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  1. Aug 05, 2010
  2. Jun 03, 2010
  3. Mar 30, 2010
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  4. Jul 06, 2009
  5. Jun 01, 2009
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      crypto: testmgr - Dynamically allocate xbuf and axbuf · f8b0d4d0
      Herbert Xu authored
      
      We currently allocate temporary memory that is used for testing
      statically.  This renders the testing engine non-reentrant. As
      algorithms may nest, i.e., one may construct another in order to
      carry out a part of its operation, this is unacceptable.  For
      example, it has been reported that an AEAD implementation allocates
      a cipher in its setkey function, which causes it to fail during
      testing as the temporary memory is overwritten.
      
      This patch replaces the static memory with dynamically allocated
      buffers.  We need a maximum of 16 pages so this slightly increases
      the chances of an algorithm failing due to memory shortage.
      However, as testing usually occurs at registration, this shouldn't
      be a big problem.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarShasi Pulijala <spulijala@amcc.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      f8b0d4d0
  6. Feb 18, 2009
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs · 6fe4a28d
      Herbert Xu authored
      
      As it is an skcipher with no IV escapes testing altogether because
      we only test givcipher objects.  This patch fixes the bypass logic
      to test these algorithms.
      
      Conversely, we're currently testing nivaead algorithms with IVs,
      which would have deadlocked had it not been for the fact that no
      nivaead algorithms have any test vectors.  This patch also fixes
      that case.
      
      Both fixes are ugly as hell, but this ugliness should hopefully
      disappear once we move them into the per-type code (i.e., the
      AEAD test would live in aead.c and the skcipher stuff in ablkcipher.c).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      6fe4a28d
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  11. Nov 22, 2006
    • David Howells's avatar
      WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data · 65f27f38
      David Howells authored
      
      Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
      The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
      
      For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
      pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
      structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
      
      To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
      work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
      
      Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
      scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
      work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
      that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
      else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
      problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
      
      However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
      function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
      with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
      work_struct by calling work_release().
      
      In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
      initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
      
      
      Signed-Off-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      65f27f38
  12. Sep 20, 2006
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