1. 14 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 18 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer · d7627467
      David Howells 提交于
      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
      correctly on ARM:
      
      arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
      
      This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
      the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
      because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
      copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
      pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
      
      do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
      or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
      const should be fine.
      
      Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
      
      This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7627467
  3. 14 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  5. 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  6. 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 17 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 09 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 05 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 19 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop · b8f8c3cf
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
      problem in the NOHZ code:
      
      	scheduler switch to idle task
      	enable interrupts
      
      Window starts here
      
      	----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
      	      	irq_exit() stops the tick
      
      	----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
      
      	return from schedule()
      	
      	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
      
      Window ends here
      
      The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
      first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
      rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
      disabled.
      
      The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
      NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
      hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
      
      Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
      that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
      
      cpu_idle()
      {
      	preempt_disable();
      
      	while(1) {
      		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
      		 			          are in the idle loop
      
      		 while (!need_resched())
      		       halt();
      
      		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
      		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
      		 schedule();
      		 preempt_disable();
      	}
      }
      
      In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 
      
      /me grabs a large brown paperbag.
      
      Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>, 
      Debugged-by: Neric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b8f8c3cf
  11. 20 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  12. 27 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      avr32: Fix OCD refcounting bug · 325d6f55
      Haavard Skinnemoen 提交于
      Iff the parent has TIF_DEBUG set, _and_ clone_flags includes
      CLONE_PTRACE we should set the TIF_DEBUG flag for the child and
      increment the ocd refcount. Otherwise, the TIF_DEBUG flag must be
      unset.
      
      Currently, the child inherits TIF_DEBUG from the parent before
      copy_thread is called, so TIF_DEBUG may be already be set before we
      determine whether the child is supposed to inherit debugging
      capabilities from the parent or not. This means that ocd_enable()
      won't increment the refcount, because TIF_DEBUG is already set, and
      that TIF_DEBUG will be set for processes that aren't being debugged.
      
      This leads to a refcounting asymmetry, which may show up as
      
      ------------[ cut here ]------------
      Badness at arch/avr32/kernel/ocd.c:73
      PC is at ocd_disable+0x34/0x60
      LR is at put_lock_stats+0xa/0x20
      
      as reported by David Brownell. Happens when strace'ing a process that
      forks a new child process, e.g. "strace mount -tjffs2 mtd1 /mnt", and
      subsequently killing the child process (e.g. "umount /mnt".)
      Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      325d6f55
  13. 15 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  14. 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [AVR32] Enable debugging only when needed · 13b54a50
      Haavard Skinnemoen 提交于
      Keep track of processes being debugged (including the kernel itself)
      and turn the OCD system on and off as appropriate. Since enabling
      debugging turns off some optimizations in the CPU core, this fixes the
      issue that enabling KProbes support or simply running a program under
      gdbserver will reduce system performance significantly until the next
      reboot.
      
      The CPU performance will still be reduced for all processes while a
      process is being debugged, but this is a lot better than reducing the
      performance forever.
      Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      13b54a50
  15. 07 12月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [AVR32] Clean up OCD register usage · 8dfe8f29
      Haavard Skinnemoen 提交于
      Generate a new set of OCD register definitions in asm/ocd.h and rename
      __mfdr() and __mtdr() to ocd_read() and ocd_write() respectively.
      
      The bitfield definitions are a lot more complete now, and they are
      entirely based on bit numbers, not masks. This is because OCD
      registers are frequently accessed from assembly code, where bit
      numbers are a lot more useful (can be fed directly to sbr, bfins,
      etc.)
      
      Bitfields that consist of more than one bit have two definitions:
      _START, which indicates the number of the first bit, and _SIZE, which
      indicates the number of bits. These directly correspond to the
      parameters taken by the bfextu, bfexts and bfins instructions.
      Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      8dfe8f29
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      [AVR32] Fix invalid status register bit definitions in asm/ptrace.h · df679771
      Haavard Skinnemoen 提交于
      The 'H' bit is bit 29, while the 'R' bit doesn't exist. Luckily, we
      don't actually use any of the bits in question.
      
      Also update show_regs() to show the Debug Mask and Debug state bits.
      Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      df679771
  16. 10 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  17. 27 4月, 2007 2 次提交
  18. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交