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2007-02-11[PATCH] Extract and use wake_up_klogd()Kirill Korotaev
Remove hack with printing space to wake up klogd. Use explicit wake_up_klogd(). See earlier discussion http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/75f496668409f58d/1a8f28983a51e1ff?lnk=st&q=wake_up_klogd+group%3Afa.linux.kernel&rnum=2#1a8f28983a51e1ff Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Consolidate bust_spinlocks()Kirill Korotaev
Part of long forgotten patch http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source Since then, m32r grabbed two copies. Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove references to non-existent timerlist_lock. ia64 also loses timerlist_lock. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09iomap: iomap should be in obj-y not in lib-yTejun Heo
devres change moved iomap.o from obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP) to lib-y making it not linked if no in-kernel driver uses it. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-09devres: implement pcim_iomap_regions()Tejun Heo
Implement pcim_iomap_regions(). This function takes mask of BARs to request and iomap. No BAR should have length of zero. BARs are iomapped using pcim_iomap_table(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-09devres: device resource managementTejun Heo
Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated with a release function. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed. devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are better represented by single instance of the type while others need multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are supported. devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4 ports). This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following managed interfaces. * alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree() * IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region() * IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq() * DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(), dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(), dmam_pool_destroy() * PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed() * iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(), devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-07sysfs: Shadow directory supportEric W. Biederman
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*. What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net. I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect lookups to the real directory you want. Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit trickier. I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really at that location the shadow master. The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07kobject: kobject_put cleanupMariusz Kozlowski
This patch removes redundant argument checks for kobject_put(). Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL).Cornelia Huck
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was newly registered: - Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code, setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit. - kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject. - sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07Kobject: make kobject apis more robust in handling NULL pointersGreg Kroah-Hartman
It should be ok to pass in NULL for some kobject functions, so add error checking for all exported kobject functions to be more robust. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-05[IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)Jan Beulich
Add abstraction so that the file can be used by environments other than IA64 and EM64T, namely for Xen. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05[IA64] swiotlb cleanupJan Beulich
- add proper __init decoration to swiotlb's init code (and the code calling it, where not already the case) - replace uses of 'unsigned long' with dma_addr_t where appropriate - do miscellaneous simplicfication and cleanup Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05[IA64] make swiotlb use bus_to_virt/virt_to_busJan Beulich
Convert all phys_to_virt/virt_to_phys uses to bus_to_virt/virt_to_bus, as is what is meant and what is needed in (at least) some virtualized environments like Xen. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05[IA64] swiotlb bug fixesJan Beulich
This patch fixes - marking I-cache clean of pages DMAed to now only done for IA64 - broken multiple inclusion in include/asm-x86_64/swiotlb.h - missing call to mark_clean in swiotlb_sync_sg() - a (perhaps only theoretical) issue in swiotlb_dma_supported() when io_tlb_end is exactly at the end of memory Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-20kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable valueAneesh Kumar K.V
Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead of returning void. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions] Cc: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-20kref refcnt and false positivesVenkatesh Pallipadi
With WARN_ON addition to kobject_init() [ http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/dont-use/broken-out/gregkh-driver-kobject-warn.patch ] I started seeing following WARNING on CPU offline followed by online on my x86_64 system. WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject_init() Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020ab45>] dump_trace+0xaa/0x3ef [<ffffffff8020aec4>] show_trace+0x3a/0x50 [<ffffffff8020b0f6>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff80350abc>] kobject_init+0x3f/0x8a [<ffffffff80350be1>] kobject_register+0x1a/0x3e [<ffffffff803bbd89>] sysdev_register+0x5b/0xf9 [<ffffffff80211d0b>] mce_create_device+0x77/0xf4 [<ffffffff80211dc2>] mce_cpu_callback+0x3a/0xe5 [<ffffffff805632fd>] notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x3b [<ffffffff8023f6f3>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff802519bf>] _cpu_up+0xb4/0xdc [<ffffffff80251a12>] cpu_up+0x2b/0x42 [<ffffffff803bef00>] store_online+0x4a/0x72 [<ffffffff803bb6ce>] sysdev_store+0x24/0x26 [<ffffffff802baaa2>] sysfs_write_file+0xcf/0xfc [<ffffffff8027fc6f>] vfs_write+0xae/0x154 [<ffffffff80280418>] sys_write+0x47/0x6f [<ffffffff8020963e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 DWARF2 unwinder stuck at system_call+0x7e/0x83 Leftover inexact backtrace: This is a false positive as mce.c is unregistering/registering sysfs interfaces cleanly on hotplug. kref_put() and conditional decrement of refcnt seems to be the root cause for this and the patch below resolves the issue for me. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-15Remove stack unwinder for nowLinus Torvalds
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed. We can put it back when it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse. In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] uml problems with linux/io.hAl Viro
Remove useless includes of linux/io.h, don't even try to build iomap_copy on uml (it doesn't have readb() et.al., so...) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a divide in obj_to_index()Eric Dumazet
When some objects are allocated by one CPU but freed by another CPU we can consume lot of cycles doing divides in obj_to_index(). (Typical load on a dual processor machine where network interrupts are handled by one particular CPU (allocating skbufs), and the other CPU is running the application (consuming and freeing skbufs)) Here on one production server (dual-core AMD Opteron 285), I noticed this divide took 1.20 % of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events in kernel. But Opteron are quite modern cpus and the divide is much more expensive on oldest architectures : On a 200 MHz sparcv9 machine, the division takes 64 cycles instead of 1 cycle for a multiply. Doing some math, we can use a reciprocal multiplication instead of a divide. If we want to compute V = (A / B) (A and B being u32 quantities) we can instead use : V = ((u64)A * RECIPROCAL(B)) >> 32 ; where RECIPROCAL(B) is precalculated to ((1LL << 32) + (B - 1)) / B Note : I wrote pure C code for clarity. gcc output for i386 is not optimal but acceptable : mull 0x14(%ebx) mov %edx,%eax // part of the >> 32 xor %edx,%edx // useless mov %eax,(%esp) // could be avoided mov %edx,0x4(%esp) // useless mov (%esp),%ebx [akpm@osdl.org: small cleanups] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-12Fix typo in new debug options.Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-12-10[PATCH] add MODULE_* attributes to bit reversal libraryCal Peake
Add MODULE_* attributes to the new bit reversal library. Most notably MODULE_LICENSE which prevents superfluous kernel tainting. Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] Kconfig refactoring for better menu nestingDon Mullis
Refactor Kconfig content to maximize nesting of menus by menuconfig and xconfig. Tested by simultaneously running `make xconfig` with and without patch, and comparing displays. Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection: optimize and simplify should_fail()Don Mullis
Trivial optimization and simplification of should_fail(). Do cheaper disqualification tests first (performance gain not quantified). Simplify logic; eliminate goto. Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection: Clamp debugfs stacktrace-depth to MAX_STACK_TRACE_DEPTHDon Mullis
Clamp /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth to MAX_STACK_TRACE_DEPTH. Ensures that a read of /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth always returns a truthful answer. Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection: Use bool-true-false throughoutDon Mullis
Use bool-true-false throughout. Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection: stacktrace filtering kconfig fixAndrew Morton
`select' doesn't work very well. With alpha `make allmodconfig' we end up with CONFIG_STACKTRACE enabled, so we end up with undefined save_stacktrace() at link time. Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection Kconfig cleanupAndrew Morton
- Fix some spelling and grammatical errors - Make the Kconfig menu more conventional. First you select fault-injection, then under that you select particular clients of it. Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault injection: stacktrace filteringAkinobu Mita
This patch provides stacktrace filtering feature. The stacktrace filter allows failing only for the caller you are interested in. For example someone may want to inject kmalloc() failures into only e100 module. they want to inject not only direct kmalloc() call, but also indirect allocation, too. - e100_poll --> netif_receive_skb --> packet_rcv_spkt --> skb_clone --> kmem_cache_alloc This patch enables to detect function calls like this by stacktrace and inject failures. The script Documentaion/fault-injection/failmodule.sh helps it. The range of text section of loaded e100 is expected to be [/sys/module/e100/sections/.text, /sys/module/e100/sections/.exit.text) So failmodule.sh stores these values into /debug/failslab/address-start and /debug/failslab/address-end. The maximum stacktrace depth is specified by /debug/failslab/stacktrace-depth. Please see the example that demonstrates how to inject slab allocation failures only for a specific module in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt [dwm@meer.net: reject failure if any caller lies within specified range] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault injection: process filtering for fault-injection capabilitiesAkinobu Mita
This patch provides process filtering feature. The process filter allows failing only permitted processes by /proc/<pid>/make-it-fail Please see the example that demostrates how to inject slab allocation failures into module init/cleanup code in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection capability for disk IOAkinobu Mita
This patch provides fault-injection capability for disk IO. Boot option: fail_make_request=<probability>,<interval>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where disk IO can be issued safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/fail_make_request/interval /debug/fail_make_request/probability /debug/fail_make_request/specifies /debug/fail_make_request/times Example: fail_make_request=10,100,0,-1 echo 1 > /sys/blocks/hda/hda1/make-it-fail generic_make_request() on /dev/hda1 fails once per 10 times. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()Akinobu Mita
This patch provides fault-injection capability for alloc_pages() Boot option: fail_page_alloc=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be allocated safely in pages. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/fail_page_alloc/interval /debug/fail_page_alloc/probability /debug/fail_page_alloc/specifies /debug/fail_page_alloc/times /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait Example: fail_page_alloc=10,100,0,-1 The page allocation (alloc_pages(), ...) fails once per 10 times. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection capability for kmallocAkinobu Mita
This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc. Boot option: failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be allocated safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/failslab/interval /debug/failslab/probability /debug/failslab/specifies /debug/failslab/times /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait Example: failslab=10,100,0,-1 slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] fault-injection capabilities infrastructureAkinobu Mita
This patch provides base functions implement to fault-injection capabilities. - The function should_fail() is taken from failmalloc-1.0 (http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc/) [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, comments, add __init] Cc: <okuji@enbug.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] crc32: replace bitreverse by bitrev32Akinobu Mita
This patch replaces bitreverse() by bitrev32. The only users of bitreverse() are crc32 itself and via-velocity. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] bit reverse libraryAkinobu Mita
This patch provides two bit reverse functions and bit reverse table. - reverse the order of bits in a u32 value u8 bitrev8(u8 x); - reverse the order of bits in a u32 value u32 bitrev32(u32 x); - byte reverse table const u8 byte_rev_table[256]; Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] Generic BUG for i386Jeremy Fitzhardinge
This makes i386 use the generic BUG machinery. There are no functional changes from the old i386 implementation. The main advantage in using the generic BUG machinery for i386 is that the inlined overhead of BUG is just the ud2a instruction; the file+line(+function) information are no longer inlined into the instruction stream. This reduces cache pollution, and makes disassembly work properly. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] Generic BUG implementationJeremy Fitzhardinge
This patch adds common handling for kernel BUGs, for use by architectures as they wish. The code is derived from arch/powerpc. The advantages of having common BUG handling are: - consistent BUG reporting across architectures - shared implementation of out-of-line file/line data - implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE consistently This means that in inline impact of BUG is just the illegal instruction itself, which is an improvement for i386 and x86-64. A BUG is represented in the instruction stream as an illegal instruction, which has file/line information associated with it. This extra information is stored in the __bug_table section in the ELF file. When the kernel gets an illegal instruction, it first confirms it might possibly be from a BUG (ie, in kernel mode, the right illegal instruction). It then calls report_bug(). This searches __bug_table for a matching instruction pointer, and if found, prints the corresponding file/line information. If report_bug() determines that it wasn't a BUG which caused the trap, it returns BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE. Some architectures (powerpc) implement WARN using the same mechanism; if the illegal instruction was the result of a WARN, then report_bug(Q) returns CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE; otherwise it returns BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG. lib/bug.c keeps a list of loaded modules which can be searched for __bug_table entries. The architecture must call module_bug_finalize()/module_bug_cleanup() from its corresponding module_finalize/cleanup functions. Unsetting CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE will reduce the kernel size by some amount. At the very least, filename and line information will not be recorded for each but, but architectures may decide to store no extra information per BUG at all. Unfortunately, gcc doesn't have a general way to mark an asm() as noreturn, so architectures will generally have to include an infinite loop (or similar) in the BUG code, so that gcc knows execution won't continue beyond that point. gcc does have a __builtin_trap() operator which may be useful to achieve the same effect, unfortunately it cannot be used to actually implement the BUG itself, because there's no way to get the instruction's address for use in generating the __bug_table entry. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Handle BUG=n, GENERIC_BUG=n to prevent build errors] [bunk@stusta.de: include/linux/bug.h must always #include <linux/module.h] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failuresIngo Molnar
Make the locking self-test failures (of 'FAILURE' type) easier to debug by printing more information. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lib functions: always build hweight for loadable modulesRandy Dunlap
Always build hweight8/16/32/64() functions into the kernel so that loadable modules may use them. I didn't remove GENERIC_HWEIGHT since ALPHA_EV67, ia64, and some variants of UltraSparc(64) provide their own hweight functions. Fixes config/build problems with NTFS=m and JOYSTICK_ANALOG=m. Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#19) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 94 modules WARNING: "hweight32" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined! WARNING: "hweight16" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined! WARNING: "hweight8" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: *** [modules] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() useIngo Molnar
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpusDerek Fults
This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed to command line helper function, get_options. Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a list of cpus. Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the command line format for 'isolcpus=' Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> or <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order.) or a mixture <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] More list debugging contextDave Jones
Print the other (hopefully) known good pointer when list_head debugging too, which may yield additional clues. Also fix for 80-columns to win akpm brownie points. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kconfig: PRINTK_TIME depends on PRINTKRandy Dunlap
Make PRINTK_TIME depend on PRINTK. Only display/offer it if PRINTK is enabled. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] radix-tree: RCU lockless readsideNick Piggin
Make radix tree lookups safe to be performed without locks. Readers are protected against nodes being deleted by using RCU based freeing. Readers are protected against new node insertion by using memory barriers to ensure the node itself will be properly written before it is visible in the radix tree. Each radix tree node keeps a record of their height (above leaf nodes). This height does not change after insertion -- when the radix tree is extended, higher nodes are only inserted in the top. So a lookup can take the pointer to what is *now* the root node, and traverse down it even if the tree is concurrently extended and this node becomes a subtree of a new root. "Direct" pointers (tree height of 0, where root->rnode points directly to the data item) are handled by using the low bit of the pointer to signal whether rnode is a direct pointer or a pointer to a radix tree node. When a reader wants to traverse the next branch, they will take a copy of the pointer. This pointer will be either NULL (and the branch is empty) or non-NULL (and will point to a valid node). [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: bugfixes, comments, simplifications] [clameter@sgi.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] x86: all cpu backtraceAndrew Morton
When a spinlock lockup occurs, arrange for the NMI code to emit an all-cpu backtrace, so we get to see which CPU is holding the lock, and where. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (194 commits) [POWERPC] Add missing EXPORTS for mpc52xx support [POWERPC] Remove obsolete PPC_52xx and update CLASSIC32 comment [POWERPC] ps3: add a default zImage target [POWERPC] Add of_platform_bus support to mpc52xx psc uart driver [POWERPC] typo fix and whitespace cleanup on mpc52xx-uart driver [POWERPC] Fix debug printks for 32-bit resources in the PCI code [POWERPC] Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [POWERPC] Linkstation / kurobox support [POWERPC] Add the e300c3 core to the CPU table. [POWERPC] ppc: m48t35 add missing bracket [POWERPC] iSeries: don't build head_64.o unnecessarily [POWERPC] iSeries: stop dt_mod.o being rebuilt unnecessarily [POWERPC] Fix cputable.h for combined build [POWERPC] Allow CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT on iSeries [POWERPC] Allow xmon to build on legacy iSeries [POWERPC] Change ppc64_defconfig to use AUTOFS_V4 not V3 [POWERPC] Tell firmware we can handle POWER6 compatible mode [POWERPC] Clean images in arch/powerpc/boot [POWERPC] Fix OF pci flags parsing [POWERPC] defconfig for lite5200 board ...
2006-12-04[PATCH] severing module.h->sched.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>