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Joerg Roedel 80b7706e4c KVM: SVM: enable LBRV virtualization if available
This patch enables the virtualization of the last branch record MSRs on
SVM if this feature is available in hardware. It also introduces a small
and simple check feature for specific SVM extensions.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity b8836737d9 KVM: Add fpu get/set operations
These are really helpful when migrating an floating point app to another
machine.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity e8207547d2 KVM: Add physical memory aliasing feature
With this, we can specify that accesses to one physical memory range will
be remapped to another.  This is useful for the vga window at 0xa0000 which
is used as a movable window into the (much larger) framebuffer.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity 954bbbc236 KVM: Simply gfn_to_page()
Mapping a guest page to a host page is a common operation.  Currently,
one has first to find the memory slot where the page belongs (gfn_to_memslot),
then locate the page itself (gfn_to_page()).

This is clumsy, and also won't work well with memory aliases.  So simplify
gfn_to_page() not to require memory slot translation first, and instead do it
internally.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Dor Laor e0fa826f96 KVM: Add mmu cache clear function
Functions that play around with the physical memory map
need a way to clear mappings to possibly nonexistent or
invalid memory.  Both the mmu cache and the processor tlb
are cleared.

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity df513e2cdd KVM: x86 emulator: fix bit string operations operand size
On x86, bit operations operate on a string of bits that can reside in
multiple words.  For example, 'btsl %eax, (blah)' will touch the word
at blah+4 if %eax is between 32 and 63.

The x86 emulator compensates for that by advancing the operand address
by (bit offset / BITS_PER_LONG) and truncating the bit offset to the
range (0..BITS_PER_LONG-1).  This has a side effect of forcing the operand
size to 8 bytes on 64-bit hosts.

Now, a 32-bit guest goes and fork()s a process.  It write protects a stack
page at 0xbffff000 using the 'btr' instruction, at offset 0xffc in the page
table, with bit offset 1 (for the write permission bit).

The emulator now forces the operand size to 8 bytes as previously described,
and an innocent page table update turns into a cross-page-boundary write,
which is assumed by the mmu code not to be a page table, so it doesn't
actually clear the corresponding shadow page table entry.  The guest and
host permissions are out of sync and guest memory is corrupted soon
afterwards, leading to guest failure.

Fix by not using BITS_PER_LONG as the word size; instead use the actual
operand size, so we get a 32-bit write in that case.

Note we still have to teach the mmu to handle cross-page-boundary writes
to guest page table; but for now this allows Damn Small Linux 0.4 (2.4.20)
to boot.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:28 +03:00
Avi Kivity afeb1f14c5 KVM: Remove debug message
No longer interesting.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:27 +03:00
Avi Kivity 36868f7b0e KVM: Use list_move()
Use list_move() where possible.  Noticed by Dor Laor.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:27 +03:00
Michal Piotrowski 55bf402834 KVM: Remove unused function
Remove unused function

CC      drivers/kvm/svm.o
drivers/kvm/svm.c:207: warning: ‘inject_db’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:27 +03:00
Avi Kivity 0cc5064d33 KVM: SVM: Ensure timestamp counter monotonicity
When a vcpu is migrated from one cpu to another, its timestamp counter
may lose its monotonic property if the host has unsynced timestamp counters.
This can confuse the guest, sometimes to the point of refusing to boot.

As the rdtsc instruction is rather fast on AMD processors (7-10 cycles),
we can simply record the last host tsc when we drop the cpu, and adjust
the vcpu tsc offset when we detect that we've migrated to a different cpu.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:27 +03:00
Avi Kivity d28c6cfbbc KVM: MMU: Fix hugepage pdes mapping same physical address with different access
The kvm mmu keeps a shadow page for hugepage pdes; if several such pdes map
the same physical address, they share the same shadow page.  This is a fairly
common case (kernel mappings on i386 nonpae Linux, for example).

However, if the two pdes map the same memory but with different permissions, kvm
will happily use the cached shadow page.  If the access through the more
permissive pde will occur after the access to the strict pde, an endless pagefault
loop will be generated and the guest will make no progress.

Fix by making the access permissions part of the cache lookup key.

The fix allows Xen pae to boot on kvm and run guest domains.

Thanks to Jeremy Fitzhardinge for reporting the bug and testing the fix.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:27 +03:00
Joerg Roedel 916ce2360f KVM: SVM: forbid guest to execute monitor/mwait
This patch forbids the guest to execute monitor/mwait instructions on
SVM. This is necessary because the guest can execute these instructions
if they are available even if the kvm cpuid doesn't report its
existence.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Sergey Kiselev 0e5bf0d0e4 KVM: Handle writes to MCG_STATUS msr
Some older (~2.6.7) kernels write MCG_STATUS register during kernel
boot (mce_clear_all() function, called from mce_init()). It's not
currently handled by kvm and will cause it to inject a GPF.
Following patch adds a "nop" handler for this.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Kiselev <sergey.kiselev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity fcd3410870 KVM: Remove unused and write-only variables
Trivial cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity 6da63cf95f KVM: Don't allow the guest to turn off the cpu cache
The cpu cache is a host resource; the guest should not be able to turn
it off (even for itself).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity 038881c8be KVM: Hack real-mode segments on vmx from KVM_SET_SREGS
As usual, we need to mangle segment registers when emulating real mode
as vm86 has specific constraints.  We special case the reset segment base,
and set the "access rights" (or descriptor flags) to vm86 comaptible values.

This fixes reboot on vmx.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity 024aa1c02f KVM: Modify guest segments after potentially switching modes
The SET_SREGS ioctl modifies both cr0.pe (real mode/protected mode) and
guest segment registers.  Since segment handling is modified by the mode on
Intel procesors, update the segment registers after the mode switch has taken
place.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity f6528b03f1 KVM: Remove set_cr0_no_modeswitch() arch op
set_cr0_no_modeswitch() was a hack to avoid corrupting segment registers.
As we now cache the protected mode values on entry to real mode, this
isn't an issue anymore, and it interferes with reboot (which usually _is_
a modeswitch).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity 8cb5b03332 KVM: Workaround vmx inability to virtualize the reset state
The reset state has cs.selector == 0xf000 and cs.base == 0xffff0000,
which aren't compatible with vm86 mode, which is used for real mode
virtualization.

When we create a vcpu, we set cs.base to 0xf0000, but if we get there by
way of a reset, the values are inconsistent and vmx refuses to enter
guest mode.

Workaround by detecting the state and munging it appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity aac012245a KVM: MMU: Remove global pte tracking
The initial, noncaching, version of the kvm mmu flushed the all nonglobal
shadow page table translations (much like a native tlb flush).  The new
implementation flushes translations only when they change, rendering global
pte tracking superfluous.

This removes the unused tracking mechanism and storage space.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity ca5aac1f96 KVM: MMU: Remove unnecessary check for pdptr access
We already special case the pdptr access, so no need to check it again.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity 039576c03c KVM: Avoid guest virtual addresses in string pio userspace interface
The current string pio interface communicates using guest virtual addresses,
relying on userspace to translate addresses and to check permissions.  This
interface cannot fully support guest smp, as the check needs to take into
account two pages at one in case an unaligned string transfer straddles a
page boundary.

Change the interface not to communicate guest addresses at all; instead use
a buffer page (mmaped by userspace) and do transfers there.  The kernel
manages the virtual to physical translation and can perform the checks
atomically by taking the appropriate locks.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity f0fe510864 KVM: Future-proof argument-less ioctls
Some ioctls ignore their arguments.  By requiring them to be zero now,
we allow a nonzero value to have some special meaning in the future.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity 07c45a366d KVM: Allow kernel to select size of mmap() buffer
This allows us to store offsets in the kernel/user kvm_run area, and be
sure that userspace has them mapped.  As offsets can be outside the
kvm_run struct, userspace has no way of knowing how much to mmap.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 1961d276c8 KVM: Add guest mode signal mask
Allow a special signal mask to be used while executing in guest mode.  This
allows signals to be used to interrupt a vcpu without requiring signal
delivery to a userspace handler, which is quite expensive.  Userspace still
receives -EINTR and can get the signal via sigwait().

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 6722c51c51 KVM: Initialize the apic_base msr on svm too
Older userspace didn't care, but newer userspace (with the cpuid changes)
does.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 1b19f3e61d KVM: Add a special exit reason when exiting due to an interrupt
This is redundant, as we also return -EINTR from the ioctl, but it
allows us to examine the exit_reason field on resume without seeing
old data.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 8eb7d334bd KVM: Fold kvm_run::exit_type into kvm_run::exit_reason
Currently, userspace is told about the nature of the last exit from the
guest using two fields, exit_type and exit_reason, where exit_type has
just two enumerations (and no need for more).  So fold exit_type into
exit_reason, reducing the complexity of determining what really happened.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity b4e63f560b KVM: Allow userspace to process hypercalls which have no kernel handler
This is useful for paravirtualized graphics devices, for example.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 5d308f4550 KVM: Add method to check for backwards-compatible API extensions
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:24 +03:00
Avi Kivity 739872c56f KVM: Renumber ioctls
The recent changes have left the ioctl numbers in complete disarray.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 2a4dac3952 KVM: Remove minor wart from KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl
That ioctl does not transfer any data, so it should be an _IO rather than an
_IOW.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 106b552b43 KVM: Remove the 'emulated' field from the userspace interface
We no longer emulate single instructions in userspace.  Instead, we service
mmio or pio requests.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 06465c5a3a KVM: Handle cpuid in the kernel instead of punting to userspace
KVM used to handle cpuid by letting userspace decide what values to
return to the guest.  We now handle cpuid completely in the kernel.  We
still let userspace decide which values the guest will see by having
userspace set up the value table beforehand (this is necessary to allow
management software to set the cpu features to the least common denominator,
so that live migration can work).

The motivation for the change is that kvm kernel code can be impacted by
cpuid features, for example the x86 emulator.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 46fc147788 KVM: Do not communicate to userspace through cpu registers during PIO
Currently when passing the a PIO emulation request to userspace, we
rely on userspace updating %rax (on 'in' instructions) and %rsi/%rdi/%rcx
(on string instructions).  This (a) requires two extra ioctls for getting
and setting the registers and (b) is unfriendly to non-x86 archs, when
they get kvm ports.

So fix by doing the register fixups in the kernel and passing to userspace
only an abstract description of the PIO to be done.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 9a2bb7f486 KVM: Use a shared page for kernel/user communication when runing a vcpu
Instead of passing a 'struct kvm_run' back and forth between the kernel and
userspace, allocate a page and allow the user to mmap() it.  This reduces
needless copying and makes the interface expandable by providing lots of
free space.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity 1ea252afcd KVM: Fix bogus sign extension in mmu mapping audit
When auditing a 32-bit guest on a 64-bit host, sign extension of the page
table directory pointer table index caused bogus addresses to be shown on
audit errors.

Fix by declaring the index unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity ff42697436 KVM: Export <linux/kvm.h>
This allows users to actually build prgrams that use kvm without
the entire source tree.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:22 +03:00
Avi Kivity bbe4432e66 KVM: Use own minor number
Use the minor number (232) allocated to kvm by lanana.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:22 +03:00
Dor Laor 510043da85 KVM: Use the generic skip_emulated_instruction() in hypercall code
Instead of twiddling the rip registers directly, use the
skip_emulated_instruction() function to do that for us.

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:22 +03:00
Dor Laor 9b22bf5783 KVM: Fix guest register corruption on paravirt hypercall
The hypercall code mixes up the ->cache_regs() and ->decache_regs()
callbacks, resulting in guest register corruption.

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:22 +03:00
Linus Torvalds dc87c3985e libata: honour host controllers that want just one host
The Marvell IDE interface on my machine would hit a BUG_ON() in
lib/iomem.c because it was calling ata_pci_init_one() specifying just a
single port on the host, but that would actually end up trying to
initialize two ports, the second one with bogus information.

This fixes "ata_pci_init_one()" so that it actually passes down the
n_ports variable that it got from the low-level driver to the host
allocation routine ("ata_host_alloc_pinfo()"), which results in the ATA
layer actually having the correct port number information.

And in order to make it all work, I also needed to fix a few places that
had incorrectly hard-coded the fact that a host always had exactly two
ports (both ata_pci_init_bmdma() and ata_request_legacy_irqs() would
just always iterate over both ports).

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 17:43:48 -07:00
David Rientjes 14e38ac823 pm: include EIO from errno-base.h
For backwards compatibility, call_platform_enable_wakeup() can return 0
instead of -EIO since we aren't guaranteed to have errno defined.

Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:41 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 11443ec7d9 Add kvasprintf()
Add a kvasprintf() function to complement kasprintf().

No in-tree users yet, but I have some coming up.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: EXPORT it]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg 9684e51cd1 power management: force pm_ops.valid callback to be assigned
This patch changes the docs and behaviour from "all states valid" to "no
states valid" if no .valid callback is assigned.  Users of pm_ops that only
need mem sleep can assign pm_valid_only_mem without any overhead, others
will require more elaborate callbacks.

Now that all users of pm_ops have a .valid callback this is a safe thing to
do and prevents things from getting messy again as they were before.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Looks-okay-to: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg e8c9c50269 power management: implement pm_ops.valid for everybody
Almost all users of pm_ops only support mem sleep, don't check in .valid and
don't reject any others in .prepare so users can be confused if they check
/sys/power/state, especially when new states are added (these would then
result in s-t-r although they're supposed to be something different).

This patch implements a generic pm_valid_only_mem function that is then
exported for users and puts it to use in almost all existing pm_ops.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg 11d77d0c01 power management: remove firmware disk mode
This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach,
it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but
cannot actually be used for that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg fe0c935a6c rework pm_ops pm_disk_mode, kill misuse
This patch series cleans up some misconceptions about pm_ops.  Some users of
the pm_ops structure attempt to use it to stop the user from entering suspend
to disk, this, however, is not possible since the user can always use
"shutdown" in /sys/power/disk and then the pm_ops are never invoked.  Also,
platforms that don't support suspend to disk simply should not allow
configuring SOFTWARE_SUSPEND (read the help text on it, it only selects
suspend to disk and nothing else, all the other stuff depends on PM).

The pm_ops structure is actually intended to provide a way to enter
platform-defined sleep states (currently supported states are "standby" and
"mem" (suspend to ram)) and additionally (if SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is configured)
allows a platform to support a platform specific way to enter low-power mode
once everything has been saved to disk.  This is currently only used by ACPI
(S4).

This patch:

The pm_ops.pm_disk_mode is used in totally bogus ways since nobody really
seems to understand what it actually does.

This patch clarifies the pm_disk_mode description.

It also removes all the arm and sh users that think they can veto suspend to
disk via pm_ops; not so since the user can always do echo shutdown >
/sys/power/disk, they need to find a better way involving Kconfig or such.

ACPI is the only user left with a non-zero pm_disk_mode.

The patch also sets the default mode to shutdown again, but when a new pm_ops
is registered its pm_disk_mode is selected as default, that way the default
stays for ACPI where it is apparently required.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 1173a729fc reiserfs: suppress lockdep warning
We're getting lockdep warnings due to a post-2.6.21-rc7 bugfix.

The xattr_sem can never be taken in the manner described. Internal inodes
are protected by I_PRIVATE.  Add the appropriate annotation.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Robert Peterson 42e380832a Extend print_symbol capability
Today's print_symbol function dumps a kernel symbol with printk.  This
patch extends the functionality of kallsyms.c so that the symbol lookup
function may be used without the printk.  This is useful for modules that
want to dump symbols elsewhere, for example, to debugfs.  I intend to use
the new function call in the GFS2 file system (which will be a separate
patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[clameter@sgi.com: sprint_symbol should return length of string like sprintf]
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:39 -07:00