* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputs
debugfs: move to new strtobool
Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents
modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50
module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol()
module: Use the binary search for symbols resolution
lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel.
module: Sort exported symbols
module: each_symbol_section instead of each_symbol
module: split unset_section_ro_nx function.
module: undo module RONX protection correctly.
module: zero mod->init_ro_size after init is freed.
minor ANSI prototype sparse fix
module: reorder kparam_array to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds
module: remove 64 bit alignment padding from struct module with CONFIG_TRACE*
module: do not hide __modver_version_show declaration behind ifdef
module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versions
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Correct occurrences of - Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm - Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml - Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest throughout the kernel source tree.
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/virtual Remove uml from the top level 00-INDEX file.
Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:
This is removes the use of software prefetching from the regular list
iterators. We don't want it. If you do want to prefetch in some
iterator of yours, go right ahead. Just don't expect the iterator to do
it, since normally the downsides are bigger than the upsides.
It also replaces <linux/prefetch.h> with <linux/const.h>, because the
use of LIST_POISON ends up needing it. <linux/poison.h> is sadly not
self-contained, and including prefetch.h just happened to hide that.
Suggested by David Miller (networking has a lot of regular lists that
are often empty or a single entry, and prefetching is not going to do
anything but add useless instructions).
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
They not only increase the code footprint, they actually make things
slower rather than faster. On internationally acclaimed benchmarks
("make -j16" on an already fully built kernel source tree) the hlist
prefetching slows down the build by up to 1%.
(Almost all of it comes from hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() as used by
avc_has_perm_noaudit(), which is very hot due to all the pathname
lookups to see if there is anything to do).
The cause seems to be two-fold:
- on at least some Intel cores, prefetch(NULL) ends up with some
microarchitectural stall due to the TLB miss that it incurs. The
hlist case triggers this very commonly, since the NULL pointer is the
last entry in the list.
- the prefetch appears to cause more D$ activity, probably because it
prefetches hash list entries that are never actually used (because we
ended the search early due to a hit).
Regardless, the numbers clearly say that the implicit prefetching is
simply a bad idea. If some _particular_ user of the hlist iterators
wants to prefetch the next list entry, they can do so themselves
explicitly, rather than depend on all list iterators doing so
implicitly.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No functional changes requires that we eat errors from strtobool.
If people want to not do this, then it should be fixed at a later date.
V2: Simplification suggested by Rusty Russell removes the need for
additional variable ret.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed,
relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it
writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance
with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools.
Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE
and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through
SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the
st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are
stored. See:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The function is_exported() with its helper function lookup_symbol() are used to
verify if a provided symbol is effectively exported by the kernel or by the
modules. Now that both have their symbols sorted we can replace a linear search
with a binary search which provide a considerably speed-up.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Takes advantage of the order and locates symbols using binary search.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
There a large number hand-coded binary searches in the kernel (run
"git grep search | grep binary" to find many of them). Since in my
experience, hand-coding binary searches can be error-prone, it seems
worth cleaning this up by providing a generic binary search function.
This generic binary search implementation comes from Ksplice. It has
the same basic API as the C library bsearch() function. Ksplice uses
it in half a dozen places with 4 different comparison functions, and I
think our code is substantially cleaner because of this.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").
The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
Instead of having a callback function for each symbol in the kernel,
have a callback for each array of symbols.
This eases the logic when we move to sorted symbols and binary search.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Split the unprotect function into a function per section to make
the code more readable and add the missing static declaration.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
While debugging I stumbled over two problems in the code that protects module
pages.
First issue is that disabling the protection before freeing init or unload of
a module is not symmetric with the enablement. For instance, if pages are set
to RO the page range from module_core to module_core + core_ro_size is
protected. If a module is unloaded the page range from module_core to
module_core + core_size is set back to RW.
So pages that were not set to RO are also changed to RW.
This is not critical but IMHO it should be symmetric.
Second issue is that while set_memory_rw & set_memory_ro are used for
RO/RW changes only set_memory_nx is involved for NX/X. One would await that
the inverse function is called when the NX protection should be removed,
which is not the case here, unless I'm missing something.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reset mod->init_ro_size to zero after the init part of a module is unloaded.
Otherwise we need to check if module->init is NULL in the unprotect functions
in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fix function prototype to be ANSI-C compliant, consistent with other
function prototypes, addressing a sparse warning.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reorder structure kparam_array to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on
64 bit builds, dropping its size from 40 to 32 bytes.
Also update the macro module_param_array_named to initialise the
structure using its member names to allow it to be changed without
touching all its call sites.
'git grep' finds module_param_array in 1037 places so this patch will
save a small amount of data space across many modules.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reorder struct module to remove 24 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds when the CONFIG_TRACE options are selected. This allows the
structure to fit into one fewer cache lines, and its size drops from 592
to 568 on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Doing so prevents the following warning from sparse:
CHECK kernel/params.c
kernel/params.c:817:9: warning: symbol '__modver_version_show' was not
declared. Should it be static?
since kernel/params.c is never compiled with MODULE being set.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to
align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary.
This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section
in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in
modules.
Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably
is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and
put those pointers in the special section.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
configfs: Fix race between configfs_readdir() and configfs_d_iput()
configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries.
ocfs2/dlm: Target node death during resource migration leads to thread spin
ocfs2: Skip mount recovery for hard-ro mounts
ocfs2/cluster: Heartbeat mismatch message improved
ocfs2/cluster: Increase the live threshold for global heartbeat
ocfs2/dlm: Use negotiated o2dlm protocol version
ocfs2: skip existing hole when removing the last extent_rec in punching-hole codes.
ocfs2: Initialize data_ac (might be used uninitialized)
* 'devicetree/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device
of: fix race when matching drivers
Commit b826291c, "drivercore/dt: add a match table pointer to struct
device" added an of_match pointer to struct device to cache the
of_match_table entry discovered at driver match time. This was unsafe
because matching is not an atomic operation with probing a driver. If
two or more drivers are attempted to be matched to a driver at the
same time, then the cached matching entry pointer could get
overwritten.
This patch reverts the of_match cache pointer and reworks all users to
call of_match_device() directly instead.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
If two drivers are probing devices at the same time, both will write
their match table result to the dev->of_match cache at the same time.
Only write the result if the device matches.
In a thread titled "SBus devices sometimes detected, sometimes not",
Meelis reported his SBus hme was not detected about 50% of the time.
From the debug suggested by Grant it was obvious another driver matched
some devices between the call to match the hme and the hme discovery
failling.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
[grant.likely: modified to only call of_match_device() once]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: don't delay blk_run_queue_async
scsi: remove performance regression due to async queue run
blk-throttle: Use task_subsys_state() to determine a task's blkio_cgroup
block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too
cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open
block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers
The 'size' variable contains the correct register size for both AR7
and Titan, but we never used it to ioremap the correct register size.
This problem only shows up on Titan.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed the fix. The original patch as in patchwork
recognizes the problem correctly then fails to fix it ...]
Reported-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2380/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This is the MIPS portion of Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>'s
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2172/ which seems to have been
lost in time and space.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
configfs_readdir() will use the existing inode numbers of inodes in the
dcache, but it makes them up for attribute files that aren't currently
instantiated. There is a race where a closing attribute file can be
tearing down at the same time as configfs_readdir() is trying to get its
inode number.
We want to get the inode number of open attribute files, because they
should match while instantiated. We can't lock down the transition
where dentry->d_inode is set to NULL, so we just check for NULL there.
We can, however, ensure that an inode we find isn't iput() in
configfs_d_iput() until after we've accessed it.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
When configfs is faking mkdir() on its subsystem or default group
objects, it starts by adding a negative dentry. It then tries to
instantiate the group. If that should fail, it must clean up after
itself.
I was using d_delete() here, but configfs_attach_group() promises to
return an empty dentry on error. d_delete() explodes with the entry
dentry. Let's try d_drop() instead. The unhashing is what we want for
our dentry.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Let's check a scenario:
1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY);
2. blk_run_queue_async();
the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has
WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after
SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed
work runs immediately.
Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work
before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setup
perf tools: Honour the cpu list parameter when also monitoring a thread list
kprobes, x86: Disable irqs during optimized callback
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: fix cifsConvertToUCS() for the mapchars case
cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers
Provide a stub for proc_mkdir_mode() when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not
enabled, just like the stub for proc_mkdir().
Fixes this linux-next build error:
drivers/net/wireless/airo.c:4504: error: implicit declaration of function 'proc_mkdir_mode'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
os_dump_core() uses abort() to terminate UML in case of an fatal error.
glibc's abort() calls raise(SIGABRT) which makes use of tgkill().
tgkill() has no effect within UML's kernel threads because they are not
pthreads. As fallback abort() executes an invalid instruction to
terminate the process. Therefore UML gets killed by SIGSEGV and leaves a
ugly log entry in the host's kernel ring buffer.
To get rid of this we use our own abort routine.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ZONE_CONGESTED should be a state of global memory reclaim. If not, a busy
memcg sets this and give unnecessary throttoling in wait_iff_congested()
against memory recalim in other contexts. This makes system performance
bad.
I'll think about "memcg is congested!" flag is required or not, later.
But this fix is required first.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adding the necessary MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() information allows the driver
to be automatically loaded by udev.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Shreshtha Kumar SAHU <shreshthakumar.sahu@stericsson.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix switch initialization to ensure that all switches have default routing
disabled. This guarantees that no unexpected RapidIO packets arrive to
the default port set by reset and there is no default routing destination
until it is properly configured by software.
This update also unifies handling of unmapped destinations by tsi57x, IDT
Gen1 and IDT Gen2 switches.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As Metze pointed out, commit 84cdf74e broke mapchars option:
Commit "cifs: fix unaligned accesses in cifsConvertToUCS"
(84cdf74e80) does multiple steps
in just one commit (moving the function and changing it without
testing).
put_unaligned_le16(temp, &target[j]); is never called for any
codepoint the goes via the 'default' switch statement. As a result
we put just zero (or maybe uninitialized) bytes into the target
buffer.
His proposed patch looks correct, but doesn't apply to the current head
of the tree. This patch should also fix it.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .38.x: 581ade4: cifs: clean up various nits in unicode routines (try #2)
Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
The is_path_accessible check uses a QPathInfo call, which isn't
supported by ancient win9x era servers. Fall back to an older
SMBQueryInfo call if it fails with the magic error codes.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Sandro Bonazzola <sandro.bonazzola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Linus Torvalds