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* make LKDTM depend on BLOCKChris Snook2008-02-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Make LKDTM depend on BLOCK to prevent build failures with certain configs. Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kbuild: explain why DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is UNDEFINEDSam Ravnborg2008-02-151-0/+3
| | | | | | | We started to see patches enabling this - so explain why it is disabled and the condition to enable it again. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* x86: trivial printk optimizationsDenys Vlasenko2008-02-091-22/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In arch/x86/boot/printf.c gets rid of unused tail of digits: const char *digits = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; (we are using 0-9a-f only) Uses smaller/faster lowercasing (by ORing with 0x20) if we know that we work on numbers/digits. Makes strtoul smaller, and also we are getting rid of static const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefx"; static const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFX"; since this works equally well: static const char digits[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF"; Size savings: $ size vmlinux.org vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 877320 112252 90112 1079684 107984 vmlinux.org 877048 112252 90112 1079412 107874 vmlinux It may be also a tiny bit faster because code has less branches now, but I doubt it is measurable. [ hugh@veritas.com: uppercase pointers fix ] Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLININGHarvey Harrison2008-02-091-14/+0
| | | | | | | | | Other than the defconfigs, remove the entry in compiler-gcc4.h, Kconfig.debug and feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* lib/scatterlist.o needed by a module only - link it in unconditionallyGuennadi Liakhovetski2008-02-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | lib/scatterlist.c is needed by drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c, and we would like to be able to use the latter without PCI too, for example, on PXA270 ARM CPU. It is then possible to create a configuration with CONFIG_BLOCK=n, where only module code will need scatterlist.c. Therefore it must be in obj-y. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use themYi Yang2008-02-081-0/+123
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, for every sysfs node, the callers will be responsible for implementing store operation, so many many callers are doing duplicate things to validate input, they have the same mistakes because they are calling simple_strtol/ul/ll/uul, especially for module params, they are just numeric, but you can echo such values as 0x1234xxx, 07777888 and 1234aaa, for these cases, module params store operation just ignores succesive invalid char and converts prefix part to a numeric although input is acctually invalid. This patch tries to fix the aforementioned issues and implements strict_strtox serial functions, kernel/params.c uses them to strictly validate input, so module params will reject such values as 0x1234xxxx and returns an error: write error: Invalid argument Any modules which export numeric sysfs node can use strict_strtox instead of simple_strtox to reject any invalid input. Here are some test results: Before applying this patch: [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# After applying this patch: [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# echo -n 4096 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak [root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak 4096 [root@yangyi-dev /]# [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiler warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one found by tiwai@suse.de] Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* libfs: allow error return from simple attributesChristoph Hellwig2008-02-081-7/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes simple attributes might need to return an error, e.g. for acquiring a mutex interruptibly. In fact we have that situation in spufs already which is the original user of the simple attributes. This patch merged the temporarily forked attributes in spufs back into the main ones and allows to return errors. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.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>
* lib: remove fastcall from lib/*Harvey Harrison2008-02-083-28/+28
| | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernelDavid Howells2008-02-081-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the kernel. This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter board, and the ASB2305. The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings] Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com> Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Support for performance statisticsChristoph Lameter2008-02-071-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache footprint of SLUB. There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime statistics and its off by default. The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options: -D Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size mode to activity mode. -A Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load. -r Report option will report detailed statistics on Example (tbench load): slabinfo -AD ->Shows the most active slabs Name Objects Alloc Free %Fast skbuff_fclone_cache 33 111953835 111953835 99 99 :0000192 2666 5283688 5281047 99 99 :0001024 849 5247230 5246389 83 83 vm_area_struct 1349 119642 118355 91 22 :0004096 15 66753 66751 98 98 :0000064 2067 25297 23383 98 78 dentry 10259 28635 18464 91 45 :0000080 11004 18950 8089 98 98 :0000096 1703 12358 10784 99 98 :0000128 762 10582 9875 94 18 :0000512 184 9807 9647 95 81 :0002048 479 9669 9195 83 65 anon_vma 777 9461 9002 99 71 kmalloc-8 6492 9981 5624 99 97 :0000768 258 7174 6931 58 15 So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load. Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases slabinfo -a | grep 000192 :0000192 <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili Likely skbuff_head_cache. Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache ->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned .... Usual output ... Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 111953360 111946981 99 99 Slowpath 1044 7423 0 0 Page Alloc 272 264 0 0 Add partial 25 325 0 0 Remove partial 86 264 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 350 4832 0 0 Total 111954404 111954404 Flushes 49 Refill 0 Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%) Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken. skbuff_head_cache: Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 5297262 5259882 99 99 Slowpath 4477 39586 0 0 Page Alloc 937 824 0 0 Add partial 0 2515 0 0 Remove partial 1691 824 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 2621 9684 0 0 Total 5301739 5299468 Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%) Descriptions of the output: Total: The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a slab Fastpath: The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath. Slowpath: Other allocations Page Alloc: Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath processing Add Partial: Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes) Remove Partial: Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing the last object of a slab. RemoteObj/Froz: How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use as the cpuslab of another processor. Flushes: Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request (kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc) Refill: Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from remotely freed objects for the same slab. Deactivate: Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were put onto the partial list. In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which may potentially cause list lock contention. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* debug_smp_processor_id() fixletsAndrew Morton2008-02-061-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | - Account for debug_smp_processor_id()'s own preempt_disable() when displaying the preempt_count(). - 80 cols, not 800. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable()Eric Dumazet2008-02-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Actual code let compiler generates idiv instruction on x86. Using a right shift is OK here and readable as well. Before patch 10: 57 push %edi 11: 56 push %esi 12: 89 d6 mov %edx,%esi 14: 53 push %ebx 15: 89 c3 mov %eax,%ebx 17: eb 22 jmp 3b <search_extable+0x2b> 19: 89 f0 mov %esi,%eax 1b: ba 02 00 00 00 mov $0x2,%edx 20: 29 d8 sub %ebx,%eax 22: 89 d7 mov %edx,%edi 24: c1 f8 03 sar $0x3,%eax 27: 99 cltd 28: f7 ff idiv %edi 2a: 8d 04 c3 lea (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax 2d: 39 08 cmp %ecx,(%eax) ... After patch 00000010 <search_extable>: 10: 53 push %ebx 11: 89 c3 mov %eax,%ebx 13: eb 18 jmp 2d <search_extable+0x1d> 15: 89 d0 mov %edx,%eax 17: 29 d8 sub %ebx,%eax 19: c1 f8 04 sar $0x4,%eax 1c: 8d 04 c3 lea (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax 1f: 39 08 cmp %ecx,(%eax) ... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* radix-tree: avoid atomic allocations for preloaded insertionsNick Piggin2008-02-051-4/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most pagecache (and some other) radix tree insertions have the great opportunity to preallocate a few nodes with relaxed gfp flags. But the preallocation is squandered when it comes time to allocate a node, we default to first attempting a GFP_ATOMIC allocation -- that doesn't normally fail, but it can eat into atomic memory reserves that we don't need to be using. Another upshot of this is that it removes the sometimes highly contended zone->lock from underneath tree_lock. Pagecache insertions are always performed with a radix tree preload, and after this change, such a situation will never fall back to kmem_cache_alloc within radix_tree_node_alloc. David Miller reports seeing this allocation fail on a highly threaded sparc64 system: [527319.459981] dd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 [527319.460403] Call Trace: [527319.460568] [00000000004b71e0] __slab_alloc+0x1b0/0x6a8 [527319.460636] [00000000004b7bbc] kmem_cache_alloc+0x4c/0xa8 [527319.460698] [000000000055309c] radix_tree_node_alloc+0x20/0x90 [527319.460763] [0000000000553238] radix_tree_insert+0x12c/0x260 [527319.460830] [0000000000495cd0] add_to_page_cache+0x38/0xb0 [527319.460893] [00000000004e4794] mpage_readpages+0x6c/0x134 [527319.460955] [000000000049c7fc] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x170/0x280 [527319.461028] [000000000049cc88] ondemand_readahead+0x208/0x214 [527319.461094] [0000000000496018] do_generic_mapping_read+0xe8/0x428 [527319.461152] [0000000000497948] generic_file_aio_read+0x108/0x170 [527319.461217] [00000000004badac] do_sync_read+0x88/0xd0 [527319.461292] [00000000004bb5cc] vfs_read+0x78/0x10c [527319.461361] [00000000004bb920] sys_read+0x34/0x60 [527319.461424] [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x3c/0x40 The calltrace is significant: __do_page_cache_readahead allocates a number of pages with GFP_KERNEL, and hence it should have reclaimed sufficient memory to satisfy GFP_ATOMIC allocations. However after the list of pages goes to mpage_readpages, there can be significant intervals (including disk IO) before all the pages are inserted into the radix-tree. So the reserves can easily be depleted at that point. The patch is confirmed to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* iommu sg merging: swiotlb: respect the segment boundary limitsFUJITA Tomonori2008-02-051-6/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes swiotlb not allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment boundary. is_span_boundary() judges whether a memory area spans LLD's segment boundary. If map_single finds such a area, map_single tries to find the next available memory area. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* iommu sg: add IOMMU helper functions for the free area managementFUJITA Tomonori2008-02-052-0/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds IOMMU helper functions for the free area management. These functions take care of LLD's segment boundary limit for IOMMUs. They would be useful for IOMMUs that use bitmap for the free area management. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2008-02-042-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (79 commits) Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix do_invalidatepage() comment typo fix Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes typo fixes in net/core/net_namespace.c typo fix in net/rfkill/rfkill.c typo fixes in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c lib/: Spelling fixes kernel/: Spelling fixes include/scsi/: Spelling fixes include/linux/: Spelling fixes include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes include/asm-frv/: Spelling fixes fs/: Spelling fixes drivers/watchdog/: Spelling fixes drivers/video/: Spelling fixes drivers/ssb/: Spelling fixes drivers/serial/: Spelling fixes drivers/scsi/: Spelling fixes ...
| * lib/: Spelling fixesJoe Perches2008-02-032-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2008-02-041-7/+7
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: scsi: fix dependency bug in aic7 Makefile kbuild: add svn revision information to setlocalversion kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig Add HAVE_KPROBES Add HAVE_OPROFILE Create arch/Kconfig Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu kconfig: ignore select of unknown symbol kconfig: mark config as changed when loading an alternate config kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH Remove __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOK kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found
| * | kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCHGeert Uytterhoeven2008-02-031-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Including additional fixes from Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces foundSam Ravnborg2008-02-031-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have too many section mismatches detected at the moment. So silence modpost and prevent the option from being set in a typical allyesconfig build. Tell the user how to see all the deteils in the summary message from modpost. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* / kobject: kerneldoc comment fixDave Young2008-02-021-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | Fix kerneldoc comment of kobject_create. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* latencytop: Change Kconfig dependency.Heiko Carstens2008-02-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change latencytop Kconfig entry so it doesn't list the archictectures that support it. Instead introduce HAVE_LATENCY_SUPPORT which any architecture can set. Should reduce patch conflicts. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Holger Wolf <wolf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)Bernhard Kaindl2008-01-301-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch() to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early. If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that, all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled in standard, non-debug kernels. With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers, if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter. In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire. An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger, without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA access is granted. A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt and I've put a copy online at ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it another copy of it is online at: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: add a simple backtrace test moduleArjan van de Ven2008-01-301-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace. Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even detect such bugs earlier.. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: fix UML and -regparm=3Ingo Molnar2008-01-301-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters calling convention. mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on bootAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2008-01-301-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is a quick and naive smoke test for kprobes. This is intended to just verify if some unrelated change broke the *probes subsystem. It is self contained, architecture agnostic and isn't of any great use by itself. This needs to be built in the kernel and runs a basic set of tests to verify if kprobes, jprobes and kretprobes run fine on the kernel. In case of an error, it'll print out a message with a "BUG" prefix. This is a start; we intend to add more tests to this bucket over time. Thanks to Jim Keniston and Masami Hiramatsu for comments and suggestions. Tested on x86 (32/64) and powerpc. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25Linus Torvalds2008-01-292-0/+59
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25: (1470 commits) [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix double free on label deletion. [PPP]: Sparse warning fixes. [IPV4] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check [IPV4] fib_trie: More whitespace cleanup. [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in ematches [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in actions [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in classifiers [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in packet schedulers [NET_SCHED]: sch_api: introduce constant for rate table size [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute parsing helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute construction helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use NLA_PUT_STRING for string dumping [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_nest_start/nla_nest_end [NET_SCHED]: Propagate nla_parse return value [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use nlmsg_parse [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix netlink API conversion bug [NET_SCHED]: sch_netem: use nla_parse_nested_compat [NET_SCHED]: sch_atm: fix format string warning [NETNS]: Add namespace for ICMP replying code. ...
| * [LIB] pcounter : unline too big functionsEric Dumazet2008-01-281-5/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before pushing pcounter to Linus tree, I would like to make some adjustments. Goal is to reduce kernel text size, by unlining too big functions. When a pcounter is bound to a statically defined per_cpu variable, we define two small helpers functions. (No more folding function using the fat for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) ... ) static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, NAME##_pcounter_values); static void NAME##_pcounter_add(struct pcounter *self, int val) { __get_cpu_var(NAME##_pcounter_values) += val; } static int NAME##_pcounter_getval(const struct pcounter *self, int cpu) { return per_cpu(NAME##_pcounter_values, cpu); } Fast path is therefore unchanged, while folding/alloc/free is now unlined. This saves 228 bytes on i386 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [LIB]: Introduce struct pcounterArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2008-01-282-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This just generalises what was introduced by Eric Dumazet for the struct proto inuse field in 286ab3d46058840d68e5d7d52e316c1f7e98c59f: [NET]: Define infrastructure to keep 'inuse' changes in an efficent SMP/NUMA way. Please look at the comment in there to see the rationale. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2008-01-291-0/+32
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (79 commits) Remove references to "make dep" kconfig: document use of HAVE_* Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst kbuild: warn about ld added unique sections kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values asm-generic/vmlix.lds.h: simplify __mem{init,exit}* dependencies remove __attribute_used__ kbuild: support ARCH=x86 in buildtar kconfig: remove "enable" kbuild: simplified warning report in modpost kbuild: introduce a few helpers in modpost kbuild: use simpler section mismatch warnings in modpost kbuild: link vmlinux.o before kallsyms passes kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/data compiler.h: introduce __section() all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h kbuild: check section names consistently in modpost kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost ...
| * | kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpostSam Ravnborg2008-01-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the config option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set and we see a Section mismatch present the following to the user: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es). To see additional details select "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" in the Kernel Hacking menu (CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH). If the option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is selected then be verbose in the Section mismatch reporting from mdopost. Sample outputs: WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.text+0x7396): Section mismatch in reference from the function discover_ebda() to the variable .init.data:ebda_addr The function discover_ebda() references the variable __initdata ebda_addr. This is often because discover_ebda lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ebda_addr is wrong. WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x74d58): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() The variable pci_serial_quirks references the function __devexit pci_plx9050_exit() If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(__ksymtab+0x630): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_arch_register_cpu to the function .cpuinit.text:arch_register_cpu() The symbol arch_register_cpu is exported and annotated __cpuinit Fix this by removing the __cpuinit annotation of arch_register_cpu or drop the export. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysisSam Ravnborg2008-01-281-0/+30
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Setting the option DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH will report additional section mismatch'es but this should in the end makes it possible to get rid of all of them. See help text in lib/Kconfig.debug for details. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* / ext4: Add ext4_find_next_bit()Aneesh Kumar K.V2008-01-281-0/+43
|/ | | | | | | | | | This function is used by the ext4 multi block allocator patches. Also add generic_find_next_le_bit Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SG: work with the SCSI fixed maximum allocations.James Bottomley2008-01-281-14/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | SCSI sg table allocation has a maximum size (of SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS, currently 128) and this will cause a BUG_ON() in SCSI if something tries an allocation over it. This patch adds a size limit to the chaining allocator to allow the specification of the maximum allocation size for chaining, so we always chain in units of the maximum SCSI allocation size. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* SG: Move functions to lib/scatterlist.c and add sg chaining allocator helpersJens Axboe2008-01-282-1/+282
| | | | | | | Manually doing chained sg lists is not trivial, so add some helpers to make sure that drivers get it right. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* sched: latencytop supportArjan van de Ven2008-01-251-0/+14
| | | | | | | | LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL codeIngo Molnar2008-01-251-123/+0
| | | | | | | | remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code. this removes 160 lines of legacy code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c filesGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-242-79/+67
| | | | | | | Clean up the kobject.c and kobject_uevent.c files to follow the proper coding style rules. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject namesKay Sievers2008-01-241-9/+5
| | | | | | | | | | All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: remove kobject_unregister() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-17/+0
| | | | | | | | There are no in-kernel users of kobject_unregister() so it should be removed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unrefKay Sievers2008-01-242-74/+107
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper cleanup when the last reference is dropped. If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and the allocated resources are released. This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kset: remove kset_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-12/+1
| | | | | | | | | No one is calling this anymore, so just remove it and hard-code the one internal-use of it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: remove kobject_register()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-18/+0
| | | | | | | | | | The function is no longer used by anyone in the kernel, and it prevents the proper sending of the kobject uevent after the needed files are set up by the caller. kobject_init_and_add() can be used in its place. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: remove kobject_init() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-8/+3
| | | | | | | | | | The old kobject_init() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: remove kobject_add() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-14/+8
| | | | | | | | | | The old kobject_add() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistrationAlan Stern2008-01-241-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as1015) reverts changes that were made to the driver core about four years ago. The intent back then was to avoid certain kinds of invalid memory accesses by leaving kernel objects allocated as long as any of their children were still allocated. The original and correct approach was to wait only as long as any children were still _registered_; that's what this patch reinstates. This fixes a problem in the SCSI core made visible by the class_device to regular device conversion: A reference loop (scsi_device holds reference to request_queue, which is the child of a gendisk, which is the child of the scsi_device) prevents the data structures from being released, even though they are deregistered okay. It's possible that this change will cause a few bugs to surface, things that have been hidden for several years. They can be fixed easily enough by having the child device take an explicit reference to the parent whenever needed. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: clean up debugging messagesGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-242-14/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | The kobject debugging messages are a mess. This provides a unified message that makes them actually useful. The format for new kobject debug messages should be: kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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