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* Merge branch 'proc' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc * 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits) proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c ...
| * proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.cAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-23
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* | Remove stop_machine during module load v2Andi Kleen2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove stop_machine during module load v2 module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert the module into the global module lists. Especially on larger systems this can be quite expensive. It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers like kallsyms. I don't think stop_machine() is actually needed to insert something into a list though. There are no concurrent writers because the module mutex is taken. And the RCU list functions know how to insert a node into a list with the right memory ordering so that concurrent readers don't go off into the wood. So remove the stop_machine for the module list insert and just do a list_add_rcu() instead. Module removal will still do a stop_machine of course, it needs that for other reasons. v2: Revised readers based on Paul's comments. All readers that only rely on disabled preemption need to be changed to list_for_each_rcu(). Done that. The others are ok because they have the modules mutex. Also added a possible missing preempt disable for print_modules(). [cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.] Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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>
* Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-20
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
| * ftrace: remove old pointers to mcountSteven Rostedt2008-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed via removing a module, the pointers still exist. At modifying the code a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what it is expected to be before being replaced. There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module. Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with __init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * ftrace: enable mcount recording for modulesSteven Rostedt2008-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and changing all the callers of mcount into nops. The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing: Kernel TracepointsMathieu Desnoyers2008-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-10-17
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits) staging: at76_usb wireless driver Staging: workaround build system bug Staging: Lindent sxg.c Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes Staging: go7007 v4l fixes Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg Staging: add echo cancelation module Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver Staging: add w35und wifi driver Staging: USB/IP: add host driver Staging: USB/IP: add client driver Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed Staging: add the go7007 video driver Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver Staging: add me4000 firmware files Staging: add sxg network driver Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver ... Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
| * | Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging codeGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-10
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/ directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good as they are normally used to. Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell enterprise kernel release. This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a follow-up patch. Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-10-16
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits) UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const platform: add new device registration helper sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait() PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add() debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function sysfs: fix deadlock device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs(). Driver core: Clarify device cleanup. ...
| * | driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messagesJason Baron2008-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages. I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file, currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set. The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis. Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define their own debug levels and flags. Usage: Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows: <module_name> <enabled=0/1> . . . <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not For example: snd_hda_intel enabled=0 fixup enabled=1 driver enabled=0 Enable a module: $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable a module: $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Enable all modules: $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable all modules: $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above disable command. [gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | modules: fix module "notes" kobject leakAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-16
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix "notes" kobject leak It happens every rmmod if KALLSYMS=y and SYSFS=y. # modprobe foo kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'module', set: 'module' kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'notes' (ffff88017fa9b668): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' ^^^^^ # rmmod foo kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): calling ktype release kobject: (ffff88017e7c5770): dynamic_kobj_release kobject: 'holders': free name kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup 'remove' event kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'foo': free name [whooops] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* / Make the taint flags reliableAndi Kleen2008-10-16
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion. Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit operations on it. Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it anymore. It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit (since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [module] Don't let gcc inline load_module()Linus Torvalds2008-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'load_module()' is a complex function that contains all the ELF section logic, and inlining it is utterly insane. But gcc will do it, simply because there is only one call-site. As a result, all the stack space that is allocated for all the work to load the module will still be active when we actually call the module init sequence, and the deep call chain makes stack overflows happen. And stack overflows are really hard to debug, because they not only corrupt random pages below the stack, but also corrupt the thread_info structure that is allocated under the stack. In this case, Alan Brunelle reported some crazy oopses at bootup, after loading the processor module that ends up doing complex ACPI stuff and has quite a deep callchain. This should fix it, and is the sane thing to do regardless. Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loaderArjan van de Ven2008-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run()Rusty Russell2008-07-27
| | | | Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: fix build warning with !CONFIG_KALLSYMSWANG Cong2008-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixed the warning: CC kernel/module.o /home/wangcong/Projects/linux-2.6/kernel/module.c:332: warning: ‘lookup_symbol’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a moduleRusty Russell2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in order to speed up module_text_address(). Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines: Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded that this is a tad too slow. This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address, so that's 1024 slots. 1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot of list walking. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: turn longs into ints for module sizesDenys Vlasenko2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This shrinks module.o and each *.ko file. And finally, structure members which hold length of module code (four such members there) and count of symbols are converted from longs to ints. We cannot possibly have a module where 32 bits won't be enough to hold such counts. For one, module loading checks module size for sanity before loading, so such insanely big module will fail that test first. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefsDenys Vlasenko2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* module: generic each_symbol iterator functionRusty Russell2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an each_symbol() iterator to avoid duplicating the knowledge about the 5 different sections containing symbols. Currently only used by find_symbol(), but will be used by symbol_put_addr() too. (Includes NULL ptr deref fix by Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmodRusty Russell2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | rmmod has a little-used "-w" option, meaning that instead of failing if the module is in use, it should block until the module becomes unused. In this case, we don't need to use stop_machine: Max Krasnyansky indicated that would be useful for SystemTap which loads/unloads new modules frequently. Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* modules: proper cleanup of kobject without CONFIG_SYSFSDenis V. Lunev2008-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kobject: '<NULL>' (ffffffffa0104050): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /home/den/src/linux-netns26/lib/kobject.c:583 kobject_put+0x53/0x55() Modules linked in: ipv6 nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc exportfs ide_cd_mod cdrom button [last unloaded: pktgen] comm: rmmod Tainted: G W 2.6.26-rc3 #585 Call Trace: [<ffffffff802359ab>] warn_on_slowpath+0x58/0x7a [<ffffffff80236aca>] ? printk+0x67/0x69 [<ffffffff80236aca>] ? printk+0x67/0x69 [<ffffffff80324289>] kobject_put+0x53/0x55 [<ffffffff8025e2ee>] free_module+0x87/0xfa [<ffffffff8025fee5>] sys_delete_module+0x178/0x1e1 [<ffffffff804b1e70>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67 [<ffffffff804b1dff>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a [<ffffffff8020c0bb>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 ---[ end trace 8f5aafa7f6406cf8 ]--- mod->mkobj.kobj is not initialized without CONFIG_SYSFS. Do not call kobject_put in this case. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module loading ELF handling: use SELFMAG instead of numeric constantCyrill Gorcunov2008-05-22
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: don't ignore vermagic string if module doesn't have modversionsRusty Russell2008-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* module: be more picky about allowing missing module versionsRusty Russell2008-05-09
| | | | | | | | | We allow missing __versions sections, because modprobe --force strips it. It makes less sense to allow sections where there's no version for a specific symbol the module uses, so disallow that. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Make forced module loading optionalLinus Torvalds2008-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* module: add MODULE_STATE_GOING notifier callPeter Oberparleiter2008-05-01
| | | | | | | | Provide module unload callback. Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure to keep track of profiling data structures. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: Enhance verify_export_symbolsRusty Russell2008-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Make verify_export_symbols check the modules unused, unused_gpl and gpl_future syms. Inspired by Jan Beulich's fix, but table-driven. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: set unused_gpl_crcs instead of overwriting unused_crcsRusty Russell2008-05-01
| | | | | | | | Obvious typo, but I don't know of any modules with unused GPL exports, and then it would take someone noticing that the version shouldn't have matched in a dependent module. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: neaten __find_symbol, rename to find_symbolRusty Russell2008-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | __find_symbol() has grown over time: there are now 5 different arrays of symbols it traverses. It also shouldn't print out a warning on some calls (ie. verify_symbol which simply checks for name clashes, and __symbol_put which checks for bugs). 1) Rename to find_symbol: no need for underscores. 2) Use bool and add "warn" parameter to suppress warnings. 3) Make table-driven rather than open coded. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: reduce module image and resident sizeRusty Russell2008-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | Resulting reduction (x86-64, gcc 4.1.2) with my (special purpose, i.e. much reduced) configurations: - 16k kernel resident size - 180k module resident size - 10k module image size Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: make module_sect_attrs private to kernel/module.cRusty Russell2008-05-01
| | | | | | | No-one else is using these afaics. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* kernel: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox2008-04-18
| | | | | | | None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hookAlexey Dobriyan2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Return value convention of module's init functions is 0/-E. Sometimes, e.g. during forward-porting mistakes happen and buggy module created, where result of comparison "workqueue != NULL" is propagated all the way up to sys_init_module. What happens is that some other module created workqueue in question, our module created it again and module was successfully loaded. Or it could be some other bug. Let's make such mistakes much more visible. In retrospective, such messages would noticeably shorten some of my head-scratching sessions. Note, that dump_stack() is just a way to get attention from user. Sample message: sys_init_module: 'foo'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention sys_init_module: loading module anyway... Pid: 4223, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.24-25f666300625d894ebe04bac2b4b3aadb907c861 #5 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80254b05>] sys_init_module+0xe5/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8020b39b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@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>
* modules: fix module waiting for dependent modules' initRusty Russell2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit c9a3ba55 (module: wait for dependent modules doing init.) didn't quite work because the waiter holds the module lock, meaning that the state of the module it's waiting for cannot change. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to update the state outside the lock and do the wakeup. Thanks to Jan Glauber for tracking this down and testing (qdio and qeth). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbolsPavel Roskin2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its access to GPL-only symbols. Revert that change and add comments about the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special way. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* modules: do not try to add sysfs attributes if !CONFIG_SYSFSKay Sievers2008-02-21
| | | | | | | | | Thanks to Alexey for the testing and the fix of the fix. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Linux Kernel Markers: support multiple probesMathieu Desnoyers2008-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RCU style multiple probes support for the Linux Kernel Markers. Common case (one probe) is still fast and does not require dynamic allocation or a supplementary pointer dereference on the fast path. - Move preempt disable from the marker site to the callback. Since we now have an internal callback, move the preempt disable/enable to the callback instead of the marker site. Since the callback change is done asynchronously (passing from a handler that supports arguments to a handler that does not setup the arguments is no arguments are passed), we can safely update it even if it is outside the preempt disable section. - Move probe arm to probe connection. Now, a connected probe is automatically armed. Remove MARK_MAX_FORMAT_LEN, unused. This patch modifies the Linux Kernel Markers API : it removes the probe "arm/disarm" and changes the probe function prototype : it now expects a va_list * instead of a "...". If we want to have more than one probe connected to a marker at a given time (LTTng, or blktrace, ssytemtap) then we need this patch. Without it, connecting a second probe handler to a marker will fail. It allow us, for instance, to do interesting combinations : Do standard tracing with LTTng and, eventually, to compute statistics with SystemTAP, or to have a special trigger on an event that would call a systemtap script which would stop flight recorder tracing. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix "modules: make module_address_lookup() safe"Andrew Morton2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | Get the constness right, avoid nasty cast. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> 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>
* modules: include sections.h to avoid defining linker variables explicitlyChristoph Lameter2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | module.c should not define linker variables on its own. We have an include file for that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
* Modules: handle symbols that have a zero valueChristoph Lameter2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The module subsystem cannot handle symbols that are zero. If symbols are present that have a zero value then the module resolver prints out a message that these symbols are unresolved. [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: fix __find_symbl() error checks] Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 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>
* x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixupMike Travis2008-01-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same nameGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | When trying to load a module with the same name as a built-in one, a scary kobject backtrace comes up. Prevent that from checking for this condition and warning the user as to what exactly is going on. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: add module taint on ndiswrapperJon Masters2008-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | The struct module taints member is supposed to store per-module taint data. The kernel knows about certain specific external modules that will taint the kernel, such as ndiswrapper. Use of ndiswrapper possibly should set the per-module taint in addition to the global kernel taint flag, unless we're arguing not because wrapper module itself is not what actually causes the kernel to be tainted as such? Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: make module_address_lookup safeRusty Russell2008-01-29
| | | | | | | | module_address_lookup releases preemption then returns a pointer into the module space. The only user (kallsyms) copies the result, so just do that under the preempt disable. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: better OOPS and lockdep coverage for loading modulesRusty Russell2008-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | If we put the module in the linked list *before* calling into to, we get the module name and functions in the OOPS (is_module_address can find the module). It also helps lockdep in a similar way. Acked-and-tested-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> Tested-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: Fix gratuitous sprintf in module.cRusty Russell2008-01-29
| | | | | | | Andrew sent an older version of this patch: we shouldn't use sprintf to copy a string. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module: wait for dependent modules doing init.Rusty Russell2008-01-29
| | | | | | | | | There have been reports of modules failing to load because the modules they depend on are still loading. This changes the modules to wait for a reasonable length of time in that case. We time out eventually, because there can be module loops or broken modules. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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