- Sep 03, 2008
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Tony Breeds authored
This bug is causing random crashes (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414 ). -fno-omit-frame-pointer is only needed on powerpc when -pg is also supplied, and there is a gcc bug that causes incorrect code generation on 32-bit powerpc when -fno-omit-frame-pointer is used---it uses stack locations below the stack pointer, which is not allowed by the ABI because those locations can and sometimes do get corrupted by an interrupt. This ensures that CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is only selected by ftrace. When CONFIG_FTRACE is enabled we also pass -mno-sched-epilog to work around the gcc codegen bug. Patch based on work by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- Sep 01, 2008
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Vegard Nossum authored
Daniel J. Blueman reported: > ======================================================= > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 2.6.27-rc4-224c #1 > ------------------------------------------------------- > hald/4680 is trying to acquire lock: > (&n->list_lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff802bfa26>] add_partial+0x26/0x80 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff8041cfdc>] > debug_object_free+0x5c/0x120 We fix it by moving the actual freeing to outside the lock (the lock now only protects the list). The pool lock is also promoted to irq-safe (suggested by Dan). It's necessary because free_pool is now called outside the irq disabled region. So we need to protect against an interrupt handler which calls debug_object_init(). [tglx@linutronix.de: added hlist_move_list helper to avoid looping through the list twice] Reported-by:
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- Aug 21, 2008
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Ingo Oeser authored
A recent patch from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> replaced the first occurrence of '/' with '!' as needed for block devices. Now do some cheap defensive coding and replace all of them to avoid future issues in this area. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- Aug 16, 2008
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Andi Kleen authored
I noticed that sysctl_check.o was the largest object file in a allnoconfig build in kernel/*. 36243 0 0 36243 8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o This is because it was default y and && EMBEDDED. But I don't really see a need for a non kernel developer to have their sysctls checked all the time. So move the Kconfig into the kernel debugging section and also drop the default y and the EMBEDDED check. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Aug 15, 2008
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David S. Miller authored
The idea of the implementation of this fix is from Michael Ellerman. This function has two loops, but they each interpret the memory_limit value differently. The first loop interprets it as a "size limit" whereas the second loop interprets it as an "address limit". Before the second loop runs, reset memory_limit to lmb_end_of_DRAM() so that it all works out. Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by:
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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- Aug 12, 2008
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Randy Dunlap authored
Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them. This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code instead of bad examples. Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir. Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol. Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system. However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need to be installed (for userspace builds). Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32, sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Short enough reads from /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity return -EINVAL for no good reason. This became noticed with NR_CPUS=4096 patches, when length of printed representation of cpumask becase 1152, but cat(1) continued to read with 1024-byte chunks. bitmap_scnprintf() in good faith fills buffer, returns 1023, check returns -EINVAL. Fix it by switching to seq_file, so handler will just fill buffer and doesn't care about offsets, length, filling EOF and all this crap. For that add seq_bitmap(), and wrappers around it -- seq_cpumask() and seq_nodemask(). Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.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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Yi Yang authored
Fix wrong conversion function used by strict_strtou* Signed-off-by:
Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Reported-by:
Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Aug 01, 2008
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Jason Wessel authored
There is no technical reason that the kgdb core requires frame pointers. It is up to the end user of KGDB to decide if they need them or not. [ anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp: removed frame pointers on mips ] Signed-off-by:
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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David Miller authored
Otherwise lock debugging messages on runqueue locks can deadlock the system due to the wakeups performed by printk(). Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 30, 2008
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Stephen Hemminger authored
The rationale is: * use u32 consistently * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding * don't reduce state space on srandom32() * enforce state variable initialization restrictions Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period and a version of random64() if needed. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 29, 2008
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
This IOMMU helper function doesn't work for some architectures: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121699304403202&w=2 It also breaks POWER and SPARC builds: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121730388001890&w=2 Currently, only x86 IOMMUs use this so let's move it to x86 for now. Reported-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 28, 2008
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 26, 2008
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Johannes Weiner authored
This implements a platform-independent version of show_mem(). Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds the new function task_current_syscall() on machines where the asm/syscall.h interface is supported (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK). It's exported for modules to use in the future. This function safely samples the state of a blocked thread to collect what system call it is blocked in, and the six system call argument registers. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by:
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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Arjan van de Ven authored
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. In addition, one of the if() clauses collapes into the WARN() entirely now. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
Introduce gang_lookup_slot() and gang_lookup_slot_tag() functions, which are used by lockless pagecache. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER architecture does: This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423 ). I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread). So I CC'ed this to KVM camp. Comments are appreciated. A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added. If the pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it. If it's NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before. If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works with hot plugging). It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate dma_mapping_ops per device. The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different dma_mapping_error functions. The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error. The patch is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in all the architecture. This patch: dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA operations. So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device. Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function. x86 IOMMUs use device argument. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi] Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Travis authored
* Replace previous instances of the cpumask_of_cpu_ptr* macros with a the new (lvalue capable) generic cpumask_of_cpu(). Signed-off-by:
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Joerg Roedel authored
Calculating the number of pages from given address and length numbers is a task required in multiple IOMMU implementations. So implement this as a generic function into the IOMMU helper code. Signed-off-by:
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 25, 2008
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Nadia Derbey authored
Introduce the free_layer() routine: it is the one that actually frees memory after a grace period has elapsed. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey authored
Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical section. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey authored
Make the idr_get_new* routines rcu-safe. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey authored
Do some code factorization in the return code analysis. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey authored
Fix the incomplete printk call. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey authored
This is a trivial patch that renames: . alloc_layer to get_from_free_list since it idr_pre_get that actually allocates memory. . free_layer to move_to_free_list since memory is not actually freed there. This makes things more clear for the next patches. Signed-off-by:
Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Young authored
All ratelimit user use same jiffies and burst params, so some messages (callbacks) will be lost. For example: a call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) b call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) before the 5*HZ timeout of a, then b will will be supressed. - rewrite __ratelimit, and use a ratelimit_state as parameter. Thanks for hints from andrew. - Add WARN_ON_RATELIMIT, update rcupreempt.h - remove __printk_ratelimit - use __ratelimit in net_ratelimit Signed-off-by:
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Jones authored
Arjan noted that the list_head debugging is BUG'ing when it detects corruption. By causing the box to panic immediately, we're possibly losing some bug reports. Changing this to a WARN() should mean we at the least start seeing reports collected at kerneloops.org Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Now that WARN() exists, we can fold some of the printk's into it. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Petazzoni authored
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot process and this is provided with a set of four functions: malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release. The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena. This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying all the malloc/free implementations. The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses: - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which allocations should be made - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog() function call. This function will be called several times during the decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls arch_decomp_wdog(). Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the kernel and improved by me. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by:
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Remove the conditional surrounding the definition of list_add() from list.h since, if you define CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, the definition you will subsequently pick up from lib/list_debug.c will be absolutely identical, at which point you can remove that redundant definition from list_debug.c as well. Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter, which would represent no interest in returning the address of the end of the parsed string. In numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a possibly-suffixed string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and define a character pointer to accept the end pointer being returned by memparse() even though they have no interest in it and promptly throw it away. This (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in the cases where they just don't care about getting back that end pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Harvey Harrison authored
Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 24, 2008
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David Brownell authored
This updates <linux/bcd.h> to define the key routines as constant functions, which the macros will then call. Newer code can now call bcd2bin() instead of SCREAMING BCD2BIN() TO THE FOUR WINDS. This lets each driver shrink their codespace by using N function calls to a single (global) copy of those routines, instead of N inlined copies of these functions per driver. These routines aren't used in speed-critical code. Almost all callers are in the RTC framework. Typical per-driver savings is near 300 bytes. Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack. The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that everyone can use it. lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs. This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be explicitly disabled for embedded systems. This patch: Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation. Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel= command-line parameter. The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm initialisation code will be moved here over time. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> 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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- Jul 23, 2008
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Jason Wessel authored
Remove HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO because it does not exist anywhere in the kernel mainline sources Signed-off-by:
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
This is alternative implementation of sg content iterator introduced by commit 83e7d317... from Pierre Ossman in next-20080716. As there's already an sg iterator which iterates over sg entries themselves, name this sg_mapping_iterator. Slightly edited description from the original implementation follows. Iteration over a sg list is not that trivial when you take into account that memory pages might have to be mapped before being used. Unfortunately, that means that some parts of the kernel restrict themselves to directly accesible memory just to not have to deal with the mess. This patch adds a simple iterator system that allows any code to easily traverse an sg list and not have to deal with all the details. The user can decide to consume part of the iteration. Also, iteration can be stopped and resumed later if releasing the kmap between iteration steps is necessary. These features are useful to implement piecemeal sg copying for interrupt drive PIO for example. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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- Jul 22, 2008
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Johannes Berg authored
textsearch algorithms can be loaded, make the code depend on CONFIG_MODULES instead of CONFIG_KMOD. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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