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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: always use icache flush for sw breakpoints
kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race
kgdb: documentation fixes
kgdb: allow static kgdbts boot configuration
kgdb: add documentation
kgdb: Kconfig fix
kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite
kgdb: fix several kgdb regressions
kgdb: kgdboc pl011 I/O module
kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
kgdb: add x86 HW breakpoints
kgdb: print breakpoint removed on exception
kgdb: clocksource watchdog
kgdb: fix NMI hangs
kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration
kgdb: document parameters
x86: kgdb support
consoles: polling support, kgdboc
kgdb: core
uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
Remove DEBUG_SEMAPHORE from Kconfig
Improve semaphore documentation
Simplify semaphore implementation
Add down_timeout and change ACPI to use it
Introduce down_killable()
Generic semaphore implementation
Add semaphore.h to kernel_lock.c
Fix quota.h includes
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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This patch adds in the ability to compile the kgdb internal test
string into the kernel so as to run the tests at boot without changing
the kernel boot arguments. This patch also changes all the error
paths to invoke WARN_ON(1) which will emit the line number of the file
and dump the kernel stack when an error occurs.
You can disable the tests in a kernel that is built this way
using "kgdbts="
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds regression tests for testing the kgdb core and arch
specific implementation.
The kgdb test suite is designed to be built into the kernel and not as
a module because it uses a number of low level kernel and kgdb
primitives which should not be exported externally.
The kgdb test suite is designed as a KGDB I/O module which
simulates the communications that a debugger would have with kgdb.
The tests are broken up in to a line by line and referenced here as
a "get" which is kgdb requesting input and "put" which is kgdb
sending a response.
The kgdb suite can be invoked from the kernel command line
arguments system or executed dynamically at run time. The test
suite uses the variable "kgdbts" to obtain the information about
which tests to run and to configure the verbosity level. The
following are the various characters you can use with the kgdbts=
line:
When using the "kgdbts=" you only choose one of the following core
test types:
A = Run all the core tests silently
V1 = Run all the core tests with minimal output
V2 = Run all the core tests in debug mode
You can also specify optional tests:
N## = Go to sleep with interrupts of for ## seconds
to test the HW NMI watchdog
F## = Break at do_fork for ## iterations
S## = Break at sys_open for ## iterations
NOTE: that the do_fork and sys_open tests are mutually exclusive.
To invoke the kgdb test suite from boot you use a kernel start
argument as follows:
kgdbts=V1 kgdbwait
Or if you wanted to perform the NMI test for 6 seconds and do_fork
test for 100 forks, you could use:
kgdbts=V1N6F100 kgdbwait
The test suite can also be invoked at run time with:
echo kgdbts=V1N6F100 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
Or as another example:
echo kgdbts=V2 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
When developing a new kgdb arch specific implementation or
using these tests for the purpose of regression testing,
several invocations are required.
1) Boot with the test suite enabled by using the kernel arguments
"kgdbts=V1F100 kgdbwait"
## If kgdb arch specific implementation has NMI use
"kgdbts=V1N6F100
2) After the system boot run the basic test.
echo kgdbts=V1 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
3) Run the concurrency tests. It is best to use n+1
while loops where n is the number of cpus you have
in your system. The example below uses only two
loops.
## This tests break points on sys_open
while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
echo kgdbts=V1S10000 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
fg # and hit control-c
fg # and hit control-c
## This tests break points on do_fork
while [ 1 ] ; do date > /dev/null ; done &
while [ 1 ] ; do date > /dev/null ; done &
echo kgdbts=V1F1000 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
fg # and hit control-c
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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kgdb core code. Handles the protocol and the arch details.
[ mingo@elte.hu: heavily modified, simplified and cleaned up. ]
[ xemul@openvz.org: use find_task_by_pid_ns ]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Alpha and FRV mutexes had an option to print lots of debugging messages
in their semaphore implementation. This feature has not been carried
over to the generic semaphores, so remove the stale Kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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kernel_lock.c uses DECLARE_MUTEX, up() and down() without explicitly
including asm/semaphore.h. This is fragile and leaves it vulnerable
to breakage during header reorganisations.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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There is a potential bug in __lmb_alloc_base where we subtract `size'
from the base address of a reserved region without checking whether
the subtraction could wrap around and produce a very large unsigned
value. In fact it probably isn't possible to hit the bug in practice
since it would only occur in the situation where we can't satisfy the
allocation request and there is a reserved region starting at 0.
This fixes the potential bug by breaking out of the loop when we get
to the point where the base of the reserved region is less than the
size requested. This also restructures the loop to be a bit easier to
follow.
The same logic got copied into lmb_alloc_nid_unreserved, so this makes
a similar change there. Here the bug is more likely to be hit because
the outer loop (in lmb_alloc_nid) goes through the memory regions in
increasing order rather than decreasing order as __lmb_alloc_base
does, and we are therefore more likely to hit the case where we are
testing against a reserved region with a base address of 0.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This makes no semantic changes. It fixes the whitespace and formatting
a bit, gets rid of a local DBG macro and uses the equivalent pr_debug
instead, and restructures one while loop that had a function call and
assignment in the condition to be a bit more readable. Some comments
about functions being called with relocation disabled were also removed
as they would just be confusing to most readers now that the code is
in lib/.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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A variant of lmb_alloc() that tries to allocate memory on a specified
NUMA node 'nid' but falls back to normal lmb_alloc() if that fails.
The caller provides a 'nid_range' function pointer which assists the
allocator. It is given args 'start', 'end', and pointer to integer
'this_nid'.
It places at 'this_nid' the NUMA node id that corresponds to 'start',
and returns the end address within 'start' to 'end' at which memory
assosciated with 'nid' ends.
This callback allows a platform to use lmb_alloc_nid() in just
about any context, even ones in which early_pfn_to_nid() might
not be working yet.
This function will be used by the NUMA setup code on sparc64, and also
it can be used by powerpc, replacing it's hand crafted
"careful_allocation()" function in arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
If x86 ever converts it's NUMA support over to using the LMB helpers,
it can use this too as it has something entirely similar.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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count_partial() is used by both slabinfo and the sysfs proc support. Move
the function directly before the beginning of the sysfs code so that it can
be easily found. Rework the preprocessor conditional to take into account
that slub sysfs support depends on CONFIG_SYSFS *and* CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG.
Make CONFIG_SLUB_STATS depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_SYSFS. There
is no point of keeping statistics if no one can restrive them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
net/ipv6/raw.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
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Shift of a LE value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order
variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds new three helper functions to copy data between an SG
list and a linear buffer.
- sg_copy_from_buffer copies data from linear buffer to an SG list
- sg_copy_to_buffer copies data from an SG list to a linear buffer
When the APIs copy data from a linear buffer to an SG list,
flush_kernel_dcache_page is called. It's not necessary for everyone
but it's a no-op on most architectures and in general the API is not
used in performance critical path.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
So change it to feed bits into all CPUs. I decided to do that lockless
because well somewhat random results are ok.
v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This does not look good, but there is no other choice. The compilation
without CONFIG_NET is broken and can not be fixed with ease.
After that there is no need for the following commits:
1567ca7eec7664b8be3b07755ac59dc1b1ec76cb
3edf8fa5ccf10688a9280b5cbca8ed3947c42866
2d38f9a4f8d2ebdc799f03eecf82345825495711
Revert them.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mark Lord wrote:
>
> On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages.
..
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
..
These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not
flood the syslog with them.
The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody
made the string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a
valid input to store_uevent().
Eg. "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to
require "add" without the '\0'.
This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code
once again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present.
According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as
the one I have here that requires this fix.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The knock-out. The pcounter abstraction is not used any longer in the
kernel.
Not sure whether this should go via netdev tree, but as far as I
remember it was added via this one, and besides Eric thinks that
Andrew shouldn't mind this.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This fix broken compilation for 'allnoconfig'. This was introduced by
Introduced by commit 1218854afa6f659be90b748cf1bc7badee954a35 ("[NET]
NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.")
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It appears that 64-bit PCI resources cannot possibly ever have worked on
x86-32 even when the RESOURCES_64BIT config option was set, because any
driver that tried to [pci_]ioremap() the resource would have been unable
to do so because the high 32 bits would have been silently dropped on
the floor by the ioremap() routines that only used "unsigned long".
Change them to use "resource_size_t" instead, which properly encodes the
whole 64-bit resource data if RESOURCES_64BIT is enabled.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some drivers need to reserve all PCI BARs to prevent other drivers
misusing unoccupied BARs. pcim_iomap_regions_request_all() requests
all BARs and iomap specified BARs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Commit 681cc5cd3efbeafca6386114070e0bfb5012e249 ("iommu sg merging:
swiotlb: respect the segment boundary limits") introduced two
possibilities for entering an endless loop in lib/swiotlb.c:
- if max_slots is zero (possible if mask is ~0UL)
- if the number of slots requested fits into a swiotlb segment, but is
too large for the part of a segment which remains after considering
offset_slots
This fixes them
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
debugfs: fix sparse warnings
Driver core: Fix cleanup when failing device_add().
driver core: Remove dpm_sysfs_remove() from error path of device_add()
PM: fix new mutex-locking bug in the PM core
PM: Do not acquire device semaphores upfront during suspend
kobject: properly initialize ksets
sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix
driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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iommu_is_span_boundary is used internally in the IOMMU helper
(lib/iommu-helper.c), a primitive function that judges whether a memory area
spans LLD's segment boundary or not.
It's difficult to convert some IOMMUs to use the IOMMU helper but
iommu_is_span_boundary is still useful for them. So this patch exports it.
This is needed for the parisc iommu fixes.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kset_initialize was calling kobject_init_internal() which didn't
initialize the kobject as well as kobject_init() was. So have
kobject_init() call kobject_init_internal() and move the logic to
initalize the kobject there.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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lib/vsprintf.c: Fix bug omitting minus sign of numbers (module_param)
Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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We introduced a bug in fixing lmb_add_region to handle an initial
region being non-zero. Before that fix it was impossible to insert a
region at the head of the list since the first region always started
at zero.
Now that its possible for the first region to be non-zero we need to
check to see if the new region should be added at the head and if so
actually add it.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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>
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Convert the lmb code to use u64 instead of unsigned long for physical
addresses and sizes. This is needed to support large amounts of RAM
on 32-bit systems that support 36-bit physical addressing.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not
coalesce the number of regions down to one. This causes problems on
ppc32 for the memory region as its assumed to only have one region.
We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just
replace the dummy region.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We need to check lmb_add_region() for errors, it can run out
of regions etc.
Also, the size needs to be padded to the given alignment
or else the lmb.reserved regions don't get expanded and
instead we get tons of holes and eventually run out of
regions prematurely.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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[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>
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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>
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[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>
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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>
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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>
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- 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>
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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>
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