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Frederic Weisbecker
21798a84ab tracing: fix a build error on alpha
Impact: build fix on Alpha

When tracing is enabled, some arch have included <linux/irqflags.h>
on their <asm/system.h> but others like alpha or m68k don't.

Build error on alpha:

kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_cpumask_write':
kernel/trace/trace.c:2145: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_disable'
kernel/trace/trace.c:2162: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_enable'

Tested on Alpha through a cross-compiler (should correct a similar issue on m68k).

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 09:53:28 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ea31e72d75 tracing/ftrace: make boot tracer select the sched_switch tracer
Impact: build fix

If the boot tracer is selected but not the sched_switch,
there will be a build failure:

 kernel/built-in.o: In function `boot_trace_init':
 trace_boot.c:(.text+0x5ee38): undefined reference to `sched_switch_trace'
 kernel/built-in.o: In function `disable_boot_trace':
 (.text+0x5eee1): undefined reference to `tracing_stop_cmdline_record'
 kernel/built-in.o: In function `enable_boot_trace':
 (.text+0x5ef11): undefined reference to `tracing_start_cmdline_record'

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 16:47:13 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f66af459a9 tracepoint: check if the probe has been registered
Impact: fix kernel crash that can trigger during tracing

If we try to remove a probe that has not been already registered,
the tracepoint_entry_remove_probe() function will dereference a NULL
pointer.

Check the probe before removing it to avoid crashes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 16:45:46 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
e2862c9470 trace: fix printk warning for u64
A powerpc ppc64_defconfig build produces these warnings:

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_add_time_stamp':
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'u64'

Just cast the u64s to unsigned long long like we do everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 11:31:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4944dd62de Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-27 10:50:54 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
2077776641 cgroup: remove unused variable
/scratch/sfr/next/kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_tasks_start':
/scratch/sfr/next/kernel/cgroup.c:2107: warning: unused variable 'i'

Introduced in commit cc31edceee "cgroups:
convert tasks file to use a seq_file with shared pid array".

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-26 09:38:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4403b406d4 Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls."
This reverts commit a802dd0eb5 by moving
the call to init_workqueues() back where it belongs - after SMP has been
initialized.

It also moves stop_machine_init() - which needs workqueues - to a later
phase using a core_initcall() instead of early_initcall().  That should
satisfy all ordering requirements, and was apparently the reason why
init_workqueues() was moved to be too early.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-25 19:53:38 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f17845e5d9 ftrace: warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
this warning:

  kernel/trace/ftrace.c:189: warning: ‘frozen_record_count’ defined but not used

triggers because frozen_record_count is only used in the KCONFIG_MARKERS
case. Move the variable it there.

Alas, this frozen-record facility seems to have little use. The
frozen_record_count variable is not used by anything, nor the flags.

So this section might need a bit of dead-code-removal care as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-24 12:52:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d2441183dc Fix compile warning in kernel/params.c
Move free_module_param_attrs() into the CONFIG_MODULES section, since
it's only used inside there. Thus avoiding the warning

  kernel/params.c:514: warning: 'free_module_param_attrs' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-23 12:09:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
88ed86fee6 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1f6d6e8ebe Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
  hrtimers: add missing docbook comments to struct hrtimer
  hrtimers: simplify hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers()
  hrtimers: fix docbook comments
  DECLARE_PER_CPU needs linux/percpu.h
  hrtimers: fix typo
  rangetimers: fix the bug reported by Ingo for real
  rangetimer: fix BUG_ON reported by Ingo
  rangetimer: fix x86 build failure for the !HRTIMERS case
  select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
  select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
  hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idle
  hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value
  hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slack
  hrtimer: fix signed/unsigned bug in slack estimator
  hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_list
  hrtimer: incorporate feedback from Peter Zijlstra
  hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() function
  hrtimer: another build fix
  hrtimer: fix build bug found by Ingo
  hrtimer: make select() and poll() use the hrtimer range feature
  ...
2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2248485640 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits)
  [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls
  [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl()
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl()
  [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
  [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal
  [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
  [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl
  [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
  [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop
  [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c
  [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
  [PATCH] switch sr
  [PATCH] switch sd
  [PATCH] switch ide-scsi
  [PATCH] switch tape_block
  [PATCH] switch dcssblk
  [PATCH] switch dasd
  [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs
  [PATCH] switch mmc
  ...
2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5ed487bc2c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (46 commits)
  [PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free
  [PATCH] i_version: remount support
  [patch] vfs: make security_inode_setattr() calling consistent
  [patch 1/3] FS_MBCACHE: don't needlessly make it built-in
  [PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()
  [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: update comment of d_validate()
  [RFC PATCH] touch_mnt_namespace when the mount flags change
  [PATCH] reiserfs: add missing llseek method
  [PATCH] fix ->llseek for more directories
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate()
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor()
  [PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT()
  [PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in udf
  [PATCH 2/2] anondev: switch to IDA
  [PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically
  [JFFS2] Use d_splice_alias() not d_add() in jffs2_lookup()
  [PATCH] Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly.
  ...
2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a534487606 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  stop_machine: fix error code handling on multiple cpus
  stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threads
  workqueue: introduce create_rt_workqueue
  Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.
  Make panic= and panic_on_oops into core_params
  Make initcall_debug a core_param
  core_param() for genuinely core kernel parameters
  param: Fix duplicate module prefixes
  module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtime
  Remove stop_machine during module load v2
  module: simplify load_module.
2008-10-23 10:00:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b14ea38e13 Merge branch 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path
2008-10-23 09:57:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f2e4bd2b37 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*()
  profiling: fix !procfs build

Fixed trivial conflicts in 'include/linux/profile.h'
2008-10-23 09:38:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
133e887f90 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: disable the hrtick for now
  sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime
  sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks
  sched: optimize group load balancer
  sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup
  sched: kill unused scheduler decl.
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len
  sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
2008-10-23 09:37:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e82cff752f Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: NULL struct irq_desc's member 'name' in dynamic_irq_cleanup()
  genirq: fix off by one and coding style
  genirq: fix set_irq_type() when recording trigger type
2008-10-23 09:36:55 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
66b0de3569 ftrace: fix build failure
fix:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_release':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:271: error: implicit declaration of function 'ftrace_release_hash'

release_hash is not needed without dftraced.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:11:03 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b5aadf7f14 proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:06:12 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3b5d5c6b0c proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:03:13 +04:00
Steven Rostedt
08f5ac906d ftrace: remove ftrace hash
The ftrace hash was used by the ftrace_daemon code. The record ip function
would place the calling address (ip) into the hash. The daemon would later
read the hash and modify that code.

The hash complicates the code. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:24 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
4d296c2432 ftrace: remove mcount set
The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
cb7be3b2fc ftrace: remove daemon
The ftrace daemon is complex and error prone.  This patch strips it out
of the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
6912896e99 ftrace: add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace
Add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace as well as report a warning.

[ Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting using the WARN_ON return value ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:20 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
81adbdc029 ftrace: only have ftrace_kill atomic
When an anomaly is detected, we need a way to completely disable
ftrace. Right now we have two functions: ftrace_kill and ftrace_kill_atomic.
The ftrace_kill tries to do it in a "nice" way by converting everything
back to a nop.

The "nice" way is dangerous itself, so this patch removes it and only
has the "atomic" version, which is all that is needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
593eb8a2d6 ftrace: return error on failed modified text.
Have the ftrace_modify_code return error values:

  -EFAULT on error of reading the address

  -EINVAL if what is read does not match what it expected

  -EPERM  if the write fails to update after a successful match.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:13 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6e62775ece proc: move /proc/execdomains to kernel/exec_domain.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 14:30:41 +04:00
Al Viro
98bc993f99 [PATCH] get rid of nameidata in audit_tree
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
6ae2a0765a ring-buffer: fix free page
The pages of a buffer was originally pointing to the page struct, it
now points to the page address. The freeing of the page still uses
the page frame free "__free_page" instead of the correct free_page to
the address.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 17:02:09 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
268a3dcfea Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2
Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
17d80fd07d tracing: create tracers menu
We seem to have plenty tracers, lets create a menu and not clutter
the already cluttered debug menu more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 09:08:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
debfcaf93e Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-22 09:08:14 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
8163bcac77 stop_machine: fix error code handling on multiple cpus
Using |= for updating a value which might be updated on several cpus
concurrently will not always work since we need to make sure that the
update happens atomically.
To fix this just use a write if the called function returns an error
code on a cpu. We end up writing the error code of an arbitrary cpu
if multiple ones fail but that should be sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:26 +11:00
Heiko Carstens
c9583e55fa stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threads
Convert stop_machine to a workqueue based approach. Instead of using kernel
threads for stop_machine we now use a an rt workqueue to synchronize all
cpus.
This has the advantage that all needed per cpu threads are already created
when stop_machine gets called. And therefore a call to stop_machine won't
fail anymore. This is needed for s390 which needs a mechanism to synchronize
all cpus without allocating any memory.
As Rusty pointed out free_module() needs a non-failing stop_machine interface
as well.

As a side effect the stop_machine code gets simplified.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:26 +11:00
Heiko Carstens
0d557dc97f workqueue: introduce create_rt_workqueue
create_rt_workqueue will create a real time prioritized workqueue.
This is needed for the conversion of stop_machine to a workqueue based
implementation.
This patch adds yet another parameter to __create_workqueue_key to tell
it that we want an rt workqueue.
However it looks like we rather should have something like "int type"
instead of singlethread, freezable and rt.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
Rusty Russell
f44dd164f3 Make panic= and panic_on_oops into core_params
This allows them to be examined and set after boot, plus means they
actually give errors if they are misused (eg. panic=yes).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
Rusty Russell
67e67ceaac core_param() for genuinely core kernel parameters
There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're
cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys.  Yet
it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that
inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename).

So, introduce a "core_param".  The parameter gets no prefix, but
appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg).  I
thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than
"kernel".  And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die
a horrible death.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:23 +11:00
Rusty Russell
9b473de872 param: Fix duplicate module prefixes
Instead of insisting each new module_param sysfs entry is unique,
handle the case where it already exists (for builtin modules).

The current code assumes that all identical prefixes are together in
the section: true for normal uses, but not necessarily so if someone
overrides MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX.  More importantly, it's not true with
the new "core_param()" code which uses "kernel" as a prefix.

This simplifies the caller for the builtin case, at a slight loss of
efficiency (we do the lookup every time to see if the directory
exists).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-22 10:00:23 +11:00
Rusty Russell
730b69d225 module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtime
The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at
runtime.  Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not
clear that truncating names is a good idea either.

So let's check at compile time.  We need to move the #define to
moduleparam.h to do this, though.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:22 +11:00
Andi Kleen
d72b37513c Remove stop_machine during module load v2
Remove stop_machine during module load v2

module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
the module into the global module lists.  Especially on larger systems this
can be quite expensive.

It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers
like kallsyms.

I don't think stop_machine() is actually needed to insert something
into a list though. There are no concurrent writers because the
module mutex is taken. And the RCU list functions know how to insert
a node into a list with the right memory ordering so that concurrent
readers don't go off into the wood.

So remove the stop_machine for the module list insert and just
do a list_add_rcu() instead.

Module removal will still do a stop_machine of course, it needs
that for other reasons.

v2: Revised readers based on Paul's comments. All readers that only
    rely on disabled preemption need to be changed to list_for_each_rcu().
    Done that. The others are ok because they have the modules mutex.
    Also added a possible missing preempt disable for print_modules().

[cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.]

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:22 +11:00
Rusty Russell
5e458cc0f4 module: simplify load_module.
Linus' recent catch of stack overflow in load_module lead me to look
at the code.  A couple of helpers to get a section address and get
objects from a section can help clean things up a little.

(And in case you're wondering, the stack size also dropped from 328 to
284 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:15 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner
c4bd822e7b NOHZ: fix thinko in the timer restart code path
commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())

solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:

When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(

Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
2008-10-21 20:53:24 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
5f86515158 rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*()
current rcu_barrier_bh() is like this:

void rcu_barrier_bh(void)
{
	BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
	/* Take cpucontrol mutex to protect against CPU hotplug */
	mutex_lock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
	init_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
	atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 0);
	/*
	 * The queueing of callbacks in all CPUs must be atomic with
	 * respect to RCU, otherwise one CPU may queue a callback,
	 * wait for a grace period, decrement barrier count and call
	 * complete(), while other CPUs have not yet queued anything.
	 * So, we need to make sure that grace periods cannot complete
	 * until all the callbacks are queued.
	 */
	rcu_read_lock();
	on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)RCU_BARRIER_BH, 1);
	rcu_read_unlock();
	wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
	mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
}

The inconsistency of the code and the comments show a bug here.
rcu_read_lock() cannot make sure that "grace periods for RCU_BH
cannot complete until all the callbacks are queued".
it only make sure that race periods for RCU cannot complete
until all the callbacks are queued.

so we must use rcu_read_lock_bh() for rcu_barrier_bh().
like this:

void rcu_barrier_bh(void)
{
	......
	rcu_read_lock_bh();
	on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)RCU_BARRIER_BH, 1);
	rcu_read_unlock_bh();
	......
}

and also rcu_barrier() rcu_barrier_sched() are implemented like this.
it will bring a lot of duplicate code. My patch uses another way to
fix this bug, please see the comment of my patch.
Thank Paul E. McKenney for he rewrote the comment.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-21 15:59:53 +02:00
Dean Nelson
b6f3b7803a genirq: NULL struct irq_desc's member 'name' in dynamic_irq_cleanup()
If the member 'name' of the irq_desc structure happens to point to a
character string that is resident within a kernel module, problems ensue
if that module is rmmod'd (at which time dynamic_irq_cleanup() is called)
and then later show_interrupts() is called by someone.

It is also not a good thing if the character string resided in kmalloc'd
space that has been kfree'd (after having called dynamic_irq_cleanup()).
dynamic_irq_cleanup() fails to NULL the 'name' member and
show_interrupts() references it on a few architectures (like h8300, sh and
x86).

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-21 15:59:21 +02:00
Al Viro
572c489215 [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
* get rid of fake struct file/struct dentry in __blkdev_get()
* merge __blkdev_get() and do_open()
* get rid of flags argument of blkdev_get()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:49:06 -04:00
Al Viro
c2dd0dae18 [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:49:02 -04:00
Al Viro
9a1c354276 [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:48:58 -04:00
Chris Friesen
0b3682ba33 genirq: fix set_irq_type() when recording trigger type
Impact: fix boot hang on a G5

In set_irq_type() we want to pass the type rather than the current
interrupt state.

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-21 10:10:08 +02:00
Luck, Tony
5f41b8cdc6 kexec: fix crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init build problem
This fixes

  kernel/kexec.c: In function 'crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init':
  kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: 'vmlist' undeclared (first use in this function)
  kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: for each function it appears in.)
  kernel/kexec.c:1410: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct vm_struct'
  make[1]: *** [kernel/kexec.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 15:28:50 -07:00