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* kbuild: m68k,parisc,ppc,ppc64,s390,xtensa use generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg2005-09-09
| | | | | | Delete obsoleted parts form arch makefiles and rename to asm-offsets.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* kbuild: arm26,sparc use generic asm-offset supportSam Ravnborg2005-09-09
| | | | | | Rename all includes to use asm-offsets.h to match generic name Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* kbuild: full dependency check on asm-offsets.hSam Ravnborg2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Building asm-offsets.h has been moved to a seperate Kbuild file located in the top-level directory. This allow us to share the functionality across the architectures. The old rules in architecture specific Makefiles will die in subsequent patches. Furhtermore the usual kbuild dependency tracking is now used when deciding to rebuild asm-offsets.s. So we no longer risk to fail a rebuild caused by asm-offsets.c dependencies being touched. With this common rule-set we now force the same name across all architectures. Following patches will fix the rest. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* [PATCH] Fix 32bit sendmsg() flawAl Viro2005-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we copy 32bit ->msg_control contents to kernel, we walk the same userland data twice without sanity checks on the second pass. Second version of this patch: the original broke with 64-bit arches running 32-bit-compat-mode executables doing sendmsg() syscalls with unaligned CMSG data areas Another thing is that we use kmalloc() to allocate and sock_kfree_s() to free afterwards; less serious, but also needs fixing. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6Len Brown2005-09-08
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| * [PATCH] fix klist semantics for lists which have elements removed on traversalJames Bottomley2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of lists which are being modified. The failure case is when traversal of a list causes element removal (a fairly common case). The issue is that although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers to the prior element to get the next. The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until the list relinquishes the reference to it. (akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * Merge by hand (conflicts in sd.c)James Bottomley2005-09-06
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| | | * [SCSI] unexport scsi_add_timer/scsi_delete_timerChristoph Hellwig2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] switch EH thread startup to the kthread APIChristoph Hellwig2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] embryonic RAID classJames Bottomley2005-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea behind a RAID class is to provide a uniform interface to all RAID subsystems (both hardware and software) in the kernel. To do that, I've made this class a transport class that's entirely subsystem independent (although the matching routines have to match per subsystem, as you'll see looking at the code). I put it in the scsi subdirectory purely because I needed somewhere to play with it, but it's not a scsi specific module. I used a fusion raid card as the test bed for this; with that kind of card, this is the type of class output you get: jejb@titanic> ls -l /sys/class/raid_devices/20\:0\:0\:0/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 16 17:21 component-0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:04.0/host20/target20:1:0/20:1:0:0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 16 17:21 component-1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:04.0/host20/target20:1:1/20:1:1:0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 16 17:21 device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:04.0/host20/target20:0:0/20:0:0:0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Aug 16 17:21 level -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Aug 16 17:21 resync -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Aug 16 17:21 state So it's really simple: for a SCSI device representing a hardware raid, it shows the raid level, the array state, the resync % complete (if the state is resyncing) and the underlying components of the RAID (these are exposed in fusion on the virtual channel 1). As you can see, this type of information can be exported by almost anything, including software raid. The more difficult trick, of course, is going to be getting it to perform configuration type actions with writable attributes. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] correct attribute_container list usageJames Bottomley2005-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the changes in the attribute_container code in the scsi-misc tree was to add a lock to protect the list of devices per container. This, unfortunately, leads to potential scheduling while atomic problems if there's a sleep in the function called by a trigger. The correct solution is to use the kernel klist infrastructure instead which allows lockless traversal of a list. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | [SCSI] convert sd to scsi_execute_req (and update the scsi_execute_req API)James Bottomley2005-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This one removes struct scsi_request entirely from sd. In the process, I noticed we have no callers of scsi_wait_req who don't immediately normalise the sense, so I updated the API to make it take a struct scsi_sense_hdr instead of simply a big sense buffer. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | [SCSI] convert SPI transport class to scsi_executeJames Bottomley2005-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This one's slightly more difficult. The transport class uses REQ_FAILFAST, so another interface (scsi_execute) had to be invented to take the extra flag. Also, the sense functions are shifted around to allow spi_execute to place data directly into a struct scsi_sense_hdr. With this change, there's probably a lot of unnecessary sense buffer allocation going on which we can fix later. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | [SCSI] convert the remaining mid-layer pieces to scsi_execute_reqJames Bottomley2005-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After this, we just have some drivers, all the ULDs and the SPI transport class using scsi_wait_req(). Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | Merge HEAD from ../scsi-misc-2.6-tmp James Bottomley2005-08-28
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| | | * [SCSI] add missing attribute container function prototypeJames Bottomley2005-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | attribute_container_classdev_to_container is an exported function of the attribute_container.c file. However, there's no prototype for it. Now I actually want to use it, so add one. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] correct transport class abstraction to work outside SCSIJames Bottomley2005-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I recently tried to construct a totally generic transport class and found there were certain features missing from the current abstract transport class. Most notable is that you have to hang the data on the class_device but most of the API is framed in terms of the generic device, not the class_device. These changes are two fold - Provide the class_device to all of the setup and configure APIs - Provide and extra API to take the device and the attribute class and return the corresponding class_device Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] add ability to deny binding to SPI transport classJames Bottomley2005-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is necessary if we begin exposing underlying physical disks (which can attach to the SPI transport class) of the hardware RAID cards, since we don't want any SPI parameters binding to the RAID devices. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] add global timeout to the scsi mid-layerJames Bottomley2005-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are certain rogue devices (and the aic7xxx driver) that return BUSY or QUEUE_FULL forever. This code will apply a global timeout (of the total number of retries times the per command timer) to a given command. If it is exceeded, the command is completed regardless of its state. The patch also removes the unused field in the command: timeout and timeout_total. This solves the problem of detecting an endless loop in the mid-layer because of BUSY/QUEUE_FULL bouncing, but will not recover the device. In the aic7xxx case, the driver can be recovered by sending a bus reset, so possibly this should be tied into the error handler? Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] add missing hold_mcs parameter to the spi transport classJames Bottomley2005-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This parameter is important only to people who take the time to tune the margin control settings, otherwise it's completely irrelevant. However, just in case anyone should want to do this, it's appropriate to include the parameter. I don't do anything with it in DV by design, so the parameter will come up as off by default, so if anyone actually wants to play with the margin control settings they'll have to enable it under the spi_transport class first. I also updated the transfer settings display to report all of the PPR settings instead of only DT, IU and QAS Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] add template for scsi_host_set_state()James Bottomley2005-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes up some warnings in the tree. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] host state model update: mediate host add/remove raceMike Anderson2005-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support to not allow additions to a host when it is being removed. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * [SCSI] host state model update: replace old host bitmap stateMike Anderson2005-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Migrate the current SCSI host state model to a model like SCSI device is using. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com> Rejections fixed up and Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | [SCSI] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlersJames Bottomley2005-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Add scsi_execute_req() as a replacement for scsi_wait_req() Fixed up various pieces (added REQ_SPECIAL and caught req use after free) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | fix mismerge in ll_rw_blk.cJames Bottomley2005-08-28
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| | | * | [PATCH] update blk_execute_rq to take an at_head parameterJames Bottomley2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Modified to split out block changes (this patch) and SCSI pieces. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | | * | [PATCH] Add scatter-gather support for the block layer SG_IOJames Bottomley2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | | * | [PATCH] Cleanup blk_rq_map_* interfacesJens Axboe2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the blk_rq_map_user() and blk_rq_map_kern() interface to require a previously allocated request to be passed in. This is both more efficient for multiple iterations of mapping data to the same request, and it is also a much nicer API. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | | * | [PATCH] Add blk_rq_map_kern()Mike Christie2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add blk_rq_map_kern which takes a kernel buffer and maps it into a request and bio. This can be used by the dm hw_handlers, old sg_scsi_ioctl, and one day scsi special requests so all requests comming into scsi will have bios. All requests having bios should allow scsi to use scatter lists for all IO and allow it to use block layer functions. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| * | | | Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * | | | [kernel-doc] fix various DocBook build problems/warningsJeff Garzik2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most serious is fixing include/sound/pcm.h, which breaks the DocBook build. The other stuff is just filling in things that cause warnings.
| * | | | | Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * | | | | [wireless] build fixes after merging WE-19Jeff Garzik2005-09-07
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| | * | | | | [PATCH] WE-19 for kernel 2.6.13Jean Tourrilhes2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi Jeff, This is version 19 of the Wireless Extensions. It was supposed to be the fallback of the WPA API changes, but people seem quite happy about it (especially Jouni), so the patch is rather small. The patch has been fully tested with 2.6.13 and various wireless drivers, and is in its final version. Would you mind pushing that into Linus's kernel so that the driver and the apps can take advantage ot it ? It includes : o iwstat improvement (explicit dBm). This is the result of long discussions with Dan Williams, the authors of NetworkManager. Thanks to him for all the fruitful feedback. o remove pointer from event stream. I was not totally sure if this pointer was 32-64 bits clean, so I'd rather remove it and be at peace with it. o remove linux header from wireless.h. This has long been requested by people writting user space apps, now it's done, and it was not even painful. o final deprecation of spy_offset. You did not like it, it's now gone for good. o Start deprecating dev->get_wireless_stats -> debloat netdev o Add "check" version of event macros for ieee802.11 stack. Jiri Benc doesn't like the current macros, we aim to please ;-) All those changes, except the last one, have been bit-roting on my web pages for a while... Patches for most kernel drivers will follow. Patches for the Orinoco and the HostAP drivers have been sent to their respective maintainers. Have fun... Jean Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| | * | | | | [PATCH] net: add driver for the NIC on Cell BladesJens Osterkamp2005-09-06
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a driver for a new 1000 Mbit ethernet NIC. It is integrated on the south bridge that is used for our Cell Blades. The code gets the MAC address from the Open Firmware device tree, so it won't compile on platforms other than ppc64. This is the first public release, so I don't expect the first version to get merged, but I'd aim for integration within the 2.6.13 time frame. Cc: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * | | | | [SERIAL]: Avoid 'statement with no effect' warnings.David S. Miller2005-09-06
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When SUPPORT_SYSRQ is false, gcc can emit warnings for the uart_handle_sysrq_char() that results. Using an empty inline returning zero kills the warning. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * | | | | [AX25]: Make ax2asc thread-proofRalf Baechle2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ax2asc was still using a static buffer for all invocations which isn't exactly SMP-safe. Change ax2asc to take an additional result buffer as the argument. Change all callers to provide such a buffer. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | | | | [NET]: skb_get/set_timestamp use constStephen Hemminger2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new timestamp get/set routines should have const attribute on parameters (helps to indicate direction). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | | | | [NETFILTER]: kill __ip_ct_expect_unlink_destroyPablo Neira Ayuso2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch kills __ip_ct_expect_unlink_destroy and export unlink_expect as ip_ct_unlink_expect. As it was discussed [1], the function __ip_ct_expect_unlink_destroy is a bit confusing so better do the following sequence: ip_ct_destroy_expect and ip_conntrack_expect_put. [1] https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-August/020794.html Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | | | | [NETFILTER]: Handle NAT module load racePatrick McHardy2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the NAT module is loaded when connections are already confirmed it must not change their tuples anymore. This is especially important with CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG, the netfilter listhelp functions will refuse to remove an entry from a list when it can not be found on the list, so when a changed tuple hashes to a new bucket the entry is kept in the list until and after the conntrack is freed. Allocate the exact conntrack tuple for NAT for already confirmed connections or drop them if that fails. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | | | | [NETFILTER]: Add support for permanent expectationsPatrick McHardy2005-09-06
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A permanent expectation exists until timeing out and can expect multiple related connections. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| | * | | | | [ARM] 2888/1: OMAP 3/4: Update omap include files, take 2Tony Lindgren2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Tony Lindgren This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree. The highlights of the patch are: - Start adding 24xx support by Paul Mundt - Clean-up of cpu detection by Dirk Behme and Tony Lindgren - Add DSP header by Toshihiro Kobayashi - Add support for mtd-xip by Vladimir Barinov - Add various new mux registers - Move OMAP specific serial defines back to serial.h Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | | | | [ARM] 2889/1: S3C2410 - Add machine AnubisBen Dooks2005-09-07
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Ben Dooks Add the Simtec Anubis to the list of supported machines in the arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 directory. This ensures the core peripherals are registered, the timer source is configured and the correct power-management is enabled. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | [PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functionsKeshavamurthy Anil S2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task routine. The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64. To reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions and you should see hang or system crash. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ppc64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the ppc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions genericPrasanna S Panchamukhi2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within the kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes. For example if you put probe on get_kprobe() routines, the system can hang while inserting probes on any routine such as do_fork(). Because while inserting probes on do_fork(), register_kprobes() routine grabs the kprobes spin lock and executes get_kprobe() routine and to handle probe of get_kprobe(), kprobes_handler() gets executed and tries to grab kprobes spin lock, and spins forever. This patch avoids such possible race conditions by preventing probes on routines within the kprobes file and routines used by kprobes. I have modified the patches as per Andi Kleen's suggestion to move kprobes routines and other routines used by kprobes to a seperate section .kprobes.text. Also moved page fault and exception handlers, general protection fault to .kprobes.text section. These patches have been tested on i386, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures, also compiled on ia64 and sparc64 architectures. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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