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David S. Miller 9343af084c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	lib/Kconfig.debug
2010-04-13 00:28:45 -07:00
David S. Miller 8b8d8e2840 sparc64: Support kmemleak.
Only missing thing was an _sdata marker in vmlinux.lds.S

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-12 23:46:17 -07:00
Michal Simek 47c4c864af microblaze: Enable memory leak detector
Enable DEBUG_KMEMLEAK for microblaze

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-04-07 07:27:26 +02:00
Mike Frysinger 1d53661d26 blackfin: enable DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
We see only one section mismatch now after thousands of randconfigs, and a
bug has been filed about that one.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 548b841669 Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into perf/urgent
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

Merge reason: Pick up -rc1 and resolve the conflict as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-09 17:11:53 +01:00
Simon Kagstrom 0347af4ee3 lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties
Add adds a debugfs interface and additional failure modes to LKDTM to
provide similar functionality to the provoke-crash driver submitted here:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/371208/

Crashes can now be induced either through module parameters (as before)
or through the debugfs interface as in provoke-crash.

The patch also provides a new "direct" interface, where KPROBES are not
used, i.e., the crash is invoked directly upon write to the debugfs
file. When built without KPROBES configured, only this mode is available.

Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 642c4c75a7 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
  rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
  rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
  rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
  sched, cgroups: Fix module export
  rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
  rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
  rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
  rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
  rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
  security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
  idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
  radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
  vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
  ...
2010-02-28 10:13:16 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker dd8b1cf681 perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union
Remove pointless union in the breakpoint field of hw_perf_event.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-02-27 17:10:39 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake 84c6f88fc8 perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt,
so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'.

Fixing command-list.txt requires document
(tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt).
But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a
stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now.

And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-27 17:05:22 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 1ed509a225 rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
When RCU detects a grace-period stall, it currently just prints
out the PID of any tasks doing the stalling.  This patch adds
RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, which enables the more-verbose reporting
from sched_show_task().

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-21-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 10:35:02 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 632ee20013 rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives
Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
enlist the aid of lockdep.

This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.

o	Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  These return exact answers if lockdep is
	fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  (We want to avoid false positives!)
	The primitives are:

	For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)

	For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)

	For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)

	For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)

o	Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
	in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
	primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().

o	A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
	rcu_dereference_check().  This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
	and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
	CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.

The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
upcoming patches will change that.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 09:40:59 +01:00
Chris Smith 660e2acad8 sh: kmemleak support.
Enables support for kmemleak on sh.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <chris.smith@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-01-27 22:03:11 +09:00
Paul E. McKenney 4c54005ca4 rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions.  Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage.  Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12635142581866-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16 10:25:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds dcc7cd0112 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* '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
2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8420e7efa1 Make DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE default to y
It's easy to lose useful DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE by switching EMBEDDED left and right.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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>
2009-12-15 08:53:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d71cb81af3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Add debugobjects support
2009-12-10 09:35:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4ef58d4e2a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
  tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
  reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
  doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
  inotify: remove superfluous return code check
  hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
  doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
  mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
  doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
  tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
  drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
  fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
  sysctl: add missing comments
  fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
  sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
  sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
  tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
  tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
  fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
  spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
  comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
  ...
2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Jiri Kosina d014d04386 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	kernel/irq/chip.c
2009-12-07 18:36:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 607781762e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
  rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
  rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
  rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
  rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
  rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
  rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
  rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
  rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
  rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
  rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
  rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
  rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
  rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
  rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
  rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
  rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
  rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 09:52:14 -08:00
André Goddard Rosa af901ca181 tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 8bfb2f8e65 rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
The RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR costs almost nothing and has located
some bugs that might otherwise have been difficult to track
down.  Make it be default for the TREE RCU implementations.

The vmlinux size impact is limited (on 64-bit x86 defconfig):

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   8440248	1260076	 995588	10695912	 a334e8	vmlinux.before
   8440774	1260060	 995588	10696422	 a336e6	vmlinux.after

+526 bytes - acceptable default cost.

For RAM starved systems, TINY_RCU does not support CPU-stall detection
and is much smaller, but then again it is a uniprocessor...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12597846162906-git-send-email->
[ v2: added image size calculations to the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-03 11:35:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner dc186ad741 workqueue: Add debugobjects support
Add debugobject support to track the life time of work_structs.

While at it, remove duplicate definition of
INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ON_STACK().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-11-16 01:09:48 +09:00
Eric W. Biederman 83ac201b4f sysctl: Remove dead code from sysctl_check
Now that the sys_sysctl is now a compatibility wrapper around
/proc/sys we can remove much of sysctl_check and reduce it
to a few remaining sanity checks.  This completely decouples
it from the binary sysctl system call.

Little things like ensuring that the sysctl has not already
been registered are all that remain.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:53 -08:00
Randy Dunlap b60e26a2f0 kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
kmemleak uses crc32 functions so it needs to select CRC32.
Fixes build error:

kmemleak.c:(.text+0x7ce62): undefined reference to `crc32_le'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-11-06 23:16:04 +00:00
Kumar Gala 01deab98e3 powerpc: Minor cleanup to lib/Kconfig.debug
We don't need an explicit PPC64 in the DEBUG_PREEMPT dependancies as all
PPC platforms now support TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-27 16:42:42 +11:00
Heiko Carstens dfcc3e6a8b [S390] Enable kmemleak on s390.
Also increase the maximum possible kmemleak early log entries since
2000 are not sufficient on s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-10-06 10:35:06 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 99657c7857 kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
Sam suggested moving STRIP_ASM_SYMS into the Kernel hacking menu
from the General Setup menu.  It makes more sense there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 723e9db7a4 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (134 commits)
  powerpc/nvram: Enable use Generic NVRAM driver for different size chips
  powerpc/iseries: Fix oops reading from /proc/iSeries/mf/*/cmdline
  powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error
  powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 instead
  powerpc/perf_counters: Reduce stack usage of power_check_constraints
  powerpc: Fix bug where perf_counters breaks oprofile
  powerpc/85xx: Fix SMP compile error and allow NULL for smp_ops
  powerpc/irq: Improve nanodoc
  powerpc: Fix some late PowerMac G5 with PCIe ATI graphics
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Use HW PTE format if CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/book3e: Add missing page sizes
  powerpc/pseries: Fix to handle slb resize across migration
  powerpc/powermac: Thermal control turns system off too eagerly
  powerpc/pci: Merge ppc32 and ppc64 versions of phb_scan()
  powerpc/405ex: support cuImage via included dtb
  powerpc/405ex: provide necessary fixup function to support cuImage
  powerpc/40x: Add support for the ESTeem 195E (PPC405EP) SBC
  powerpc/44x: Add Eiger AMCC (AppliedMicro) PPC460SX evaluation board support.
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches defconfig
  powerpc/44x: Update Arches dts
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c
2009-09-15 09:51:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds eee2775d99 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
  rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
  rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
  rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members
  rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
  rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
  rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API
  rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code.
  rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro
  rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file
  rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity
  rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h
  rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP
  rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation.
  rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header
  rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs
  ...
2009-09-11 13:20:18 -07:00
David Howells e0e817392b CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:01 +10:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b3ef48adf rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Michael Ellerman bbdc16f58e kmemleak: Allow kmemleak to be built on powerpc
Very lightly tested, doesn't crash the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-20 10:29:23 +10:00
Tejun Heo c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00
Catalin Marinas a9d9058aba kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)

Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these
happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal
buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch
adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes
the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-25 10:16:13 +01:00
Tejun Heo 7c756e6e19 percpu: implement optional weak percpu definitions
Some archs (alpha and s390) need to use weak definitions for percpu
variables in modules so that the compiler generates external
references for them.

This patch implements weak percpu definitions which arch can enable by
defining ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU in arch percpu header file.  This
weak definition adds the following two restrictions on percpu variable
definitions.

  1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not
  2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function

To ensure that these restrictions are observed in generic code, config
option DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU enables weak percpu definitions for
all cases.

This patch is inspired by Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: stricter rules for percpu variables, one more debug config option ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2009-06-24 15:13:50 +09:00
Catalin Marinas bf96d1e3e7 kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options
Selecting DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG by the KMEMLEAK menu entry may cause
issues with other dependencies (KMEMCHECK). These configuration options
aren't strictly needed by kmemleak but they may increase the chances of
finding leaks. This patch also updates the KMEMLEAK config entry help
text.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-23 14:40:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8b12e2505a Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Select frame pointers on x86
  dma-debug: be more careful when building reference entries
  dma-debug: check for sg_call_ents in best-fit algorithm too
2009-06-21 13:13:53 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 00540e5d54 lockdep: Select frame pointers on x86
x86 stack traces are a piece of crap without frame pointers, and its not
like the 'performance gain' of not having stack pointers matters when you
selected lockdep.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-21 10:14:33 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 0a4af3b093 kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
The Kconfig options of kmemcheck are hidden under arch/x86 which makes porting
to other architectures harder. To fix that, move the Kconfig bits to
lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck and introduce a CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK config option
that architectures can define.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Vegard Nossum 7d46d9e6db kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
let it rip!

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-15 15:49:15 +02:00
Catalin Marinas 0822ee4ac1 kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
This patch adds a loadable module that deliberately leaks memory. It
is used for testing various memory leaking scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:04:19 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 3bba00d7bd kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:04:18 +01:00
Jason Baron fe0e2bb9b3 Remove old PRINTK_DEBUG config item
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   lib/Kconfig.debug:      select PRINTK_DEBUG
> > 
> > should that perhaps refer to "DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG"?  since there is
> > no such thing as a PRINTK_DEBUG Kconfig variable.
> 
> Looks like a rudiment from an earlier version of Jason's "driver core:
> basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages",
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=346e15beb5343c2eb8216d820f2ed8f150822b08
> Search an LKML archive for '+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_DEBUG'.
> 
> Jason, should it be deleted or replaced by something?

We re-named 'DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG' to 'DYNAMIC_DEBUG' in 2.6.30....
'PRINTK_DEBUG' as pointed out never existed. So, it appears to be
extraneous, and should be removed. thanks for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-08 19:22:21 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 75ee034add [S390] omit frame pointers on s390 when possible
Always omit frame pointers on s390. They aren't too useful for the
kernel since we have already the kernel stack backchain which allows
us to walk the kernel stack.
So eleminate the extra code for frame pointers. Only allow the extra
code for the function tracer since the gcc compile options -pg and
-fomit-frame-pointer are incompatible.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-04-23 13:58:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5e34437840 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07 11:15:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 77d05632ba softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
Don't offer a default-y option when the user has turned off
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP already.

Do offer it as 'y' only if DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP is on already.

This makes it match previous behavior - where the hung-task check was
embedded i CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP code.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 08:55:36 +02:00
Akinobu Mita 6a11f75b6a generic debug pagealloc
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390.  This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().

This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00