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Linus Torvalds
3981e15286 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system
  Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it
  x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
  x86: Reenable TSC sync check at boot, even with NONSTOP_TSC
  x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
  Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C
  x86: Increase MAX_EARLY_RES; insufficient on 32-bit NUMA
  x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0
  x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
  x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n
  x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space
  x86: Add IA32_TSC_AUX MSR and use it
  x86, msr/cpuid: Register enough minors for the MSR and CPUID drivers
  initramfs: add missing decompressor error check
  bzip2: Add missing checks for malloc returning NULL
  bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure
2009-12-19 09:48:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
55639353a0 Linux 2.6.33-rc1 2009-12-17 17:14:40 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
06b5dc646b Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it
Apparently not all versions of glibc and utilities treat an empty
LC_ALL as nonexistent, causing error messages to be garbled.  Instead,
explicitly unexport it from the environment.

Reported-and-tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B2AC394.4030108@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@sues.cz>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-12-17 15:51:37 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c051346b7d Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C
There are a number of common Unix constructs like character ranges in
grep/sed/awk which don't work as expected with LC_COLLATE set to other
than C.  Similarly, set LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC to C to avoid other
nasty surprises.

In order to make sure these actually take effect we also have to
clear LC_ALL.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@sues.cz>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2A1761.4070904@suse.cz>
2009-12-17 07:03:21 -08:00
Michal Marek
d9bdcc72ec kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
Fix typo / thinko in commit bc081dd.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 15:28:03 +01:00
Michal Marek
bc081dd6e9 kbuild: generate modules.builtin
To make it easier for module-init-tools and scripts like mkinitrd to
distinguish builtin and missing modules, install a modules.builtin file
listing all builtin modules. This is done by generating an additional
config file (tristate.conf) with tristate options set to uppercase 'Y'
or 'M'. If we source that config file, the builtin modules appear in
obj-Y.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
Michal Marek
32197c7ffb kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
The toplevel Makefile creates the directory if it runs silentoldconfig
automatically, but if run manually, it fails:

  $ make mrproper
  $ make defconfig && make silentoldconfig
  *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #
  scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig

  *** Error during update of the kernel configuration.
  ...

Move the mkdir command to the silentoldconfig target to make it work.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
Wenji Huang
8723eaeff5 Kbuild: clean up marker
Drop Module.markers from cleaning list since marker
is removed.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
273b281fa2 kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
264a268380 kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
f7f16b7799 kbuild: drop include/asm
We no longer use this directory for generated files and
all architectures has moved their header files so no
symlink tricks are needed either.

Drop the symlink and drop the ARCH check.

If we really need to check that the SRCARCH has not changed
when we build a kernel we can add this check back - but then we will
find a more convenient way to store the info.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
c95fa08a3e kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
No architectures uses include/asm-$ARCH now.
So drop check for location of include files

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
96f13045b6 kbuild: drop include2/ used for O=... builds
There is no longer any use of the include2/ directory.
The generated files has moved to include/generated.

Drop all references to said directory.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
559df2e021 kbuild: move asm-offsets.h to include/generated
The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
01fc0ac198 kbuild: move bounds.h to include/generated
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
24a675e8b8 kbuild: search arch/$ARCH/include before include/
The namespace used in arch/$ARCH/include is different from
what is used in include/ except for the include/asm directory.

This patch gives the arch/$ARCH/include/asm directory priority
over include/asm.

When we add asm-offsets.h to arch/$ARCH/include/asm/ this
patch makes sure we pick up the arch specific version
and not the one we have in include/asm.

The situation with an asm-offsets.h file located in
both include/asm _and_ arch/$ARCH/include/asm will happen
when we move more files over to include/generated.

This happens because in some cases it is not practical
to rename all users so we simply add a file
in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that includes the generated version.

This is the solution we use for asm-offsets.h as an example.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
96fa2b508d Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
  tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
  tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
  ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
  tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
  tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
  tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
  ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
  tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
  ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
  kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
  tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
  compiler: Introduce __always_unused
  tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
  ...
2009-12-05 09:53:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
22763c5cf3 Linux 2.6.32 2009-12-02 19:51:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
648f4e3e50 Linux 2.6.32-rc8 2009-11-19 14:32:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cb20c28a9c Merge branch 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc
* 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc:
  Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS
  oss: Mark loadhex static in hex2hex.c
  dtc: Mark various internal functions static
  dtc: Set "noinput" in the lexer to avoid an unused function
  drm: radeon: Mark several functions static in mkregtable
  arch/sparc/boot/*.c: Mark various internal functions static
  arch/powerpc/boot/addRamDisk.c: Mark several internal functions static
  arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static
  Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open static
  genksyms: Mark is_reserved_word static
  kconfig: Mark various internal functions static
  kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
2009-11-17 09:14:49 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
638adb0561 tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
If the user has an older version of objcopy, that can not handle
converting local symbols to global and vice versa, then some
functions will not be part of the dynamic function tracer. The current
code in recordmcount.pl will print a warning in this case. Unfortunately,
there exists lots of files that may have this issue with older objcopys
and this will cause a warning for every file compiled with this
issue.

This patch solves this overwhelming output by creating a
.tmp_quiet_recordmcount file on the first instance the warning is
encountered. The warning will not print if this file exists.

The temp file is deleted at the beginning of the compile to ensure that
the warning will happen once again on new compiles (because the issue
is still present).

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-17 11:05:52 -05:00
Josh Triplett
25583d4b5a Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS
Now that all host programs use static for all private functions and
forward prototypes for all extern functions, add -Wmissing-prototypes to
HOSTCFLAGS in the hopes of keeping it that way.

All versions of GCC supported by the kernel handle -Wmissing-prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2009-11-15 15:01:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
156171c71a Linux 2.6.32-rc7 2009-11-12 16:46:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b419148e56 Linux 2.6.32-rc6 2009-11-03 11:37:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
012abeea66 Linux 2.6.32-rc5 2009-10-15 17:41:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
25d591587d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: revert "save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE ..."
  warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers
  kbuild: mkcompile_h: trivial cleanups
  kbuild: fix warning when domainname is not available
  kbuild: Fix size_append issue for bzip2/lzma kernel
  kbuild,scripts: use non-builtin echo for '-e'
  kbuild: fix the binrpm-pkg target to work with KBUILD_OUTPUT set
2009-10-13 10:20:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
161291396e Linux 2.6.32-rc4 2009-10-11 14:43:56 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
2331d1a6cd kbuild: revert "save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE ..."
Revert commit 575543347b

It caused following issues:

- On architectures where ARCH= setting is used to select between
  32 and 64 bit this was no longer possible without "make mrproper"
- If ARCH was changed then kbuild refused to run "make mrproper"
  because ARCH had changed
- When CROSS_COMPILE was changed people were asked to run "make mrproper"
  but kbuild refused to run "make mrproper" because CROSS_COMPILE changed.
- Spaces in CROSS_COMPILE was not 'supported'
- If an non-existing ARCH= was used kbuild could get stuck

Lessons learned:
. Despite being simple and straghtforward people uses very different
  approaches when building the kernel.

. CROSS_COMPILE is sometimes used for ccache despite cache being
  only a CC frontend so one would have expected CC to be
  used for this purpose.

. And obviously this was not tested widely enough.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-11 23:22:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
374576a8b6 Linux 2.6.32-rc3
I'm skipping -rc2 because the -rc1 Makefile mistakenly said -rc2, so in
order to avoid confusion, I'm jumping from -rc1 to -rc3.  That way, when
'uname' (or an oops report) says 2.6.32-rc2, there's no confusion about
whether people perhaps meant -rc1 or -rc2.
2009-10-04 17:12:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
17d857be64 Linux 2.6.32-rc1 2009-09-27 14:57:48 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
51b563fc93 arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> reported:

    Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
    This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
    This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
    build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
    or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)

Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.

This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.

Notes for the different architectures touched:

arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
       [Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
       Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
       the linker script.
       [Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
          [not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
         [not build tested]

Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:28:22 +02:00
Andi Kleen
8f7f5c9fc2 kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
The upcomming gcc 4.5 has a new -fconserve-stack option that tells the
inliner to take stack frame size in account.  Set it if the compiler
supports it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:44 +02:00
Andi Kleen
d79a27195a kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
The new alternative `gold' linker in recent binutils doesn't support
the -X option. This breaks allyesconfig builds that have
CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS enabled. Check if the linker really supports
the option using ld-option.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f86fd30660 kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
575543347b kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE when building a kernel
When building a kernel for a different architecture
kbuild requires the user always to specify ARCH and
CROSS_COMPILE on the command-line.

We use the asm symlink to detect if user forgets to
specify the correct ARCH value - but that symlink
is about to die. And we do now want to loose this check.

This patch save the settings of ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
in two files named:

    include/generated/kernel.arch
    include/generated/kernel.cross

The settings are saved during "make *config" time
and always read.

If user try to change the settings we error out.

This works both for plain builds and for O=...
builds.

So now you can do:
$ mkdir sparc64
$ make O=sparc64 ARCH=sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux- defconfig
$ cd sparc64
$ make

Notice that you no longer need to tell kbuild
the settings of ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE when you type make
in the output directory.

Likewise for plain builds where you do not use O=...

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2009-09-20 12:24:55 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
caa27b66bd kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:

    make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install

With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]

This patch undos what Ian did in commit:

  0f8e2d62fa
  ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")

The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
74fca6a428 Linux 2.6.31 2009-09-09 15:13:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e07cccf404 Linux 2.6.31-rc9 2009-09-05 16:38:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
326ba5010a Linux 2.6.31-rc8 2009-08-27 17:59:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
422bef879e Linux 2.6.31-rc7 2009-08-21 18:00:46 -07:00
Tejun Heo
384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
64f1607ffb Linux 2.6.31-rc6 2009-08-13 15:43:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ed680c4ad4 Linux 2.6.31-rc5 2009-07-31 17:40:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4be3bd7849 Linux 2.6.31-rc4 2009-07-22 19:32:59 -07:00
Eugene Teo
a3ca86aea5 Add '-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks' to gcc CFLAGS
Turning on this flag could prevent the compiler from optimising away
some "useless" checks for null pointers.  Such bugs can sometimes become
exploitable at compile time because of the -O2 optimisation.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html

An example that clearly shows this 'problem' is commit 6bf67672.

 static void __devexit agnx_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
     struct ieee80211_hw *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
-    struct agnx_priv *priv = dev->priv;
+    struct agnx_priv *priv;
     AGNX_TRACE;

     if (!dev)
         return;
+    priv = dev->priv;

By reverting this patch, and compile it with and without
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks flag, we can see that the check for dev
is compiled away.

    call    printk  #
-   testq   %r12, %r12  # dev
-   je  .L94    #,
    movq    %r12, %rdi  # dev,

Clearly the 'fix' is to stop using dev before it is tested, but building
with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks flag at least makes it harder to
abuse.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wang Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-16 09:19:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6847e154e3 Linux 2.6.31-rc3 2009-07-13 18:18:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a137802ee8 Don't use '-fwrapv' compiler option: it's buggy in gcc-4.1.x
This causes kernel images that don't run init to completion with certain
broken gcc versions.

This fixes kernel bugzilla entry:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13012

I suspect the gcc problem is this:
	http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28230

Fix the problem by using the -fno-strict-overflow flag instead, which
not only does not exist in the known-to-be-broken versions of gcc (it
was introduced later than fwrapv), but seems to be much less disturbing
to gcc too: the difference in the generated code by -fno-strict-overflow
are smaller (compared to using neither flag) than when using -fwrapv.

Reported-by: Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
Pushed-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12 11:25:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8e4a718ff3 Linux 2.6.31-rc2 2009-07-04 10:58:48 -07:00
Tejun Heo
c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00