1. 01 8月, 2013 1 次提交
  2. 10 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  3. 11 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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      MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature · 07c449bb
      David Cohen 提交于
      When compiling kernel with -jN (N > 1), all warning/error messages
      printed while openssl is generating key pair may get mixed dots and
      other symbols openssl sends to stderr. This patch makes sure openssl
      logs go to default stdout.
      
      Example of the garbage on stderr:
      
      crypto/anubis.c:581: warning: ‘inter’ is used uninitialized in this function
      Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
      .........
      drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c: In function ‘gen6_ggtt_insert_entries’:
      drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c:440: warning: ‘addr’ may be used uninitialized in this function
      .net/mac80211/tx.c: In function ‘ieee80211_subif_start_xmit’:
      net/mac80211/tx.c:1780: warning: ‘chanctx_conf’ may be used uninitialized in this function
      ..drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c: In function ‘hfcpci_softirq’:
      .....drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c:2298: warning: ignoring return value of ‘driver_for_each_device’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: Nmark gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      07c449bb
  4. 08 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  5. 28 2月, 2013 2 次提交
  6. 17 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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      kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script · 70730bca
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      bc is the standard tool for multi-precision arithmetic.  We switched
      to Perl because akpm reported a hard-to-reproduce build hang, which
      was very odd because affected and unaffected machines were all running
      the same version of GNU bc.
      
      Unfortunately switching to Perl required a really ugly "canning"
      mechanism to support Perl < 5.8 installations lacking the Math::BigInt
      module.
      
      It was recently pointed out to me that some very old versions of GNU
      make had problems with pipes in subshells, which was indeed the
      construct used in the Makefile rules in that version of the patch;
      Perl didn't need it so switching to Perl fixed the problem for
      unrelated reasons.  With the problem (hopefully) root-caused, we can
      switch back to bc and do the arbitrary-precision arithmetic naturally.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      70730bca
  7. 25 1月, 2013 1 次提交
  8. 14 12月, 2012 2 次提交
  9. 01 12月, 2012 1 次提交
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      context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem · 91d1aa43
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
      to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
      with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.
      
      This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
      to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.
      
      We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
      because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
      demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
      shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      [ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      91d1aa43
  10. 26 10月, 2012 1 次提交
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      Makefile: Documentation for external tool should be correct · 2008713c
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      If one includes documentation for an external tool, it should be
      correct.  This is not:
      
      1. Overriding the input to rngd should typically be neither
         necessary nor desired.  This is especially so since newer
         versions of rngd support a number of different *types* of sources.
      2. The default kernel-exported device is called /dev/hwrng not
         /dev/hwrandom nor /dev/hw_random (both of which were used in the
         past; however, kernel and udev seem to have converged on
         /dev/hwrng.)
      
      Overall it is better if the documentation for rngd is kept with rngd
      rather than in a kernel Makefile.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2008713c
  11. 10 10月, 2012 6 次提交
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      MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files. · d5b71936
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      It doesn't, because the clean targets don't include kernel/Makefile, and
      because two files were missing from the list.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      d5b71936
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      MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs · e7d113bc
      David Howells 提交于
      Place an indication that the certificate should use utf8 strings into the
      x509.genkey template generated by kernel/Makefile.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      e7d113bc
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      MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig · 5e8cb1e4
      David Howells 提交于
      Use the same digest type for the autogenerated key signature as for the module
      signature so that the hash algorithm is guaranteed to be present in the kernel.
      
      Without this, the X.509 certificate loader may reject the X.509 certificate so
      generated because it was self-signed and the signature will be checked against
      itself - but this won't work if the digest algorithm must be loaded as a
      module.
      
      The symptom is that the key fails to load with the following message emitted
      into the kernel log:
      
      	MODSIGN: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-65)
      
      the error in brackets being -ENOPKG.  What you should see is something like:
      
      	MODSIGN: Loaded cert 'Magarathea: Glacier signing key: 9588321144239a119d3406d4c4cf1fbae1836fa0'
      
      Note that this doesn't apply to certificates that are not self-signed as we
      don't check those currently as they require the parent CA certificate to be
      available.
      Reported-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      5e8cb1e4
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      MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel · 631cc66e
      David Howells 提交于
      Include a PGP keyring containing the public keys required to perform module
      verification in the kernel image during build and create a special keyring
      during boot which is then populated with keys of crypto type holding the public
      keys found in the PGP keyring.
      
      These can be seen by root:
      
      [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/keys
      07ad4ee0 I-----     1 perm 3f010000     0     0 crypto    modsign.0: RSA 87b9b3bd []
      15c7f8c3 I-----     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .module_sign: 1/4
      ...
      
      It is probably worth permitting root to invalidate these keys, resulting in
      their removal and preventing further modules from being loaded with that key.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      631cc66e
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      MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing · d441108c
      David Howells 提交于
      Automatically generate keys for module signing if they're absent so that
      allyesconfig doesn't break.  The builder should consider generating their own
      key and certificate, however, so that the keys are appropriately named.
      
      The private key for the module signer should be placed in signing_key.priv
      (unencrypted!) and the public key in an X.509 certificate as signing_key.x509.
      
      If a transient key is desired for signing the modules, a config file for
      'openssl req' can be placed in x509.genkey, looking something like the
      following:
      
      	[ req ]
      	default_bits = 4096
      	distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
      	prompt = no
      	x509_extensions = myexts
      
      	[ req_distinguished_name ]
      	O = Magarathea
      	CN = Glacier signing key
      	emailAddress = slartibartfast@magrathea.h2g2
      
      	[ myexts ]
      	basicConstraints=critical,CA:FALSE
      	keyUsage=digitalSignature
      	subjectKeyIdentifier=hash
      	authorityKeyIdentifier=hash
      
      The build process will use this to configure:
      
      	openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 -sha1 -days 36500 -batch \
      		-x509 -config x509.genkey \
      		-outform DER -out signing_key.x509 \
      		-keyout signing_key.priv
      
      to generate the key.
      
      Note that it is required that the X.509 certificate have a subjectKeyIdentifier
      and an authorityKeyIdentifier.  Without those, the certificate will be
      rejected.  These can be used to check the validity of a certificate.
      
      Note that 'make distclean' will remove signing_key.{priv,x509} and x509.genkey,
      whether or not they were generated automatically.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      d441108c
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      module: signature checking hook · 106a4ee2
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module
      (which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway).  There's both a config
      option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with
      unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key.
      
      If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is
      loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the
      key.
      
      (Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>)
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      106a4ee2
  12. 14 9月, 2012 1 次提交
  13. 13 8月, 2012 1 次提交
  14. 01 6月, 2012 1 次提交
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      syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall · d97b46a6
      Cyrill Gorcunov 提交于
      While doing the checkpoint-restore in the user space one need to determine
      whether various kernel objects (like mm_struct-s of file_struct-s) are
      shared between tasks and restore this state.
      
      The 2nd step can be solved by using appropriate CLONE_ flags and the
      unshare syscall, while there's currently no ways for solving the 1st one.
      
      One of the ways for checking whether two tasks share e.g.  mm_struct is to
      provide some mm_struct ID of a task to its proc file, but showing such
      info considered to be not that good for security reasons.
      
      Thus after some debates we end up in conclusion that using that named
      'comparison' syscall might be the best candidate.  So here is it --
      __NR_kcmp.
      
      It takes up to 5 arguments - the pids of the two tasks (which
      characteristics should be compared), the comparison type and (in case of
      comparison of files) two file descriptors.
      
      Lookups for pids are done in the caller's PID namespace only.
      
      At moment only x86 is supported and tested.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up selftests, warnings]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include errno.h]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
      Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d97b46a6
  15. 30 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions · eea62f83
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
      in lglock.h.  But there's no reason to not just use common utility
      functions and put all the data into a common data structure.
      
      Since there are at least two users it makes sense to share this code in a
      library.  This is also easier maintainable than a macro forest.
      
      This will also make it later possible to dynamically allocate lglocks and
      also use them in modules (this would both still need some additional, but
      now straightforward, code)
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      eea62f83
  16. 24 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks · e73f8959
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      Provide a simple mechanism that allows running code in the (nonatomic)
      context of the arbitrary task.
      
      The caller does task_work_add(task, task_work) and this task executes
      task_work->func() either from do_notify_resume() or from do_exit().  The
      callback can rely on PF_EXITING to detect the latter case.
      
      "struct task_work" can be embedded in another struct, still it has "void
      *data" to handle the most common/simple case.
      
      This allows us to kill the ->replacement_session_keyring hack, and
      potentially this can have more users.
      
      Performance-wise, this adds 2 "unlikely(!hlist_empty())" checks into
      tracehook_notify_resume() and do_exit().  But at the same time we can
      remove the "replacement_session_keyring != NULL" checks from
      arch/*/signal.c and exit_creds().
      
      Note: task_work_add/task_work_run abuses ->pi_lock.  This is only because
      this lock is already used by lookup_pi_state() to synchronize with
      do_exit() setting PF_EXITING.  Fortunately the scope of this lock in
      task_work.c is really tiny, and the code is unlikely anyway.
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      e73f8959
  17. 26 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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      smp: Add generic smpboot facility · 38498a67
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Start a new file, which will hold SMP and CPU hotplug related generic
      infrastructure.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
      Cc: x86@kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.035417523@linutronix.de
      38498a67
  18. 22 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  19. 17 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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      uprobes, mm, x86: Add the ability to install and remove uprobes breakpoints · 2b144498
      Srikar Dronamraju 提交于
      Add uprobes support to the core kernel, with x86 support.
      
      This commit adds the kernel facilities, the actual uprobes
      user-space ABI and perf probe support comes in later commits.
      
      General design:
      
      Uprobes are maintained in an rb-tree indexed by inode and offset
      (the offset here is from the start of the mapping). For a unique
      (inode, offset) tuple, there can be at most one uprobe in the
      rb-tree.
      
      Since the (inode, offset) tuple identifies a unique uprobe, more
      than one user may be interested in the same uprobe. This provides
      the ability to connect multiple 'consumers' to the same uprobe.
      
      Each consumer defines a handler and a filter (optional). The
      'handler' is run every time the uprobe is hit, if it matches the
      'filter' criteria.
      
      The first consumer of a uprobe causes the breakpoint to be
      inserted at the specified address and subsequent consumers are
      appended to this list.  On subsequent probes, the consumer gets
      appended to the existing list of consumers. The breakpoint is
      removed when the last consumer unregisters. For all other
      unregisterations, the consumer is removed from the list of
      consumers.
      
      Given a inode, we get a list of the mms that have mapped the
      inode. Do the actual registration if mm maps the page where a
      probe needs to be inserted/removed.
      
      We use a temporary list to walk through the vmas that map the
      inode.
      
      - The number of maps that map the inode, is not known before we
        walk the rmap and keeps changing.
      - extending vm_area_struct wasn't recommended, it's a
        size-critical data structure.
      - There can be more than one maps of the inode in the same mm.
      
      We add callbacks to the mmap methods to keep an eye on text vmas
      that are of interest to uprobes.  When a vma of interest is mapped,
      we insert the breakpoint at the right address.
      
      Uprobe works by replacing the instruction at the address defined
      by (inode, offset) with the arch specific breakpoint
      instruction. We save a copy of the original instruction at the
      uprobed address.
      
      This is needed for:
      
       a. executing the instruction out-of-line (xol).
       b. instruction analysis for any subsequent fixups.
       c. restoring the instruction back when the uprobe is unregistered.
      
      We insert or delete a breakpoint instruction, and this
      breakpoint instruction is assumed to be the smallest instruction
      available on the platform. For fixed size instruction platforms
      this is trivially true, for variable size instruction platforms
      the breakpoint instruction is typically the smallest (often a
      single byte).
      
      Writing the instruction is done by COWing the page and changing
      the instruction during the copy, this even though most platforms
      allow atomic writes of the breakpoint instruction. This also
      mirrors the behaviour of a ptrace() memory write to a PRIVATE
      file map.
      
      The core worker is derived from KSM's replace_page() logic.
      
      In essence, similar to KSM:
      
       a. allocate a new page and copy over contents of the page that
          has the uprobed vaddr
       b. modify the copy and insert the breakpoint at the required
          address
       c. switch the original page with the copy containing the
          breakpoint
       d. flush page tables.
      
      replace_page() is being replicated here because of some minor
      changes in the type of pages and also because Hugh Dickins had
      plans to improve replace_page() for KSM specific work.
      
      Instruction analysis on x86 is based on instruction decoder and
      determines if an instruction can be probed and determines the
      necessary fixups after singlestep.  Instruction analysis is done
      at probe insertion time so that we avoid having to repeat the
      same analysis every time a probe is hit.
      
      A lot of code here is due to the improvement/suggestions/inputs
      from Peter Zijlstra.
      
      Changelog:
      
      (v10):
       - Add code to clear REX.B prefix as suggested by Denys Vlasenko
         and Masami Hiramatsu.
      
      (v9):
       - Use insn_offset_modrm as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu.
      
      (v7):
      
       Handle comments from Peter Zijlstra:
      
       - Dont take reference to inode. (expect inode to uprobe_register to be sane).
       - Use PTR_ERR to set the return value.
       - No need to take reference to inode.
       - use PTR_ERR to return error value.
       - register and uprobe_unregister share code.
      
      (v5):
      
       - Modified del_consumer as per comments from Peter.
       - Drop reference to inode before dropping reference to uprobe.
       - Use i_size_read(inode) instead of inode->i_size.
       - Ensure uprobe->consumers is NULL, before __uprobe_unregister() is called.
       - Includes errno.h as recommended by Stephen Rothwell to fix a build issue
         on sparc defconfig
       - Remove restrictions while unregistering.
       - Earlier code leaked inode references under some conditions while
         registering/unregistering.
       - Continue the vma-rmap walk even if the intermediate vma doesnt
         meet the requirements.
       - Validate the vma found by find_vma before inserting/removing the
         breakpoint
       - Call del_consumer under mutex_lock.
       - Use hash locks.
       - Handle mremap.
       - Introduce find_least_offset_node() instead of close match logic in
         find_uprobe
       - Uprobes no more depends on MM_OWNER; No reference to task_structs
         while inserting/removing a probe.
       - Uses read_mapping_page instead of grab_cache_page so that the pages
         have valid content.
       - pass NULL to get_user_pages for the task parameter.
       - call SetPageUptodate on the new page allocated in write_opcode.
       - fix leaking a reference to the new page under certain conditions.
       - Include Instruction Decoder if Uprobes gets defined.
       - Remove const attributes for instruction prefix arrays.
       - Uses mm_context to know if the application is 32 bit.
      Signed-off-by: NSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Also-written-by: NJim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
      Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120209092642.GE16600@linux.vnet.ibm.com
      [ Made various small edits to the commit log ]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2b144498
  20. 25 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      sysctl: Move the implementation into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c · 1f87f0b5
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c
      into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c.
      
      Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation
      being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them.
      Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that
      it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for
      simpler maintenance.
      
      For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove
      their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      1f87f0b5
  21. 14 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  22. 17 11月, 2011 2 次提交
  23. 23 9月, 2011 1 次提交
  24. 25 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  25. 06 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order · b77f0f3c
      Jason Baron 提交于
      In the course of testing jump labels for use with the CFS
      bandwidth controller, Paul Turner, discovered that using jump
      labels reduced the branch count and the instruction count, but
      did not reduce the cycle count or wall time.
      
      I noticed that having the jump_label.o included in the kernel
      but not used in any way still caused this increase in cycle
      count and wall time. Thus, I moved jump_label.o in the
      kernel/Makefile, thus changing the link order, and presumably
      moving it out of hot icache areas. This brought down the cycle
      count/time as expected.
      
      In addition to Paul's testing,  I've tested the patch using a
      single 'static_branch()' in the getppid() path, and basically
      running tight loops of calls to getppid(). Here are my results
      for the branch disabled case:
      
      With jump labels turned on (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL), branch disabled:
      
       Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs):
      
           3,969,510,217 instructions             #	   0.864 IPC     ( +-0.000% )
           4,592,334,954 cycles                     ( +-   0.046% )
             751,634,470 branches                   ( +-   0.000% )
      
              1.722635797  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.046% )
      
      Jump labels turned off (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL not set), branch
      disabled:
      
       Performance counter stats for 'bash -c /tmp/getppid;true' (50 runs):
      
           4,009,611,846 instructions             #	   0.867 IPC     ( +-0.000% )
           4,622,210,580 cycles                     ( +-   0.012% )
             771,662,904 branches                   ( +-   0.000% )
      
              1.734341454  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.022% )
      Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: rth@redhat.com
      Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805204040.GG2522@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Tested-by: NPaul Turner <pjt@google.com>
      b77f0f3c
  26. 20 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  27. 27 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  28. 03 5月, 2011 2 次提交
  29. 24 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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      crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr,... · 93a72052
      Olaf Hering 提交于
      crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn
      
      The Xen PV drivers in a crashed HVM guest can not connect to the dom0
      backend drivers because both frontend and backend drivers are still in
      connected state.  To run the connection reset function only in case of a
      crashdump, the is_kdump_kernel() function needs to be available for the PV
      driver modules.
      
      Consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn into
      kernel/crash_dump.c Also export elfcorehdr_addr to make is_kdump_kernel()
      usable for modules.
      
      Leave 'elfcorehdr' as early_param().  This changes powerpc from __setup()
      to early_param().  It adds an address range check from x86 also on ia64
      and powerpc.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional #includes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove elfcorehdr_addr export]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for Tejun's mm/nobootmem.c changes]
      Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      93a72052
  30. 14 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS · 351f8f8e
      Amerigo Wang 提交于
      For arch which needs USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, it has to select
      USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, rather than leaving a choice to user, since they
      don't provide their own implementions.
      
      Also, move on_each_cpu() to kernel/smp.c, it is strange to put it in
      kernel/softirq.c.
      
      For arch which doesn't use USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, e.g.  blackfin, only
      on_each_cpu() is compiled.
      Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      351f8f8e
  31. 08 1月, 2011 1 次提交