For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output
destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and
intellegently process a core. This infrastructure however has some
shortcommings which can be enhanced. Specifically:
1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation
when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being
consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core,
at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and
restrictions.
2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the
user space helper as an argv array. The real core limit of the uid of the
crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it
is overridden to zero when called).
3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the
recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself
crash. Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user
mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to
the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a
deadlock.
This patch:
Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe. In the event that
core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Switch single-linked binfmt formats list to usual list_head's. This leads
to one-liners in register_binfmt() and unregister_binfmt(). The downside
is one pointer more in struct linux_binfmt. This is not a problem, since
the set of registered binfmts on typical box is very small -- (ELF +
something distro enabled for you).
Test-booted, played with executable .txt files, modprobe/rmmod binfmt_misc.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits)
kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline
kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu
kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS
kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage
kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists
kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile
kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS
kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments
kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries
kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks
kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS
kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt
kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used
kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Increase cp0 compare clockevent min_delta_ns from 0x30 to 0x300.
[MIPS] Cache: Provide more information on cache policy on bootup.
[MIPS] Fix aliasing bug in copy_user_highpage, take 2.
[MIPS] VPE loader: convert from struct class_ device to struct device
[MIPS] MIPSsim: Fix booting from NFS root
[MIPS] Alchemy: Get rid of au1xxx_irq_map_t.
[MIPS] Alchemy: Get rid of au_ffz().
[MIPS] Alchemy: Get rid of au_ffs().
[MIPS] Alchemy: cleanup interrupt code.
[MIPS] Lasat: Fix build by conversion to irq_cpu.c.
[MIPS] Lasat: Add #ifndef ... #endif include warpper to lasatint.h.
[MIPS] IP22: Enable -Werror.
[MIPS] IP22: Fix warning.
[MIPS] IP22: Complain if requesting the front panel irq failed.
[MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Handle KPROBES_TEXT.
[MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Fix handling of .notes in final link.
[MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Remove duplicate comment.
[MIPS] MSP71XX: Add workarounds file.
[MIPS] IP32: Fix build by conversion to irq_cpu.c.
Extremly low values are of dubious usefulness anyway but in this case
they actually were killing Qemu which simply wasn't able to complete
mips_next_event() within 0x30 100MHz cycles even on fast hosts.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-berr.o
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-berr.c: In function 'ip22_be_interrupt':
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-berr.c💯 warning: passing argument 2 of 'die_if_kernel' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Identical handlers of PTRACE_DETACH go into ptrace_request().
Not touching compat code.
Not touching archs that don't call ptrace_request.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.
This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.
One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.
Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k
Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Loading ELF binaries based on the section table is totally wrong. This
still leaves the other fat bug of referencing symbols in an executable
unfixed, so people better don't run strip on their binaries ...
As added bonus the new loader is also 23 lines shorter.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
So far /proc/cpuinfo has been the only user but human readable processor
name are more useful than that for proc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The kernel currently only supports broadcasting of the timer interrupt
from a single timer, not multicasting into two multicast groups of
processors. So the implemented mechanism for SMTC works by broadcasting
the cp0 compare interrupt on VPE 0 and ignoring it on any additional VPEs.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This replaces the MIPS-specific to_tm function with the generic
rtc_time_to_tm function. The big difference between the two functions is
that rtc_time_to_tm uses epoch 70 while to_tm uses 1970, so the result of
rtc_time_to_tm needs to be fixed up.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Hard to follow who is pointing what to where and why so it's simply getting
in the way of the time code renovation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This has not been any serious user of this ill conceived thing since the
original invention in like '95.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
It may not be perfect yet but the SB1 code is badly borken and has
horrible performance issues.
Downside: This seriously breaks support for pass 1 parts of the BCM1250
where indexed cacheops don't work quite reliable but I seem to be the
last one on the planet with a pass 1 part anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Match the R4000 semantics for the initial state of interrupt/kernel
status register flags for the R3000 in kernel_thread().
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This style will be consitent with all other arch's - soon.
In addition:
- Moved a few labels inside brackets for the sections they specify
to prevent that linker alignmnet made them point before the section start
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
o Move i8259 function declarations to include/asm-mips/i8259.h
o Make i8259.c functions static where possible.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Note that the BCM4710 does not support the wait instruction, this
is not a mistake in the code.
It originally comes from the OpenWrt patches.
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Store any note sections after the exception tables like the other
architectures do. This is required for .note.gnu.build-id emitted from
binutils 2.18 onwards if nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
MIPS was mistakenly forgetting to use the fallocate compat wrapper, which
I noticed while cleaning up all the duplicate fallocate wrappers.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add a workaround to address warnings generated on the "n" constraint by
GCC 3.3 and below.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Another issue with 20Kc's WAIT, waiting for more details. With the
2.6.23 release immindent simply disable the use of WAIT instead of a
more fancy workaround.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
It refer to CPU_PROFILING.
arch/mips/kernel/time.c: In function 'local_timer_interrupt':
arch/mips/kernel/time.c:142: error: implicit declaration of function 'profile_tick'
arch/mips/kernel/time.c:142: error: 'CPU_PROFILING' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/mips/kernel/time.c:142: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/mips/kernel/time.c:142: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.c:59: warning: 'irq' defined but not used
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.c:60: warning: 'irq_num' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.o
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.c: In function 'rtlx_init':
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx.c:114: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Neil Horman