- 17 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
Add trace points to trace module_load, module_free, module_get, module_put and module_request, and use trace_event facility to get the trace output. Here's the sample output: TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION | | | | | <...>-42 [000] 1.758380: module_request: fb0 wait=1 call_site=fb_open ... <...>-60 [000] 3.269403: module_load: scsi_wait_scan <...>-60 [000] 3.269432: module_put: scsi_wait_scan call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0 <...>-61 [001] 3.273168: module_free: scsi_wait_scan ... <...>-1021 [000] 13.836081: module_load: sunrpc <...>-1021 [000] 13.840589: module_put: sunrpc call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=-1 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848098: module_get: sunrpc call_site=try_module_get refcnt=0 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848308: module_get: sunrpc call_site=get_filesystem refcnt=1 <...>-1027 [000] 13.848692: module_put: sunrpc call_site=put_filesystem refcnt=0 ... modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437213: module_load: trace_events_sample F modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437786: module_put: trace_events_sample call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0 Note: - the taints flag can be 'F', 'C' and/or 'P' if mod->taints != 0 - the module refcnt is percpu, so it can be negative in a specific cpu Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <4A891B3C.5030608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 28 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
The check_modstruct_version() needs to look up the symbol "module_layout" in the kernel, but it does so literally and not by a C identifier. The trouble is that it does not include a symbol prefix for those ports that need it (like the Blackfin and H8300 port). So make sure we tack on the MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX define to the front of it. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
Commit 5fd29d6c ("printk: clean up handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics. printk lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as before the patch. <level> is now included in the output on each additional use. Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats. Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> 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 Peter Oberparleiter 提交于
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Several WARN_ON() messages omit the '\n' at the end of the string, which is a simple (and understandable) error. The next line printed after that warning line is usually the current module list, and that printk does not have a log-level marker - resulting in one long mixed-up line. Adding this loglevel marker will now avoid this unreadable mess. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries which point into the (freed) init text of modules. These could cause future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup. The only case I know of is kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n). Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this patch is more general. This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they use the standard lib/extable.c sort code. Alpha and IA64 use relative addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation. Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE, yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib. It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of actually trimming them. Inspired-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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由 Catalin Marinas 提交于
This patch handles the kmemleak operations needed for modules loading so that memory allocations from inside a module are properly tracked. Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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- 17 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF. To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented the hooks as calls directly from the module code. After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes the use of the notify safe with ftrace. Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify any code. This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex. [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 15 4月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
Commit 3d43321b ("modules: sysctl to block module loading") introduces a modules_disabled variable that is only defined if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is enabled, despite being used in other places. This moves it up and fixes up the build. CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c: In function 'sys_init_module': kernel/module.c:2401: error: 'modules_disabled' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2401: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/module.c:2401: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2 Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system. It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a module is removed. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 12 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to mount root filesystems etc. However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken. We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code, where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running. That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit 5d38258e "ACPI battery: fix async boot oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all async work to be completed. It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple fix to wait is the right one. This fixes at least http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug report (no bugzilla entry). We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix. Reported-and-tested-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com> Tested-by: NHeinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org> Acked-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 07 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
This reverts commit 9cb610d8. This was an impressively stupid patch. Firstly, we reset the SHF_ALLOC flag lower down in the same function, so the patch was useless. Even better, find_sec() ignores sections with SHF_ALLOC not set, so it breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y with CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD=n, which refuses to load the module since it can't find the __versions section. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Kees Cook 提交于
Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25. Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE. Given existing /dev/mem protections, this should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading after initial boot-time module loading has finished. Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 31 3月, 2009 12 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: minor cleanup. I'm not going to neaten anyone else's code, but I'm happy to clean up my own. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> discovered that boot times are slowed by about half a second because all the stop_machine_create() calls, and he only probes about 40 modules (I have 125 loaded on this laptop). We only do stop_machine_create() so we can unlink the module if something goes wrong, but it's overkill (and buggy anyway: if stop_machine_create() fails we still call stop_machine_destroy()). Since we are only protecting against kallsyms (esp. oops) walking the list, synchronize_sched() is sufficient (synchronize_rcu() is probably sufficient, but we're not in a hurry). Kay says of this patch: ... no module takes more than 40 millisecs to link now, most of them are between 3 and 8 millisecs. That looks very different to the numbers without this patch and the otherwise same setup, where we get heavy noise in the traces and many delays of up to 200 millisecs until linking, most of them taking 30+ millisecs. Tested-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version 'struct module' using a dummy export, but other things matter too: 1) 'struct modversion_info' determines the layout of the __versions section, 2) 'struct kernel_param' determines the layout of the __params section, 3) 'struct kernel_symbol' determines __ksymtab*. 4) 'struct marker' determines __markers. 5) 'struct tracepoint' determines __tracepoints. So we rename 'struct_module' to 'module_layout' and include these in the signature. Now it's general we can add others later on without confusion. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: reduce kernel memory usage This patch just takes off the SHF_ALLOC flag on __versions so we don't keep them around after module load. This saves about 7% of module memory if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. Cc: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: Message cleanup Two of three callers of try_to_force_load() are not because of a missing version, so change the messages: Old: <modname>: no version for "magic" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: bad vermagic: kernel tainted. Old: <modname>: no version for "nocrc" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: no versions for exported symbols: kernel tainted. Old: <modname>: no version for "<symname>" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: <symname>: kernel tainted. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Tim Abbott 提交于
Impact: Expose some module.c symbols Ksplice uses several functions from module.c in order to resolve symbols and implement dependency handling. Calling these functions requires holding module_mutex, so it is exported. (This is just the module part of a bigger add-exports patch from Tim). Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Anders Kaseorg 提交于
Impact: New API kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds. Ksplice needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly resolve local symbols. kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the kallsyms table. Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NAnders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: Replace and remove risky (non-EXPORTed) API module_text_address() returns a pointer to the module, which given locking improvements in module.c, is useless except to test for NULL: 1) If the module can't go away, use __module_text_address. 2) Otherwise, just use is_module_text_address(). Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: New API, cleanup ksplice wants to know the bounds of a module, not just the module text. It makes sense to have __module_address. We then implement is_module_address and __module_text_address in terms of this (and change is_module_text_address() to bool while we're at it). Also, add proper kerneldoc for them all. Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Tim Abbott 提交于
Impact: Cleanup, internal API change Ksplice needs access to the kernel_symbol structure in order to support modifications to the exported symbol table. Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (bugfix and style)
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由 Américo Wang 提交于
Impact: cleanup Label 'free_init' is only used when defined(CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD) && defined(CONFIG_SMP), so move it inside to shut up gcc. Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem. So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module unload. (Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes) Reported-by: NSitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Diagnosed-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: NChristof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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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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- 18 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Impact: fix ref-after-free crash on failed module load Fix refptr bug: Change refptr allocation and release order not to access a module data structure pointed by 'mod' after freeing mod->module_core. This bug will cause kernel panic(e.g. failed to find undefined symbols). This bug was reported on systemtap bugzilla. http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9927Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 07 3月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Impact: cleanup Remove a few leftovers and clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Lai Jiangshan 提交于
Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk() trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if !CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ] Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: add reserved allocation functionality and use it for module percpu variables This patch implements reserved allocation from the first chunk. When setting up the first chunk, arch can ask to set aside certain number of bytes right after the core static area which is available only through a separate reserved allocator. This will be used primarily for module static percpu variables on architectures with limited relocation range to ensure that the module perpcu symbols are inside the relocatable range. If reserved area is requested, the first chunk becomes reserved and isn't available for regular allocation. If the first chunk also includes piggy-back dynamic allocation area, a separate chunk mapping the same region is created to serve dynamic allocation. The first one is called static first chunk and the second dynamic first chunk. Although they share the page map, their different area map initializations guarantee they serve disjoint areas according to their purposes. If arch doesn't setup reserved area, reserved allocation is handled like any other allocation. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 20 2月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: new scalable dynamic percpu allocator which allows dynamic percpu areas to be accessed the same way as static ones Implement scalable dynamic percpu allocator which can be used for both static and dynamic percpu areas. This will allow static and dynamic areas to share faster direct access methods. This feature is optional and enabled only when CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is defined by arch. Please read comment on top of mm/percpu.c for details. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: cleanup Move percpu_modinit() upwards. This is to ease further changes. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 09 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
When the function graph tracer picks a return address, it ensures this address is really a kernel text one by calling __kernel_text_address() Actually this path has never been taken.Its role was more likely to debug the tracer on the beginning of its development but this function is wasteful since it is called for every traced function. The fault check is already sufficient. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 03 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Eric Dumazet 提交于
Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is using a lot of memory. Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines. This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() & percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage. Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes. On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module) Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage. Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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- 08 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Arjan van de Ven 提交于
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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- 07 1月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Add a module notifier call which notifies that the state of a module changes from MODULE_STATE_COMING to MODULE_STATE_LIVE. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
This series of patches allows kprobes to probe module's __init and __exit functions. This means, you can probe driver initialization and terminating. Currently, kprobes can't probe __init function because these functions are freed after module initialization. And it also can't probe module __exit functions because kprobe increments reference count of target module and user can't unload it. this means __exit functions never be called unless removing probes from the module. To solve both cases, this series of patches introduces GONE flag and sets it when the target code is freed(for this purpose, kprobes hooks MODULE_STATE_* events). This also removes refcount incrementing for allowing user to unload target module. Users can check which probes are GONE by debugfs interface. For taking timing of freeing module's .init text, these also include a patch which adds module's notifier of MODULE_STATE_LIVE event. This patch: Add within_module_core() and within_module_init() for checking whether an address is in the module .init.text section or .text section, and replace within() local inline functions in kernel/module.c with them. kprobes uses these functions to check where the kprobe is inserted. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
The module code relies on a non-failing stop_machine call. So we create the kstop threads in advance and with that make sure the call won't fail. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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