1. 07 12月, 2006 5 次提交
  2. 18 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      x86: be more careful when walking back the frame pointer chain · 808dbbb6
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      When showing the stack backtrace, make sure that we never accept not
      only an unchanging frame pointer, but also a frame pointer that moves
      back down the stack frame.  It must always grow up (toward older stack
      frames).
      
      I doubt this has triggered, but a subtly corrupt stack with extremely
      unlucky contents could cause us to loop forever on a bogus endless frame
      pointer chain.
      
      This review was triggered by much worse problems happening in some of
      the other stack unwinding code.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      808dbbb6
  3. 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriate · 96b644bd
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the
      appropriate one to use.  This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname
      helper.
      
      Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname().  Hope I picked all the
      	right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.  These are now changed to
      	utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
      	patch (2/7)
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
      Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      96b644bd
  4. 30 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 27 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 26 9月, 2006 12 次提交
  7. 31 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: Make backtracer fallback logic more bullet-proof · ea424055
      Jan Beulich 提交于
      The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to
      the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once
      serving as a separator) of this.
      
      Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as
      restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack
      tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but
      this could certainly be further improved.
      
      Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon
      CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise).
      Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ea424055
  8. 15 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Change panic_on_oops message to "Fatal exception" · 012c437d
      Horms 提交于
      Previously the message was "Fatal exception: panic_on_oops", as introduced
      in a recent patch whith removed a somewhat dangerous call to ssleep() in
      the panic_on_oops path.  However, Paul Mackerras suggested that this was
      somewhat confusing, leadind people to believe that it was panic_on_oops
      that was the root cause of the fatal exception.  On his suggestion, this
      patch changes the message to simply "Fatal exception".  A suitable oops
      message should already have been displayed.
      Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      012c437d
  9. 01 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep() · cea6a4ba
      Horms 提交于
      This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour across
      all architectures that implement it.
      
      It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured in
      interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause a
      panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at
      all.
      
      This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message
      accordinly.  I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is
      too long, feedback welcome.
      
      For powerpc it also unifies the 32bit and 64bit behaviour.
      
      Fror x86_64, this patch only updates the console message, as ssleep() is
      already not present.
      Signed-off-by: NHorms <horms@verge.net.au>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cea6a4ba
  10. 30 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 29 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 15 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 11 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 04 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 27 6月, 2006 2 次提交
  17. 23 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: extra checks in show_registers() · 7e04a118
      Chuck Ebbert 提交于
      Sometimes thread_info and task_struct get out-of-sync with each other.
      Printing task.thread_info in show_registers() can help spot this.  And when
      task_struct is corrupt then task.comm can contain garbage, so only print as
      many characters as it can hold.
      Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7e04a118
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      [PATCH] i386: break out of recursion in stackframe walk · b88d4f1d
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS is enabled, and one does a dump_stack() during
      early SMP init, an infinite stackdump and a bootup hang happens:
      
       [<c0104e7f>] show_trace+0xd/0xf
       [<c0104e96>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
       [<c01440df>] save_trace+0xc3/0xce
       [<c014527d>] mark_lock+0x8c/0x4fe
       [<c0145df5>] __lockdep_acquire+0x44e/0xaa5
       [<c0146798>] lockdep_acquire+0x68/0x84
       [<c1048699>] _spin_lock+0x21/0x2f
       [<c010d918>] prepare_set+0xd/0x5d
       [<c010daa8>] generic_set_all+0x1d/0x201
       [<c010ca9a>] mtrr_ap_init+0x23/0x3b
       [<c010ada8>] identify_cpu+0x2a7/0x2af
       [<c01192a7>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x2f/0xb4
       [<c01197d0>] start_secondary+0xb5/0x3ec
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
       [...]
      
      Due to "end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function" recursing back to itself in the
      EBP stackframe-walker.  So avoid this type of recursion when walking the
      stack .
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b88d4f1d
  18. 22 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 11 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 01 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] · 9b41046c
      OGAWA Hirofumi 提交于
      The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
      parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).
      
      And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().
      
      	start_kernel()
      		-> parse_args()
      			-> unknown_bootoption()
      				-> obsolete_checksetup()
      
      If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
      obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
      handled.
      
      If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
      ->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
      a parameter is seted to argv_init[].
      
      Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
      If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.
      
      This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.
      Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9b41046c
  21. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
  22. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] pause_on_oops command line option · dd287796
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
      due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
      
      If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
      It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
      time.  Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
      to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
      
      The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
      architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
      
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dd287796