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  1. 23 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Introduce FW_BUG, FW_WARN and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs · a0ad05c7
      由 Thomas Renninger 提交于 
      The idea is to add this to printk after the severity:
printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "This is not our fault, BIOS developer: fix it by
simply add ...\n");

If a Firmware issue should be hidden, because it is
work-arounded, but you still want to see something popping up e.g.
for info only:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_INFO "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

or on the Linuxfirmwarekit to tell vendors that they did something
stupid or wrong without bothering the user:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "This is done stupid, we can handle it,
but it should better be avoided in future\n");

Some use cases:
  - If a user sees a [Firmware Bug] message in the kernel
    he should first update the BIOS before wasting time with
    debugging and submiting on old firmware code to mailing
    lists.

  - The linuxfirmwarekit (http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org)
    tries to detect firmware bugs. It currently is doing that
    in userspace which results in:
        - Huge test scripts that could be a one liner in the kernel
        - A lot of BIOS bugs are already absorbed by the kernel

What do we need such a stupid linuxfirmwarekit for?

  - Vendors: Can test their BIOSes for Linux compatibility.
    There will be the time when vendors realize that the test utils
    on Linux are more strict and using them increases the qualitity
    and stability of their products.

  - Vendors: Can easily fix up their BIOSes and be more Linux
    compatible by:
    dmesg |grep "Firmware Bug"
    and send the result to their BIOS developer colleagues who should
    know what the messages are about and how to fix them, without
    the need of studying kernel code.

  - Distributions: can do a first automated HW/BIOS checks.
    This can then be done without the need of asking kernel developers
    who need to dig down the code and explain the details.
    Certification can/will just be rejected until
    dmesg |grep "Firmware Bug" is empty.

  - Thus this can be used as an instrument to enforce cleaner BIOS
    code. Currently every stupid Windows ACPI bug is
    re-implemented in Linux which is a rather unfortunate situation.
    We already have the power to avoid this in e.g. memory
    or cpu hot-plug ACPI implementations, because Linux certification
    is a must for most vendors in the server area.
    Working towards being able to do that in the laptop area
    (vendors are starting to look at Linux here also and will use this tool)
    is the goal. At least provide them a tool to make it as easy
    for this guys (e.g. not needing to browse kernel code) as possible.

  - The ordinary Linux user: can go into the next shop, boots the
    firmwarekit on his most preferred machines. He chooses one without
    BIOS bugs. Unsupported HW is ok, he likes to try out latest projects
    which might support them or likes to dig on it on his own, but he
    hates to workaround broken BIOSes like hell.

I double checked with the firmwarekit.
There they have:
So the mapping generally is (also depending on how likely the BIOS is
to blame, this could sometimes be difficult):
FW_INFO  = INFO
FW_WARN  = WARN
FW_BUG   = FAIL

For more info about the linuxfirmwarekit and why this is needed
can be found here:
http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org

While severity matches with the firmwarekit, it might be tricky
to hide messages from the user.
E.g. we recently found out that on HP BIOSes negative temperatures
are returned, which seem to indicate that the thermal zone is
invalid.
We can work around that gracefully by ignoring the thermal zone
and we do not want to bother the ordinary user with a frightening
message: Firmware Bug: thermal management absolutely broken
but want to hide it from the user.

But in the linuxfirmwarekit this should be shown as a real
show stopper (the temperatures could really be wrong,
broken thermal management is one of the worst things
that can happen and the BIOS guys of the machine must
implement this properly).

It is intended to do that (hide it from the user with
KERN_INFO msg, but still print it as a BIOS bug) by:
printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "Negativ temperature values detected.
Try to workarounded, BIOS must get fixed\n");
Hope that works out..., no idea how to better hide it
as printk is the only way to easily provide this functionality.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      a0ad05c7
  3. 13 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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  7. 26 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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  13. 25 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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  17. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  19. 29 4月, 2008 3 次提交
  21. 20 4月, 2008 1 次提交
    • J
      driver core: Convert debug functions declared inline __attribute__((format... · 1429db83
      由 Joe Perches 提交于 
      driver core: Convert debug functions declared inline __attribute__((format (printf,x,y) to statement expression macros

When DEBUG is not defined, pr_debug and dev_dbg and some
other local debugging functions are specified as:

"inline __attribute__((format (printf, x, y)))"

This is done to validate printk arguments when not debugging.

Converting these functions to macros or statement expressions
"do { if (0) printk(fmt, ##arg); } while (0)"
or
"({ if (0) printk(fmt, ##arg); 0; })
makes at least gcc 4.2.2 produce smaller objects.

This has the additional benefit of allowing the optimizer to
avoid calling functions like print_mac that might have been
arguments to the printk.

defconfig x86 current:

$ size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4716770  474560  618496 5809826  58a6a2 vmlinux

all converted: (More patches follow)

$ size vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4716642  474560  618496 5809698  58a622 vmlinux

Even kernel/sched.o, which doesn't even use these
functions, becomes smaller.

It appears that merely having an indirect include
of <linux/device.h> can cause bigger objects.

$ size sched.inline.o sched.if0.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  31385    2854     328   34567    8707 sched.inline.o
  31366    2854     328   34548    86f4 sched.if0.o

The current preprocessed only kernel/sched.i file contains:

# 612 "include/linux/device.h"
static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)))
dev_dbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
{
 return 0;
}
# 628 "include/linux/device.h"
static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)))
dev_vdbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
{
 return 0;
}

Removing these unused inlines from sched.i shrinks sched.o
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      1429db83
  23. 09 2月, 2008 5 次提交
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      Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use them · 06b2a76d
      由 Yi Yang 提交于 
      Currently, for every sysfs node, the callers will be responsible for
implementing store operation, so many many callers are doing duplicate
things to validate input, they have the same mistakes because they are
calling simple_strtol/ul/ll/uul, especially for module params, they are
just numeric, but you can echo such values as 0x1234xxx, 07777888 and
1234aaa, for these cases, module params store operation just ignores
succesive invalid char and converts prefix part to a numeric although input
is acctually invalid.

This patch tries to fix the aforementioned issues and implements
strict_strtox serial functions, kernel/params.c uses them to strictly
validate input, so module params will reject such values as 0x1234xxxx and
returns an error:

write error: Invalid argument

Any modules which export numeric sysfs node can use strict_strtox instead of
simple_strtox to reject any invalid input.

Here are some test results:

Before applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

After applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo -n 4096 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiler warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one found by tiwai@suse.de]
Signed-off-by: NYi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      06b2a76d
    • J
      printk_ratelimit() functions should use CONFIG_PRINTK · 7ef3d2fd
      由 Joe Perches 提交于 
      Makes an embedded image a bit smaller.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7ef3d2fd
    • H
      Remove fastcall from linux/include · ec701584
      由 Harvey Harrison 提交于 
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ec701584
    • D
      mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel · b920de1b
      由 David Howells 提交于 
      Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the
kernel.

This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter
board, and the ASB2305.  The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which
is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings]
Signed-off-by: NMasakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: NKoichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b920de1b
    • D
      aout: suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT · 7fa30315
      由 David Howells 提交于 
      Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.

Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.

To make this work, this patch also does the following:

 (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
     CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.

 (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
     core dumping code.

 (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
     is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
     code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
     the core kernel.

 (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
     needed) and FRV.

This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
format is available.

[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7fa30315
  25. 07 2月, 2008 2 次提交
  27. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  29. 26 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  31. 17 10月, 2007 4 次提交
  33. 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  35. 12 9月, 2007 1 次提交
  37. 12 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  39. 09 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  41. 22 7月, 2007 1 次提交
    • A
      x86: Support __attribute__((__cold__)) in gcc 4.3 · a586df06
      由 Andi Kleen 提交于 
      gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any
path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc
will try to generate smaller code for the function itself.

Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most
cases it is not worth uglifying code with this.

This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk()
as cold.  This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although
we can keep them for now for older compilers.

BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell
gcc to mark a inline function told.

Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os
build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code
for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels,
but that might change in the future.

One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented
to verify them.

Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this.
Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older
snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are
unreleased compilers that nobody should be using.

gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using
this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able
to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os,
if that happens it should be added.

Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner.

Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a586df06
  43. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  45. 09 6月, 2007 1 次提交
    • R
      hexdump: more output formatting · c7909234
      由 Randy Dunlap 提交于 
      Add a prefix string parameter.  Callers are responsible for any string
length/alignment that they want to see in the output.  I.e., callers should
pad strings to achieve alignment if they want that.

Add rowsize parameter.  This is the number of raw data bytes to be printed
per line.  Must be 16 or 32.

Add a groupsize parameter.  This allows callers to dump values as 1-byte,
2-byte, 4-byte, or 8-byte numbers.  Default is 1-byte numbers.  If the
total length is not an even multiple of groupsize, 1-byte numbers are
printed.

Add an "ascii" output parameter.  This causes ASCII data output following
the hex data output.

Clean up some doc examples.

Align the ASCII output on all lines that are produced by one call.

Add a new interface, print_hex_dump_bytes(), that is a shortcut to
print_hex_dump(), using default parameter values to print 16 bytes in
byte-size chunks of hex + ASCII output, using printk level KERN_DEBUG.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c7909234
  47. 13 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  49. 11 5月, 2007 2 次提交
    • R
      lib/hexdump · 99eaf3c4
      由 Randy Dunlap 提交于 
      Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx SystemACE
CompactFlash interface.

Add print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.

This patch adds the functions print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper().
print_hex_dump() can be used to perform a hex + ASCII dump of data to
syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus providing a common text hex dump
format.

hex_dumper() provides a dump-to-memory function.  It converts one "line" of
output (16 bytes of input) at a time.

Example usages:
	print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, frame->data, frame->len);
	hex_dumper(frame->data, frame->len, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf));

Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
0009ab42: 40414243 44454647 48494a4b 4c4d4e4f-@ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS:
ffffffff88089af0: 70717273 74757677 78797a7b 7c7d7e7f-pqrstuvw xyz{|}~.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, add export]
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      99eaf3c4
    • A
      add upper-32-bits macro · 218e180e
      由 Andrew Morton 提交于 
      We keep on getting "right shift count >= width of type" warnings when doing
things like

	sector_t s;

	x = s >> 56;

because with CONFIG_LBD=n, s is only 32-bit.  Similar problems can occur with
dma_addr_t's.

So add a simple wrapper function which code can use to avoid this warning.
The above example would become

	x = upper_32_bits(s) >> 24;

The first user is in fact AFS.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: "Cameron, Steve" <Steve.Cameron@hp.com>
Cc: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>
Cc: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      218e180e
  51. 08 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  53. 01 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  55. 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] pid: make session_of_pgrp use struct pid instead of pid_t · 04a2e6a5
      由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于 
      To properly implement a pid namespace I need to deal exclusively in terms of
struct pid, because pid_t values become ambiguous.

To this end session_of_pgrp is transformed to take and return a struct pid
pointer.  To avoid the need to worry about reference counting I now require my
caller to hold the appropriate locks.  Leaving callers repsonsible for
increasing the reference count if they need access to the result outside of
the locks.

Since session_of_pgrp currently only has one caller and that caller simply
uses only test the result for equality with another process group, the locking
change means I don't actually have to acquire the tasklist_lock at all.

tiocspgrp is also modified to take and release the lock.  The logic there is a
little more complicated but nothing I won't need when I convert pgrp of a tty
to a struct pid pointer.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      04a2e6a5