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Linus Torvalds
0f6f49a8cd Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_null
Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with
gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2db) all
WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg:

  WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20()

because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the
__builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that
caused the warning.

Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently,
using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the
right place.  This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for
the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up.

Make the function name printout use %pS while at it.

Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-16 13:41:28 -07:00
Andi Kleen
57adc4d2db Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build
When building with gcc 3.2 I get thousands of warnings such as

include/linux/gfp.h: In function `allocflags_to_migratetype':
include/linux/gfp.h:105: warning: null format string

due to passing a NULL format string to warn_slowpath() in

#define __WARN()		warn_slowpath(__FILE__, __LINE__, NULL)

Split this case out into a separate call.  This also shrinks the kernel
slightly:

          text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4802274  707668  712704 6222646  5ef336 vmlinux
          text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4799027  703572  712704 6215303  5ed687 vmlinux

due to removeing one argument from the commonly-called __WARN().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of `empty']
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06 16:36:09 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b48ccb095a locking: clarify kernel-taint warning message
Andi Kleen reported this message triggering on non-lockdep kernels:

   Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint

Clarify the message to say 'lock debugging' - debug_locks_off()
turns off all things lock debugging, not just lockdep.

[ Impact: change kernel warning message text ]

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-23 09:36:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
574bbe7820 lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
Impact: broaden lockdep checks

Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
on another things that require lockdep.

The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9eeba6138c lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers

Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...

But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.

This patch adds this missing warning.

Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.

v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
    open coded xchg().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c95dbf27e2 panic: clean up kernel/panic.c
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Clean up kernel/panic.c some more and make it more consistent.

LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:25:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d1dedb52ac panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Remove an ugly #ifdef CONFIG_SMP from panic(), by providing
an smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too.

LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:24:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ffd71da4e3 panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
Impact: eliminate secondary warnings during panic()

We can panic() in a number of difficult, atomic contexts, hence
we use bust_spinlocks(1) in panic() to increase oops_in_progress,
which prevents various debug checks we have in place.

But in practice this protection only covers the first few printk's
done by panic() - it does not cover the later attempt to stop all
other CPUs and kexec(). If a secondary warning triggers in one of
those facilities that can make the panic message scroll off.

So do bust_spinlocks(0) only much later in panic(). (which code
is only reached if panic policy is relaxed that it can return
after a warning message)

Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:06:47 +01:00
Tejun Heo
5d707e9c8e stackprotector: update make rules
Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup

Stackprotector make rules had the following problems.

* cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and
  kernel/panic.c.

* -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration.

Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile
and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off.  While at
it, prepare for 32bit support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:54 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b2b062b816 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/system.h

Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:37:14 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
d6624f996a oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oops
... because we do want repeated same-oops to be seen by automated
tools like kerneloops.org

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>
2009-01-06 15:59:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
a9de18eb76 Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	kernel/fork.c
2008-12-31 08:31:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b594deb0cc Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/core 2008-12-25 13:53:11 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
a800599283 taint: add missing comment
The description for 'D' was missing in the comment...  (causing me a
minute of WTF followed by looking at more of the code)

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>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
ec5679e513 debug warnings: eliminate warn_on_slowpath()
Impact: cleanup, eliminate code

now that warn_on_slowpath() uses warn_slowpath(...,NULL), we can
eliminate warn_on_slowpath() altogether and use warn_slowpath().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:56:14 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
bd89bb29a0 debug warnings: print the DMI board info name in a WARN/WARN_ON
Impact: extend WARN_ON() output with DMI_PRODUCT_NAME

It's very useful for many low level WARN_ON's to find out which
motherboard has the broken BIOS etc... this patch adds a printk
to the WARN_ON code for this.

On architectures without DMI, gcc should optimize the code out.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:52:50 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
74853dba2f debug warnings: consolidate warn_slowpath and warn_on_slowpath
Impact: cleanup, code reduction

warn_slowpath is a superset of warn_on_slowpath; just have
warn_on_slowpath call warn_slowpath with a NULL 3rd argument.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:52:50 +01:00
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
Linus Torvalds
26e9a39777 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits)
  staging: at76_usb wireless driver
  Staging: workaround build system bug
  Staging: Lindent sxg.c
  Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage
  Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes
  Staging: go7007 v4l fixes
  Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg
  Staging: add echo cancelation module
  Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver
  Staging: add w35und wifi driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add host driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add client driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed
  Staging: add the go7007 video driver
  Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver
  Staging: add me4000 firmware files
  Staging: add sxg network driver
  Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver
  ...

Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in
MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
2008-10-17 09:50:12 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6d5cd6effe taint: fix kernel-doc
Move print_tainted() kernel-doc to avoid the following error:

Error(/var/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617//kernel/panic.c:155): cannot understand prototype: 'struct tnt '

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Andi Kleen
25ddbb18aa Make the taint flags reliable
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window
between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted
bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion.

Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit
operations on it.

Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it
anymore.

It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit
(since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b2aaf8f74c Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/pda.h
2008-10-15 13:46:29 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
061b1bd394 Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.

Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.

This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.

Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:05 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
a8f18b909c Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk arguments
Add a WARN() macro that acts like WARN_ON(), with the added feature that it
takes a printk like argument that is printed as part of the warning message.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk arguments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
4f962d4d65 stackprotector: remove self-test
turns out gcc generates such stackprotector-failure sequences
in certain circumstances:

        movq    -8(%rbp), %rax  # D.16032,
        xorq    %gs:40, %rax    #,
        jne     .L17    #,
        leave
        ret
.L17:
        call    __stack_chk_fail        #
        .size   __stack_chk_test_func, .-__stack_chk_test_func
        .section        .init.text,"ax",@progbits
        .type   panic_setup, @function
panic_setup:
        pushq   %rbp    #

note that there's no jump back to the failing context after the
call to __stack_chk_fail - i.e. it has a ((noreturn)) attribute.

Which is fair enough in the normal case but kills the self-test.
(as we cannot reliably return in the self-test)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-13 21:50:46 +02:00