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Laura Abbott 920d451f9c lkdtm: Add read/write after free tests for buddy memory
The current tests for read/write after free work on slab
allocated memory. Memory straight from the buddy allocator
may behave slightly differently and have a different set
of parameters to test. Add tests for those cases as well.

On a basic x86 boot:

 # echo WRITE_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   22.291950] lkdtm: Performing direct entry WRITE_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE
[   22.292983] lkdtm: Writing to the buddy page before free
[   22.293950] lkdtm: Attempting bad write to the buddy page after free

 # echo READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   32.375601] lkdtm: Performing direct entry READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE
[   32.379896] lkdtm: Value in memory before free: 12345678
[   32.383854] lkdtm: Attempting to read from freed memory
[   32.389309] lkdtm: Buddy page was not poisoned

On x86 with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and debug_pagealloc=on:

 # echo WRITE_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   17.475533] lkdtm: Performing direct entry WRITE_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE
[   17.477360] lkdtm: Writing to the buddy page before free
[   17.479089] lkdtm: Attempting bad write to the buddy page after free
[   17.480904] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
ffff88000ebd8000

 # echo READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   14.606433] lkdtm: Performing direct entry READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE
[   14.607447] lkdtm: Value in memory before free: 12345678
[   14.608161] lkdtm: Attempting to read from freed memory
[   14.608860] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
ffff88000eba3000

Note that arches without ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC may not
produce the same crash.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-03-01 14:29:14 -08:00
Laura Abbott 250a8988ef lkdtm: Update WRITE_AFTER_FREE test
The SLUB allocator may use the first word of a freed block to store the
freelist information. This may make it harder to test poisoning
features. Change the WRITE_AFTER_FREE test to better match what
the READ_AFTER_FREE test does and also print out a big more information.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-03-01 14:29:13 -08:00
Laura Abbott bc0b8cc6cb lkdtm: Add READ_AFTER_FREE test
In a similar manner to WRITE_AFTER_FREE, add a READ_AFTER_FREE
test to test free poisoning features. Sample output when
no sanitization is present:

 # echo READ_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   17.542473] lkdtm: Performing direct entry READ_AFTER_FREE
[   17.543866] lkdtm: Value in memory before free: 12345678
[   17.545212] lkdtm: Attempting bad read from freed memory
[   17.546542] lkdtm: Memory was not poisoned

with slub_debug=P:

 # echo READ_AFTER_FREE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[   22.415531] lkdtm: Performing direct entry READ_AFTER_FREE
[   22.416366] lkdtm: Value in memory before free: 12345678
[   22.417137] lkdtm: Attempting bad read from freed memory
[   22.417897] lkdtm: Memory correctly poisoned, calling BUG

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-03-01 14:29:13 -08:00
Stephen Smalley 2cb202c188 lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
Add a copy_to_user() call to the ACCESS_USERSPACE test
prior to attempting direct dereferencing of the user
address to ensure the page is present.  Otherwise,
a fault occurs on arm kernels even prior to the introduction
of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN, and there is no difference in
behavior for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n vs CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y.

Before this change, for any value of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6fe8000
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b6fe8000

After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6efc000
lkdtm: attempting bad write at b6efc000

After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6f7d000
Unhandled fault: page domain fault (0x01b) at 0xb6f7d000
...

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-29 09:02:16 +09:00
Terry Chia da86920f4a Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION to dummy-irq.c and lkdtm.c in drivers/misc
This starts to address
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10770

Signed-off-by: Terry Chia <terrycwk1994@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-07-09 14:19:34 -07:00
Kees Cook 1bc9fac3da lkdtm: include cacheflush.h
Some architectures need cacheflush.h explicitly included (mips) for
use of flush_icache_range():

    config: make ARCH=mips allmodconfig
    All error/warnings:
    >> ERROR: "flush_icache_range" undefined!

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-14 18:53:58 -08:00
Kees Cook dc2b9e9069 lkdtm: add "WRITE_KERN" test
Add "WRITE_KERN" crash target to validate that kernel executable memory
is not writable.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-14 12:30:20 -08:00
Kees Cook aac416fc38 lkdtm: flush icache and report actions
Some CPUs explicitly need to have their icache flushed after making
executable code copies for the memory region execution tests.
Additionally, report the specific address targets being used so that
debugging non-crash failures is easier.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-14 12:30:20 -08:00
Kees Cook feac6e2146 lkdtm: convert to using pr_* for reports
Move to using pr_* calls instead of printk calls for reporting.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-14 12:30:20 -08:00
Rashika Kheria 4462943267 drivers: misc: Mark function jp_generic_ide_ioctl() as static in lkdtm.c
This patch marks the function jp_generic_ide_ioctl() as static in
lkdtm.c because it is not used outside this file.

Thus, it also eliminates the following warnings in lkdtm.c:
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:227:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘jp_generic_ide_ioctl’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-18 16:41:52 -08:00
Kees Cook 5123662adc lkdtm: clean up sparse warnings
Since lkdtm intentionally does "bad" things, we need to convince sparse
that we're doing these things on purpose. This adds an explicit cast
to the call to copy_to_user() and marks the spin lock as expecting
to dead-lock.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08 22:39:51 -08:00
Kees Cook 9ae113ce5f lkdtm: add tests for additional page permissions
Testing execution and access of userspace from the kernel is needed for
validating things like Intel's SMEP and SMAP protections. Additionally,
add an explicit test for validating that RO page permissions have been
set for the RO data area.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29 16:13:39 -07:00
Kees Cook 7d196ac303 lkdtm: adjust recursion size to avoid warnings
When CONFIG_FRAME_WARN is set low (e.g. some ARM builds), the hard-coded
stack buffer size used for kernel stack over run testing triggers build
warnings. Instead, avoid the warning by recalcuating the buffer size and
recursion count needed to trigger the test. Also uses the recursion counter
indirectly to avoid changing the parameter during the test.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29 16:13:39 -07:00
Kees Cook 629c66a22c lkdtm: isolate stack corruption test
When tests were added to lkdtm that grew the stack frame, the stack
corruption test stopped working. This isolates the test in its own
function, and forces it not to be inlined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: cc33c537c1 ("lkdtm: add "EXEC_*" triggers")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-25 06:21:00 +01:00
Kees Cook cc33c537c1 lkdtm: add "EXEC_*" triggers
Add new crash locations that attempt to execute non-executable memory
regions (data segment, stack, kmalloc, vmalloc).

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24 22:47:20 -07:00
Kees Cook 274a5855c0 lkdtm: add "SPINLOCKUP" trigger
For additional lockup testing, add "SPINLOCKUP" to trigger a spinlock
deadlock when triggered twice.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24 22:47:20 -07:00
Kees Cook 65892723c3 lkdtm: add "WARNING" trigger
For additional testing, add "WARNING" as a trigger that calls WARN_ON(1).

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24 22:47:19 -07:00
Kees Cook 4f19828974 lkdtm: fix stack protector trigger
The -fstack-protector compiler flag will only build stack protections if
a character array is seen. Additionally, the offset to the saved
instruction pointer changes based on architecture, so stomp much harder
(64 bytes) when corrupting the stack.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24 22:47:19 -07:00
Alan Cox 086ff4b3a7 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix missing allocation failure check
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44691

Reported-by: <rucsoftsec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
Cong Wang 92618184cb lkdtm: avoid calling lkdtm_do_action() with spinlock held
lkdtm_do_action() may call sleeping functions like kmalloc(), so do not
call it with spin lock held.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-03 16:16:41 -08:00
Josh Hunt aa2c96d6f3 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix race when crashpoint is hit multiple times before checking count
We observed the crash point count going negative in cases where the
crash point is hit multiple times before the check of "count == 0" is
done.  Because of this we never call lkdtm_do_action().  This patch just
adds a spinlock to protect count.

Reported-by: Tapan Dhimant <tdhimant@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-27 18:00:13 -07:00
Namhyung Kim 93e2f585c1 lkdtm: prefix enum constants
Prefix cname and ctype constants with CN/CT_.  This is especially for the
conflict on BUG which causes a build break if arch defines it as a inline
function, i.e.  MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:14 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 05271ec424 lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
When the default llseek behavior gets changed to
not allowing seek, all file operations that rely
on the current behaviour need to use an explicit
.llseek operation.

The files that lkdtm uses in debugfs are regular
files and they get read using simple_read_from_buffer,
so generic_file_llseek is the right operation.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-09-16 10:33:09 +02:00
Rusty Russell dca4130639 param: remove unnecessary writable charp
sysfs-writable charp arguments need to be locked against modification
(since the old ones may be kfreed underneath us).  String arguments
are much simpler, so use them for small strings (eg. IFNAMSIZ).

lkdtm only uses the parameters at module initialization time, so there's
not much point making them writable.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
2010-08-11 23:04:27 +09:30
Frederic Weisbecker a48223f944 lktdm: add support for hardlockup, softlockup and hung task crashes
This adds three new types of kernel "crashes" in the lkdtm driver to
trigger hardlockups, softlockups and task hung states at will.

The first two are useful to test the new generic lockup detector and check
its further regressions.  The latter one is a bonus to check the hung task
detector regressions even though it's not currently in rework.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
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
M. Mohan Kumar f58f2fa928 kprobes: use do_IRQ() in lkdtm
Current lkdtm code puts a probe on __do_IRQ for some of the kdump test
cases.  Since __do_IRQ is deprecated, change lkdtm code to use do_IRQ
function.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:27 -07:00
Al Viro 5cf83b9b12 NULL noise: drivers/misc
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 2118116e5e drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: cleanups
- make needlessly global functions static
- make lkdtm_module_{init,exit}() as __{init,exit}

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00
Al Viro ec1c620b1c [PATCH] assigning enum constant to char * is vile, even if it happens to be 0
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09 08:28:48 -08:00
Ankita Garg 18a61e4adb [PATCH] Fix for LKDTM MEM_SWAPOUT crashpoint
The MEM_SWAPOUT crashpoint in LKDTM could be broken as some compilers
inline the call to shrink_page_list() and symbol lookup for this function
name fails.  Replacing it with the function shrink_inactive_list(), which
is the only function calling shrink_page_list().

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-06 01:46:23 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 5d861d920a [PATCH] lkdtm: cleanup headers and module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC
Fix module_param/sysfs file permission typo.

Clean up MODULE_PARM_DESC strings to avoid fancy (and incorrect)
formatting.

Fix header includes for lkdtm; add some needed ones, remove unused ones;
and fix this gcc warning:
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: 'struct buffer_head' declared inside parameter list
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03 12:27:56 -08:00
David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Ankita Garg 8bb31b9d53 [PATCH] Linux Kernel Dump Test Module
A simple module to test Linux Kernel Dump mechanism.  This module uses
jprobes to install/activate pre-defined crash points.  At different crash
points, various types of crashing scenarios are created like a BUG(),
panic(), exception, recursive loop and stack overflow.  The user can
activate a crash point with specific type by providing parameters at the
time of module insertion.  Please see the file header for usage
information.  The module is based on the Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool by
Fernando <http://lkdtt.sourceforge.net>.

This module could be merged with mainline. Jprobes is used here so that the
context in which crash point is hit, could be maintained. This implements
all the crash points as done by LKDTT except the one in the middle of
tasklet_action().

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00