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Bernhard Kaindl f212ec4b7b x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new
early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch()
to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and
enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems
like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early.

If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot
paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that,
all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled
in standard, non-debug kernels.

With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information
from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk
buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers,
if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical
RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the
CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter.

In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote
a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows
to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire.

An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data
from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger,
without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the
task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA
access is granted.

A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
and I've put a copy online at
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it
another copy of it is online at:
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff

Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:11 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 6dab27784b x86: add a simple backtrace test module
During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful
to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace.
Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful
to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even
detect such bugs earlier..

[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d50efc6c40 x86: fix UML and -regparm=3
introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions
implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters
calling convention.

mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:00 +01:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 8c1c935642 x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot
Here is a quick and naive smoke test for kprobes. This is intended to
just verify if some unrelated change broke the *probes subsystem. It is
self contained, architecture agnostic and isn't of any great use by itself.

This needs to be built in the kernel and runs a basic set of tests to
verify if kprobes, jprobes and kretprobes run fine on the kernel. In case
of an error, it'll print out a message with a "BUG" prefix.

This is a start; we intend to add more tests to this bucket over time.

Thanks to Jim Keniston and Masami Hiramatsu for comments and suggestions.

Tested on x86 (32/64) and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30 13:32:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 0ba6c33bcd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25: (1470 commits)
  [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix double free on label deletion.
  [PPP]: Sparse warning fixes.
  [IPV4] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check
  [IPV4] fib_trie: More whitespace cleanup.
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in ematches
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in actions
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in classifiers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in packet schedulers
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_api: introduce constant for rate table size
  [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute parsing helpers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute construction helpers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use NLA_PUT_STRING for string dumping
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_nest_start/nla_nest_end
  [NET_SCHED]: Propagate nla_parse return value
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use nlmsg_parse
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix netlink API conversion bug
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_netem: use nla_parse_nested_compat
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_atm: fix format string warning
  [NETNS]: Add namespace for ICMP replying code.
  ...
2008-01-29 22:54:01 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 5ea293a904 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (79 commits)
  Remove references to "make dep"
  kconfig: document use of HAVE_*
  Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst
  kbuild: warn about ld added unique sections
  kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost
  kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
  asm-generic/vmlix.lds.h: simplify __mem{init,exit}* dependencies
  remove __attribute_used__
  kbuild: support ARCH=x86 in buildtar
  kconfig: remove "enable"
  kbuild: simplified warning report in modpost
  kbuild: introduce a few helpers in modpost
  kbuild: use simpler section mismatch warnings in modpost
  kbuild: link vmlinux.o before kallsyms passes
  kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis
  Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/data
  compiler.h: introduce __section()
  all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
  kbuild: check section names consistently in modpost
  kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost
  ...
2008-01-29 22:46:14 +11:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V aa02ad67d9 ext4: Add ext4_find_next_bit()
This function is used by the ext4 multi block allocator patches.

Also add generic_find_next_le_bit

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 571e768202 [LIB] pcounter : unline too big functions
Before pushing pcounter to Linus tree, I would like to make some adjustments.

Goal is to reduce kernel text size, by unlining too big functions.

When a pcounter is bound to a statically defined per_cpu variable,
we define two small helpers functions. (No more folding function
using the fat for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) ... )

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, NAME##_pcounter_values);
static void NAME##_pcounter_add(struct pcounter *self, int val)
{
       __get_cpu_var(NAME##_pcounter_values) += val;
}
static int NAME##_pcounter_getval(const struct pcounter *self, int cpu)
{
       return per_cpu(NAME##_pcounter_values, cpu);
}

Fast path is therefore unchanged, while folding/alloc/free is now unlined.

This saves 228 bytes on i386

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:35 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo de4d1db369 [LIB]: Introduce struct pcounter
This just generalises what was introduced by Eric Dumazet for the struct proto
inuse field in 286ab3d46058840d68e5d7d52e316c1f7e98c59f:

    [NET]: Define infrastructure to keep 'inuse' changes in an efficent SMP/NUMA way.

Please look at the comment in there to see the rationale.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:39 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg 588ccd732b kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost
If the config option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set and
we see a Section mismatch present the following to the user:

modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
To see additional details select "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
in the Kernel Hacking menu (CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH).

If the option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is selected
then be verbose in the Section mismatch reporting from mdopost.
Sample outputs:

WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.text+0x7396): Section mismatch in reference from the function discover_ebda() to the variable .init.data:ebda_addr
The function  discover_ebda() references
the variable __initdata ebda_addr.
This is often because discover_ebda lacks a __initdata
annotation or the annotation of ebda_addr is wrong.

WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x74d58): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit()
The variable pci_serial_quirks references
the function __devexit pci_plx9050_exit()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(__ksymtab+0x630): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_arch_register_cpu to the function .cpuinit.text:arch_register_cpu()
The symbol arch_register_cpu is exported and annotated __cpuinit
Fix this by removing the __cpuinit annotation of arch_register_cpu or drop the export.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg 91341d4b2c kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis
Setting the option DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH will
report additional section mismatch'es but this
should in the end makes it possible to get rid of
all of them.

See help text in lib/Kconfig.debug for details.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
James Bottomley 7cedb1f17f SG: work with the SCSI fixed maximum allocations.
SCSI sg table allocation has a maximum size (of SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS,
currently 128) and this will cause a BUG_ON() in SCSI if something
tries an allocation over it.  This patch adds a size limit to the
chaining allocator to allow the specification of the maximum
allocation size for chaining, so we always chain in units of the
maximum SCSI allocation size.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:54:49 +01:00
Jens Axboe 0db9299f48 SG: Move functions to lib/scatterlist.c and add sg chaining allocator helpers
Manually doing chained sg lists is not trivial, so add some helpers
to make sure that drivers get it right.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28 10:05:27 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 9745512ce7 sched: latencytop support
LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the
scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6478d8800b sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code
remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code.

this removes 160 lines of legacy code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman e374a2bfeb Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c files
Clean up the kobject.c and kobject_uevent.c files to follow the
proper coding style rules.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 21:59:04 -08:00
Kay Sievers af5ca3f4ec Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names
All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer
need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just
unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 528a4bf1d5 Kobject: remove kobject_unregister() as no one uses it anymore
There are no in-kernel users of kobject_unregister() so it should be
removed.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 78a2d906b4 Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Kay Sievers 0f4dafc056 Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unref
We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper
cleanup when the last reference is dropped.

If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from
sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and
the allocated resources are released.

This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us
to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:39 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 12e339ac6e Kset: remove kset_add function
No one is calling this anymore, so just remove it and hard-code the one
internal-use of it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:39 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 6d06adfaf8 Kobject: remove kobject_register()
The function is no longer used by anyone in the kernel, and it prevents
the proper sending of the kobject uevent after the needed files are set
up by the caller.  kobject_init_and_add() can be used in its place.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:39 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman f9cb074bff Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman e1543ddf73 Kobject: remove kobject_init() as no one uses it anymore
The old kobject_init() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it
from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it,
but that can be cleaned up later very simply.)

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b2d6db5878 Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng()
to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 9e7bbccd02 Kobject: remove kobject_add() as no one uses it anymore
The old kobject_add() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it
from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it,
but that can be cleaned up later very simply.)

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Alan Stern 09f82ea928 Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistration
This patch (as1015) reverts changes that were made to the driver core
about four years ago.  The intent back then was to avoid certain kinds
of invalid memory accesses by leaving kernel objects allocated as long
as any of their children were still allocated.  The original and
correct approach was to wait only as long as any children were still
_registered_; that's what this patch reinstates.

This fixes a problem in the SCSI core made visible by the class_device
to regular device conversion: A reference loop (scsi_device holds
reference to request_queue, which is the child of a gendisk, which is
the child of the scsi_device) prevents the data structures from being
released, even though they are deregistered okay.

It's possible that this change will cause a few bugs to surface,
things that have been hidden for several years.  They can be fixed
easily enough by having the child device take an explicit reference to
the parent whenever needed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 9f66fa2a46 kobject: clean up debugging messages
The kobject debugging messages are a mess.  This provides a unified
message that makes them actually useful.

The format for new kobject debug messages should be:
	kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:26 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman cfb36fff45 kobject: grab the kset reference in kobject_add, not kobject_init
kobject_init should not be grabing any references, but only initializing
the object.  This patch fixes this, and makes the lock hold-time shorter
for when a kset is present in the kobject.

The current kernel tree has been audited to verify that this change
should be safe.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:25 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2fb9113b97 kobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functions
These functions are no longer used and are the last remants of the old
subsystem crap.  So delete them for good.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Kay Sievers 000f2a4d8c Driver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs ops
Remove the no longer needed subsys_attributes, they are all converted to
the more sensical kobj_attributes.

There is no longer a magic fallback in sysfs attribute operations, all
kobjects which create simple attributes need explicitely a ktype
assigned, which tells the core what was intended here.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:22 -08:00
Kay Sievers 386f275f5d Driver Core: switch all dynamic ksets to kobj_sysfs_ops
Switch all dynamically created ksets, that export simple attributes,
to kobj_attribute from subsys_attribute. Struct subsys_attribute will
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:18 -08:00
Kay Sievers 23b5212cc7 Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handling
Add kobj_sysfs_ops to replace subsys_sysfs_ops. There is no
need for special kset operations, we want to be able to use
simple attribute operations at any kobject, not only ksets.

The whole concept of any default sysfs attribute operations
will go away with the upcoming removal of subsys_sysfs_ops.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:18 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 43968d2f16 kobject: get rid of kobject_kset_add_dir
kobject_kset_add_dir is only called in one place so remove it and use
kobject_create() instead.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:11 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 4ff6abff83 kobject: get rid of kobject_add_dir
kobject_create_and_add is the same as kobject_add_dir, so drop
kobject_add_dir.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:11 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 3f9e3ee9dc kobject: add kobject_create_and_add function
This lets users create dynamic kobjects much easier.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b727c70289 kset: add kset_create_and_add function
Now ksets can be dynamically created on the fly, no static definitions
are required.  Thanks to Miklos for hints on how to make this work
better for the callers.

And thanks to Kay for finding some stupid bugs in my original version
and pointing out that we need to handle the fact that kobject's can have
a kset as a parent and to handle that properly in kobject_add().

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman c11c4154e7 kobject: add kobject_init_and_add function
Also add a kobject_init_and_add function which bundles up what a lot of
the current callers want to do all at once, and it properly handles the
memory usages, unlike kobject_register();

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 244f6cee9a kobject: add kobject_add_ng function
This is what the kobject_add function is going to become.

Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:09 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman e86000d042 kobject: add kobject_init_ng function
This is what the kobject_init function is going to become.

Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:09 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 18041f4775 kobject: make kobject_cleanup be static
No one except the kobject core calls it so make the function static.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:09 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 663a47430b kobject: fix up kobject_set_name to use kvasprintf
Kay pointed out that kobject_set_name was being very stupid, doing two
allocations for every call, when it should just be using the kernel
function kvasprintf() instead.

This change adds the internal kobject_set_name_vargs() function, which
other follow-on patches will be using.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:09 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 41ca28ab2a kref: add kref_set()
This adds kref_set() to the kref api for future use by people who really
know what they are doing with krefs...

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:05 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 7a83d456a8 kobject: remove incorrect comment in kobject_rename
As pointed out by Kay.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra f16b34aa13 lib: proportion: fix underflow in prop_norm_percpu()
Zhe Jiang noticed that its possible to underflow pl->events in
prop_norm_percpu() when the value returned by percpu_counter_read() is less
than the error on that read and the period delay > 1.  In that case half might
not trigger the batch increment and the value will be identical on the next
iteration, causing the same half to be subtracted again and again.

Fix this by rewriting the division as a single subtraction instead of a
subtraction loop and using percpu_counter_sum() when the value returned by
percpu_counter_read() is smaller than the error.

The latter is still needed if we want pl->events to shrink properly in the
error region.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Zhe <zhe.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-23 12:54:37 -08:00
Livio Soares c7af77b584 sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling
This following commit

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdf8cb0909b531f9ae8f9b9d7e4eb35ba3505f07

un-inlined a low-level rwsem function, but did not mark it as __sched.
The result is that it now shows up as thread wchan (which also affects
/proc/profile stats).  The following simple patch fixes this by properly
marking rwsem_down_failed_common() as a __sched function.

Also in this patch, which is up for discussion, marks down_read() and
down_write() proper as __sched.  For profiling, it is pretty much
useless to know that a semaphore is beig help - it is necessary to know
_which_ one.  By going up another frame on the stack, the information
becomes much more useful.

In summary, the below change to lib/rwsem.c should be applied; the
changes to kernel/rwsem.c could be applied if other kernel hackers agree
with my proposal that down_read()/down_write() in the profile is not
enough.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 8c4606b1a4 kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name works
Thanks to Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> for pointing out that I
forgot to update the comment when I rewrote kobject_set_name.

Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 8002cedc1a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  [INET]: Fix inet_diag dead-lock regression
  [NETNS]: Fix /proc/net breakage
  [TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure
  [NETFILTER]: fix forgotten module release in xt_CONNMARK and xt_CONNSECMARK
  [NETFILTER]: xt_TCPMSS: remove network triggerable WARN_ON
  [DECNET]: dn_nl_deladdr() almost always returns no error
  [IPV6]: Restore IPv6 when MTU is big enough
  [RXRPC]: Add missing select on CRYPTO
  mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages
  rfkill: fix double-mutex-locking
  mac80211: drop unencrypted frames if encryption is expected
  mac80211: Fix behavior of ieee80211_open and ieee80211_close
  ieee80211: fix unaligned access in ieee80211_copy_snap
  mac80211: free ifsta->extra_ie and clear IEEE80211_STA_PRIVACY_INVOKED
  SCTP: Fix build issues with SCTP AUTH.
  SCTP: Fix chunk acceptance when no authenticated chunks were listed.
  SCTP: Fix the supported extensions paramter
  SCTP: Fix SCTP-AUTH to correctly add HMACS paramter.
  SCTP: Fix the number of HB transmissions.
  [TCP] illinois: Incorrect beta usage
  ...
2007-12-03 08:15:36 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso e03ba84adb [TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure
If a zero length pattern is passed then return EINVAL.
Avoids infinite loops (bm) or invalid memory accesses (kmp).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-12-01 00:03:52 +11:00
Randy Dunlap d0eec99ce5 hexdump: don't print bytes with bit 7 set
As Herbert Xu pointed out, bytes (chars) with bit 7 (0x80) set are true
with isprint() but they may not be isascii() but be Unicode instead, so
don't try to print them in hex dumps.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00