kallsyms will use the mod->strtab pointer into the now-freed temporary module copy. (Later oopses work fine: after init we overwrite mod->strtab to point to a compacted core-only strtab). Reported-by: Andrew "Grumpy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty "Buggy" Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Andrew "Happy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: kallsyms functions take struct load_infoRusty Russell
Simple refactor causes us to lift struct definition to top of file. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: refactor out section header rewriting: FIX modversionsRusty Russell
We can't do the find_sec after removing the SHF_ALLOC flags; it won't find the sections. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: refactor out section header rewritingRusty Russell
Put all the "rewrite and check section headers" in one place. This adds another iteration over the sections, but it's far clearer. We iterate once for every find_section() so we already iterate over many times. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: add load_infoLinus Torvalds
Btw, here's a patch that _looks_ large, but it really pretty trivial, and sets things up so that it would be way easier to split off pieces of the module loading. The reason it looks large is that it creates a "module_info" structure that contains all the module state that we're building up while loading, instead of having individual variables for all the indices etc. So the patch ends up being large, because every "symindex" access instead becomes "info.index.sym" etc. That may be a few characters longer, but it then means that we can just pass a pointer to that "info" structure around. and let all the pieces fill it in very naturally. As an example of that, the patch also moves the initialization of all those convenience variables into a "setup_module_info()" function. And at this point it really does become very natural to start to peel off some of the error labels and move them into the helper functions - now the "truncated" case is gone, and is handled inside that setup function instead. So maybe you don't like this approach, and it does make the variable accesses a bit longer, but I don't think unreadably so. And the patch really does look big and scary, but there really should be absolutely no semantic changes - most of it was a trivial and mindless rename. In fact, it was so mindless that I on purpose kept the existing helper functions looking like this: - err = check_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex, versindex); + err = check_modinfo(mod, info.sechdrs, info.index.info, info.index.vers); rather than changing them to just take the "info" pointer. IOW, a second phase (if you think the approach is ok) would change that calling convention to just do err = check_modinfo(mod, &info); (and same for "layout_sections()", "layout_symtabs()" etc.) Similarly, while right now it makes things _look_ bigger, with things like this: versindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__versions"); becoming info->index.vers = find_sec(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, info->secstrings, "__versions"); in the new "setup_module_info()" function, that's again just a result of it being a search-and-replace patch. By using the 'info' pointer, we could just change the 'find_sec()' interface so that it ends up being info->index.vers = find_sec(info, "__versions"); instead, and then we'd actually have a shorter and more readable line. So for a lot of those mindless variable name expansions there's would be room for separate cleanups. I didn't move quite everything in there - if we do this to layout_symtabs, for example, we'd want to move the percpu, symoffs, stroffs, *strmap variables to be fields in that module_info structure too. But that's a much smaller patch, I moved just the really core stuff that is currently being set up and used in various parts. But even in this rough form, it removes close to 70 lines from that function (but adds 22 lines overall, of course - the structure definition, the helper function declarations and call-sites etc etc). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: reduce stack usage for each_symbol()Linus Torvalds
And now that I'm looking at that call-chain (to see if it would make sense to use some other more specific lock - doesn't look like it: all the readers are using RCU and this is the only writer), I also give you this trivial one-liner. It changes each_symbol() to not put that constant array on the stack, resulting in changing movq $C.388.31095, %rsi #, tmp85 subq $376, %rsp #, movq %rdi, %rbx # fn, fn leaq -208(%rbp), %rdi #, tmp84 movq %rbx, %rdx # fn, rep movsl xorl %esi, %esi # leaq -208(%rbp), %rdi #, tmp87 movq %r12, %rcx # data, call each_symbol_in_section.clone.0 # into xorl %esi, %esi # subq $216, %rsp #, movq %rdi, %rbx # fn, fn movq $arr.31078, %rdi #, call each_symbol_in_section.clone.0 # which is not so much about being obviously shorter and simpler because we don't unnecessarily copy that constant array around onto the stack, but also about having a much smaller stack footprint (376 vs 216 bytes - see the update of 'rsp'). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: refactor load_module part 5Rusty Russell
1) Extract out the relocation loop into apply_relocations 2) Extract license and version checks into check_module_license_and_versions 3) Extract icache flushing into flush_module_icache 4) Move __obsparm warning into find_module_sections 5) Move license setting into check_modinfo. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: refactor load_module part 4Rusty Russell
Allocate references inside module_unload_init(), clean up inside module_unload_free(). This version fixed to do allocation before __this_cpu_write, thanks to bug reports from linux-next from Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> and Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05module: refactor load_module part 3Rusty Russell
Extract out the allocation and copying in from userspace, and the first set of modinfo checks. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>