- 23 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty, libc way to indicate failure. 2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and comments pretend they do. 3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants, but users want strtou8() 4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong: Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist because conversion should be strict by default. The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types. Enter kstrtoull() kstrtoll() kstrtoul() kstrtol() kstrtouint() kstrtoint() kstrtou64() kstrtos64() kstrtou32() kstrtos32() kstrtou16() kstrtos16() kstrtou8() kstrtos8() Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well. strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and eventually will be removed altogether. Use kstrto*() in code today! Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution, because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and __alignof__ at least always works. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock, at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the past, I so the credit for this patch should be with everyone who participated in the hunt. The names on the Cc list are the people that were the most active in this, according to the recorded git history, in alphabetical order. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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- 25 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Ben Hutchings 提交于
When initiating I/O on a multiqueue and multi-IRQ device, we may want to select a queue for which the response will be handled on the same or a nearby CPU. This requires a reverse-map of IRQ affinity. Add library functions to support a generic reverse-mapping from CPUs to objects with affinity and the specific case where the objects are IRQs. Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 1月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Lasse Collin 提交于
This implements the API defined in <linux/decompress/generic.h> which is used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd; XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes. The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel. Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be increased (30 KiB is enough). The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer. Signed-off-by: NLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Lasse Collin 提交于
In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by XZ Utils. These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of the code is as is from XZ Embedded <http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html>. It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too. Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel: - Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. - Integrity check support (CRC32) - BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower. This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module (xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool, and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ decompressor e.g. for Squashfs. Signed-off-by: NLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Rientjes 提交于
Alex said: I want to use flex_array to store a sparse array of ATM cell re-assembly buffers for my ATM over Ethernet driver. Using the per-vcc user_back structure causes problems when stacked with things like br2684. Add EXPORT_SYMBOL() for all publically accessible flex array functions and move to obj-y so that modules may use this library. Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Reported-by: NAlex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 John Stultz 提交于
Thomas pointed out a namespace collision between the new timerlist infrastructure I introduced and the existing timer_list.c So to avoid confusion, I've renamed the timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue. Reported-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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- 03 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 John Stultz 提交于
The timerlist infrastructure is a thin layer over the rbtree code that implements a simple list of timers sorted by an expires value, and a getnext function that provides a pointer to the earliest timer. This infrastructure allows drivers and other kernel infrastructure to easily implement timers without duplicating code. Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> LKML Reference: <1290136329-18291-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
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- 19 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Bruno Randolf 提交于
This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding errors. The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver (rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code. Signed-off-by: NBruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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- 14 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
via following scripts FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \ -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g') mv $N $M done and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc. also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/ Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 28 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Akinobu Mita 提交于
I used this module to test the series of modification to the cpu notifiers code. Example1: inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM) # modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_down_prepare_error=-1 # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted Example2: inject CPU online error (-2 == -ENOENT) # modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_up_prepare_error=-2 # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Kconfig help text] Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Huang Ying 提交于
There are many different UUID/GUID definitions in kernel, such as that in EFI, many file systems, some drivers, etc. Every kernel components need UUID/GUID has its own definition. This patch provides a unified definition for UUID/GUID. UUID is defined via typedef. This makes that UUID appears more like a preliminary type, and makes the data type explicit (comparing with implicit "u8 uuid[16]"). The binary representation of UUID/GUID can be little-endian (used by EFI, etc) or big-endian (defined by RFC4122), so both is defined. Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- 07 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Borislav Petkov 提交于
Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function, popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function 0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the default lib/hweight.c sw versions. A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost a 3x speedup on a F10h machine. Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 15 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Martin K. Petersen 提交于
lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments. The supplied arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given sufficiently large input. That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID). Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the function from blk-settings.c to lib. Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 08 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This reverts commit a069c266. It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it, but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more. So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it compiled in. It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience isn't worth it. Requested-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 07 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Don Mullis 提交于
Build list_sort() only for configs that need it -- those that don't save ~581 bytes (i386). Signed-off-by: NDon Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Luca Barbieri 提交于
This patch adds self-test on boot code for atomic64_t. This has been used to test the later changes in this patchset. Signed-off-by: NLuca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com> LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-4-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 13 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Dave Chinner 提交于
There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM code, another in ubifs. Now XFS needs this as well. Create a generic list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree. Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: NArtem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Albin Tonnerre 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlbin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: NWu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Joern Engel 提交于
This is a new flash file system. See Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt Signed-off-by: NJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
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- 29 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
We'll want to use these in btrfs too. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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- 02 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Philipp Reisner 提交于
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
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- 30 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Dave Hansen 提交于
Once a structure goes over PAGE_SIZE*2, we see occasional allocation failures. Some people have chosen to switch over to things like vmalloc() that will let them keep array-like access to such a large structures. But, vmalloc() has plenty of downsides. Here's an alternative. I think it's what Andrew was suggesting here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/518 I call it a flexible array. It does all of its work in PAGE_SIZE bits, so never does an order>0 allocation. The base level has PAGE_SIZE-2*sizeof(int) bytes of storage for pointers to the second level. So, with a 32-bit arch, you get about 4MB (4183112 bytes) of total storage when the objects pack nicely into a page. It is half that on 64-bit because the pointers are twice the size. There's a table detailing this in the code. There are kerneldocs for the functions, but here's an overview: flex_array_alloc() - dynamically allocate a base structure flex_array_free() - free the array and all of the second-level pages flex_array_free_parts() - free the second-level pages, but not the base (for static bases) flex_array_put() - copy into the array at the given index flex_array_get() - copy out of the array at the given index flex_array_prealloc() - preallocate the second-level pages between the given indexes to guarantee no allocs will occur at put() time. We could also potentially just pass the "element_size" into each of the API functions instead of storing it internally. That would get us one more base pointer on 32-bit. I've been testing this by running it in userspace. The header and patch that I've been using are here, as well as the little script I'm using to generate the size table which goes in the kerneldocs. http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/flexarray/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Florian Fainelli 提交于
This patch adds lib/gcd.c which contains a greatest common divider implementation taken from sound/core/pcm_timer.c Several usages of this new library function will be sent to subsystem maintainers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use swap() (pointed out by Joe)] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: just add gcd.o to obj-y, remove Kconfig changes] Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem. This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16 spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock. On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole atomic64_lock variable as well. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 12 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
Add a generic (unoptimized) implementation of checksum.c in pure C for use by all architectures that cannot be bother with implementing their own version. Based on microblaze code by Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: NRemis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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- 11 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Oskar Schirmer 提交于
Provide a helper function to determine optimum numerator denominator value pairs taking into account restricted register size. Useful especially with PLL and other clock configurations. Signed-off-by: NOskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Fred Isaman 提交于
Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked with the kernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP. When CONFIG_SMP is undefined and find_last_bit is referenced only by modules, linking fails with: ERROR: "find_last_bit" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined! Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: NFred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jason Baron 提交于
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'. The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface, (an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function, file, module, format string, and line number. for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack': echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control to disable them: echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch. Signed-off-by: NGreg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 05 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Joerg Roedel 提交于
Impact: add groundwork for DMA-API debugging Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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- 04 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set. Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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- 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Ingo Molnar wrote: > here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt: > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task': > sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del' Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available unconditionally. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Centralize the compression format detection to a common routine in the lib directory, and use it for both initramfs and initrd. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 06 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as they should. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alain Knaff 提交于
Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster than bzip2. It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two compressors. The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by the udpcast project This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28 This part contains: - support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and old-style ramdisk - config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions not yet supported) Signed-off-by: NAlain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 01 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: New API As the name suggests. For the moment everyone uses the generic one. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 14 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks. A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to access or modify its own credentials. A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to execve(). With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified and committed using something like the following sequence of events: struct cred *new = prepare_creds(); int ret = blah(new); if (ret < 0) { abort_creds(new); return ret; } return commit_creds(new); There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter the keys in a keyring in use by another task. To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be modified, except under special circumstances: (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented. (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced. The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be added by a later patch). This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux testsuite. This patch makes several logical sets of alteration: (1) execve(). This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the security code rather than altering the current creds directly. (2) Temporary credential overrides. do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex on the thread being dumped. This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering the task's objective credentials. (3) LSM interface. A number of functions have been changed, added or removed: (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check() (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set() Removed in favour of security_capset(). (*) security_capset(), ->capset() New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the new creds, are now const. (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds() Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be killed if it's an error. (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security() Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds(). (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free() New. Free security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare() New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit() New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new security by commit_creds(). (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid() Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid(). (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid() Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid(). (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init() Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred directly to init's credentials. NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no longer records the sid of the thread that forked it. (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc() (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission() Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to refer to the security context. (4) sys_capset(). This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it calls have been merged. (5) reparent_to_kthreadd(). This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using commit_thread() to point that way. (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid() __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if successful. switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting __sigqueue_alloc(). (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups. The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying it. security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished. The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds(). Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into commit_creds(). The get functions all simply access the data directly. (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl(). security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly rather than through an argument. Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even if it doesn't end up using it. (9) Keyrings. A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code: (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly. They may want separating out again later. (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer rather than a task pointer to specify the security context. (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread keyring. (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them. (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for process or session keyrings (they're shared). (10) Usermode helper. The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process after it has been cloned. call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call. call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the supplied keyring as the new session keyring. (11) SELinux. SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM interface changes mentioned above: (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the lock. (12) is_single_threaded(). This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now wants to use it too. The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD). (13) nfsd. The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches in this series have been applied. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 21 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jason Baron 提交于
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages. I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file, currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set. The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis. Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define their own debug levels and flags. Usage: Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows: <module_name> <enabled=0/1> . . . <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not For example: snd_hda_intel enabled=0 fixup enabled=1 driver enabled=0 Enable a module: $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable a module: $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Enable all modules: $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable all modules: $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above disable command. [gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly] Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 04 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 James Bottomley 提交于
This patch adds the ability to print sizes in either units of 10^3 (SI) or 2^10 (Binary) units. It rounds up to three significant figures and can be used for either memory or storage capacities. Oh, and I'm fully aware that 64 bits is only 16EiB ... the Zetta and Yotta units are added for future proofing against the day we have 128 bit computers ... [fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp: fix missed unsigned long long cast] Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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