By the next patch, elf_core_dump() and elf_fdpic_core_dump() will support
extended numbering and so will produce the corefiles with section header
table in a special case.
The problem is the process of writing a file header offset of the section
header table into e_shoff field of the ELF header. ELF header is
positioned at the beginning of the corefile, while section header at the
end. So, we need to take which of the following ways:
1. Seek backward to retry writing operation for ELF header
after writing process for a whole part
2. Make offset calculation process and writing process
totally sequential
The clause 1. is not always possible: one cannot assume that file system
supports seek function. Consider the no_llseek case.
Therefore, this patch adopts the clause 2.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current ELF dumper can produce broken corefiles if program headers
exceed 65535. In particular, the program in 64-bit environment often
demands more than 65535 mmaps. If you google max_map_count, then you can
find many users facing this problem.
Solaris has already dealt with this issue, and other OSes have also
adopted the same method as in Solaris. Currently, Sun's document and AMD
64 ABI include the description for the extension, where they call the
extension Extended Numbering. See Reference for further information.
I believe that linux kernel should adopt the same way as they did, so I've
written this patch.
I am also preparing for patches of GDB and binutils.
How to fix
==========
In new dumping process, there are two cases according to weather or
not the number of program headers is equal to or more than 65535.
- if less than 65535, the produced corefile format is exactly the same
as the ordinary one.
- if equal to or more than 65535, then e_phnum field is set to newly
introduced constant PN_XNUM(0xffff) and the actual number of program
headers is set to sh_info field of the section header at index 0.
Compatibility Concern
=====================
* As already mentioned in Summary, Sun and AMD64 has already adopted
this. See Reference.
* There are four combinations according to whether kernel and userland
tools are respectively modified or not. The next table summarizes
shortly for each combination.
---------------------------------------------
Original Kernel | Modified Kernel
---------------------------------------------
< 65535 | >= 65535 | < 65535 | >= 65535
-------------------------------------------------------------
Original Tools | OK | broken | OK | broken (#)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Modified Tools | OK | broken | OK | OK
-------------------------------------------------------------
Note that there is no case that `OK' changes to `broken'.
(#) Although this case remains broken, O-M behaves better than
O-O. That is, while in O-O case e_phnum field would be extremely
small due to integer overflow, in O-M case it is guaranteed to be at
least 65535 by being set to PN_XNUM(0xFFFF), much closer to the
actual correct value than the O-O case.
Test Program
============
Here is a test program mkmmaps.c that is useful to produce the
corefile with many mmaps. To use this, please take the following
steps:
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ sysctl vm.max_map_count=70000 # default 65530 is too small
$ sysctl fs.file-max=70000
$ mkmmaps 65535
Then, the program will abort and a corefile will be generated.
If failed, there are two cases according to the error message
displayed.
* ``out of memory'' means vm.max_map_count is still smaller
* ``too many open files'' means fs.file-max is still smaller
So, please change it to a larger value, and then retry it.
mkmmaps.c
==
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int maps_num;
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "mkmmaps [number of maps to be created]\n");
exit(1);
}
if (sscanf(argv[1], "%d", &maps_num) == EOF) {
perror("sscanf");
exit(2);
}
if (maps_num < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%d is invalid\n", maps_num);
exit(3);
}
for (; maps_num > 0; --maps_num) {
if (MAP_FAILED == mmap((void *)NULL, (size_t) 1, PROT_READ,
MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, (int) -1,
(off_t) NULL)) {
perror("mmap");
exit(4);
}
}
abort();
{
char buffer[128];
sprintf(buffer, "wc -l /proc/%u/maps", getpid());
system(buffer);
}
return 0;
}
Tested on i386, ia64 and um/sys-i386.
Built on sh4 (which covers fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c)
References
==========
- Sun microsystems: Linker and Libraries.
Part No: 817-1984-17, September 2008.
URL: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984
- System V ABI AMD64 Architecture Processor Supplement
Draft Version 0.99., May 11, 2009.
URL: http://www.x86-64.org/
This patch:
There are three different definitions for dump_seek() functions in
binfmt_aout.c, binfmt_elf.c and binfmt_elf_fdpic.c, respectively. The
only for binfmt_elf.c.
My next patch will move dump_seek() into a header file in order to share
the same implementations for dump_write() and dump_seek(). As the first
step, this patch unify these three definitions for dump_seek() by applying
the past commits that have been applied only for binfmt_elf.c.
Specifically, the modification made here is part of the following commits:
* d025c9db7f
* 7f14daa19e
This patch does not change a shape of corefiles.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
remove_proc_entry() does
lock
lookup parent
unlock
lock
unlink proc entry from lists
unlock
which can be made bit more correct by doing parent translation + unlink
without dropping lock.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.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>
While testing an ADC121S021 in an embedded board with a S3C2142 SoC (ARM
core), I have found that the 'adcxx' driver does not handle correctly
single channel ADCs from this chip family. For single channel chips you
must only issue one read transfer for correct measurement.
Signed-off-by: Jose Miguel Goncalves <jose.goncalves@inov.pt>
Cc: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here is a small code snippet, which will be complained about by
checkpatch.pl:
#define __STRUCT_KFIFO_COMMON(recsize, ptrtype) \
union { \
struct { \
unsigned int in; \
unsigned int out; \
}; \
char rectype[recsize]; \
ptrtype *ptr; \
const ptrtype *ptr_const; \
};
This construct is legal and safe, so checkpatch.pl should accept this. It
should be also true for struct defined in a macro.
Add the `struct' and `union' keywords to the exceptions list of the
checkpatch.pl script, to prevent error message "Macros with multiple
statements should be enclosed in a do - while loop". Otherwise it is not
possible to build a struct or union with a macro.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
checkpatch falsely complained about '__initconst' because it thought the
'const' needed a space before. Fix this by changing the list of
attributes:
- add '__initconst'
- force plain 'init' to contain a word-boundary at the end
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In case if the statement and the conditional are in one line, the line
appears in the report doubly.
And items of this check have no blank line before the next item.
This patch fixes these trivial problems, to improve readability of the
report.
[sample.c]
> if (cond1
> && cond2
> && cond3) func_foo();
>
> if (cond4) func_bar();
Before:
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #1: FILE: sample.c:1:
> +if (cond1
> [...]
> + && cond3) func_foo();
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #5: FILE: sample.c:5:
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
> total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked
After:
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #1: FILE: sample.c:1:
> +if (cond1
> [...]
> + && cond3) func_foo();
>
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #5: FILE: sample.c:5:
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
>
> total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We used to manage features and differences on a per-cpu basis. As several
cpus share the same mci revision, this patch aggregates cpus that have the
same IP revision in one defined constant. We use the
at91mci_is_mci1rev2xx() funtion name not to mess with newer Atmel sd/mmc
IP called "MCI2". _rev2 naming could have been confusing...
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang.mues@auerswald.de>
Cc: Andrew Victor <avictor.za@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is setting some max_ variables for the IO elevator, so the
elevator will put requests for large data blocks to the driver. This is
critical for
a) speed
and
b) wear leveling of the flash chip controller: Otherwise the controller
will treat the SD card badly with millions of single 4 KByte write
commands. This will lead to a shorter life time for the SD cards.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang.mues@auerswald.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Andrew Victor <avictor.za@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The TX DMA buffer is allocated only once, because the
allocation/deallocation of the buffer for EACH chunk of data is
time-consuming and prone to memory fragmentation.
Using a coherent DMA buffer avoids extra data cache calls.
[nicolas.ferre@atmel.com: coding style modifications]
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Muees <wolfgang.mues@auerswald.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Andrew Victor <avictor.za@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Daisuke HATAYAMA
Alexey Dobriyan
José Miguel Gonçalves
Joe Perches
Joakim Tjernlund
Alberto Panizzo
Emese Revfy
Stefani Seibold
Wolfram Sang
Hidetoshi Seto
Vasily Khoruzhick
Nicolas Ferre
Wolfgang Muees