- Jul 24, 2008
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack. The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that everyone can use it. lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs. This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be explicitly disabled for embedded systems. This patch: Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation. Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel= command-line parameter. The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm initialisation code will be moved here over time. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 23, 2008
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Jason Wessel authored
Remove HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO because it does not exist anywhere in the kernel mainline sources Signed-off-by:
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
This is alternative implementation of sg content iterator introduced by commit 83e7d317... from Pierre Ossman in next-20080716. As there's already an sg iterator which iterates over sg entries themselves, name this sg_mapping_iterator. Slightly edited description from the original implementation follows. Iteration over a sg list is not that trivial when you take into account that memory pages might have to be mapped before being used. Unfortunately, that means that some parts of the kernel restrict themselves to directly accesible memory just to not have to deal with the mess. This patch adds a simple iterator system that allows any code to easily traverse an sg list and not have to deal with all the details. The user can decide to consume part of the iteration. Also, iteration can be stopped and resumed later if releasing the kmap between iteration steps is necessary. These features are useful to implement piecemeal sg copying for interrupt drive PIO for example. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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- Jul 22, 2008
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Johannes Berg authored
textsearch algorithms can be loaded, make the code depend on CONFIG_MODULES instead of CONFIG_KMOD. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Wang Chen authored
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper(). It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error information. BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of call_usermodehelper() to callers, but commit 5f123fbd "[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it. Signed-off-by:
Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it from the block class. Signed-off-by:
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- Jul 18, 2008
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Ingo Molnar authored
fix typo. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike Travis authored
* Optimize various places where a pointer to the cpumask_of_cpu value will result in reducing stack pressure. Signed-off-by:
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 17, 2008
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Ingo Molnar authored
make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions. We've already got a sizable list of exceptions: ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg # Also do not profile any debug utilities CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg endif ... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing hard to debug lockups. So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id() and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup: calling anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57 [ hard hang ] So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 12, 2008
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Martin K. Petersen authored
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity of each data sector. crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information. Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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- Jul 11, 2008
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Mingming Cao authored
Delayed allocation need to check free blocks at every write time. percpu_counter_read_positive() is not quit accurate. delayed allocation need a more accurate accounting, but using percpu_counter_sum_positive() is frequently is quite expensive. This patch added a new function to update center counter when sum per-cpu counter, to increase the accurate rate for next percpu_counter_read() and require less calling expensive percpu_counter_sum(). Signed-off-by:
Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- Jul 08, 2008
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Joonwoo Park authored
For fsm text search, handle case insensitive parameter as -EINVAL. Signed-off-by:
Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Joonwoo Park authored
Add support for case insensitive search to Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. Signed-off-by:
Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Joonwoo Park authored
Add support for case insensitive search to Boyer-Moore algorithm. Signed-off-by:
Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Joonwoo Park authored
The function textsearch_prepare has a new flag to support case insensitive searching. Signed-off-by:
Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Jul 06, 2008
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Linus Torvalds authored
They print out a pointer in symbolic format, if possible (ie using symbolic KALLSYMS information). The '%pS' format is for regular direct pointers (which can point to data or code and that you find on the stack during backtraces etc), while '%pF' is for C function pointer types. On most architectures, the two mean exactly the same thing, but some architectures use an indirect pointer for C function pointers, where the function pointer points to a function descriptor (which in turn contains the actual pointer to the code). The '%pF' code automatically does the appropriate function descriptor dereference on such architectures. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This expands the kernel '%p' handling with an arbitrary alphanumberic specifier extension string immediately following the '%p'. Right now it's just being ignored, but the next commit will start adding some specific pointer type extensions. NOTE! The reason the extension is appended to the '%p' is to allow minimal gcc type checking: gcc will still see the '%p' and will check that the argument passed in is indeed a pointer, and yet will not complain about the extended information that gcc doesn't understand about (on the other hand, it also won't actually check that the pointer type and the extension are compatible). Alphanumeric characters were chosen because there is no sane existing use for a string format with a hex pointer representation immediately followed by alphanumerics (which is what such a format string would have traditionally resulted in). Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function. This makes it easier to read, and allows for simple future extension of %p handling. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function. This makes it easier to read, and allows for future sharing of the string code. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 04, 2008
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Paul Mundt authored
Commit 95b570c9 ("Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)") introduced a TAINT_WARN that was implemented for all architectures using the generic warn_on_slowpath(), which excluded any architecture that set HAVE_ARCH_WARN_ON. As all of the architectures that implement their own WARN_ON() all go through the report_bug() path (specifically handling BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN), taint the kernel there as well for consistency. Tested on avr32 and sh. Also relevant for s390, parisc, and powerpc. Signed-off-by:
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by:
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email address for the future). Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 30, 2008
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Joonwoo Park authored
The current logic has a bug which cannot find matching pattern, if the pattern is matched from the first character of target string. for example: pattern=abc, string=abcdefg pattern=a, string=abcdefg Searching algorithm should return 0 for those things. Signed-off-by:
Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Jun 27, 2008
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Vegard Nossum authored
This patch adds saved stack-traces to the backtrace suite of self-tests. Note that we don't depend on or unconditionally enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE because not all architectures may have it (and we still want to enable the other tests for those architectures). Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jun 19, 2008
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into the Linux kernel. The reason that this capability was removed was that this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture would be running starting from early boot. This problem has been avoided by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default, (2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel. Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture is built as a module. Please also note that to get the earlier take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero. The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. The default action will be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second. Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jun 18, 2008
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Vegard Nossum authored
Daniel J Blueman reported: | ======================================================= | [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] | 2.6.26-rc5-201c #1 | ------------------------------------------------------- | nscd/3669 is trying to acquire lock: | (&n->list_lock){.+..}, at: [<ffffffff802bab03>] deactivate_slab+0x173/0x1e0 | | but task is already holding lock: | (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff803fa56f>] | __debug_object_init+0x2f/0x350 | | which lock already depends on the new lock. There are two locks involved here; the first is a SLUB-local lock, and the second is a debugobjects-local lock. They are basically taken in two different orders: 1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } } 2. debugobjects { SLUB { ... } } This patch changes pattern #2 by trying to fill the memory pool (e.g. the call into SLUB/kmalloc()) outside the debugobjects lock, so now the two patterns look like this: 1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } } 2. SLUB { } debugobjects { ... } [ daniel.blueman@gmail.com: pool_lock needs to be taken irq safe in fill_pool ] Reported-by:
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- Jun 16, 2008
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Ingo Molnar authored
This reverts commit 9aaffc89. That commit was a very bad idea. RCU_TORTURE found many boot timing bugs and other sorts of bugs in the past, so excluding it from boot images is very silly. The option already depends on DEBUG_KERNEL and is disabled by default. Even when it runs, the test threads are reniced. If it annoys people we could add a runtime sysctl.
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- Jun 13, 2008
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Nicholas Piggin authored
We shrink a radix tree when its root node has only one child, in the left most slot. The child becomes the new root node. To perform this operation in a manner compatible with concurrent lockless lookups, we atomically switch the root pointer from the parent to its child. However a concurrent lockless lookup may now have loaded a pointer to the parent (and is presently deciding what to do next). For this reason, we also have to keep the parent node in a valid state after shrinking the tree, until the next RCU grace period -- otherwise this lookup with the parent pointer may not do the right thing. Notably, we need to keep the child in the left most slot there in case that is requested by the lookup. This is all pretty standard RCU stuff. It is worth repeating because in my eagerness to obey the radix tree node constructor scheme, I had broken it by zeroing the radix tree node before the grace period. What could happen is that a lookup can load the parent pointer, then decide it wants to follow the left most child slot, only to find the slot contained NULL due to the concurrent shrinker having zeroed the parent node before waiting for a grace period. The lookup would return a false negative as a result. Fix it by doing that clearing in the RCU callback. I would normally want to rip out the constructor entirely, but radix tree nodes are one of those places where they make sense (only few cachelines will be touched soon after allocation). This was never actually found in any lockless pagecache testing or by the test harness, but by seeing the odd problem with my scalable vmap rewrite. I have not tickled the test harness into reproducing it yet, but I'll keep working at it. Fortunately, it is not a problem anywhere lockless pagecache is used in mainline kernels (pagecache probe is not a guarantee, and brd does not have concurrent lookups and deletes). Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 12, 2008
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
iter_div_u64_rem is used in the x86-64 vdso, which cannot call other kernel code. For this case, provide the always_inlined version, __iter_div_u64_rem. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor. Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc. The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent gcc from performing the transformation. This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it to replace the open-coded versions I know about. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jun 10, 2008
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Alex Chiang authored
Detect all physical PCI slots as described by ACPI, and create entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/. Not all physical slots are hotpluggable, and the acpiphp module does not detect them. Now we know the physical PCI geography of our system, without caring about hotplug. [kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com: export-kobject_rename-for-pci_hotplug_core] Signed-off-by:
Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_DMI=n] Signed-off-by:
Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by:
Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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- Jun 06, 2008
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Harvey Harrison authored
Bluetooth will be able to use this. Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- May 25, 2008
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ingo Molnar authored
allow users to configure the softlockup detector to generate a panic instead of a warning message. high-availability systems might opt for this strict method (combined with panic_timeout= boot option/sysctl), instead of generating softlockup warnings ad infinitum. also, automated tests work better if the system reboots reliably (into a safe kernel) in case of a lockup. The full spectrum of configurability is supported: boot option, sysctl option and Kconfig option. it's default-disabled. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- May 23, 2008
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch removes the Makefile turd and uses the nice CFLAGS_REMOVE macro in the lib directory. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The debug functions in spin_lock debugging pollute the output of the function tracer. This patch adds the debug files in the lib director to those that should not be compiled with mcount tracing. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Most archs define the string and memory compare functions in assembly. Some do not. But these functions may be used in some archs at early boot up. Since most archs define this code in assembly and they are not usually traced, there's no need to trace them when they are not defined in assembly. This patch removes the -pg from the CFLAGS for lib/string.o. This prevents the string functions use in either vdso or early bootup from crashing the system. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The debug smp_processor_id caused a recursive fault in debugging the irqsoff tracer. The tracer used a smp_processor_id in the ftrace callback, and this function called preempt_disable which also is traced. This caused a recursive fault (stack overload). Since using smp_processor_id without debugging on does not cause faults with the tracer (even when the tracer is wrong), the debug version should not cause a system reboot. This changes the debug_smp_processor_id to use the notrace versions of preempt_disable and enable. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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