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Alexey Dobriyan 6de24f0ed0 [PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:13 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 61cfc7e442 PCI: PCI_QUIRKS depends on PCI
commit 3d13731024 ("PCI: allow quirks to be
compiled out") introduced CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS, which now shows up in each
and every .config.  Fix this by making it depend on PCI.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-22 16:42:46 -07:00
Heiko Carstens a802dd0eb5 Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.
This allows to create workqueues from within the context of
a pre smp initcall (aka early_initcall).

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
Rusty Russell d0ea3d7d28 Make initcall_debug a core_param
This is the one I really wanted: now it effects module loading, it
makes sense to be able to flip it after boot.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-22 10:00:24 +11:00
Linus Torvalds a0bfb673dc Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (41 commits)
  PCI: fix pci_ioremap_bar() on s390
  PCI: fix AER capability check
  PCI: use pci_find_ext_capability everywhere
  PCI: remove #ifdef DEBUG around dev_dbg call
  PCI hotplug: fix get_##name return value problem
  PCI: document the pcie_aspm kernel parameter
  PCI: introduce an pci_ioremap(pdev, barnr) function
  powerpc/PCI: Add legacy PCI access via sysfs
  PCI: Add ability to mmap legacy_io on some platforms
  PCI: probing debug message uniformization
  PCI: support PCIe ARI capability
  PCI: centralize the capabilities code in probe.c
  PCI: centralize the capabilities code in pci-sysfs.c
  PCI: fix 64-vbit prefetchable memory resource BARs
  PCI: replace cfg space size (256/4096) by macros.
  PCI: use resource_size() everywhere.
  PCI: use same arg names in PCI_VDEVICE comment
  PCI hotplug: rpaphp: make debug var unique
  PCI: use %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor_symbol() in quirks.c
  PCI: fix hotplug get_##name return value problem
  ...
2008-10-20 13:40:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni 3d13731024 PCI: allow quirks to be compiled out
This patch adds the CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS option which allows to remove all
the PCI quirks, which are not necessarily used on embedded systems when
PCI is working properly. As this is a size-reduction option, it depends
on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save almost 12 kilobytes of kernel
code:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1287806	 123596	 212992	1624394	 18c94a	vmlinux.old
1275854	 123596	 212992	1612442	 189a9a	vmlinux
 -11952       0       0  -11952   -2EB0 +/-

This patch has originally been written by Zwane Mwaikambo
<zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20 10:53:40 -07:00
Matt Helsley dc52ddc0e6 container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Nick Piggin db64fe0225 mm: rewrite vmap layer
Rewrite the vmap allocator to use rbtrees and lazy tlb flushing, and
provide a fast, scalable percpu frontend for small vmaps (requires a
slightly different API, though).

The biggest problem with vmap is actually vunmap.  Presently this requires
a global kernel TLB flush, which on most architectures is a broadcast IPI
to all CPUs to flush the cache.  This is all done under a global lock.  As
the number of CPUs increases, so will the number of vunmaps a scaled
workload will want to perform, and so will the cost of a global TLB flush.
 This gives terrible quadratic scalability characteristics.

Another problem is that the entire vmap subsystem works under a single
lock.  It is a rwlock, but it is actually taken for write in all the fast
paths, and the read locking would likely never be run concurrently anyway,
so it's just pointless.

This is a rewrite of vmap subsystem to solve those problems.  The existing
vmalloc API is implemented on top of the rewritten subsystem.

The TLB flushing problem is solved by using lazy TLB unmapping.  vmap
addresses do not have to be flushed immediately when they are vunmapped,
because the kernel will not reuse them again (would be a use-after-free)
until they are reallocated.  So the addresses aren't allocated again until
a subsequent TLB flush.  A single TLB flush then can flush multiple
vunmaps from each CPU.

XEN and PAT and such do not like deferred TLB flushing because they can't
always handle multiple aliasing virtual addresses to a physical address.
They now call vm_unmap_aliases() in order to flush any deferred mappings.
That call is very expensive (well, actually not a lot more expensive than
a single vunmap under the old scheme), however it should be OK if not
called too often.

The virtual memory extent information is stored in an rbtree rather than a
linked list to improve the algorithmic scalability.

There is a per-CPU allocator for small vmaps, which amortizes or avoids
global locking.

To use the per-CPU interface, the vm_map_ram / vm_unmap_ram interfaces
must be used in place of vmap and vunmap.  Vmalloc does not use these
interfaces at the moment, so it will not be quite so scalable (although it
will use lazy TLB flushing).

As a quick test of performance, I ran a test that loops in the kernel,
linearly mapping then touching then unmapping 4 pages.  Different numbers
of tests were run in parallel on an 4 core, 2 socket opteron.  Results are
in nanoseconds per map+touch+unmap.

threads           vanilla         vmap rewrite
1                 14700           2900
2                 33600           3000
4                 49500           2800
8                 70631           2900

So with a 8 cores, the rewritten version is already 25x faster.

In a slightly more realistic test (although with an older and less
scalable version of the patch), I ripped the not-very-good vunmap batching
code out of XFS, and implemented the large buffer mapping with vm_map_ram
and vm_unmap_ram...  along with a couple of other tricks, I was able to
speed up a large directory workload by 20x on a 64 CPU system.  I believe
vmap/vunmap is actually sped up a lot more than 20x on such a system, but
I'm running into other locks now.  vmap is pretty well blown off the
profiles.

Before:
1352059 total                                      0.1401
798784 _write_lock                              8320.6667 <- vmlist_lock
529313 default_idle                             1181.5022
 15242 smp_call_function                         15.8771  <- vmap tlb flushing
  2472 __get_vm_area_node                         1.9312  <- vmap
  1762 remove_vm_area                             4.5885  <- vunmap
   316 map_vm_area                                0.2297  <- vmap
   312 kfree                                      0.1950
   300 _spin_lock                                 3.1250
   252 sn_send_IPI_phys                           0.4375  <- tlb flushing
   238 vmap                                       0.8264  <- vmap
   216 find_lock_page                             0.5192
   196 find_next_bit                              0.3603
   136 sn2_send_IPI                               0.2024
   130 pio_phys_write_mmr                         2.0312
   118 unmap_kernel_range                         0.1229

After:
 78406 total                                      0.0081
 40053 default_idle                              89.4040
 33576 ia64_spinlock_contention                 349.7500
  1650 _spin_lock                                17.1875
   319 __reg_op                                   0.5538
   281 _atomic_dec_and_lock                       1.0977
   153 mutex_unlock                               1.5938
   123 iget_locked                                0.1671
   117 xfs_dir_lookup                             0.1662
   117 dput                                       0.1406
   114 xfs_iget_core                              0.0268
    92 xfs_da_hashname                            0.1917
    75 d_alloc                                    0.0670
    68 vmap_page_range                            0.0462 <- vmap
    58 kmem_cache_alloc                           0.0604
    57 memset                                     0.0540
    52 rb_next                                    0.1625
    50 __copy_user                                0.0208
    49 bitmap_find_free_region                    0.2188 <- vmap
    46 ia64_sn_udelay                             0.1106
    45 find_inode_fast                            0.1406
    42 memcmp                                     0.2188
    42 finish_task_switch                         0.1094
    42 __d_lookup                                 0.0410
    40 radix_tree_lookup_slot                     0.1250
    37 _spin_unlock_irqrestore                    0.3854
    36 xfs_bmapi                                  0.0050
    36 kmem_cache_free                            0.0256
    35 xfs_vn_getattr                             0.0322
    34 radix_tree_lookup                          0.1062
    33 __link_path_walk                           0.0035
    31 xfs_da_do_buf                              0.0091
    30 _xfs_buf_find                              0.0204
    28 find_get_page                              0.0875
    27 xfs_iread                                  0.0241
    27 __strncpy_from_user                        0.2812
    26 _xfs_buf_initialize                        0.0406
    24 _xfs_buf_lookup_pages                      0.0179
    24 vunmap_page_range                          0.0250 <- vunmap
    23 find_lock_page                             0.0799
    22 vm_map_ram                                 0.0087 <- vmap
    20 kfree                                      0.0125
    19 put_page                                   0.0330
    18 __kmalloc                                  0.0176
    17 xfs_da_node_lookup_int                     0.0086
    17 _read_lock                                 0.0885
    17 page_waitqueue                             0.0664

vmap has gone from being the top 5 on the profiles and flushing the crap
out of all TLBs, to using less than 1% of kernel time.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, section fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build on alpha]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 73b4a24f5f init/do_mounts_md.c must #include <linux/delay.h>
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by commit
589f800bb1 ("fastboot: make the raid
autodetect code wait for all devices to init"):

    CC      init/do_mounts_md.o
  init/do_mounts_md.c: In function 'autodetect_raid':
  init/do_mounts_md.c:285: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep'
  make[2]: *** [init/do_mounts_md.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 13:35:34 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni ebf3f09c63 Configure out AIO support
This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1115067	 119180	 217088	1451335	 162547	vmlinux
1108025	 119048	 217088	1444161	 160941	vmlinux.new
  -7042    -132       0   -7174   -1C06 +/-

This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Nye Liu 889d51a107 initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images
When unpacking the cpio into the initramfs, mtimes are not preserved by
default.  This patch adds an INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option that allows
mtimes stored in the cpio image to be used when constructing the
initramfs.

For embedded applications that run exclusively out of the initramfs, this
is invaluable:

When building embedded application initramfs images, its nice to know when
the files were actually created during the build process - that makes it
easier to see what files were modified when so we can compare the files
that are being used on the image with the files used during the build
process.  This might help (for example) to determine if the target system
has all the updated files you expect to see w/o having to check MD5s etc.

In our environment, the whole system runs off the initramfs partition, and
seeing the modified times of the shared libraries (for example) helps us
find bugs that may have been introduced by the build system incorrectly
propogating outdated shared libraries into the image.

Similarly, many of the initializion/configuration files in /etc might be
dynamically built by the build system, and knowing when they were modified
helps us sanity check whether the target system has the "latest" files
etc.

Finally, we might use last modified times to determine whether a hot fix
should be applied or not to the running ramfs.

Signed-off-by: Nye Liu <nyet@nyet.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 93fd85d005 identify_ramdisk_image(): correct typo about return value in comment
identify_ramdisk_image() returns 0 (not -1) if a gzipped ramdisk is found:

	if (buf[0] == 037 && ((buf[1] == 0213) || (buf[1] == 0236))) {
		printk(KERN_NOTICE
		       "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block %d\n",
		       start_block);
		nblocks = 0;
		^^^^^^^^^^^
		goto done;
	}

	...

done:
	sys_lseek(fd, start_block * BLOCK_SIZE, 0);
	kfree(buf);
	return nblocks;
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hence correct the typo in the comment, which has existed since the
addition of compressed ramdisk support in 1.3.48.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2d51b75370 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastboot
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastboot:
  raid, fastboot: hide RAID autodetect option if MD is compiled as a module
  raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option
  warning: fix init do_mounts_md c
  fastboot: make the RAID autostart code print a message just before waiting
  fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init
  fastboot: Fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  Add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time
2008-10-14 12:28:02 -07:00
Tim Bird ca538f6bbe tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
Change the time resolution for initcall_debug to microseconds, from
milliseconds.  This is handy to determine which initcalls you want to work
on for faster booting.

One one of my test machines, over 90% of the initcalls are less than a
millisecond and (without this patch) these are all reported as 0 msecs.
Working on the 900 us ones is more important than the 4 us ones.

With 'quiet' on the kernel command line, this adds no significant overhead
to kernel boot time.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 097d036a2f tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
At this time, only built-in initcalls interest us.
We can't really produce a relevant graph if we include
the modules initcall too.

I had good results after this patch (see svg in attachment).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:17 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5601020feb tracing/fastboot: get the initcall name before it disappears
After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent.
That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section
and also their name from the symbols table.

So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough
during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because
the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cb5ab74204 tracing/fastboot: change the printing of boot tracer according to bootgraph.pl
Change the boot tracer printing to make it parsable for
the scripts/bootgraph.pl script.

We have now to output two lines for each initcall, according to the
printk in do_one_initcall() in init/main.c
We need now the call's time and the return's time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:11 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 3bf77af6e1 tracing/ftrace: launch boot tracing after pre-smp initcalls
Launch the boot tracing inside the initcall_debug area. Old printk
have not been removed to keep the old way of initcall tracing for
backward compatibility.

[ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:50 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven aa5d9151f7 tracing/fastboot: add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time
When optimizing the kernel boot time, it's very valuable to visualize
what is going on at which time. In addition, with the fastboot asynchronous
initcall level, it's very valuable to see which initcall gets run where
and when.

This patch adds a script to turn a dmesg into a SVG graph (that can be
shown with tools such as InkScape, Gimp or Firefox) and a small change
to the initcall code to print the PID of the thread calling the initcall
(so that the script can work out the parallelism).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-14 10:38:46 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it
just fine.

update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fa340d9c05 tracing: disable tracepoints by default
while it's arguably low overhead, we dont enable new features by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:56 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 97e1c18e8d tracing: Kernel Tracepoints
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.

Taken from the documentation patch :

"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section).  When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).

You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."

Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".

We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.

Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
  tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
  connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
  the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> :
Tested on x86-64.

Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.

Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :

I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.

While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.

I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.

I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c

I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.

    The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
    The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8

Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.

Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.

* 2 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      4.811   |       4.872  |  +0.061  |  +1.27  |
      100 |      9.854   |      10.309  |  +0.454  |  +4.61  |
      150 |     15.602   |      15.040  |  -0.562  |  -3.6   |
      200 |     20.489   |      20.380  |  -0.109  |  -0.53  |
      250 |     25.798   |      25.652  |  -0.146  |  -0.56  |
      300 |     31.260   |      30.797  |  -0.463  |  -1.48  |
      350 |     36.121   |      35.770  |  -0.351  |  -0.97  |
      400 |     42.288   |      42.102  |  -0.186  |  -0.44  |
      450 |     47.778   |      47.253  |  -0.526  |  -1.1   |
      500 |     51.953   |      52.278  |  +0.325  |  +0.63  |
      550 |     58.401   |      57.700  |  -0.701  |  -1.2   |
      600 |     63.334   |      63.222  |  -0.112  |  -0.18  |
      650 |     68.816   |      68.511  |  -0.306  |  -0.44  |
      700 |     74.667   |      74.088  |  -0.579  |  -0.78  |
      750 |     78.612   |      79.582  |  +0.970  |  +1.23  |
      800 |     85.431   |      85.263  |  -0.168  |  -0.2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 4 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.586   |       2.584  |  -0.003  |  -0.1   |
      100 |      5.254   |       5.283  |  +0.030  |  +0.56  |
      150 |      8.012   |       8.074  |  +0.061  |  +0.76  |
      200 |     11.172   |      11.000  |  -0.172  |  -1.54  |
      250 |     13.917   |      14.036  |  +0.119  |  +0.86  |
      300 |     16.905   |      16.543  |  -0.362  |  -2.14  |
      350 |     19.901   |      20.036  |  +0.135  |  +0.68  |
      400 |     22.908   |      23.094  |  +0.186  |  +0.81  |
      450 |     26.273   |      26.101  |  -0.172  |  -0.66  |
      500 |     29.554   |      29.092  |  -0.461  |  -1.56  |
      550 |     32.377   |      32.274  |  -0.103  |  -0.32  |
      600 |     35.855   |      35.322  |  -0.533  |  -1.49  |
      650 |     39.192   |      38.388  |  -0.804  |  -2.05  |
      700 |     41.744   |      41.719  |  -0.025  |  -0.06  |
      750 |     45.016   |      44.496  |  -0.520  |  -1.16  |
      800 |     48.212   |      47.603  |  -0.609  |  -1.26  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 8 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.094   |       2.072  |  -0.022  |  -1.07  |
      100 |      4.162   |       4.273  |  +0.111  |  +2.66  |
      150 |      6.485   |       6.540  |  +0.055  |  +0.84  |
      200 |      8.556   |       8.478  |  -0.078  |  -0.91  |
      250 |     10.458   |      10.258  |  -0.200  |  -1.91  |
      300 |     12.425   |      12.750  |  +0.325  |  +2.62  |
      350 |     14.807   |      14.839  |  +0.032  |  +0.22  |
      400 |     16.801   |      16.959  |  +0.158  |  +0.94  |
      450 |     19.478   |      19.009  |  -0.470  |  -2.41  |
      500 |     21.296   |      21.504  |  +0.208  |  +0.98  |
      550 |     23.842   |      23.979  |  +0.137  |  +0.57  |
      600 |     26.309   |      26.111  |  -0.198  |  -0.75  |
      650 |     28.705   |      28.446  |  -0.259  |  -0.9   |
      700 |     31.233   |      31.394  |  +0.161  |  +0.52  |
      750 |     34.064   |      33.720  |  -0.344  |  -1.01  |
      800 |     36.320   |      36.114  |  -0.206  |  -0.57  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven a364092a41 raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option
RAID autodetect has the side effect of requiring synchronisation
of all device drivers, which can make the boot several seconds longer
(I've measured 7 on one of my laptops).... even for systems that don't
have RAID setup for the root filesystem (the only FS where this matters).

This patch makes the default for autodetect a config option; either way
the user can always override via the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-10-12 08:25:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 82cbc11a41 warning: fix init do_mounts_md c
fix warning:

  init/do_mounts_md.c: In function ‘md_run_setup’:
  init/do_mounts_md.c:282: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

also, use the opportunity to put the RAID autodetection code
into a separate function - this also solves a checkpatch style warning.

No code changed:

md5:
   aa36a35faef371b05f1974ad583bdbbd  do_mounts_md.o.before.asm
   aa36a35faef371b05f1974ad583bdbbd  do_mounts_md.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-12 08:24:34 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 02c15def84 fastboot: make the RAID autostart code print a message just before waiting
As requested/suggested by Neil Brown: make the raid code print that it's
about to wait for probing to be done as well as give a suggestion on how
to disable the probing if the user doesn't use raid.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com
2008-10-12 08:23:53 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 589f800bb1 fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init
The raid autodetect code really needs to have all devices probed before
it can detect raid arrays; not doing so would give rather messy situations
where arrays would get detected as degraded while they shouldn't be etc.

This is in preparation of removing the "wait for everything to init"
code that makes everyone pay, not just raid users.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-12 08:23:04 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven f9b9796ade Add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time
When optimizing the kernel boot time, it's very valuable to visualize
what is going on at which time. In addition, with some of the initializing
going asynchronous soon, it's valuable to track/print which worker thread
is executing the initialization.

This patch adds a script to turn a dmesg into a SVG graph (that can be
shown with tools such as InkScape, Gimp or Firefox) and a small change
to the initcall code to print the PID of the thread calling the initcall
(so that the script can work out the parallelism).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-12 08:07:20 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 53167a3ef2 proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
Tejun Heo 55dc7db70a init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= param
DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root
device number set using rdev become meaningless.  Root devices should
be explicitly specified using textual names.  Warn about it if root
can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled.  Also, add warning
to the help text.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 96d746c68f Fix init/main.c to use regular printk with '%pF' for initcall fn
.. small detail, but the silly e1000e initcall warning debugging caused
me to look at this code.  Rather than gouge my eyes out with a spoon, I
just fixed it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 13:38:07 -07:00
Andi Kleen 9e94cd325b Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y
I noticed that sysctl_check.o was the largest object file in
a allnoconfig build in kernel/*.

  36243       0       0   36243    8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o

This is because it was default y and && EMBEDDED. But I don't
really see a need for a non kernel developer to have their
sysctls checked all the time.

So move the Kconfig into the kernel debugging section and
also drop the default y and the EMBEDDED check.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-16 17:13:43 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 59f9415ffb modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader
The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug"
on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to
execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes
it will

1) print if it had an error code

2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off)
and

3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds.

While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving
number 3 to figure out what to optimize...  ...  and then I wished that
the same thing was done for module loading.

This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's
a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late
binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding
where things are too slow in my boot.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:54 +10:00
Robert P. J. Day 0b0de14433 Kconfig: Extend "menuconfig" for modules to simplify Kconfig file
Given that the init/Kconfig file uses a "menuconfig" directive for
modules already, might as well wrap all the submenu entries in an "if"
to toss all those dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-08-06 22:14:04 +02:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b5b9309d34 remove unnecessary <linux/hdreg.h> includes
Following files don't need <linux/hdreg.h> at all:

- arch/mips/jazz/setup.c
- arch/sh/boards/mach-systemh/irq.c
- drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c
- drivers/scsi/hptiop.c
- drivers/usb/storage/freecom.c
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/ide.h
- init/main.c

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-08-05 18:16:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e811603feb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: scripts/ver_linux: don't set PATH
  Kconfig/init: change help text to match default value
  kbuild: genksyms: Include extern information in dumps
  kbuild: genksyms parser: fix the __attribute__ rule
  kbuild: scripts/genksyms/lex.l: add %option noinput
  kconfig: scripts/kconfig/zconf.l: add %option noinput
  kbuild: fix O=... build of um
2008-08-01 11:50:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 57b1494d2b Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  generic, x86: fix add iommu_num_pages helper function
  x86: remove stray <6> in BogoMIPS printk
  x86: move dma32_reserve_bootmem() after reserve_crashkernel()
2008-08-01 10:28:17 -07:00
jkacur 775a7229ac Kconfig/init: change help text to match default value
Change the "If unsure" message to match the default value.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-31 23:33:10 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven bd673c7c3b initrd: cast `initrd_start' to `void *'
commit fb6624ebd9 (initrd: Fix virtual/physical
mix-up in overwrite test) introduced the compiler warning below on mips,
as its virt_to_page() doesn't cast the passed address to unsigned long
internally, unlike on most other architectures:

init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
init/main.c:633: warning: passing argument 1 of `virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast
init/main.c:636: warning: passing argument 1 of `virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

For now, kill the warning by explicitly casting initrd_start to `void *', as
that's the type it should really be.

Reported-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 35780c8ea7 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/urgent 2008-07-29 12:10:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cb28a1bbdb Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 00:07:55 +02:00
Joe Perches d7ba11d01c x86: remove stray <6> in BogoMIPS printk
Rabin Vincent noticed that there's a stray <6> in BogoMIPS printk:

> Remove the extra KERN_INFO which causes this:
> Calibrating delay loop... <6>179.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=897024)
> -	printk(KERN_INFO "%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n",
> -			loops_per_jiffy/(500000/HZ),
> -			(loops_per_jiffy/(5000/HZ)) % 100, loops_per_jiffy);
> +	printk("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n",
> +		loops_per_jiffy/(500000/HZ),
> +		(loops_per_jiffy/(5000/HZ)) % 100, loops_per_jiffy);
>  }

How about just using KERN_CONT and leaving the whitespace
for a patch that does the entire file?

Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
2008-07-28 14:22:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6948385cbd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits)
  setlocalversion: do not describe if there is nothing to describe
  kconfig: fix typos: "Suport" -> "Support"
  kconfig: make defconfig is no longer chatty
  kconfig: make oldconfig is now less chatty
  kconfig: speed up all*config + randconfig
  kconfig: set all new symbols automatically
  kconfig: add diffconfig utility
  kbuild: remove Module.markers during mrproper
  kbuild: sparse needs CF not CHECKFLAGS
  kernel-doc: handle/strip __init
  vmlinux.lds: move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section
  init: fix URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities"
  kbuild: add arch/$ARCH/include to search path
  kbuild: asm symlink support for arch/$ARCH/include
  kbuild: support arch/$ARCH/include for tags, cscope
  kbuild: prepare headers_* for arch/$ARCH/include
  kbuild: install all headers when arch is changed
  kbuild: make clean removes *.o.* as well
  kbuild: optimize headers_* targets
  kbuild: only one call for include/ in make headers_*
  ...
2008-07-27 09:59:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk f56f6d30c7 make init/do_mounts.c:root_device_name static
This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 7babe8db99 Full conversion to early_initcall() interface, remove old interface
A previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of
pre-SMP initcalls.  Now we remove the older interface, converting all
existing users to the new one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu c2147a5092 Better interface for hooking early initcalls
Added early initcall (pre-SMP) support, using an identical interface to
that of regular initcalls.  Functions called from do_pre_smp_initcalls()
could be converted to use this cleaner interface.

This is required by CPU hotplug, because early users have to register
notifiers before going SMP.  One such CPU hotplug user is the relay
interface with buffer-only channels, which needs to register such a
notifier, to be usable in early code.  This in turn is used by kmemtrace.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
Heikki Orsila 12d2b8f951 kconfig: fix typos: "Suport" -> "Support"
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-25 22:12:52 +02:00
S.Çağlar Onur 37a4c94074 init: fix URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities"
Following patch corrects URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities" in init/Kconfig.

Noticed by: Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-25 22:12:36 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 3ae4eed34b proper pid{hash,map}_init() prototypes
This patch adds proper prototypes for pid{hash,map}_init() in
include/linux/pid_namespace.h

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:45 -07:00
Daniel Guilak 197dcffc8b init/version.c: define version_string only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not defined
int Version_* is only used with ksymoops, which is only needed (according
to README and Documentation/Changes) if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is NOT defined.
Therefore this patch defines version_string only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not
defined.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00
Daniel Guilak 277e2c6959 init/version.c: silence sparse warning by declaring the version string
Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni 2d6ffcca62 inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.

The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.

This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.

The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
 - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
   allocations should be made
 - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
   allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
   the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed

The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call.  This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().

Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day cb345d7352 init/: delete hard-coded setting and testing of BUILD_CRAMDISK
There seems to be little point in explicitly setting, then testing the macro
BUILD_CRAMDISK within the context of a single source file.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 82c8253ac2 init/do_mounts.c should #include <linux/initrd.h>
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its
global code (in this case for rd_doload).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7f9dce3837 Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
  sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
  sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
  sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
  cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
  cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
  sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
  sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
  Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"

Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
2008-07-23 19:36:53 -07:00
Johannes Berg baabaae981 make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
... as preparation for removing it completely, make it an
invisible bool defaulting to yes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:28 +10:00
Denys Vlasenko f7f5b67557 Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding
exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL,
and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway
(because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then).

This patch adds required #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:27 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven fb6624ebd9 initrd: Fix virtual/physical mix-up in overwrite test
On recent kernels, I get the following error when using an initrd:

| initrd overwritten (0x00b78000 < 0x07668000) - disabling it.

My Amiga 4000 has 12 MiB of RAM at physical address 0x07400000 (virtual
0x00000000).
The initrd is located at the end of RAM: 0x00b78000 - 0x00c00000 (virtual).
The overwrite test compares the (virtual) initrd location to the (physical)
first available memory location, which fails.

This patch converts initrd_start to a page frame number, so it can safely be
compared with min_low_pfn.

Before the introduction of discontiguous memory support on m68k
(12d810c1b8), min_low_pfn was just left
untouched by the m68k-specific code (zero, I guess), and everything worked
fine.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-20 17:24:40 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f6dc8ccaab Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 21:13:20 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky e761b77252 cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
This is based on Linus' idea of creating cpu_active_map that prevents
scheduler load balancer from migrating tasks to the cpu that is going
down.

It allows us to simplify domain management code and avoid unecessary
domain rebuilds during cpu hotplug event handling.

Please ignore the cpusets part for now. It needs some more work in order
to avoid crazy lock nesting. Although I did simplfy and unify domain
reinitialization logic. We now simply call partition_sched_domains() in
all the cases. This means that we're using exact same code paths as in
cpusets case and hence the test below cover cpusets too.
Cpuset changes to make rebuild_sched_domains() callable from various
contexts are in the separate patch (right next after this one).

This not only boots but also easily handles
	while true; do make clean; make -j 8; done
and
	while true; do on-off-cpu 1; done
at the same time.
(on-off-cpu 1 simple does echo 0/1 > /sys/.../cpu1/online thing).

Suprisingly the box (dual-core Core2) is quite usable. In fact I'm typing
this on right now in gnome-terminal and things are moving just fine.

Also this is running with most of the debug features enabled (lockdep,
mutex, etc) no BUG_ONs or lockdep complaints so far.

I believe I addressed all of the Dmitry's comments for original Linus'
version. I changed both fair and rt balancer to mask out non-active cpus.
And replaced cpu_is_offline() with !cpu_active() in the main scheduler
code where it made sense (to me).

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com
Cc: pj@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:22:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9c1be0c471 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: include to compilation
  UBIFS: add new flash file system
  UBIFS: add brief documentation
  MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section
  do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
  VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
  VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes
2008-07-16 15:02:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 59190f4213 Merge branch 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
  generic-ipi: more merge fallout
  generic-ipi: merge fix
  x86, visws: use mach-default/entry_arch.h
  x86, visws: fix generic-ipi build
  generic-ipi: fixlet
  generic-ipi: fix s390 build bug
  generic-ipi: fix linux-next tree build failure
  fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument"
  fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument"
  fix "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument"
  on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
  smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument
  sh: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  parisc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  m32r: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  arm: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  alpha: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  ia64: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  powerpc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
  ...

Fix trivial conflicts due to rcu updates in kernel/rcupdate.c manually
2008-07-15 14:12:03 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1a781a777b Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6c9fcaf2ee Merge branch 'core/rcu' into core/rcu-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:10:12 +02:00
Adrian Hunter 2d62f48858 do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
Similarly to MTD devices, allow UBI devices.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-07-14 19:10:52 +03:00
Dmitry Baryshkov ee7e5516be generic: per-device coherent dma allocator
Currently x86_32, sh and cris-v32 provide per-device coherent dma
memory allocator.

However their implementation is nearly identical. Refactor out
common code to be reused by them.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-30 12:51:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3d44223327 Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls
This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In
addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient
manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single()
for calling a given function on a single CPU only.

The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of
changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has
contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage
and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:21:34 +02:00
Alok Kataria f3f3149f35 x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculation, cleanup
As suggested by Ingo, remove all references to tsc from init/calibrate.c

TSC is x86 specific, and using tsc in variable names in a generic file should
be avoided. lpj_tsc is now called lpj_fine, since it is related to fine tuning
of lpj value. Also tsc_rate_*  is called timer_rate_*

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24 13:53:46 +02:00
Alok Kataria 3da757daf8 x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculation
On the x86 platform we can use the value of tsc_khz computed during tsc
calibration to calculate the loops_per_jiffy value. Its very important
to keep the error in lpj values to minimum as any error in that may
result in kernel panic in check_timer. In virtualization environment, On
a highly overloaded host the guest delay calibration may sometimes
result in errors beyond the ~50% that timer_irq_works can handle,
resulting in the guest panicking.

Does some formating changes to lpj_setup code to now have a single
printk to print the bogomips value.

We do this only for the boot processor because the AP's can have
different base frequencies or the BIOS might boot a AP at a different
frequency.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:51:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 766d02786e Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-06-16 11:23:36 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg 73531905ed Kconfig: introduce ARCH_DEFCONFIG to DEFCONFIG_LIST
init/Kconfig contains a list of configs that are searched
for if 'make *config' are used with no .config present.
Extend this list to look at the config identified by
ARCH_DEFCONFIG.

With this change we now try the defconfig targets last.

This fixes a regression reported
by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-25 23:03:18 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 03de250a26 md: proper extern for mdp_major
This patch adds a proper extern for mdp_major in include/linux/raid/md.h

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:09 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4446a36ff8 rcu: add call_rcu_sched()
Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched().  This is again to
synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu().

Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion.
With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on
the next round.

Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging.

Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in
indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency
against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes.

Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection
to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with
CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages,
as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot.

Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by
Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow
snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a
few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based
on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing
some inline attributes, and some code-style changes.

Known/suspected shortcomings:

o	I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic.  Next step
	will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in
	rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start
	of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it.  And the
	bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of
	rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway.

o	It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke
	resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly,
	but resched_cpu() is declared static...

This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU
implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of
concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask.  I still cannot
remember who reported this...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-19 10:01:36 +02:00
Cyrill Gorcunov a76bfd0da2 initcalls: Fix m68k build and possible buffer overflow
This patch fixes a build bug on m68k - gcc decides to emit a call to the
strlen library function, which we don't implement.

More importantly - my previous patch "init: don't lose initcall return
values" (commit e662e1cfd4) had introduced
potential buffer overflow by wrong calculation of string accumulator
size.

Use strlcat() instead, fixing both bugs.

Many thanks Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven for helping
to catch and fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15 18:20:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e0df154f45 Split up 'do_initcalls()' into two simpler functions
One function to just loop over the entries, one function to actually do
the call and the associated debugging code.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15 18:14:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a442ac512f Clean up 'print_fn_descriptor_symbol()' types
Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what
you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and
ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual
address from there).

So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to
add a cast.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15 17:50:37 -07:00
Kay Sievers 30f2f0eb4b block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.

This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(

Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14 10:37:57 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov e662e1cfd4 init: don't lose initcall return values
There is an ability to lose an initcall return value if it happened with irq
disabled or imbalanced preemption (and if we debug initcall).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:25 -07:00
Rusty Russell 91e37a793b module: don't ignore vermagic string if module doesn't have modversions
Linus found a logic bug: we ignore the version number in a module's
vermagic string if we have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS set, but modversions
also lets through a module with no __versions section for modprobe
--force (with tainting, but still).

We should only ignore the start of the vermagic string if the module
actually *has* crcs to check.  Rather than (say) having an
entertaining hissy fit and creating a config option to work around the
buggy code.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-09 07:45:18 -07:00
Stas Sergeev e5e1d3cb20 pcspkr: fix dependancies
fix pcspkr dependancies: make the pcspkr platform
drivers to depend on a platform device, and
not the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
CC: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
CC: Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>
[fixed for 2.6.26-rc1 by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-05-07 12:42:03 +02:00
Parag Warudkar aac6abca85 sched: default to n for GROUP_SCHED and FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
GROUP_SCHED is confirmed to cause unacceptable latencies, see:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/2/370.

Mark it EXPERIMENTAL and default to no for now.

Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3e51f33fcc sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
this replaces the rq->clock stuff (and possibly cpu_clock()).

 - architectures that have an 'imperfect' hardware clock can set
   CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK

 - the 'jiffie' window might be superfulous when we update tick_gtod
   before the __update_sched_clock() call in sched_clock_tick()

 - cpu_clock() might be implemented as:

     sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id())

   if the accuracy proves good enough - how far can TSC drift in a
   single jiffie when considering the filtering and idle hooks?

[ mingo@elte.hu: various fixes and cleanups ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a5574cf65b sched, x86: add HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
add the HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, for architectures to select.

the next change utilizes it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 826e4506a0 Make forced module loading optional
The kernel module loader used to be much too happy to allow loading of
modules for the wrong kernel version by default.  For example, if you
had MODVERSIONS enabled, but tried to load a module with no version
info, it would happily load it and taint the kernel - whether it was
likely to actually work or not!

Generally, such forced module loading should be considered a really
really bad idea, so make it conditional on a new config option
(MODULE_FORCE_LOAD), and make it default to off.

If somebody really wants to force module loads, that's their problem,
but we should not encourage it.  Especially as it happened to me by
mistake (ie regular unversioned Fedora modules getting loaded) causing
lots of strange behavior.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-04 17:04:16 -07:00
Christoph Lameter f6acb63508 slub: #ifdef simplification
If we make SLUB_DEBUG depend on SYSFS then we can simplify some
#ifdefs and avoid others.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-05-02 00:27:13 +03:00
Thomas Gleixner 3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:

1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects

Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore.  One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.

While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause.  This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.

The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.

Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.

The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash.  Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.

Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.

The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.

The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list

Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation.  When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.

The list of operations can be extended if the need arises.  For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).

The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets.  The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree.  Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.

The debug code can be compiled in without being active.  The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives.  A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.

Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 5cd204550b Deprecate find_task_by_pid()
There are some places that are known to operate on tasks'
global pids only:

* the rest_init() call (called on boot)
* the kgdb's getthread
* the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns)

So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there
and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal.

[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov fae5fa44f1 signals: fix /sbin/init protection from unwanted signals
The global init has a lot of long standing problems with the unhandled fatal
signals.

	- The "is_global_init(current)" check in get_signal_to_deliver()
	  protects only the main thread. Sub-thread can dequee the fatal
	  signal and shutdown the whole thread group except the main thread.
	  If it dequeues SIGSTOP /sbin/init will be stopped, this is not
	  right too. Note that we can't use is_global_init(->group_leader),
	  this breaks exec and this can't solve other problems we have.

	- Even if afterwards ignored, the fatal signals sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
	  on delivery. This breaks exec, has other bad implications, and this
	  is just wrong.

Introduce the new SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag to fix these problems.  It also helps
to solve some other problems addressed by the subsequent patches.

Currently we use this flag for the global init only, but it could also be used
by kthreads and (perhaps) by the sub-namespace inits.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 199f0ca514 idr: create idr_layer_cache at boot time
Avoid a possible kmem_cache_create() failure by creating idr_layer_cache
unconditionary at boot time rather than creating it on-demand when idr_init()
is called the first time.

This change also enables us to eliminate the check every time idr_init() is
called.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename init_id_cache() to idr_init_cache()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:25 -07:00
Holger Schurig 88f458e4b9 sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c
Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB
in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
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>
2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
Balbir Singh cf475ad28a cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct
Remove the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds an owner.

This approach was suggested by Paul Menage.  The advantage of this approach
is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem id, the cgroup
can be determined.  It also allows several control groups that are
virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory
controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller, to
mm_struct.

A new config option CONFIG_MM_OWNER is added and the memory resource
controller selects this config option.

This patch also adds cgroup callbacks to notify subsystems when mm->owner
changes.  The mm_cgroup_changed callback is called with the task_lock() of
the new task held and is called just prior to changing the mm->owner.

I am indebted to Paul Menage for the several reviews of this patchset and
helping me make it lighter and simpler.

This patch was tested on a powerpc box, it was compiled with both the
MM_OWNER config turned on and off.

After the thread group leader exits, it's moved to init_css_state by
cgroup_exit(), thus all future charges from runnings threads would be
redirected to the init_css_set's subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:10 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn 08ce5f16ee cgroups: implement device whitelist
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device
files.  A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup.
 A whitelist entry has 4 fields.  'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block).
'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers.  Major
and minor are either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
(read), w (write), and m (mknod).

The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child devcg gets a copy of
the parent.  Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new
entries.  A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its
parent.  However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not
also be removed from the child(ren).

An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using
devices.deny.  For instance

	echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow

allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
/dev/null.  Doing

	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny

will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new
cgroup.  A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent
has.  Any task can move itself between cgroups.  This won't be sufficient, but
we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
Paul Menage 418d7d875c CGroup API files: make CGROUP_DEBUG default to off
The cgroup debug subsystem isn't generally useful for users.  It should
default to "n".

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Li Zefan" <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "YAMAMOTO Takashi" <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni 3265e66b18 directly use kmalloc() and kfree() in init/initramfs.c
Instead of using the malloc() and free() wrappers needed by the
lib/inflate.c code for allocations, simply use kmalloc() and kfree() in the
initramfs code.  This is needed for a further lib/inflate.c-related cleanup
patch that will remove the malloc() and free() functions.

Take that opportunity to remove the useless kmalloc() return value
cast.

Based on work done by Matt Mackall.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas 626adeb667 Simplify initcall_debug output
print_fn_descriptor_symbol() prints the address if we don't have a symbol, so
no need to print both.

Also, combine printing return value with elapsed time.  Changes this:

  Calling initcall 0xc05b7a70: pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50()
  initcall 0xc05b7a70: pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50() returned 1.
  initcall 0xc05b7a70 ran for 0 msecs: pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50()
  initcall at 0xc05b7a70: pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50(): returned with error code 1

to this:

  calling  pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50()
  initcall pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50() returned 1 after 0 msecs
  initcall pci_mmcfg_late_insert_resources+0x0/0x50() returned with error code 1

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:02 -07:00
Adrian Bunk f17a32e97e let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17
16 kB is often no longer enough for a normal boot of an UP system.

And even less when people e.g. use suspend.

17 seems to be a more reasonable default for current kernels on current
hardware (it's just the default, anyone who is memory limited can still lower
it).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
Harvey Harrison d613c3e2d8 init: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings
init/do_mounts_rd.c:215:13: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
init/do_mounts_md.c:136:45: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 17:29:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e945e849e1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc: video drivers: add facility level
  sparc: tcx.c make tcx_init and tcx_exit static
  sparc: ffb.c make ffb_init and ffb_exit static
  sparc: cg14.c make cg14_init and cg15_exit static
  sparc: bw2.c fix bw2_exit
  sparc64: Fix accidental syscall restart on child return from clone/fork/vfork.
  sparc64: Clean up handling of pt_regs trap type encoding.
  sparc: Remove old style signal frame support.
  sparc64: Kill bogus RT_ALIGNEDSZ macro from signal.c
  sparc: sunzilog.c remove unused argument
  sparc: fix drivers/video/tcx.c warning
  sparc64: Kill unused local ISA bus layer.
  input: Rewrite sparcspkr device probing.
  sparc64: Do not ignore 'pmu' device ranges.
  sparc64: Kill ISA_FLOPPY_WORKS code.
  sparc64: Kill CONFIG_SPARC32_COMPAT
  sparc64: Cleanups and corrections for arch/sparc64/Kconfig
  sparc64: Fix wedged irq regression.
2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00