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  1. Sep 18, 2009
  2. Sep 15, 2009
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc: Kill PROM console driver. · 09d3f3f0
      David S. Miller authored
      
      Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
      days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
      in any situation.
      
      Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
      bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.
      
      If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
      depending upon this crutch to save us.  We've been able to take care
      of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
      so there are no excuses.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      09d3f3f0
  3. Aug 21, 2009
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: add missing dependency of conf to localyesconfig · 48586218
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      There's a dependency missing.
      
      $ make localyesconfig
        HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
        HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
        HOSTCC  scripts/basic/hash
      using config: '/boot/config-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.x86_64'
      /bin/sh: line 8: scripts/kconfig/conf: No such file or directory
      make[1]: *** [localyesconfig] Error 127
      make: *** [localyesconfig] Error 2
      
      Thus the script failed to run. But the sed command that converts the '=m'
      to '=y' still ran. This gives us a distro config with all modules
      converted to built in!
      
      The missing dependency was for conf for localyesconfig. This
      dependency was already set for localmodconfig.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      48586218
  4. Aug 18, 2009
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: test if a .config already exists · a7c02602
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      If one were to run localmodconfig or localyesconfig without having
      a .config already in the file, then the end of the process would give
      a warning when it tries to move the old .config to .config.old.
      
      This patch adds a test to check if .config exists and avoid the moves
      if it does not.
      
      [ Impact: remove warning after make localmodconfig ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      a7c02602
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: make local .config default for streamline_config · a9024838
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      As Andi Kleen pointed out, most people would expect that the local .config
      file to be based for a streamline config. This patch changes the order
      of searching for a config file to consider the .config in the local
      directory first.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      a9024838
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: test for /boot/config-uname after /proc/config.gz in localconfig · 810b2be6
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Many distros put their config in /boot/config-`uname -r`, add a check
      for that right after /proc/config.gz
      
      Reported-by: default avatarAlan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      810b2be6
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: unset IKCONFIG_PROC and clean up nesting · d08ca277
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Due to cut and paste error IKCONFIG was both set and cleared.
      It was suppose to be IKCONFIG_PROC to be cleared.
      
      Also cleaned up if nesting.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarAlan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d08ca277
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: search for a config to base the local(mod|yes)config on · cdfc4795
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Instead of using the .config in the local directory. This patch
      changes streamline_config.pl to search various locations for a config.
      
      Here's the list and order of search:
      
        /proc/config.gz
        /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
        vmlinux  # local to the directory
        /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/configs.ko
        kernel/configs.ko
        kernel/configs.o
        .config
      
      Once it finds a file that contains a config (it checks if the binary
      objects have configs first) it then uses it to create the .config
      with minimum modules needed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      cdfc4795
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files · 6be51ffc
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      It would be nice to use extract-ikconfig to find the congfig.gz
      in either vmlinux (not vmlinuz) or configs.ko.
      
      This patch changes the script to also be able to read ELF files directly.
      
      [ Impact: find config.gz in vmlinux and configs.ko ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      6be51ffc
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: add check if end exists in extract-ikconfig · fd3132d5
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Both start and end should be tested for existence before continuing
      to parse the config.gz file.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      fd3132d5
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG from streamline_config.pl · 744ffcbe
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Ingo Molnar suggested that the streamline_config.pl should enable
      CONFIG_IKCONFIG to keep the current config in the kernel.
      Then we can use scripts/extract-ikconfig to find the current
      modules.
      
      This patch changes streamline_config.pl to check if CONFIG_IKCONFIG
      is not set, and if it is not, it enables it to be a module.
      
      [ Impact: make current config options easier to find ]
      
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      744ffcbe
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: do not warn about modules built in · ea2c1894
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      The streamline_config.pl finds all the configs that are needed to
      compile the currently loaded modules. After it creates the .config
      file, it tests to make sure all the configs that are needed were
      set.
      
      It only looks at the configs that are modules, it does not look
      at the builtin configs. This causes unnecessary warnings about modules
      not being covered.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ea2c1894
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: streamline_config.pl do not stop with no depends · 74398d32
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      If a config does not have a prompt, it must be selected.
      streamline_config.pl keeps track of all configs that select other configs.
      If a config that does not have a prompt needs to be set to enable a
      current module, it will include all configs that select it.
      Note, streamline_config.pl does not enable modules that are not already
      enabled. It only keeps enabled those that were enabled and might be
      needed to compile the current modules.
      
      The code to find the selects of a config is after the code that
      adds the depends. But if a config needed selects but had no dependencies,
      it would not be set. Because the code would stop before getting to
      the select.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      74398d32
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: add make localyesconfig option · 281c9dad
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      This adds the option localyesconfig to make. This is similar to
      localmodconfig, but after it removes unnecessary modules it runs
      
        sed -i s/=m/=y/
      
      on the .config file. It then runs "make silentoldconfig" to fix any
      wholes that were created by the conversion of modules to core.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      281c9dad
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: make localmodconfig to run streamline_config.pl · 03fa25da
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      Running the streamline_config.pl script manually can still be confusing
      for some users. This patch adds the localmodconfig option. This will
      automatically run streamline_config.pl on the current .config and
      then run "make silentoldconfig" to fix any wholes that might have been
      created.
      
       $ make localmodconfig
      
      This will remove any module configurations in .config that are not needed
      to compile the modules that are loaded.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      03fa25da
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts · dcc60243
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      streamline_config.pl is a very powerful tool. For those that install
      a kernel to a new box using the config file from the distribution know that
      it can take forever to compile the kernel.
      
      Making a custom config file that will still boot your box, but bring
      down the compile time of the kernel can be quit painful, and to ask
      someone that reported a bug to do this can be a large burdon since that
      person may not even know how to build a kernel.
      
      This script will perform "lsmod" to find all the modules loaded on the
      current running system. It will read all the Makefiles to map which
      CONFIG enables a module. It will read the Kconfig files to find the
      dependencies and selects that may be needed to support a CONFIG.
      Finally, it reads the .config file and removes any module "=m" that is
      not needed to enable the currently loaded modules. The output goes to
      standard out.
      
      Here's a way to run the script. From the Linux directory that holds
      a distribution .config.
      
       $ scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl arch/x86/Kconfig > config-sl
       $ mv .config config-save
       $ mv config-sl .config
       $ make oldconfig
      
      Now you have a .config that will still build all your modules, but also
      take much less time to build the kernel.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      dcc60243
  5. Aug 07, 2009
  6. Aug 05, 2009
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: do not use functions starting with .L in recordmcount.pl · 3f6e968e
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
      > * Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
      >
      > > Hey,
      > >
      > > So I spent 3-4 hrs today (I'm stupid yes) tracking down a .o
      > > breakage by blaming rawhide gcc/binutils as I was using make
      > > V=1and seeing only the compiler chain running,
      >
      > Hm, is this that powerpc related build bug you just reported?
      
      Well we tracked it down and it is powerpc64 specific.
      
      Seems that in drivers/hwmon/lm93.c there's a function called:
      
         LM93_IN_FROM_REG()
      
      But PPC64 has function descriptors and the real function names (the ones
      you see in objdump) start with a '.'. Thus this in objdump you have:
      
       Disassembly of section .text:
      
       0000000000000000 <.LM93_IN_FROM_REG>:
             0:       7c 08 02 a6     mflr    r0
             4:       fb 81 ff e0     std     r28,-32(r1)
      
      The function name used is .LM93_IN_FROM_REG. But gcc considers symbols
      that start with ".L" as a special symbol that is used inside the assembly
      stage.
      
      The nm passed into recordmcount uses the --synthetic option which shows
      the ".L" symbols (my runs outside of the build did not include the
      --synthetic option, so my older patch worked). We see the function as a
      local.
      
      Now to capture all the locations that use "mcount" we need to have a
      reference to link into the object file a list of mcount callers. We need a
      reference that will not disappear. We try to use a global function and if
      that does not work, we use a local function as a reference. But to relink
      the section back into the object, we need to make it global. In this case,
      we run objcopy using --globalize-symbol and --localize-symbol to convert
      the symbol into a global symbol, link the mcount list, then convert it
      back to a local symbol.
      
      This works great except for this case. .L* symbols can not be converted
      into a global symbol, and the mcount section referencing it will remain
      unresolved.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908052011590.5010@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      3f6e968e
  7. Jul 29, 2009
  8. Jul 23, 2009
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      ftrace: Only update $offset when we update $ref_func · bd171d5f
      Matt Fleming authored
      
      The value of $offset should be the offset of $ref_func from the
      beginning of the object file. Therefore, we should set both variables
      together.
      
      This fixes a bug I was hitting on sh where $offset (which is used to
      calcualte the addends for the __mcount_loc entries) was being set
      multiple times and didn't correspond to $ref_func's offset in the object
      file. The addends in __mcount_loc were calculated incorrectly, resulting
      in ftrace dynamically modifying addresses that weren't mcount call
      sites.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1248365775-25196-2-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      bd171d5f
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      ftrace: Fix the conditional that updates $ref_func · fc4c7355
      Matt Fleming authored
      
      Fix the conditional that checks if we already have a $ref_func and that
      the new function is weak. The code as previously checking whether either
      condition was false, and we really need to only update $ref_func is both
      cconditions are false.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1248365775-25196-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      fc4c7355
  9. Jul 18, 2009
  10. Jul 17, 2009
  11. Jul 01, 2009
  12. Jun 30, 2009
    • Stephen Rothwell's avatar
      fbdev: work around old compiler bug · 15e32524
      Stephen Rothwell authored
      
      When building with a 4.1.x compiler on powerpc64 (at least) we get this
      error:
      
      drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_mono.c:81: error: logo_linux_mono causes a section type conflict
      
      This was introduced by commit ae52bb23
      ("fbdev: move logo externs to header file").  This is a partial revert of
      that commit sufficient to not hit the compiler bug.
      
      Also convert _clut arrays from __initconst to __initdata.
      
      Sam said:
      
        Al analysed this some time ago.  When we say something is const then
        _sometimes_ gcc annotate the section as const(?) - sometimes not.  So if
        we have two variables/functions annotated __*const and gcc decides to
        annotate the section const only in one case we get a section type
        conflict.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      15e32524
  13. Jun 26, 2009
  14. Jun 25, 2009
  15. Jun 24, 2009
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      linker script: throw away .discard section · 405d967d
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
      .discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
      and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
      variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
      
      This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.
      
      [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      405d967d
  16. Jun 20, 2009
  17. Jun 18, 2009
    • Peter Oberparleiter's avatar
      gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure · 2521f2c2
      Peter Oberparleiter authored
      Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
      kernel.  gcov may be useful for:
      
       * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
       * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
       * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
         associated code is never run?)
      
      The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
      
       * change kbuild to include profiling flags
       * provide functions needed by profiling code
       * present profiling data as files in debugfs
      
      Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
      "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
      run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
      others which require adjustment of architecture code.
      
      For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
      to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
      This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
      and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
      or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
      text).
      
      [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
      
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2521f2c2
  18. Jun 16, 2009
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