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Linus Torvalds d770e558e2 Linux 4.2-rc1 2015-07-05 11:01:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e965b8ce42 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few kbuild core commits this time:

   - kallsyms fix for CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL

   - bashisms in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh fixed

   - workaround to make DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED more useful yet still space
     efficient

   - clang is not wrongly detected when cross-compiling"

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: include core debug info when DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
  scripts: link-vmlinux: Don't pass page offset to kallsyms if XIP Kernel
  scripts: fix link-vmlinux.sh bash-ism
  Makefile: Fix detection of clang when cross-compiling
2015-07-02 14:58:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c58267e9fa Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes mostly consist of work on x86 PMU drivers:

   - x86 Intel PT (hardware CPU tracer) improvements (Alexander
     Shishkin)

   - x86 Intel CQM (cache quality monitoring) improvements (Thomas
     Gleixner)

   - x86 Intel PEBSv3 support (Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel PEBS interrupt batching support for lower overhead
     sampling (Zheng Yan, Kan Liang)

   - x86 PMU scheduler fixes and improvements (Peter Zijlstra)

  There's too many tooling improvements to list them all - here are a
  few select highlights:

  'perf bench':

      - Introduce new 'perf bench futex' benchmark: 'wake-parallel', to
        measure parallel waker threads generating contention for kernel
        locks (hb->lock). (Davidlohr Bueso)

  'perf top', 'perf report':

      - Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicaly in 'perf top':
        a 'perf top' session can instantly become a 'perf report'
        one, i.e. going from dynamic analysis to a static one,
        returning to a dynamic one is possible, to toogle the
        modes, just press 'f' to 'freeze/unfreeze' the sampling. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

      - Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI, allowing interrupting the load of big
        perf.data files (Namhyung Kim)

  'perf probe': (Masami Hiramatsu)

      - Support glob wildcards for function name
      - Support $params special probe argument: Collect all function arguments
      - Make --line checks validate C-style function name.
      - Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
      - Greatly speed up 'perf probe --list' by caching debuginfo.
      - Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
        on other commands, as --add, --del, etc.

  'perf sched':

      - Add option in 'perf sched' to merge like comms to lat output (Josef Bacik)

  Plus tons of infrastructure work - in particular preparation for
  upcoming threaded perf report support, but also lots of other work -
  and fixes and other improvements.  See (much) more details in the
  shortlog and in the git log"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (305 commits)
  perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
  perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
  perf report: Fix sort__sym_cmp to also compare end of symbol
  perf hists browser: React to unassigned hotkey pressing
  perf top: Tell the user how to unfreeze events after pressing 'f'
  perf hists browser: Honour the help line provided by builtin-{top,report}.c
  perf hists browser: Do not exit when 'f' is pressed in 'report' mode
  perf top: Replace CTRL+z with 'f' as hotkey for enable/disable events
  perf annotate: Rename source_line_percent to source_line_samples
  perf annotate: Display total number of samples with --show-total-period
  perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed
  perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly
  perf evlist: Add toggle_enable() method
  perf trace: Fix race condition at the end of started workloads
  perf probe: Speed up perf probe --list by caching debuginfo
  perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped
  perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable
  perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order
  perf tools: Ignore .config-detected in .gitignore
  perf probe: Fix to return error if no probe is added
  ...
2015-06-22 15:19:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b953c0d234 Linux 4.1 2015-06-21 22:05:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0f57d86787 Linux 4.1-rc8 2015-06-14 15:51:10 -10:00
Linus Torvalds d4a4f75cd8 Linux 4.1-rc7 2015-06-07 20:23:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c65b99f046 Linux 4.1-rc6 2015-05-31 19:01:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8d12ded3dd Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, before applying dependent patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27 09:17:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ba155e2d21 Linux 4.1-rc5 2015-05-24 18:22:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e26081808e Linux 4.1-rc4 2015-05-18 10:13:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 030bbdbf4c Linux 4.1-rc3 2015-05-10 15:12:29 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1836ac856e perf/core improvements and fixes:
User visible:
 
 - Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
   on other commands, as --add, --del, etc (Masami Hiramatsu)
 
 - Show warning when running 'perf kmem stat' on a unsuitable perf.data file,
   i.e. one with events that are not the ones required for the stat variant
   used (Namhyung Kim).
 
 Infrastructure:
 
 - Auxtrace support patches, paving the way to support Intel PT and BTS (Adrian Hunter)
 
 - hists browser (top, report) refactorings (Namhyung Kim)
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
    on other commands, as --add, --del, etc (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Show warning when running 'perf kmem stat' on a unsuitable perf.data file,
    i.e. one with events that are not the ones required for the stat variant
    used (Namhyung Kim).

Infrastructure changes:

  - Auxtrace support patches, paving the way to support Intel PT and BTS (Adrian Hunter)

  - hists browser (top, report) refactorings (Namhyung Kim)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-06 04:42:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5ebe6afaf0 Linux 4.1-rc2 2015-05-03 19:22:23 -07:00
Jiri Olsa 16671c1e1c tools build: Fix Makefile(s) to properly invoke tools build
Several fixes were needed to allow following builds:
  $ make tools/tmon
  $ make -C <kernelsrc> tools/perf
  $ make -C <kernelsrc>/tools perf

 - some of the tools (perf) use same make variables as in
   kernel build, unsetting srctree and objtree
 - using original $(O) for O variable
 - perf build does not follow the descend function setup
   invoking it via it's own make rule

I tried the rest of the tools/Makefile targets and they
seem to work now.

Reported-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429389280-18720-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:37:46 -03:00
Paul Cercueil ee4eb20dbc Makefile: Fix detection of clang when cross-compiling
When the host's C compiler is clang, and when attempting to
cross-compile Linux e.g. to MIPS with mipsel-linux-gcc, the Makefile
would incorrectly detect the use of clang, which resulted in
clang-specific flags being passed to mipsel-linux-gcc.

This can be verified under Debian by installing the "clang" package,
and then using it as the default compiler with:
sudo update-alternatives --config cc

This patch moves the detection of clang after the $(CC) variable is
initialized to the name of the cross-compiler, so that the check applies
to the cross-compiler and not the host's C compiler.

v2: Move the detection of clang after the inclusion of the
arch/*/Makefile (as they might set $(CROSS_COMPILE))

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-04-27 14:21:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b787f68c36 Linux 4.1-rc1 2015-04-26 17:59:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b422b75875 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Here is the first round of kbuild changes for v4.1-rc1:

   - kallsyms fix for ARM and cleanup

   - make dep(end) removed (developers have no sense of nostalgia these
     days...)

   - include Makefiles by relative path

   - stop useless rebuilds of asm-offsets.h and bounds.h"

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols
  Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker
  kbuild: ia64: use $(src)/Makefile.gate rather than particular path
  kbuild: include $(src)/Makefile rather than $(obj)/Makefile
  kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile
  kbuild: use relative path to include Makefile
  kbuild: do not add $(bounds-file) and $(offsets-file) to targets
  kbuild: remove warning about "make depend"
  kbuild: Don't reset timestamps in include/generated if not needed
2015-04-15 11:19:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cc76ee75a9 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - jump label asm preparatory work for PowerPC (Anton Blanchard)

   - rwsem optimizations and cleanups (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - mutex optimizations and cleanups (Jason Low)

   - futex fix (Oleg Nesterov)

   - remove broken atomicity checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() (Peter
     Zijlstra)"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  powerpc, jump_label: Include linux/jump_label.h to get HAVE_JUMP_LABEL define
  jump_label: Allow jump labels to be used in assembly
  jump_label: Allow asm/jump_label.h to be included in assembly
  locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()
  locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE
  locking/rtmutex: Rename argument in the rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() documentation as well
  locking/rwsem: Fix lock optimistic spinning when owner is not running
  locking: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() usage
  locking/rwsem: Check for active lock before bailing on spinning
  locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinners
  locking/rwsem: Set lock ownership ASAP
  locking/rwsem: Document barrier need when waking tasks
  locking/futex: Check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads
  locking/mutex: Refactor mutex_spin_on_owner()
  locking/mutex: In mutex_spin_on_owner(), return true when owner changes
2015-04-13 10:27:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 39a8804455 Linux 4.0 2015-04-12 15:12:50 -07:00
Anton Blanchard c0ccf6f99e jump_label: Allow jump labels to be used in assembly
To use jump labels in assembly we need the HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
define, so we select a fallback version if the toolchain does
not support them.

Modify linux/jump_label.h so it can be included by assembly
files. We also need to add -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO to KBUILD_AFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: jbaron@akamai.com
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: liuj97@gmail.com
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428551492-21977-2-git-send-email-anton@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-09 09:40:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f22e6e8471 Linux 4.0-rc7 2015-04-06 15:39:45 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada a436bb7b80 kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile
Prior to this commit, it was impossible to use relative path to
include Makefiles from the top level Makefile because the option
"--include-dir=$(srctree)" becomes effective when Make enters into
sub Makefiles.

To use relative path in any places, this commit moves the option
above the "sub-make" target.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-04-02 16:42:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e42391cd04 Linux 4.0-rc6 2015-03-29 15:26:31 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada 4218affdf5 kbuild: remove warning about "make depend"
Enough time has passed since "make depend" was deprecated.
Nobody would be in trouble without this hint.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-03-24 17:37:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds bc465aa9d0 Linux 4.0-rc5 2015-03-22 16:50:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 06e5801b8c Linux 4.0-rc4 2015-03-15 17:38:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9eccca0843 Linux 4.0-rc3 2015-03-08 16:09:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 13a7a6ac0a Linux 4.0-rc2 2015-03-03 09:04:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c517d838eb Linux 4.0-rc1
.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.

Big surprise.

But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?

In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.

Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.

But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
2015-02-22 18:21:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 27a22ee4c7 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - several cleanups in kbuild

 - serialize multiple *config targets so that 'make defconfig kvmconfig'
   works

 - The cc-ifversion macro got support for an else-branch

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile more
  kbuild: allow cc-ifversion to have the argument for false condition
  kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile
  kbuild,gcov: remove unnecessary workaround
  kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion
  kbuild: fix cc-ifversion macro
  kbuild: drop $(version_h) from MRPROPER_FILES
  kbuild: use mixed-targets when two or more config targets are given
  kbuild: remove redundant line from bounds.h/asm-offsets.h
  kbuild: merge bounds.h and asm-offsets.h rules
  kbuild: Drop support for clean-rule
2015-02-19 10:07:08 -08:00
Jan Kiszka 3ee7b3fa2c scripts/gdb: add infrastructure
This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.

The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when
opening <objfile>.  Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.

The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
commands and functions.  To avoid polluting the source directory with
compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.

Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
depend on gdb >= 7.2.

This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>		[kbuild stuff]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-17 14:34:53 -08:00
Andrey Ryabinin 0b24becc81 kasan: add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure
Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector.  It
provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and
out-of-bounds bugs.

KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required.  v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with
putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan
instrumentation of globals.

This patch only adds infrastructure for kernel address sanitizer.  It's
not available for use yet.  The idea and some code was borrowed from [1].

Basic idea:

The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte
of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to
check the shadow memory on each memory access.

Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow
memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a
memory address to its corresponding shadow address.

Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address:

     unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr)
     {
                return (addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;
     }

where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3.

So for every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory.
The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1 <= k <= 7)
means that the first k bytes are valid for access, and other (8 - k) bytes
are not; Any negative value indicates that the entire 8-bytes are
inaccessible.  Different negative values used to distinguish between
different kinds of inaccessible memory (redzones, freed memory) (see
mm/kasan/kasan.h).

To be able to detect accesses to bad memory we need a special compiler.
Such compiler inserts a specific function calls (__asan_load*(addr),
__asan_store*(addr)) before each memory access of size 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.

These functions check whether memory region is valid to access or not by
checking corresponding shadow memory.  If access is not valid an error
printed.

Historical background of the address sanitizer from Dmitry Vyukov:

	"We've developed the set of tools, AddressSanitizer (Asan),
	ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer, for user space. We actively use
	them for testing inside of Google (continuous testing, fuzzing,
	running prod services). To date the tools have found more than 10'000
	scary bugs in Chromium, Google internal codebase and various
	open-source projects (Firefox, OpenSSL, gcc, clang, ffmpeg, MySQL and
	lots of others): [2] [3] [4].
	The tools are part of both gcc and clang compilers.

	We have not yet done massive testing under the Kernel AddressSanitizer
	(it's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need it to be upstream to
	start applying it extensively). To date it has found about 50 bugs.
	Bugs that we've found in upstream kernel are listed in [5].
	We've also found ~20 bugs in out internal version of the kernel. Also
	people from Samsung and Oracle have found some.

	[...]

	As others noted, the main feature of AddressSanitizer is its
	performance due to inline compiler instrumentation and simple linear
	shadow memory. User-space Asan has ~2x slowdown on computational
	programs and ~2x memory consumption increase. Taking into account that
	kernel usually consumes only small fraction of CPU and memory when
	running real user-space programs, I would expect that kernel Asan will
	have ~10-30% slowdown and similar memory consumption increase (when we
	finish all tuning).

	I agree that Asan can well replace kmemcheck. We have plans to start
	working on Kernel MemorySanitizer that finds uses of unitialized
	memory. Asan+Msan will provide feature-parity with kmemcheck. As
	others noted, Asan will unlikely replace debug slab and pagealloc that
	can be enabled at runtime. Asan uses compiler instrumentation, so even
	if it is disabled, it still incurs visible overheads.

	Asan technology is easily portable to other architectures. Compiler
	instrumentation is fully portable. Runtime has some arch-dependent
	parts like shadow mapping and atomic operation interception. They are
	relatively easy to port."

Comparison with other debugging features:
========================================

KMEMCHECK:

  - KASan can do almost everything that kmemcheck can.  KASan uses
    compile-time instrumentation, which makes it significantly faster than
    kmemcheck.  The only advantage of kmemcheck over KASan is detection of
    uninitialized memory reads.

    Some brief performance testing showed that kasan could be
    x500-x600 times faster than kmemcheck:

$ netperf -l 30
		MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET
		Recv   Send    Send
		Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
		Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
		bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

no debug:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    41624.72

kasan inline:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    12870.54

kasan outline:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    10586.39

kmemcheck: 	87380  16384  16384    30.03      20.23

  - Also kmemcheck couldn't work on several CPUs.  It always sets
    number of CPUs to 1.  KASan doesn't have such limitation.

DEBUG_PAGEALLOC:
	- KASan is slower than DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, but KASan works on sub-page
	  granularity level, so it able to find more bugs.

SLUB_DEBUG (poisoning, redzones):
	- SLUB_DEBUG has lower overhead than KASan.

	- SLUB_DEBUG in most cases are not able to detect bad reads,
	  KASan able to detect both reads and writes.

	- In some cases (e.g. redzone overwritten) SLUB_DEBUG detect
	  bugs only on allocation/freeing of object. KASan catch
	  bugs right before it will happen, so we always know exact
	  place of first bad read/write.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel
[2] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[3] https://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[4] https://code.google.com/p/memory-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[5] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel#Trophies

Based on work by Andrey Konovalov.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b3d6524ff7 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - The remaining patches for the z13 machine support: kernel build
   option for z13, the cache synonym avoidance, SMT support,
   compare-and-delay for spinloops and the CES5S crypto adapater.

 - The ftrace support for function tracing with the gcc hotpatch option.
   This touches common code Makefiles, Steven is ok with the changes.

 - The hypfs file system gets an extension to access diagnose 0x0c data
   in user space for performance analysis for Linux running under z/VM.

 - The iucv hvc console gets wildcard spport for the user id filtering.

 - The cacheinfo code is converted to use the generic infrastructure.

 - Cleanup and bug fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
  s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks
  s390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval
  s390/hypfs: Add diagnose 0c support
  s390/cacheinfo: don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
  s390/zcrypt: fixed domain scanning problem (again)
  s390/smp: increase maximum value of NR_CPUS to 512
  s390/jump label: use different nop instruction
  s390/jump label: add sanity checks
  s390/mm: correct missing space when reporting user process faults
  s390/dasd: cleanup profiling
  s390/dasd: add locking for global_profile access
  s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing
  ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessary
  ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options
  s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax()
  s390/zcrypt: Add support for new crypto express (CEX5S) adapter.
  s390/zcrypt: Number of supported ap domains is not retrievable.
  s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops
  s390/tape: remove redundant if statement
  s390/hvc_iucv: add simple wildcard matches to the iucv allow filter
  ...
2015-02-11 17:42:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bfa76d4957 Linux 3.19 2015-02-08 18:54:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e36f014edf Linux 3.19-rc7 2015-02-01 20:07:21 -08:00
Heiko Carstens c0a80c0c27 ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options
If the kernel is compiled with function tracer support the -pg compile option
is passed to gcc to generate extra code into the prologue of each function.

This patch replaces the "open-coded" -pg compile flag with a CC_FLAGS_FTRACE
makefile variable which architectures can override if a different option
should be used for code generation.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-01-29 09:19:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 26bc420b59 Linux 3.19-rc6 2015-01-25 20:04:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ec6f34e5b5 Linux 3.19-rc5 2015-01-18 18:02:20 +12:00
Linus Torvalds eaa27f34e9 linux 3.19-rc4 2015-01-11 12:44:53 -08:00
Michal Marek 90ac086bca Makefile: include arch/*/include/generated/uapi before .../generated
The introduction of the uapi directories in v3.7-rc1 moved some of the
generated headers from arch/*/include/generated to the uapi directory,
keeping the #include directives intact.

This creates a problem when bisecting, because the unversioned files are
not cleaned automatically by git and the compiler might include stale
headers as a result.  Instead of cleaning them in the Makefiles, promote
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the search path.  Under normal
circumstances, there is no overlap between this uapi subdirectory and
its parent, so the include choices remain the same.  We keep
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the USERINCLUDE variable so that it is
usable standalone.

Note that we cannot completely swap the order of the uapi and
kernel-only directories, since the headers in include/uapi/asm-generic
are meant to be wrapped by their include/asm-generic counterparts when
building kernel code.

Reported-by: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Reported-by: David Drysdale <dmd@lurklurk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-08 14:24:54 -08:00
Masahiro Yamada c22bd32c66 kbuild: drop $(version_h) from MRPROPER_FILES
Now $(version_h) is include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h.

$(version_h) in MRPROPER_FILES is redundant because it is covered
by include/generated in MRPROPER_DIRS.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-08 16:25:54 +01:00
Masahiro Yamada d0d38cd9e8 kbuild: use mixed-targets when two or more config targets are given
"make kvmconfig" expects that the .config has already been created,
but some people might want to create the .config and run kvmconfig
in one shot command, like this:

  $ make defconfig kvmconfig

To make sure this command works correctly even if -j* option is set,
we must handle them one by one.
This commit turns on mixed-targets when $(MAKECMDGOALS) includes
at least one config target and also includes another target.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-08 15:05:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b1940cd21c Linux 3.19-rc3 2015-01-05 17:05:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b7392d2247 Linux 3.19-rc2 2014-12-28 16:49:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 97bf6af1f9 Linux 3.19-rc1 2014-12-20 17:08:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d08372ca28 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Here are the kbuild changes for v3.19-rc1:

   - Cleanups and deduplication in the main Makefile and
     scripts/Makefile.*
   - Sort the output of *config targets in make help
   - Old <linux/version.h> is always removed to avoid a surprise during
     bisecting
   - Warning fix in kconfig"

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: remove redundant -rR flag of hdr-inst
  kbuild: Fix make help-<board series> on powerpc
  kbuild: Automatically remove stale <linux/version.h> file
  kconfig: Fix warning "‘jump’ may be used uninitialized"
  Makefile: sort list of defconfig targets in make help output
  kbuild: Remove duplicate $(cmd) definition in Makefile.clean
  kbuild: collect shorthands into scripts/Kbuild.include
2014-12-20 13:31:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b2776bf714 Linux 3.18 2014-12-07 14:21:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 009d0431c3 Linux 3.18-rc7 2014-11-30 16:42:27 -08:00
Michal Marek fbae4d585e kbuild: Fix make help-<board series> on powerpc
make ARCH=powerpc help-<board series> should not require a cofigured
source tree. Also, sort the boards in the output.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-11-28 16:39:11 +01:00
Michal Marek 223c24a7db kbuild: Automatically remove stale <linux/version.h> file
In 3.7, the file moved from include/linux/ to
include/generated/uapi/linux/. The path in the #include directive
remained the same for compatibility reasons, but this created a problem
when bisecting. Commit 9c8cdb71 (kbuild: unconditionally clobber
include/linux/version.h on distclean) fixes this, provided the user does
make distclean between builds. Better not rely on the user and delete
the stale file each time make is invoked.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-11-28 16:39:05 +01:00