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David Rientjes 6a108a14fa kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.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>
2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Don Zickus 4a7863cc2e x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and rely on CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
The x86 arch has shifted its use of the nmi_watchdog from a
local implementation to the global one provide by
kernel/watchdog.c.  This shift has caused a whole bunch of
compile problems under different config options.  I attempt to
simplify things with the patch below.

In order to simplify things, I had to come to terms with the
meaning of two terms ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR.  Basically they mean the same thing,
the former on a local level and the latter on a global level.

With the old x86 nmi watchdog gone, there is no need to rely on
defining the ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG variable because it doesn't
make sense any more.  x86 will now use the global
implementation.

The changes below do a few things.  First it changes the few
places that relied on ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG to use
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC (the former was an alias for the latter
anyway, so nothing unusual here).  Those pieces of code were
relying more on local apic functionality the nmi watchdog
functionality, so the change should make sense.

Second, I removed the x86 implementation of
touch_nmi_watchdog().  It isn't need now, instead x86 will rely
on kernel/watchdog.c's implementation.

Third, I removed the #define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG itself from
x86.  And tweaked the include/linux/nmi.h file to tell users to
look for an externally defined touch_nmi_watchdog in the case of
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _or_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. This
changes removes some of the ugliness in that file.

Finally, I added a Kconfig dependency for
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR that said you can't have
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _and_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR.  You can
only have one nmi_watchdog.

Tested with
ARCH=i386: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig, (various broken
configs) ARCH=x86_64: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig,
(various broken configs)

Hopefully, after this patch I won't get any more compile broken
emails. :-)

v3:
  changed a couple of 'linux/nmi.h' -> 'asm/nmi.h' to pick-up correct function
  prototypes when CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1293044403-14117-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-22 22:15:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds e3e1288e86 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (48 commits)
  DMAENGINE: move COH901318 to arch_initcall
  dma: imx-dma: fix signedness bug
  dma/timberdale: simplify conditional
  ste_dma40: remove channel_type
  ste_dma40: remove enum for endianess
  ste_dma40: remove TIM_FOR_LINK option
  ste_dma40: move mode_opt to separate config
  ste_dma40: move channel mode to a separate field
  ste_dma40: move priority to separate field
  ste_dma40: add variable to indicate valid dma_cfg
  async_tx: make async_tx channel switching opt-in
  move async raid6 test to lib/Kconfig.debug
  dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX1/21/27 DMA driver
  intel_mid_dma: change the slave interface
  intel_mid_dma: fix the WARN_ONs
  intel_mid_dma: Add sg list support to DMA driver
  intel_mid_dma: Allow DMAC2 to share interrupt
  intel_mid_dma: Allow IRQ sharing
  intel_mid_dma: Add runtime PM support
  DMAENGINE: define a dummy filter function for ste_dma40
  ...
2010-10-27 19:04:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e404f91ed2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: convert a BUG_ON to BUILD_BUG_ON
  arch/tile: make ptrace() work properly for TILE-Gx COMPAT mode
  arch/tile: support new info op generated by compiler
  arch/tile: minor whitespace/naming changes for string support files
  arch/tile: enable single-step support for TILE-Gx
  arch/tile: parameterize system PLs to support KVM port
  arch/tile: add Tilera's <arch/sim.h> header as an open-source header
  arch/tile: Bomb C99 comments to C89 comments in tile's <arch/sim_def.h>
  arch/tile: prevent corrupt top frame from causing backtracer runaway
  arch/tile: various top-level Makefile cleanups
  arch/tile: change lower bound on syscall error return to -4095
  arch/tile: properly export __mb_incoherent for modules
  arch/tile: provide a definition of MAP_STACK
  kmemleak: add TILE to the list of supported architectures.
  char: hvc: check for error case
  arch/tile: Add a warning if we try to allocate too much vmalloc memory.
  arch/tile: update some comments to clarify register usage.
  arch/tile: use better "punctuation" for VMSPLIT_3_5G and friends
  arch/tile: Use <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
  tile: replace some BUG_ON checks with BUILD_BUG_ON checks
2010-10-26 17:25:38 -07:00
Artem Bityutskiy 6d411e6c01 lib/Kconfig.debug: add list_sort debugging switch
While hunting a non-existing bug in 'list_sort()', I've improved the
'list_sort_test()' function which tests the 'list_sort()' library call.
Although at the end I found a bug in my code, but not in 'list_sort()', I
think my clean-ups and improvements are worth merging because they make
the test function better.

This patch:

Make the self-tests selectable via Kconfig rather than by manual enabling
of DEBUG_LIST_SORT.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo e2852ae825 percpu_counter: add debugobj support
All percpu counters are linked to a global list on initialization and
removed from it on destruction.  The list is walked during CPU up/down.
If a percpu counter is freed without being properly destroyed, the system
will oops only on the next CPU up/down making it pretty nasty to track
down.  This patch adds debugobj support for percpu counters so that such
problems can be found easily.

As percpu counters don't make sense on stack and can't be statically
initialized, debugobj support is pretty simple.  It's initialized and
activated on counter initialization, and deactivatd and destroyed on
counter destruction.  With this patch applied, the bug fixed by commit
602586a83b (shmem: put_super must
percpu_counter_destroy) triggers the following warning on tmpfs unmount
and the system won't oops on the next cpu up/down operation.

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:259 debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70()
 Hardware name: Bochs
 ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 3999, comm: umount Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-work+ #5
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81083f7f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [<ffffffff81084076>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
  [<ffffffff813b45cc>] debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70
  [<ffffffff813b50e5>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x125/0x210
  [<ffffffff811577d3>] kfree+0xb3/0x2f0
  [<ffffffff81132edd>] shmem_put_super+0x1d/0x30
  [<ffffffff81162e96>] generic_shutdown_super+0x56/0xe0
  [<ffffffff81162f86>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60
  [<ffffffff81162ff7>] kill_litter_super+0x27/0x30
  [<ffffffff81163295>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60
  [<ffffffff81163cfa>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
  [<ffffffff8117d446>] mntput_no_expire+0x86/0xe0
  [<ffffffff8117df7f>] sys_umount+0x6f/0x360
  [<ffffffff8103f01b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 ---[ end trace cce2a341ba3611a7 ]---

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglxlinutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:18 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 6d4121f6c2 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/percpu.h
	mm/percpu.c
2010-10-24 19:57:05 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 5704e44d28 Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl
* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
  dabusb: remove the BKL
  sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
  init/main.c: remove BKL notations
  blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
  rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
  dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
  dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
  tlclk: remove big kernel lock
  fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
  uml: kill big kernel lock
  parisc: remove big kernel lock
  cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
  alpha: kill big kernel lock
  isapnp: BKL removal
  s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
  hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
2010-10-22 10:43:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d70f79b5e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
  tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
  [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
  [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
  perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
  ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
  jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
  perf: Optimize sw events
  perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
  jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
  jump_label: Use more consistent naming
  perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
  perf: Find task before event alloc
  perf: Fix task refcount bugs
  perf: Fix group moving
  irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
  perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
  perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
  tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
  tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
  ...
2010-10-21 12:54:49 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 6de5bd128d BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a
few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even
there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do
about them, this patch illustrates one of the options:

Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets
disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL
code itself is compiled out.

The one exception is file locking, which is practically always
enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces
CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd
mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-21 15:44:13 +02:00
Chris Metcalf 6b945df742 kmemleak: add TILE to the list of supported architectures.
All the necessary functionality was already there; we just need
to make it possible to select the config option.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2010-10-14 14:54:47 -04:00
Dan Williams 400fb7f6a0 move async raid6 test to lib/Kconfig.debug
The prompt for "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" does not
belong in the top level configuration menu.  All the options in
crypto/async_tx/Kconfig are selected and do not depend on CRYPTO.
Kconfig.debug seems like a reasonable fit.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2010-10-07 15:25:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ab4d5ed5ee slub: Enable sysfs support for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
Currently disabling CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG also disabled SYSFS support meaning
that the slabs cannot be tuned without DEBUG.

Make SYSFS support independent of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-10-06 16:54:36 +03:00
Paul E. McKenney 2dfbf4dfbe rcu: Add advice to PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY kernel config parameter
The PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY has no "Say Y"/"Say N" advice, so this commit
adds it.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-23 09:16:54 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 46b93b74fc tracing/lockdep: Fix dependency of TRACE_IRQFLAGS
When CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER is set and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not, we
get the following error:

$  make oldconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig arch/x86/Kconfig
warning: (IRQSOFF_TRACER && TRACING_SUPPORT && FTRACE && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET) selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && PROVE_LOCKING)
warning: (IRQSOFF_TRACER && TRACING_SUPPORT && FTRACE && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET) selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && PROVE_LOCKING)

This is because IRQSOFF_TRACER selects TRACE_IRQFLAGS but TRACE_IRQFLAGS
has PROVE_LOCKING as a dependency. This code is incorrect, and
this patch changes the TRACE_IRQFLAGS to be just a simple bool that
does not depend or select anything. Instead both IRQSOFF_TRACER and
PROVE_LOCKING select it.

Reported-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-31 16:35:20 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney 910b1b7e19 rcu: Allow RCU CPU stall warnings to be off at boot, but manually enablable
Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled
immediately upon boot.  They can be manually disabled via /sys (and
also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic.
However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time,
but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting.  For example, someone
running a real-time application in production might not want the
additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but
might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes.

This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior
(enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured
with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at
boot time.

Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19 17:18:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b163760e37 rcu: make CPU stall warning timeout configurable
Also set the default to 60 seconds, up from the previous hard-coded timeout
of 10 seconds.  This allows people who care to set short timeouts, while
avoiding people with unusual configurations (make randconfig!!!) from being
bothered with spurious CPU stall warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ca5ecddfa8 rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
pointers.  If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain.  To enable
such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
kernel configuration option.  Please note that these sparse complaints are
intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.

There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.

This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
their age.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:17:59 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 625fdcaa6d latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings
warning: (LATENCYTOP && HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT) selects
SCHED_DEBUG which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL &&
PROC_FS) warning: (LATENCYTOP && HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT) selects
SCHEDSTATS which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS)

Add depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT for 'select STACKTRACE'.
Add depends on PROC_FS since that is where the output goes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100812123121.a7c99cde.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-17 09:09:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 4c619407b0 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm
* 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm:
  kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment
  lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2)
  kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c
  kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Show more information for objects found by alias
2010-08-10 13:58:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ab69bcd66f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (28 commits)
  driver core: device_rename's new_name can be const
  sysfs: Remove owner field from sysfs struct attribute
  powerpc/pci: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in PCI bridge init
  regulator: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in regulator core driver
  leds: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in bd2802 driver
  scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in ARCMSR driver
  scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in LPFC driver
  cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on
  Driver core: Add BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER
  driver core: fix memory leak on one error path in bus_register()
  debugfs: no longer needs to depend on SYSFS
  sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs.
  sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentation
  dcdbas: remove a redundant smi_data_buf_free in dcdbas_exit
  dmi-id: fix a memory leak in dmi_id_init error path
  sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be const
  firmware: Update hotplug script
  Driver core: move platform device creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)
  Driver core: reduce duplicated code for platform_device creation
  Driver core: use kmemdup in platform_device_add_resources
  ...
2010-08-06 11:36:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3a3527b646 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:
  Revert "net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU"
  mce: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
  net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU
  vfs: add fs.h to define struct file
  lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function
  rcu: add __rcu API for later sparse checking
  rcu: add an rcu_dereference_index_check()
  tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
  mm: remove all rcu head initializations
  fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations
  powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations
2010-08-06 09:23:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds da9e82b3b8 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
  trivial: fix a typo in a filename
  frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile
  kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
  kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line
  Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly
  Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version
  Makefile.build: make KBUILD_SYMTYPES work again
2010-08-05 14:10:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap c462e8cd57 debugfs: no longer needs to depend on SYSFS
debugfs no longer uses 'kernel_subsys' (which is gone), and other
kernel/ksysfs.c code is always built, so DEBUG_FS does not need
to depend on SYSFS.

Fixes this kconfig warning:

warning: (TREE_RCU_TRACE || AMD_IOMMU_STATS && AMD_IOMMU || MTD_UBI_DEBUG && MTD && SYSFS && MTD_UBI || UBIFS_FS_DEBUG && MISC_FILESYSTEMS && UBIFS_FS || DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || MICROBLAZE) && SYSFS || TRACING || X86_PTDUMP && DEBUG_KERNEL || BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE && TRACING_SUPPORT && FTRACE && SYSFS && BLOCK) selects DEBUG_FS which has unmet direct dependencies (SYSFS)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bbc4fd12a6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (49 commits)
  microblaze: Add KGDB support
  microblaze: Support brki rX, 0x18 for user application debugging
  microblaze: Remove nop after MSRCLR/SET, MTS, MFS instructions
  microblaze: Simplify syscall rutine
  microblaze: Move PT_MODE saving to delay slot
  microblaze: Fix _interrupt function
  microblaze: Fix _user_exception function
  microblaze: Put together addik instructions
  microblaze: Use delay slot in syscall macros
  microblaze: Save kernel mode in delay slot
  microblaze: Do not mix register saving and mode setting
  microblaze: Move SAVE_STATE upward
  microblaze: entry.S: Macro optimization
  microblaze: Optimize hw exception rutine
  microblaze: Implement clear_ums macro and fix SAVE_STATE macro
  microblaze: Remove additional setup for kernel_mode
  microblaze: Optimize SAVE_STATE macro
  microblaze: Remove additional loading
  microblaze: Completely remove working with R11 register
  microblaze: Do not setup BIP in _debug_exception
  ...
2010-08-05 08:59:22 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 61be7fdec2 Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00
Michal Marek 772320e845 Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kbuild
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/Makefile
2010-08-04 13:59:13 +02:00
Michal Simek 79aac88903 microblaze: Disable FRAME_POINTER selection
Microblaze doesn't support frame pointers. Ftrace code
uses CALLER_ADDR1 which is defined in linux/ftrace.h. For Microblaze
is 0.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-08-04 10:22:32 +02:00
Takuya Yoshikawa f4d0143951 Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
The last 't' of 'fault' is missing in the description of FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-21 10:36:50 +02:00
Jason Baron ab0155a22a kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
Introduce a new DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF config parameter that allows
kmemleak to be disabled by default, but enabled on the command line
via: kmemleak=on. Although a reboot is required to turn it on, its still
useful to not require a re-compile.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-19 11:54:17 +01:00
Andi Kleen d6f4ceb796 Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly
Newer gcc has a -femit-struct-debug-baseonly option that dramatically
reduces the size of object files with debug info. What it does
is to only emit type information for structures when the structures
are defined in the same file or in a header file.

This means the type information for most headers are not included.
This is not good when the type information is actually
needed (e.g. with kgdb or systemtap)

But often kernel hackers only care about line numbers and don't
need all the type information anyways. In this case setting
the option can be a big win:

A build dir for a specific x86-64 configuration with gcc 4.5
shrunk from 2.3G to 1.2G. The compilation was also nearly a minute
faster.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[mmarek: reformatted help text]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-07-14 17:21:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 551d55a944 tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list
entries are overwritten and/or skipped.

Changelog since v4:
- Bissectability is now OK
- Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to
  call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with
  object_is_static().
- Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack.
- Remove init_rcu_head() completely.

Changelog since v3:
- Include comments from Lai Jiangshan

This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced
"active state" tracker.

Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An
activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug
object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the
size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for
statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without
"activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug
option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head
before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here.

This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause
the callbacks to be executed twice.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
CC: niv@us.ibm.com
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: peterz@infradead.org
CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
Akinobu Mita c9d221f86e fault-injection: add CPU notifier error injection module
I used this module to test the series of modification to the cpu notifiers
code.

Example1: inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)

	# modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_down_prepare_error=-1
	# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
	bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

Example2: inject CPU online error (-2 == -ENOENT)

	# modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_up_prepare_error=-2
	# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
	bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Kconfig help text]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
Florian Ragwitz 2b2f68b538 DYNAMIC_DEBUG: fix documentation errors
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:05 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker e35e7fb0e9 lockup_detector: Don't enable the lockup detector by default
The lockup detector is a new feature that now involves the
nmi watchdog. Drop the default y and let the user choose.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2010-05-19 11:36:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 93c9d7f60c Merge branch 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build
  x86, atomic64: In selftest, distinguish x86-64 from 586+
  x86-32: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero return value convention
  lib: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero test
  lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
  x86-32: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
  lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless test
  x86: Implement atomic[64]_dec_if_positive()
  lib: Only test atomic64_dec_if_positive on archs having it
  x86-32: Rewrite 32-bit atomic64 functions in assembly
  lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
  x86-32: Allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64
  x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
2010-05-18 08:40:05 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 23637d477c lockup_detector: Introduce CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
This new config is deemed to simplify even more the lockup detector
dependencies and can make it easier to bring a smooth sorting
between archs that support the new generic lockup detector and those
that still have their own, especially for those that are in the
middle of this migration.

Instead of checking whether we have CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR +
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI each time an arch wants to know if it needs
to build its own lockup detector, take a shortcut with this new
config. It is enabled only if the hardlockup detection part of
the whole lockup detector is on.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2010-05-16 01:57:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker e16bb1d7fe lockup_detector: Update some config
We kept CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP around for compatibility with
older configs. But it was enabled by default if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.

So if we want to enable CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR on configs that had
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP, all we need is to have the same enabling
by default if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. We can then remove
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP directly.

So tag CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR as default y. This is what we want for
most serious kernel debugging anyway.

And also forbid the lockup detector in S390 as it was for the
previous softlockup detector, event though the true reason for that
is not outlined.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2010-05-16 01:57:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 89d7ce2a21 lockup_detector: Make BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC depend on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
Panic on softlockups was still depending on the softlockup detector.
But the latter has been merged into the lockup detector now.

Let's update this config dependency.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-05-13 00:27:20 +02:00
Don Zickus 58687acba5 lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector.  Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.

Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.

To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event.  If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.

To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.

I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.

V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events

V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions

V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes

V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups

TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
  (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period

[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:33 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a9aa1d02de Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into perf/nmi
Merge reason: catch up with latest softlockup detector changes.
2010-05-12 23:20:33 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 55ec936ff4 rcu: enable CPU_STALL_VERBOSE by default
The CPU_STALL_VERBOSE kernel configuration parameter was added to
2.6.34 to identify any preempted/blocked tasks that were preventing
the current grace period from completing when running preemptible
RCU.  As is conventional for new configurations parameters, this
defaulted disabled.  It is now time to enable it by default.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10 11:08:34 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan 2b3fc35f69 rcu: optionally leave lockdep enabled after RCU lockdep splat
There is no need to disable lockdep after an RCU lockdep splat,
so remove the debug_lockdeps_off() from lockdep_rcu_dereference().
To avoid repeated lockdep splats, use a static variable in the inlined
rcu_dereference_check() and rcu_dereference_protected() macros so that
a given instance splats only once, but so that multiple instances can
be detected per boot.

This is controlled by a new config variable CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY,
which is disabled by default.  This provides the normal lockdep behavior
by default, but permits people who want to find multiple RCU-lockdep
splats per boot to easily do so.

Requested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10 11:08:31 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin d9c5841e22 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic
Merge reason:
	Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
	pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-29 16:53:17 -07:00
David S. Miller 9343af084c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	lib/Kconfig.debug
2010-04-13 00:28:45 -07:00
David S. Miller 8b8d8e2840 sparc64: Support kmemleak.
Only missing thing was an _sdata marker in vmlinux.lds.S

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-12 23:46:17 -07:00
Michal Simek 47c4c864af microblaze: Enable memory leak detector
Enable DEBUG_KMEMLEAK for microblaze

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-04-07 07:27:26 +02:00
Mike Frysinger 1d53661d26 blackfin: enable DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
We see only one section mismatch now after thousands of randconfigs, and a
bug has been filed about that one.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 548b841669 Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into perf/urgent
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

Merge reason: Pick up -rc1 and resolve the conflict as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-09 17:11:53 +01:00
Simon Kagstrom 0347af4ee3 lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties
Add adds a debugfs interface and additional failure modes to LKDTM to
provide similar functionality to the provoke-crash driver submitted here:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/371208/

Crashes can now be induced either through module parameters (as before)
or through the debugfs interface as in provoke-crash.

The patch also provides a new "direct" interface, where KPROBES are not
used, i.e., the crash is invoked directly upon write to the debugfs
file. When built without KPROBES configured, only this mode is available.

Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
Ingo Molnar c99c30fead nmi_watchdog: Turn it off by default
It was nice to enable it by default for testing - but before we
push it upstream we want it to be off - so that people can
opt-in gradually.

Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266880143-24943-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-28 20:49:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 642c4c75a7 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: (44 commits)
  rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
  rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
  rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
  sched, cgroups: Fix module export
  rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
  rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
  rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
  rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
  rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
  security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
  idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
  radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
  vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
  ...
2010-02-28 10:13:16 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker dd8b1cf681 perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union
Remove pointless union in the breakpoint field of hw_perf_event.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 84c6f88fc8 perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt,
so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'.

Fixing command-list.txt requires document
(tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt).
But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a
stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now.

And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-27 17:05:22 +01:00
Luca Barbieri 86a8938078 lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
This patch adds self-test on boot code for atomic64_t.

This has been used to test the later changes in this patchset.

Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-4-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-25 20:47:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 1ed509a225 rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
When RCU detects a grace-period stall, it currently just prints
out the PID of any tasks doing the stalling.  This patch adds
RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, which enables the more-verbose reporting
from sched_show_task().

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-21-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 10:35:02 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 632ee20013 rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives
Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
enlist the aid of lockdep.

This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.

o	Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  These return exact answers if lockdep is
	fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  (We want to avoid false positives!)
	The primitives are:

	For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)

	For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)

	For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)

	For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)

o	Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
	in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
	primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().

o	A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
	rcu_dereference_check().  This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
	and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
	CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.

The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
upcoming patches will change that.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 09:40:59 +01:00
Don Zickus c3128fb6ad nmi_watchdog: Use a boolean config flag for compiling
Determines if an arch has setup arch specific perf_events and
nmi_watchdog code.  This should restrict compiles to only those
arches ready.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-14 09:19:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8e7672cdb4 nmi_watchdog: Only enable on x86 for now
It wont even build on other platforms just yet - so restrict it
to x86 for now.

Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1265424425-31562-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-09 06:11:00 +01:00
Don Zickus 84e478c6f1 nmi_watchdog: Config option to enable new nmi_watchdog
These are the bits that enable the new nmi_watchdog and safely
isolate the old nmi_watchdog.  Only one or the other can run,
not both at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1265424425-31562-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:29:03 +01:00
Chris Smith 660e2acad8 sh: kmemleak support.
Enables support for kmemleak on sh.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <chris.smith@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-01-27 22:03:11 +09:00
Paul E. McKenney 4c54005ca4 rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions.  Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage.  Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12635142581866-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16 10:25:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds dcc7cd0112 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
  kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
  kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
  kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
  kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
  kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8420e7efa1 Make DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE default to y
It's easy to lose useful DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE by switching EMBEDDED left and right.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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>
2009-12-15 08:53:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d71cb81af3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Add debugobjects support
2009-12-10 09:35:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4ef58d4e2a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
  tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
  reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
  doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
  inotify: remove superfluous return code check
  hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
  doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
  mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
  doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
  tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
  drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
  fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
  sysctl: add missing comments
  fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
  sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
  sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
  tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
  tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
  fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
  spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
  comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
  ...
2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Jiri Kosina d014d04386 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	kernel/irq/chip.c
2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 607781762e 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: (31 commits)
  rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
  rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
  rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
  rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
  rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
  rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
  rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
  rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
  rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
  rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
  rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
  rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
  rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
  rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
  rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
  rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
  rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
  rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 09:52:14 -08:00
André Goddard Rosa af901ca181 tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 8bfb2f8e65 rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
The RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR costs almost nothing and has located
some bugs that might otherwise have been difficult to track
down.  Make it be default for the TREE RCU implementations.

The vmlinux size impact is limited (on 64-bit x86 defconfig):

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   8440248	1260076	 995588	10695912	 a334e8	vmlinux.before
   8440774	1260060	 995588	10696422	 a336e6	vmlinux.after

+526 bytes - acceptable default cost.

For RAM starved systems, TINY_RCU does not support CPU-stall detection
and is much smaller, but then again it is a uniprocessor...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12597846162906-git-send-email->
[ v2: added image size calculations to the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-03 11:35:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner dc186ad741 workqueue: Add debugobjects support
Add debugobject support to track the life time of work_structs.

While at it, remove duplicate definition of
INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ON_STACK().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-11-16 01:09:48 +09:00
Eric W. Biederman 83ac201b4f sysctl: Remove dead code from sysctl_check
Now that the sys_sysctl is now a compatibility wrapper around
/proc/sys we can remove much of sysctl_check and reduce it
to a few remaining sanity checks.  This completely decouples
it from the binary sysctl system call.

Little things like ensuring that the sysctl has not already
been registered are all that remain.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:53 -08:00
Randy Dunlap b60e26a2f0 kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
kmemleak uses crc32 functions so it needs to select CRC32.
Fixes build error:

kmemleak.c:(.text+0x7ce62): undefined reference to `crc32_le'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-11-06 23:16:04 +00:00
Kumar Gala 01deab98e3 powerpc: Minor cleanup to lib/Kconfig.debug
We don't need an explicit PPC64 in the DEBUG_PREEMPT dependancies as all
PPC platforms now support TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-27 16:42:42 +11:00
Heiko Carstens dfcc3e6a8b [S390] Enable kmemleak on s390.
Also increase the maximum possible kmemleak early log entries since
2000 are not sufficient on s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-10-06 10:35:06 +02:00
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
Russell King ed40d0c472 Merge branch 'origin' into devel
Conflicts:
	sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-i2s.c
2009-03-28 20:29:51 +00:00
Jason Baron 86151fdf38 dynamic debug: update docs
updates the documentation for 'dynamic debug' feature.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
Jason Baron e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Russell King 97fb44eb6b Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel
Conflicts:

	arch/arm/mach-at91/gpio.c
2009-03-13 21:44:51 +00:00
Joerg Roedel 5ee00bd469 dma-debug: add Kconfig entry
Impact: add a Kconfig entry for DMA-API debugging

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-03-05 14:36:50 +01:00
Randy Dunlap 152de30bce docsrc: use config instead of menuconfig
BUILD_DOCSRC should be controlled by "config" instead of "menuconfig".
I have no idea how I managed to use "menuconfig" here.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:49 -08:00
Catalin Marinas adf8b37baf [ARM] 5386/2: unwind: Add Makefile and Kconfig entries for ARM stack unwinding
This patch also makes the frame pointer default to y only if
!ARM_UNWIND. LOCKDEP no longer selects FRAME_POINTER if ARM_UNWIND is
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-19 11:30:18 +00:00
Ingo Molnar 871cafcc96 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup 2009-02-12 13:08:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3386c05bdb 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:
  debugobjects: add and use INIT_WORK_ON_STACK
  rcu: remove duplicate CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
  relay: fix lock imbalance in relay_late_setup_files
  oprofile: fix uninitialized use of struct op_entry
  rcu: move Kconfig menu
  softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced
  rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()
2009-01-26 09:47:56 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 749a440b22 rcu: remove duplicate CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
Impact: remove the old CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR

tree_rcu introduce CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR again.

These two are the same exactly except:

 the old one "depends on CLASSIC_RCU"
 the new one "depends on CLASSIC_RCU || TREE_RCU"

This patch remove the old one.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-22 09:29:36 +01:00
Jeff Mahoney 64dec40dde x86: define ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
Commit da4276b829 changed a dependency
for FRAME_POINTER from X86 to ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS, but didn't
actually define it.

This patch adds the definition for ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS. Without it,
FRAME_POINTER can't be enabled on x86.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 21:15:10 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines e162b39a36 softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
Decoupling allows:

* hung tasks check to happen at very low priority

* hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks
  poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog)

* hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 14:06:04 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3d14bdad40 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
  x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
  x86: remove duplicated #include's
  x86: k8 numa register active regions later
  x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X
  x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X
  x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static
  Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
  x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems
  x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems
  x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems
  x86: i8259.c fix style problems
  x86: irq_32.c fix style problems
  x86: ioport.c fix style problems
  ...
2009-01-10 06:13:09 -08:00
David Howells 8feae13110 NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:

 (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
     shmat's (and forks) done.

 (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
     exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
     that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
     process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

 (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
     with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
     each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
     interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
     When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
     put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

 (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
     made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

 (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
     end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
     appended to the sort key.

 (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

 (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
     the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
     necessary.

 (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
     segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
     shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
     virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

 (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

 (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
     that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

 (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
     of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
     mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
     anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
Ingo Molnar da4276b829 x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS=y results in much better debug info for the
kernel (clear and precise backtraces), with the only drawback being
a ~1% increase in kernel size.

So offer it unconditionally and enable it by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-07 11:18:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds db5e53fbf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error
  slab: Fix comment on #endif
  slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()
  slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()
  SLUB: failslab support
  slub: Fix incorrect use of loose
  slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter
  slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void
  slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0
  slub - fix get_object_page comment
  SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
  SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
2008-12-30 17:28:09 -08:00
Akinobu Mita 773ff60e84 SLUB: failslab support
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6638101c11 Merge branches 'core/debugobjects', 'core/iommu', 'core/locking', 'core/printk', 'core/rcu', 'core/resources', 'core/softirq' and 'core/stacktrace' into core/core 2008-12-25 14:06:29 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 64db4cfff9 "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs.  Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.

This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion.  This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.

Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.

Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):

o	Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
	including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
	narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
	barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
	and removing redundant local variables.

	I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
	issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
	in case the machine is smarter than I am.

	A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
	URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
	masochism:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf

o	Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
	ago by Lai Jiangshan.

o	Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
	people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
	a spreadsheet.	Tested with oocalc and gnumeric.  Updated
	documentation to suit.

Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):

o	Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
	force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
	jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
	initialization.  Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.

o	Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.

o	Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
	variables.

o	Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
	of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).

o	Apply checkpatch fixes.

Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):

o	Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
	the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
	convincing me was real.  ;-)

o	Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
	three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
	Molnar.

o	Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
	The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
	theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.

o	Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
	condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
	in dynticks interface functions.

o	Add more data to tracing.

o	Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.

o	Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
	to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.

o	Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
	grace-period initialization.  Yes, initialization does have to
	go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
	CPUs...

Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):

o	Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.

o	Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
	on the stall-detection code.

o	Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.

o	Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
	at boot time if stall detection is configured.

o	Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
	which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.

Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):

o	Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
	changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
	this option).

o	Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
	totals to be printed.

o	I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
	script (attached).  Probably more brutal than it needs to be
	on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.

o	A number of optimizations and usability improvements:

	o	Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
		there is no grace period in progress.

	o	Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
		lock in the case where there is no grace period in
		progress.

	o	Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.

	o	Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
		idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
		clock interrupt.

	o	Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
		idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen.  I still don't
		completely trust this change, and might back it out.

	o	Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
		manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
		confusion.

	o	Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
		and rcutree.

Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:

o	Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
	functions, greatly simplifying it.  In particular, this code
	no longer requires a proof of correctness.  ;-)

o	Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
	avoiding the duplicated accounting.

o	The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
	invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
	out of dynticks-idle mode.

o	Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
	For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
	Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging.  ;-)

o	Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.

Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel.  It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space.  That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.

This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy.  Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines.  If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy.  By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware.  Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems.  I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future.  (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)

In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors.  This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.

Some shortcomings:

o	More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
	line-by-line code inspection.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c.  Seems
	quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
	compared to 4096 CPUs.  However, seems to do better than
	mainline.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
	than rcuclassic.

	A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
	reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
	to the old rcuclassic.  One such patch passes light testing,
	and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
	Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
	worth it", so am putting it aside.

Credits:

o	Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
	as well as some good friendly competition.  ;-)

o	Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
	Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
	for reviews and comments.

o	Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
	(see patches below).

o	Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
	Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
	Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
	alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3ae7020543 debugobjects: add boot parameter default value
Impact: add .config driven boot parameter default value

Right now debugobjects can only be activated if the debug_objects
boot parameter is passed in via the boot command line.

Make this more convenient (and randomizable) by also providing
a .config method. Enable it by default. (DEBUG_OBJECTS itself
is default-off)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 10:07:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b19b3c74c7 Merge branches 'core/debug', 'core/futexes', 'core/locking', 'core/rcu', 'core/signal', 'core/urgent' and 'core/xen' into core/core 2008-11-24 17:44:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo 0e11e342ba block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT can break booting even on some modern
distros.  Add BIG FAT WARNING to keep people at a safe distance.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:56 +02:00
Jason Baron 346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b922df7383 Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
  rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
  rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
  doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
  rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
  rcu: use irq-safe locks
  rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
  rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
  rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
  rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
  rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
  rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
  rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
  rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
  rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
  rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
  rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
  ...
2008-10-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Jens Axboe 581d4e28d9 block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeouts
Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to
sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout
handling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:17 +02:00
Tejun Heo 55dc7db70a init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= param
DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root
device number set using rdev become meaningless.  Root devices should
be explicitly specified using textual names.  Warn about it if root
can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled.  Also, add warning
to the help text.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:11 +02:00
Jens Axboe 759f8ca304 Change default value of CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT to 'n'
It's a debug option that you would explicitly enable to test this
feature, we should default it to 'n' to prevent accidental surprises
for now.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 870d665612 block: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
Extended devt introduces non-contiguos device numbers.  This patch
implements a debug option which forces most devt allocations to be
from the extended area and spreads them out.  This is enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is set and achieves...

1. Detects code paths in kernel or userland which expect predetermined
   consecutive device numbers.

2. When something goes wrong, avoid corruption as adding to the minor
   of earlier partition won't lead to the wrong but valid device.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 2133b5d7ff rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:36:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6003ab0bad Merge branch 'linus' into core/debug
Conflicts:
	lib/vsprintf.c

Manual merge:

	include/linux/kernel.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 09:09:51 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 1b2439dbb7 debug: add notifier chain debugging
during some development we suspected a case where we left something
in a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already...
and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down.

This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that
expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is
actually from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded
module, avoiding a hard-to-chase-down crash.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 09:08:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 429b022af4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcu 2008-09-10 08:35:40 +02:00
Tony Breeds 7563dc6458 powerpc: Work around gcc's -fno-omit-frame-pointer bug
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>
2008-09-03 20:53:34 +10:00
Andi Kleen 9e94cd325b Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y
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>
2008-08-16 17:13:43 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 3794f3e812 docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
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>
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 67182ae1c4 rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
this is a diagnostic patch for Classic RCU.

The approach is to record a timestamp at the beginning
of the grace period (in rcu_start_batch()), then have
rcu_check_callbacks() complain if:

 1.	it is running on a CPU that has holding up grace periods for
 	a long time (say one second).  This will identify the culprit
 	assuming that the culprit has not disabled hardware irqs,
 	instruction execution, or some such.

 2.	it is running on a CPU that is not holding up grace periods,
 	but grace periods have been held up for an even longer time
 	(say two seconds).

It is enabled via the default-off CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL kernel parameter.

Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds.
My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace
periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the
least of your worries...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:35:18 +02:00
Mel Gorman 6b74ab97bc mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d7b6de14a0 Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
  softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
  softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
  softlockup: show irqtrace
  softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
  softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
  softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
  softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
  softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
  softlockup: allow panic on lockup
2008-07-23 18:34:13 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day ff543332ec debugfs: Add a reference to the debugfs API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1e09481365 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:

	kernel/softlockup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 23:12:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6c9fcaf2ee Merge branch 'core/rcu' into core/rcu-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:10:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds af5329cdf5 Merge branch 'core/stacktrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/stacktrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  generic-ipi: powerpc/generic-ipi tree build failure
  stacktrace: fix build failure on sparc64
  stacktrace: export save_stack_trace[_tsk]
  stacktrace: fix modular build, export print_stack_trace and save_stack_trace
  backtrace: replace timer with tasklet + completions
  stacktrace: add saved stack traces to backtrace self-test
  stacktrace: print_stack_trace() cleanup
  debugging: make stacktrace independent from DEBUG_KERNEL
  stacktrace: don't crash on invalid stack trace structs
2008-07-15 10:31:35 -07:00
Vegard Nossum ad118c54a3 stacktrace: add saved stack traces to backtrace self-test
This patch adds saved stack-traces to the backtrace suite of self-tests.

Note that we don't depend on or unconditionally enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE
because not all architectures may have it (and we still want to enable the
other tests for those architectures).

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 18:09:15 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 59ea746337 MM: virtual address debug
Add some (configurable) expensive sanity checking to catch wrong address
translations on x86.

- create linux/mmdebug.h file to be able include this file in
  asm headers to not get unsolvable loops in header files
- __phys_addr on x86_32 became a function in ioremap.c since
  PAGE_OFFSET, is_vmalloc_addr and VMALLOC_* non-constasts are undefined
  if declared in page_32.h
- add __phys_addr_const for initializing doublefault_tss.__cr3

Tested on 386, 386pae, x86_64 and x86_64 numa=fake=2.

Contains Andi's enable numa virtual address debug patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 13:31:42 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 31a72bce0b rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testing
This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into
the Linux kernel.  The reason that this capability was removed was that
this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture
would be running starting from early boot.  This problem has been avoided
by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default,
(2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture
to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named
/proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be
quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel.

Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture
is built as a module.  Please also note that to get the earlier
take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set
rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero.

The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops
in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome.  The default action will
be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 11:22:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1462a20005 Revert "prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel"
This reverts commit 9aaffc898f.

That commit was a very bad idea. RCU_TORTURE found many boot timing
bugs and other sorts of bugs in the past, so excluding it from
boot images is very silly.

The option already depends on DEBUG_KERNEL and is disabled by default.
Even when it runs, the test threads are reniced. If it annoys people
we could add a runtime sysctl.
2008-06-16 08:40:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 886dd58258 debugging: make stacktrace independent from DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 15:55:20 +02:00