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2010-07-04module: initialize module dynamic debug laterYehuda Sadeh
We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-05module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c"Rusty Russell
Problem: it's hard to avoid an init routine stumbling over a request_module these days. And it's not clear it's always a bad idea: for example, a module like kvm with dynamic dependencies on kvm-intel or kvm-amd would be neater if it could simply request_module the right one. In this particular case, it's libcrc32c: libcrc32c_mod_init crypto_alloc_shash crypto_alloc_tfm crypto_find_alg crypto_alg_mod_lookup crypto_larval_lookup request_module If another module is waiting inside resolve_symbol() for libcrc32c to finish initializing (ie. bne2 depends on libcrc32c) then it does so holding the module lock, and our request_module() can't make progress until that is released. Waiting inside resolve_symbol() without the lock isn't all that hard: we just need to pass the -EBUSY up the call chain so we can sleep where we don't hold the lock. Error reporting is a bit trickier: we need to copy the name of the unfinished module before releasing the lock. Other notes: 1) This also fixes a theoretical issue where a weak dependency would allow symbol version mismatches to be ignored. 2) We rename use_module to ref_module to make life easier for the only external user (the out-of-tree ksplice patches). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tim Abbot <tabbott@ksplice.com> Tested-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
2010-06-05module: verify_export_symbols under the lockRusty Russell
It disabled preempt so it was "safe", but nothing stops another module slipping in before this module is added to the global list now we don't hold the lock the whole time. So we check this just after we check for duplicate modules, and just before we put the module in the global list. (find_symbol finds symbols in coming and going modules, too). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05module: move find_module check to endLinus Torvalds
I think Rusty may have made the lock a bit _too_ finegrained there, and didn't add it to some places that needed it. It looks, for example, like PATCH 1/2 actually drops the lock in places where it's needed ("find_module()" is documented to need it, but now load_module() didn't hold it at all when it did the find_module()). Rather than adding a new "module_loading" list, I think we should be able to just use the existing "modules" list, and just fix up the locking a bit. In fact, maybe we could just move the "look up existing module" a bit later - optimistically assuming that the module doesn't exist, and then just undoing the work if it turns out that we were wrong, just before adding ourselves to the list. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05module: make locking more fine-grained.Rusty Russell
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> reports that we still have some contention over module loading which is slowing boot. Linus also disliked a previous "drop lock and regrab" patch to fix the bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" message. This is more ambitious: we only grab the lock where we need it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-05module: Make module sysfs functions private.Rusty Russell
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>
2010-06-05module: move sysfs exposure to end of load_moduleRusty Russell
This means a little extra work, but is more logical: we don't put anything in sysfs until we're about to put the module into the global list an parse its parameters. This also gives us a logical place to put duplicate module detection in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.Rusty Russell
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>
2010-06-05module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-wayLinus Torvalds
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)
2010-06-01Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits) kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts gconfig: remove show_debug option gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype() kconfig: fix zconfdump() kconfig: some small fixes add random binaries to .gitignore kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files headerdep: perlcritic warning scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope" kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin headers_install: use local file handles headers_check: fix perl warnings export_report: fix perl warnings ...
2010-05-31module: fix reference to mod->percpu after freeing module.Rusty Russell
Rafael sees a sometimes crash at precpu_modfree from kernel/module.c; it only occurred with another (since-reverted) patch, but that patch simply changed timing to uncover this bug, it was otherwise unrelated. The comment about the mod being freed is self-explanatory, but neither Tejun nor I read it. This bug was introduced in 259354deaa, after it had previously been fixed in 6e2b75740b. How embarrassing. Reported-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Embarrassingly-Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25Revert "module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete ↵Linus Torvalds
initialization." This reverts commit 480b02df3aa9f07d1c7df0cd8be7a5ca73893455, since Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in load_module(). Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is definitely not the right thing to do. That just turns the mutex from a lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually protect what it's supposed to protect. Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25module: remove duplicate declaration of __ksymtab_gpl_futureWenji Huang
Minor cleanup on duplicate __{start/stop}__ksymtab_gpl_future. Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'modules' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization. MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing hisax_fcpcipnp: fix broken isapnp device table. isapnp: move definitions to mod_devicetable.h so file2alias can reach them.
2010-05-21Merge branch 'kdb-merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: (25 commits) kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notification MAINTAINERS: update kgdb, kdb, and debug_core info debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entry printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell kgdboc,kdb: Allow kdb to work on a non open console port kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a tasklet mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace powerpc,kgdb: Introduce low level trap catching x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hook kgdb: remove post_primary_code references kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough sparc,sunzilog: Add console polling support for sunzilog serial driver sh,sh-sci: Use NO_POLL_CHAR in the SCIF polled console code kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll kgdb: core changes to support kdb kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2) kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2) kgdb,blackfin: Add in kgdb_arch_set_pc for blackfin ...
2010-05-21sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacksChris Wright
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data (such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-20kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)Jason Wessel
This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc... CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-19module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.Rusty Russell
This fixes "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c." which happened at boot time due to multiple parallel module loads. The problem was a deadlock: we wait for a module to finish initializing, but we keep the module_lock mutex so it can't complete. In particular, this could reasonably happen if a module does a request_module() in its initialization routine. So we change use_module() to return an errno rather than a bool, and if it's -EBUSY we drop the lock and wait in the caller, then reaquire the lock. Reported-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits) stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback() sched, wait: Use wrapper functions sched: Remove a stale comment ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us() sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats() sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us() sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us() cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() ...
2010-05-06stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stopTejun Heo
Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop. As cpu stoppers are guaranteed to be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed. With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the new implementation is much simpler. Asking the cpu_stop to execute the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug disabled is enough. stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are removed. The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very large machines. According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very large machines. cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online cpus and should have the same effect. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
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>
2010-04-05Fix up possibly racy module refcountingNick Piggin
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>
2010-03-31tracing: Fix compile error in module tracepoints when MODULE_UNLOAD not setSteven Rostedt
If modules are configured in the build but unloading of modules is not, then the refcnt is not defined. Place the get/put module tracepoints under CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD since it references this field in the module structure. As a side-effect, this patch also reduces the code when MODULE_UNLOAD is not set, because these unused tracepoints are not created. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-31tracing: Remove side effect from module tracepoints that caused a GPFLi Zefan
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>
2010-03-29percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()Tejun Heo
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>
2010-03-29module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_sizeTejun Heo
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>
2010-03-07sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on module dynamic attributesEric W. Biederman
A little more whack-a-mole annotating the dynamic sysfs attributes. I had everything built into my earlier test kernel, and so I missed these. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-03Rename .data[.percpu][.XXX] to .data[..percpu][..XXX].Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-02-02Merge branch 'master' into percpuTejun Heo
2010-01-06modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notesBen Hutchings
Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs(). This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong names or with null name pointers. Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs() and add_notes_attrs(). Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-05module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate countersChristoph Lameter
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>
2009-12-17Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object() kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-15module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=yRusty Russell
powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols, but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the relocation is often 0. http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-12-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c
2009-12-02modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfsHelge Deller
On the parisc architecture we face for each and every loaded kernel module this kernel "badness warning": sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ac97_bus/sections/.text' Badness at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487 Reason for that is, that on parisc all kernel modules do have multiple .text sections due to the usage of the -ffunction-sections compiler flag which is needed to reach all jump targets on this platform. An objdump on such a kernel module gives: Sections: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn 0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA 1 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**0 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 2 .text.ac97_bus_match 0000001c 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 3 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000d4 2**0 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE ... Since the .text sections are empty (size of 0 bytes) and won't be loaded by the kernel module loader anyway, I don't see a reason why such sections need to be listed under /sys/module/<module_name>/sections/<section_name> either. The attached patch does solve this issue by not exporting section names which are empty. This fixes bugzilla http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14703 Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com CC: roland@redhat.com CC: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-28kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modulesCatalin Marinas
This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it leads to false positives. Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototypeCatalin Marinas
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-10-02percpu: kill legacy percpu allocatorTejun Heo
With ia64 converted, there's no arch left which still uses legacy percpu allocator. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Delightedly-acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build.Paul Mundt
Starting from commit 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a "reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)", the kernel/module.c build is broken with CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled. CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c:1995: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'Elf_Hdr' kernel/module.c:1995: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token kernel/module.c: In function 'load_module': kernel/module.c:2203: error: 'strmap' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2203: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/module.c:2203: error: for each function it appears in.) kernel/module.c:2239: error: 'symoffs' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2239: error: implicit declaration of function 'layout_symtab' kernel/module.c:2240: error: 'stroffs' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2 There are three different issues: - layout_symtab() takes a const Elf_Ehdr - layout_symtab() needs to return a value - symoffs/stroffs/strmap are referenced by the load_module() code despite being ifdefed out, which seems unnecessary given the noop behaviour of layout_symtab()/add_kallsyms() in the case of CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.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>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout() tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open() tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write() tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-25module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.Rusty Russell
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent (CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept that assumption. All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc(). Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-09-25module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocatedRusty Russell
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in load_module). (This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too). Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2009-09-25module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
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>
2009-09-25module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
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>
2009-09-23modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()Ingo Molnar
Linus reported this new build warning: kernel/module.c:2951: warning: ?struct marker? declared inside parameter list kernel/module.c:2951: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want Caused by: fc53776: tracing: Remove markers module_layout() is an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols listed in its argument list so that it gets a proper argument types signature that modversions can pick up to decide whether a module is version-compatible or not. If these dont match then we wont even look at a module. Remove the stale marker symbol. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909210908020.4950@localhost.localdomain> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-22nommu: add support for Memory Protection Units (MPU)Bernd Schmidt
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the "simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory protection. In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel. There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload) however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design time. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-18tracing: Remove markersChristoph Hellwig
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>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits) powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas() vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() percpu: add chunk->base_addr percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[] percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page percpu: improve boot messages percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking ... Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-06Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28modules: Fix build error in the !CONFIG_KALLSYMS caseIngo Molnar
> James Bottomley (1): > module: workaround duplicate section names -tip testing found that this patch breaks the build on x86 if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled: kernel/module.c: In function ‘load_module’: kernel/module.c:2367: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘sect_attrs’ distcc[8269] ERROR: compile kernel/module.c on ph/32 failed make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Commit 1b364bf misses the fact that section attributes are only built and dealt with if kallsyms is enabled. The patch below fixes this. ( note, technically speaking this should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS as well but this patch is correct too and keeps the #ifdef less intrusive - in the KALLSYMS && !SYSFS case the code is a NOP. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [ Replaced patch with a slightly cleaner variation by James Bottomley ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>