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Randy Dunlap
99657c7857 kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
Sam suggested moving STRIP_ASM_SYMS into the Kernel hacking menu
from the General Setup menu.  It makes more sense there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
723e9db7a4 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (134 commits)
  powerpc/nvram: Enable use Generic NVRAM driver for different size chips
  powerpc/iseries: Fix oops reading from /proc/iSeries/mf/*/cmdline
  powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error
  powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 instead
  powerpc/perf_counters: Reduce stack usage of power_check_constraints
  powerpc: Fix bug where perf_counters breaks oprofile
  powerpc/85xx: Fix SMP compile error and allow NULL for smp_ops
  powerpc/irq: Improve nanodoc
  powerpc: Fix some late PowerMac G5 with PCIe ATI graphics
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Use HW PTE format if CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/book3e: Add missing page sizes
  powerpc/pseries: Fix to handle slb resize across migration
  powerpc/powermac: Thermal control turns system off too eagerly
  powerpc/pci: Merge ppc32 and ppc64 versions of phb_scan()
  powerpc/405ex: support cuImage via included dtb
  powerpc/405ex: provide necessary fixup function to support cuImage
  powerpc/40x: Add support for the ESTeem 195E (PPC405EP) SBC
  powerpc/44x: Add Eiger AMCC (AppliedMicro) PPC460SX evaluation board support.
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches defconfig
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches dts
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c
2009-09-15 09:51:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eee2775d99 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
  rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
  rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
  rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members
  rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
  rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
  rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API
  rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code.
  rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro
  rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file
  rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity
  rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h
  rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP
  rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation.
  rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header
  rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs
  ...
2009-09-11 13:20:18 -07:00
David Howells
e0e817392b CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:01 +10:00
Paul E. McKenney
6b3ef48adf rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Michael Ellerman
bbdc16f58e kmemleak: Allow kmemleak to be built on powerpc
Very lightly tested, doesn't crash the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20 10:29:23 +10:00
Tejun Heo
c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00
Catalin Marinas
a9d9058aba kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)

Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these
happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal
buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch
adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes
the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-25 10:16:13 +01:00
Tejun Heo
7c756e6e19 percpu: implement optional weak percpu definitions
Some archs (alpha and s390) need to use weak definitions for percpu
variables in modules so that the compiler generates external
references for them.

This patch implements weak percpu definitions which arch can enable by
defining ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU in arch percpu header file.  This
weak definition adds the following two restrictions on percpu variable
definitions.

  1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
  2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function

To ensure that these restrictions are observed in generic code, config
option DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU enables weak percpu definitions for
all cases.

This patch is inspired by Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: stricter rules for percpu variables, one more debug config option ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2009-06-24 15:13:50 +09:00
Catalin Marinas
bf96d1e3e7 kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options
Selecting DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG by the KMEMLEAK menu entry may cause
issues with other dependencies (KMEMCHECK). These configuration options
aren't strictly needed by kmemleak but they may increase the chances of
finding leaks. This patch also updates the KMEMLEAK config entry help
text.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-23 14:40:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8b12e2505a Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Select frame pointers on x86
  dma-debug: be more careful when building reference entries
  dma-debug: check for sg_call_ents in best-fit algorithm too
2009-06-21 13:13:53 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
00540e5d54 lockdep: Select frame pointers on x86
x86 stack traces are a piece of crap without frame pointers, and its not
like the 'performance gain' of not having stack pointers matters when you
selected lockdep.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-21 10:14:33 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
0a4af3b093 kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
The Kconfig options of kmemcheck are hidden under arch/x86 which makes porting
to other architectures harder. To fix that, move the Kconfig bits to
lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck and introduce a CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK config option
that architectures can define.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
7d46d9e6db kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
let it rip!

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-15 15:49:15 +02:00
Catalin Marinas
0822ee4ac1 kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
This patch adds a loadable module that deliberately leaks memory. It
is used for testing various memory leaking scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:04:19 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
3bba00d7bd kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:04:18 +01:00
Jason Baron
fe0e2bb9b3 Remove old PRINTK_DEBUG config item
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   lib/Kconfig.debug:      select PRINTK_DEBUG
> > 
> > should that perhaps refer to "DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG"?  since there is
> > no such thing as a PRINTK_DEBUG Kconfig variable.
> 
> Looks like a rudiment from an earlier version of Jason's "driver core:
> basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages",
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=346e15beb5343c2eb8216d820f2ed8f150822b08
> Search an LKML archive for '+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_DEBUG'.
> 
> Jason, should it be deleted or replaced by something?

We re-named 'DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG' to 'DYNAMIC_DEBUG' in 2.6.30....
'PRINTK_DEBUG' as pointed out never existed. So, it appears to be
extraneous, and should be removed. thanks for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-08 19:22:21 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
75ee034add [S390] omit frame pointers on s390 when possible
Always omit frame pointers on s390. They aren't too useful for the
kernel since we have already the kernel stack backchain which allows
us to walk the kernel stack.
So eleminate the extra code for frame pointers. Only allow the extra
code for the function tracer since the gcc compile options -pg and
-fomit-frame-pointer are incompatible.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-04-23 13:58:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5e34437840 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07 11:15:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
77d05632ba softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Don't offer a default-y option when the user has turned off
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP already.

Do offer it as 'y' only if DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP is on already.

This makes it match previous behavior - where the hung-task check was
embedded i CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP code.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 08:55:36 +02:00
Akinobu Mita
6a11f75b6a generic debug pagealloc
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390.  This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().

This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
712b0006bf Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  dma-debug: make memory range checks more consistent
  dma-debug: warn of unmapping an invalid dma address
  dma-debug: fix dma_debug_add_bus() definition for !CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG
  dma-debug/x86: register pci bus for dma-debug leak detection
  dma-debug: add a check dma memory leaks
  dma-debug: add checks for kernel text and rodata
  dma-debug: print stacktrace of mapping path on unmap error
  dma-debug: Documentation update
  dma-debug: x86 architecture bindings
  dma-debug: add function to dump dma mappings
  dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_sg_*
  dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_range_*
  dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_*
  dma-debug: add checking for [alloc|free]_coherent
  dma-debug: add add checking for map/unmap_sg
  dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_page/single
  dma-debug: add core checking functions
  dma-debug: add debugfs interface
  dma-debug: add kernel command line parameters
  dma-debug: add initialization code
  ...

Fix trivial conflicts due to whitespace changes in arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c
2009-03-30 13:41:00 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b0d44c0dbb Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
2009-03-28 23:05:50 +01:00