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Rusty Russell
2e45e77787 Revert "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section."
This reverts commit 9cb610d8e3.

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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-07 17:12:43 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Rusty Russell
49502677e1 module: use strstarts()
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:37 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e91defa26c module: don't use stop_machine on module load
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: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:35 +10:30
Rusty Russell
8c8ef42aee module: include other structures in module version check
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
9cb610d8e3 module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section.
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
c6e665c8f0 module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Tim Abbott
c6b3780191 module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice
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: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Anders Kaseorg
75a66614db Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
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: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
a6e6abd575 module: remove module_text_address()
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e610499e26 module: __module_address
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:31 +10:30
Tim Abbott
414fd31b25 module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol
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: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (bugfix and style)
2009-03-31 13:05:31 +10:30
Américo Wang
b10153fe31 kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label
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: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e180a6b775 param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs
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: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:30 +10:30
Ingo Molnar
6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Jason Baron
e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
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: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
22de89b371 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kprobes', 'tracing/tasks' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-03-20 10:14:53 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
6e2b75740b module: fix refptr allocation and release order
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=9927

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-18 09:31:21 +10:30
Ingo Molnar
8293dd6f86 Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/ftrace
Semantic merge:

  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 10:17:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f0ef039851 Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/textedit
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	block/blktrace.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic conflict:
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 16:45:01 +01:00
Tejun Heo
edcb463997 percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables
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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-03-06 14:33:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo
fbf59bc9d7 percpu: implement new dynamic percpu allocator
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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Tejun Heo
6b588c18f8 module: reorder module pcpu related functions
Impact: cleanup

Move percpu_modinit() upwards.  This is to ease further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:07 +09:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3861a17bcc tracing/function-graph-tracer: drop the kernel_text_address check
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: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:38 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
720eba31f4 modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting
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: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-02 19:17:55 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
17da2bd90a [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:21 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
22a9d64567 async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
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: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-07 08:45:46 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
0deddf436a module: add MODULE_STATE_LIVE notify
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:21 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a06f6211ef module: add within_module_core() and within_module_init()
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:20 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f1883f86de Remove remaining unwinder code
Signed-off-by: Alexey 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
9e01892c42 module: convert to stop_machine_create/destroy.
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: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-05 08:40:15 +10:30
Helge Deller
088af9a6e0 module: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules for parisc
When creating the final layout of a kernel module in memory, allow the
module loader to reserve some additional memory in front of a given section.
This is currently only needed for the parisc port which needs to put the
stub entries there to fulfill the 17/22bit PCREL relocations with large
kernel modules like xfs.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (renamed fn)
2009-01-05 08:40:13 +10:30
Jianjun Kong
d1e99d7ae4 module: fix warning of unused function when !CONFIG_PROC_FS
Fix this warning:
kernel/module.c:824: warning: ‘print_unload_info’ defined but not used
print_unload_info() just was used when CONFIG_PROC_FS was defined.
This patch mark print_unload_info() inline to solve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
2009-01-05 08:40:11 +10:30
Tim Abbott
ca4787b779 kernel/module.c: compare symbol values when marking symbols as exported in /proc/kallsyms.
When there are two symbols in a module with the same name, one of which is
exported, both will be marked as exported in /proc/kallsyms.  There aren't
any instances of this in the current kernel, but it is easy to construct a
simple module with two compilation units that exhibits the problem.

$ objdump -j .text -t testmod.ko | grep foo
00000000 l     F .text	00000032 foo
00000080 g     F .text	00000001 foo
$ sudo insmod testmod.ko
$ grep "T foo" /proc/kallsyms
c28e8000 T foo	[testmod]
c28e8080 T foo	[testmod]

Fix this by comparing the symbol values once we've found the exported
symbol table entry matching the symbol name.  Tested using Ksplice:

$ ksplice-create --patch=this_commit.patch --id=bar .
$ sudo ksplice-apply ksplice-bar.tar.gz
Done!
$ grep "T foo" /proc/kallsyms
c28e8080 T foo	[testmod]

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-05 08:40:11 +10:30
Frederic Weisbecker
8b96f01198 tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions
Impact: trace more functions

When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
normal function tracer too.

arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:

I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
"write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
the original return address of the function inside current, we had
crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.

kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:

Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
__kernel_text_address()

To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3f8e402f34 Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-17 09:36:22 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
32f8574277 tracepoints: use modules notifiers
Impact: cleanup

Use module notifiers for tracepoint updates rather than adding a hook in
module.c.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:35 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
a419246ac7 markers: use module notifier
Impact: cleanup

Use module notifiers instead of adding a hook in module.c.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:28 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
31e889098a ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions
Impact: allow archs more flexibility on dynamic ftrace implementations

Dynamic ftrace has largly been developed on x86. Since x86 does not
have the same limitations as other architectures, the ftrace interaction
between the generic code and the architecture specific code was not
flexible enough to handle some of the issues that other architectures
have.

Most notably, module trampolines. Due to the limited branch distance
that archs make in calling kernel core code from modules, the module
load code must create a trampoline to jump to what will make the
larger jump into core kernel code.

The problem arises when this happens to a call to mcount. Ftrace checks
all code before modifying it and makes sure the current code is what
it expects. Right now, there is not enough information to handle modifying
module trampolines.

This patch changes the API between generic dynamic ftrace code and
the arch dependent code. There is now two functions for modifying code:

  ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, addr) - convert the code at rec->ip into
       a nop, where the original text is calling addr. (mod is the
       module struct if called by module init)

  ftrace_make_caller(rec, addr) - convert the code rec->ip that should
       be a nop into a caller to addr.

The record "rec" now has a new field called "arch" where the architecture
can add any special attributes to each call site record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:36:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
88ed86fee6 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3b5d5c6b0c proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:03:13 +04:00
Andi Kleen
d72b37513c Remove stop_machine during module load v2
Remove stop_machine during module load v2

module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
the module into the global module lists.  Especially on larger systems this
can be quite expensive.

It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers
like kallsyms.

I don't think stop_machine() is actually needed to insert something
into a list though. There are no concurrent writers because the
module mutex is taken. And the RCU list functions know how to insert
a node into a list with the right memory ordering so that concurrent
readers don't go off into the wood.

So remove the stop_machine for the module list insert and just
do a list_add_rcu() instead.

Module removal will still do a stop_machine of course, it needs
that for other reasons.

v2: Revised readers based on Paul's comments. All readers that only
    rely on disabled preemption need to be changed to list_for_each_rcu().
    Done that. The others are ok because they have the modules mutex.
    Also added a possible missing preempt disable for print_modules().

[cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.]

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:22 +11:00
Rusty Russell
5e458cc0f4 module: simplify load_module.
Linus' recent catch of stack overflow in load_module lead me to look
at the code.  A couple of helpers to get a section address and get
objects from a section can help clean things up a little.

(And in case you're wondering, the stack size also dropped from 328 to
284 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22 10:00:15 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
26e9a39777 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits)
  staging: at76_usb wireless driver
  Staging: workaround build system bug
  Staging: Lindent sxg.c
  Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage
  Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes
  Staging: go7007 v4l fixes
  Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg
  Staging: add echo cancelation module
  Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver
  Staging: add w35und wifi driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add host driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add client driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed
  Staging: add the go7007 video driver
  Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver
  Staging: add me4000 firmware files
  Staging: add sxg network driver
  Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver
  ...

Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in
MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
2008-10-17 09:50:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Andi Kleen
25ddbb18aa Make the taint flags reliable
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window
between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted
bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion.

Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit
operations on it.

Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it
anymore.

It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit
(since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Jason Baron
346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e94320939f modules: fix module "notes" kobject leak
Fix "notes" kobject leak

It happens every rmmod if KALLSYMS=y and SYSFS=y.

	# modprobe foo

kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'module', set: 'module'
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>'
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo'
kobject: 'notes' (ffff88017fa9b668): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>'
	  ^^^^^

	# rmmod foo

kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_cleanup
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): auto cleanup kobject_del
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): calling ktype release
kobject: (ffff88017e7c5770): dynamic_kobj_release
kobject: 'holders': free name
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_cleanup
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup 'remove' event
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo'
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup kobject_del
kobject: 'foo': free name

	[whooops]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:41 -07:00