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* module: explicitly align module_version_attribute structureDmitry Torokhov2011-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We force particular alignment when we generate attribute structures when generation MODULE_VERSION() data and we need to make sure that this alignment is followed when we iterate over these structures, otherwise we may crash on platforms whose natural alignment is not sizeof(void *), such as m68k. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> [ There are more issues here, but the fixes are incredibly ugly - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers2011-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* module: fix linker error for MODULE_VERSION when !MODULE and CONFIG_SYSFS=nRusty Russell2011-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | lib/built-in.o:(__modver+0x8): undefined reference to `__modver_version_show' lib/built-in.o:(__modver+0x2c): undefined reference to `__modver_version_show' Simplest to just not emit anything: if they've disabled SYSFS they probably want the smallest kernel possible. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfsDmitry Torokhov2011-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if built-in, are completely invisible from userspace. This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into x86/securityIngo Molnar2010-12-23
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| * module: Update prototype for ref_module (formerly use_module)Anders Kaseorg2010-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9bea7f23952d5948f8e5dfdff4de09bb9981fb5f renamed use_module to ref_module (and changed its return value), but forgot to update this prototype in module.h. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | x86: Add RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modulesmatthieu castet2010-11-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is a logical extension of the protection provided by CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to LKMs. The protection is provided by splitting module_core and module_init into three logical parts each and setting appropriate page access permissions for each individual section: 1. Code: RO+X 2. RO data: RO+NX 3. RW data: RW+NX In order to achieve proper protection, layout_sections() have been modified to align each of the three parts mentioned above onto page boundary. Next, the corresponding page access permissions are set right before successful exit from load_module(). Further, free_module() and sys_init_module have been modified to set module_core and module_init as RW+NX right before calling module_free(). By default, the original section layout and access flags are preserved. When compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX=y, the patch will page-align each group of sections to ensure that each page contains only one type of content and will enforce RO/NX for each group of pages. -v1: Initial proof-of-concept patch. -v2: The patch have been re-written to reduce the number of #ifdefs and to make it architecture-agnostic. Code formatting has also been corrected. -v3: Opportunistic RO/NX protection is now unconditional. Section page-alignment is enabled when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y. -v4: Removed most macros and improved coding style. -v5: Changed page-alignment and RO/NX section size calculation -v6: Fixed comments. Restricted RO/NX enforcement to x86 only -v7: Introduced CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, added calls to set_all_modules_text_rw() and set_all_modules_text_ro() in ftrace -v8: updated for compatibility with linux 2.6.33-rc5 -v9: coding style fixes -v10: more coding style fixes -v11: minor adjustments for -tip -v12: minor adjustments for v2.6.35-rc2-tip -v13: minor adjustments for v2.6.37-rc1-tip Signed-off-by: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4CE2F914.9070106@free.fr> [ minor cleanliness edits, -v14: build failure fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2010-10-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/module.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption raceLinus Torvalds2010-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it possible to do most of the module loading in parallel. However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific "module_finalize()" rather than from generic code. Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the module loading lock any more. So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations are now safe. Future fixups: - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it belongs. - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain for other reasons. Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | jump label: Base patch for jump labelJason Baron2010-09-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* module: Make module sysfs functions private.Rusty Russell2010-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | These were placed in the header in ef665c1a06 to get the various SYSFS/MODULE config combintations to compile. That may have been necessary then, but it's not now. These functions are all local to module.c. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
* module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.Rusty Russell2010-06-04
| | | | | | | | | Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
* module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-wayLinus Torvalds2010-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could see who needs a module. It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are "used by me". In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are used by that module. But because we didn't have that list, we used to first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me" list of that module. By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it allows for some trivial fixes later too. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
* Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2010-04-08
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: include/linux/module.h kernel/module.c Semantic conflict: include/trace/events/module.h Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up possibly racy module refcounting") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Fix up possibly racy module refcountingNick Piggin2010-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed. However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may be taken by one CPU and released by another. Reference count summation may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment, leading to lower than expected count. A module which never has its actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to this race. Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules. However there are other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine. Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements. The increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will always have its corresponding increment counted. The final refcount is the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a low-refcount from being returned. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * module: add stub for is_module_percpu_addressRandy Dunlap2010-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix build for CONFIG_MODULES not enabled by providing a stub for is_module_percpu_address(). kernel/lockdep.c:605: error: implicit declaration of function 'is_module_percpu_address' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()Tejun Heo2010-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lockdep has custom code to check whether a pointer belongs to static percpu area which is somewhat broken. Implement proper is_kernel/module_percpu_address() and replace the custom code. On UP, percpu variables are regular static variables and can't be distinguished from them. Always return %false on UP. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
| * module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_sizeTejun Heo2010-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Better encapsulate module static percpu area handling so that code outsidef of CONFIG_SMP ifdef doesn't deal with mod->percpu directly and add mod->percpu_size and record percpu_size in it. Both percpu fields are compiled out on UP. While at it, mark mod->percpu w/ __percpu. This is to prepare for is_module_percpu_address(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | tracing: Remove side effect from module tracepoints that caused a GPFLi Zefan2010-03-31
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the @refcnt argument, because it has side-effects, and arguments with side-effects are not skipped by the jump over disabled instrumentation and are executed even when the tracepoint is disabled. This was also causing a GPF as found by Randy Dunlap: Subject: 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing LKML-Reference: <4BA2B69D.3000309@oracle.com> Note, the current 2.6.34-rc has a fix for the actual cause of the GPF, but this fixes one of its triggers. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA7.6040406@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* sysctl extern cleanup: moduleDave Young2010-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystemsTejun Heo2010-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.cChristoph Lameter2010-01-05
| | | | | | | | | ringbuffer*.c are the last users of local.h. Remove the include from modules.h and add it to ringbuffer files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate countersChristoph Lameter2010-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use cpu ops to deal with the per cpu data instead of a local_t. Reduces memory requirements, cache footprint and decreases cycle counts. The this_cpu_xx operations are also used for !SMP mode. Otherwise we could not drop the use of __module_ref_addr() which would make per cpu data handling complicated. this_cpu_xx operations have their own fallback for !SMP. V8-V9: - Leave include asm/module.h since ringbuffer.c depends on it. Nothing else does though. Another patch will deal with that. - Remove spurious free. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG optionAlan Jenkins2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in .tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code. This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c. A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs, showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key" symbol in the kallsyms data). Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin) CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHORJohannes Berg2009-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here disagrees. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich2009-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not referenced at all for whatever reason). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich2009-09-24
| | | | | | | | Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute, section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* tracing: Remove markersChristoph Hellwig2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/events: Add module tracepointsLi Zefan2009-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add trace points to trace module_load, module_free, module_get, module_put and module_request, and use trace_event facility to get the trace output. Here's the sample output: TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION | | | | | <...>-42 [000] 1.758380: module_request: fb0 wait=1 call_site=fb_open ... <...>-60 [000] 3.269403: module_load: scsi_wait_scan <...>-60 [000] 3.269432: module_put: scsi_wait_scan call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0 <...>-61 [001] 3.273168: module_free: scsi_wait_scan ... <...>-1021 [000] 13.836081: module_load: sunrpc <...>-1021 [000] 13.840589: module_put: sunrpc call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=-1 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848098: module_get: sunrpc call_site=try_module_get refcnt=0 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848308: module_get: sunrpc call_site=get_filesystem refcnt=1 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848692: module_put: sunrpc call_site=put_filesystem refcnt=0 ... modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437213: module_load: trace_events_sample F modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437786: module_put: trace_events_sample call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0 Note: - the taints flag can be 'F', 'C' and/or 'P' if mod->taints != 0 - the module refcnt is percpu, so it can be negative in a specific cpu Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <4A891B3C.5030608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kernel: constructor supportPeter Oberparleiter2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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>
* headers: move module_bug_finalize()/module_bug_cleanup() definitions into ↵Andrew Morton2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module.h They're in linux/bug.h at present, which causes include order tangles. In particular, linux/bug.h cannot be used by linux/atomic.h because, according to Nikanth: linux/bug.h pulls in linux/module.h => linux/spinlock.h => asm/spinlock.h (which uses atomic_inc) => asm/atomic.h. bug.h is a pretty low-level thing and module.h is a higher-level thing, IMO. Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* module: trim exception table on init free.Rusty Russell2009-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries which point into the (freed) init text of modules. These could cause future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup. The only case I know of is kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n). Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this patch is more general. This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they use the standard lib/extable.c sort code. Alpha and IA64 use relative addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation. Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE, yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib. It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of actually trimming them. Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
* ftrace: use module notifier for function tracerSteven Rostedt2009-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF. To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented the hooks as calls directly from the module code. After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes the use of the notify safe with ftrace. Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify any code. This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex. [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENTSteven Rostedt2009-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system. It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a module is removed. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
| * tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of ↵Frederic Weisbecker2009-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trace_bprintk() Impact: faster and lighter tracing Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(), which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries. Some changes result of this: - Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c - changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries. - change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for developers. - etc... V2: - Rebase against last changes - Fix mispell on the changelog V3: - Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing: add trace_bprintk()Lai Jiangshan2009-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk() trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if !CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | module: Export symbols needed for KspliceTim Abbott2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Expose some module.c symbols Ksplice uses several functions from module.c in order to resolve symbols and implement dependency handling. Calling these functions requires holding module_mutex, so it is exported. (This is just the module part of a bigger add-exports patch from Tim). Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbolsAnders Kaseorg2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: New API kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds. Ksplice needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly resolve local symbols. kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the kallsyms table. Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | module: remove module_text_address()Rusty Russell2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Replace and remove risky (non-EXPORTed) API module_text_address() returns a pointer to the module, which given locking improvements in module.c, is useless except to test for NULL: 1) If the module can't go away, use __module_text_address. 2) Otherwise, just use is_module_text_address(). Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | module: __module_addressRusty Russell2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: New API, cleanup ksplice wants to know the bounds of a module, not just the module text. It makes sense to have __module_address. We then implement is_module_address and __module_text_address in terms of this (and change is_module_text_address() to bool while we're at it). Also, add proper kerneldoc for them all. Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | param: fix charp parameters set via sysfsRusty Russell2009-03-30
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem. So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module unload. (Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes) Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: remove over-zealous check in __module_get()Rusty Russell2009-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix spurious BUG_ON() triggered under load module_refcount() isn't reliable outside stop_machine(), as demonstrated by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>, networking can trigger it under load (an inc on one cpu and dec on another while module_refcount() is tallying can give false results, for example). Almost noone should be using __module_get, but that's another issue. Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* modules: Use a better scheme for refcountingEric Dumazet2009-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is using a lot of memory. Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines. This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() & percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage. Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes. On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module) Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* module: add within_module_core() and within_module_init()Masami Hiramatsu2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This series of patches allows kprobes to probe module's __init and __exit functions. This means, you can probe driver initialization and terminating. Currently, kprobes can't probe __init function because these functions are freed after module initialization. And it also can't probe module __exit functions because kprobe increments reference count of target module and user can't unload it. this means __exit functions never be called unless removing probes from the module. To solve both cases, this series of patches introduces GONE flag and sets it when the target code is freed(for this purpose, kprobes hooks MODULE_STATE_* events). This also removes refcount incrementing for allowing user to unload target module. Users can check which probes are GONE by debugfs interface. For taking timing of freeing module's .init text, these also include a patch which adds module's notifier of MODULE_STATE_LIVE event. This patch: Add within_module_core() and within_module_init() for checking whether an address is in the module .init.text section or .text section, and replace within() local inline functions in kernel/module.c with them. kprobes uses these functions to check where the kprobe is inserted. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove remaining unwinder codeAlexey Dobriyan2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* param: Fix duplicate module prefixesRusty Russell2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of insisting each new module_param sysfs entry is unique, handle the case where it already exists (for builtin modules). The current code assumes that all identical prefixes are together in the section: true for normal uses, but not necessarily so if someone overrides MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX. More importantly, it's not true with the new "core_param()" code which uses "kernel" as a prefix. This simplifies the caller for the builtin case, at a slight loss of efficiency (we do the lookup every time to see if the directory exists). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtimeRusty Russell2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at runtime. Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not clear that truncating names is a good idea either. So let's check at compile time. We need to move the #define to moduleparam.h to do this, though. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: simplify load_module.Rusty Russell2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | Linus' recent catch of stack overflow in load_module lead me to look at the code. A couple of helpers to get a section address and get objects from a section can help clean things up a little. (And in case you're wondering, the stack size also dropped from 328 to 284 bytes). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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