* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM: Make ACPI wakeup from S5 work again when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset
Fixes sysfs config attribute to allow access to entire 16MB maintenance
space of RapidIO devices.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>
Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: Fix - again - partition detection when array becomes active
Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
md: correctly handle probe of an 'mdp' device.
md: don't set_capacity before array is active.
md: Fix raid1->raid0 takeover
Commit 074037e (PM / Wakeup: Introduce wakeup source objects and
event statistics (v3)) caused ACPI wakeup to only work if
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, but it also worked for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP unset
before. This can be fixed by making device_set_wakeup_enable(),
device_init_wakeup() and device_may_wakeup() work in the same way
as before commit 074037e when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset.
Reported-and-tested-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.
In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.
In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data. In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.
flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.
invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.
invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.
So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.
flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.
dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.
md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.
This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem
can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"
Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS.
The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
one concurrent invocation per inode. For example:
thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and
stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count.
thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on
the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the
vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily
returns without doing anything.
Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to
restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its
own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to
finish.
Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other
callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(),
which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
with or without i_mutex.
This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent
running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping.
[ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm
preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex
lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net>
Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (33 commits)
Added support for usb ethernet (0x0fe6, 0x9700)
r8169: fix RTL8168DP power off issue.
r8169: correct settings of rtl8102e.
r8169: fix incorrect args to oob notify.
DM9000B: Fix PHY power for network down/up
DM9000B: Fix reg_save after spin_lock in dm9000_timeout
net_sched: long word align struct qdisc_skb_cb data
sfc: lower stack usage in efx_ethtool_self_test
bridge: Use IPv6 link-local address for multicast listener queries
bridge: Fix MLD queries' ethernet source address
bridge: Allow mcast snooping for transient link local addresses too
ipv6: Add IPv6 multicast address flag defines
bridge: Add missing ntohs()s for MLDv2 report parsing
bridge: Fix IPv6 multicast snooping by correcting offset in MLDv2 report
bridge: Fix IPv6 multicast snooping by storing correct protocol type
p54pci: update receive dma buffers before and after processing
fix cfg80211_wext_siwfreq lock ordering...
rt2x00: Fix WPA TKIP Michael MIC failures.
ath5k: Fix fast channel switching
tcp: undo_retrans counter fixes
...
netem_skb_cb() does :
return (struct netem_skb_cb *)qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->data;
Unfortunatly struct qdisc_skb_cb data is not long word aligned, so
access to psched_time_t time_to_send uses a non aligned access.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit adds the missing IPv6 multicast address flag defines to
complement the already existing multicast address scope defines and to
be able to check these flags nicely in the future.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6:
pcmcia: re-enable Zoomed Video support
cm4000_cs: Fix undefined ops warning
pcmcia vs. MECR on pxa25x/sa1111
drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/main.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region
* 'fix/asoc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ASoC: Ensure supplies are maintained for force enabled widgets
ASoC: WM8994: Improve playback robustness
ASoC: WM8994: Improve robustness in some use cases
ASoC: WM8903: Fix mic detection enable logic
ASoC: WM8903: Fix mic detection register definitions
ASoC: CX20442: fix wrong reg_cache_default content
ASoC: Sync initial widget state with hardware
We force particular alignment when we generate attribute structures
when generation MODULE_VERSION() data and we need to make sure that
this alignment is followed when we iterate over these structures,
otherwise we may crash on platforms whose natural alignment is not
sizeof(void *), such as m68k.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
[ There are more issues here, but the fixes are incredibly ugly - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow drivers to enable Zoomed Video support. Currently, this is only
used by out-of-tree drivers (L64020 DVB driver in particular).
CC: <stable@kernel.org> [for 2.6.37]
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
The dcb_app protocol field is a __u32 however the 802.1Qaz
specification defines it as a 16 bit field. This patch brings
the structure inline with the spec making it a __u16.
CC: Shmulik Ravid <shmulikr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long
workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwq
When list debugging is enabled, we aim to readably show list corruption
errors, and the basic list_add/list_del operations end up having extra
debugging code in them to do some basic validation of the list entries.
However, "list_del_init()" and "list_move[_tail]()" ended up avoiding
the debug code due to how they were written. This fixes that.
So the _next_ time we have list_move() problems with stale list entries,
we'll hopefully have an easier time finding them..
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch re-enables UIE timer/polling emulation for rtc devices
that do not support alarm irqs.
CC: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Uwe pointed out that my alarm based UIE emulation is not sufficient
to replace the older timer/polling based UIE emulation on devices
where there is no alarm irq. This causes rtc devices without alarms
to return -EINVAL to UIE ioctls. The fix is to re-instate the old
timer/polling method for devices without alarm irqs.
This patch reverts the following commits:
042620a018 - Remove UIE emulation
1daeddd596 - Cleanup removed UIE emulation declaration
b5cc8ca1c9 - Remove Kconfig symbol for UIE emulation
The emulation mode will still need to be wired-in with a following
patch before it will work.
CC: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Assigning a socket in timewait state to skb->sk can trigger
kernel oops, e.g. in nfnetlink_log, which does:
if (skb->sk) {
read_lock_bh(&skb->sk->sk_callback_lock);
if (skb->sk->sk_socket && skb->sk->sk_socket->file) ...
in the timewait case, accessing sk->sk_callback_lock and sk->sk_socket
is invalid.
Either all of these spots will need to add a test for sk->sk_state != TCP_TIME_WAIT,
or xt_TPROXY must not assign a timewait socket to skb->sk.
This does the latter.
If a TW socket is found, assign the tproxy nfmark, but skip the skb->sk assignment,
thus mimicking behaviour of a '-m socket .. -j MARK/ACCEPT' re-routing rule.
The 'SYN to TW socket' case is left unchanged -- we try to redirect to the
listener socket.
Cc: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
Cc: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fwestphal@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Transparent hugepages can only be created if rmap is fully
functional. So we must prevent hugepages to be created while
is_vma_temporary_stack() is true.
This also optmizes away some harmless but unnecessary setting of
khugepaged_scan.address and it switches some BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
Commit c0e69a5bbc ("klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag")
intended to make sure that all klist objects were at least pointer size
aligned, but used the constant "4" which only works on 32-bit.
Use "sizeof(void *)" which is correct in all cases.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* There is no hysteresis enable field in the current datasheet.
* Mic detection threshold field is only 2 bits wide.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
This patch moves a large number of memory release paths inside of the
configfs callback target_core_hba_item_ops->release() called from
within fs/configfs/item.c: config_item_cleanup() context. This patch
resolves the SLUB 'Poison overwritten' warnings.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
This patch removes the legacy procfs based target_core_mib.c code,
and moves the necessary scsi_index_tables functions and defines into
target_core_transport.c and target_core_base.h code to allow existing
fabric independent statistics to function.
This includes the removal of a handful of 'atomic_t mib_ref_count'
counters used in struct se_node_acl, se_session and se_hba to prevent
removal while using seq_list procfs walking logic.
[jejb: fix up compile failures]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Some keyboard controllers support more than 16 columns and rows.
Increase the limit to 32.
Signed-off-by: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a
wider range of call sites.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (21 commits)
USB: cdc-acm: Adding second ACM channel support for Nokia N8
USB, Mass Storage, composite, gadget: Fix build failure and memset of a struct
USB: Fix trout build failure with ci13xxx_msm gadget
USB: EHCI: fix scheduling while atomic during suspend
USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for Coby MP3 player
USB: ftdi_sio: Add VID=0x0647, PID=0x0100 for Acton Research spectrograph
USB: fix race between root-hub resume and wakeup requests
USB: prevent buggy hubs from crashing the USB stack
usb: r8a66597-udc: Fixed bufnum of Bulk
USB: ftdi_sio: add ST Micro Connect Lite uart support
USB: Storage: Add unusual_devs entry for VTech Kidizoom
USB SL811HS HCD: Fix memory leak in sl811h_urb_enqueue()
USB: ti_usb: fix module removal
USB: io_edgeport: fix the reported firmware major and minor
usb: ehci-omap: Show fatal probing time errors to end user
usb: musb: introduce api for dma code to check compatibility with usb request
usb: musb: maintain three states for buffer mappings instead of two
usb: musb: disable double buffering when it's broken
usb: musb: hsdma: change back to use musb_read/writew
usb: musb: core: fix IRQ check
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (34 commits)
virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call
x25: Do not reference freed memory.
pch_can: fix tseg1/tseg2 setting issue
isdn: hysdn: Kill (partially buggy) CVS regision log reporting.
can: softing_cs needs slab.h
pch_gbe: Fix the issue which a driver locks when rx offload is set by ethtool
netfilter: nf_conntrack: set conntrack templates again if we return NF_REPEAT
pch_can: fix module reload issue with MSI
pch_can: fix rmmod issue
pch_can: fix 800k comms issue
net: Fix lockdep regression caused by initializing netdev queues too early.
net/caif: Fix dangling list pointer in freed object on error.
USB CDC NCM errata updates for cdc_ncm host driver
CDC NCM errata updates for cdc.h
ixgbe: update version string
ixgbe: cleanup variable initialization
ixgbe: limit VF access to network traffic
ixgbe: fix for 82599 erratum on Header Splitting
ixgbe: fix variable set but not used warnings by gcc 4.6
e1000: add support for Marvell Alaska M88E1118R PHY
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
virtio: console: Update Copyright
virtio: console: Wake up outvq on host notifications
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
m32r: Fixup last __do_IRQ leftover
genirq: Add missing status flags to modification mask
The mask which filters out the valid bits which can be set via
irq_modify_status() is missing IRQ_NO_BALANCING, which breaks UV.
Add IRQ_PER_CPU as well to avoid another one line patch for 39.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (68 commits)
net: can: janz-ican3: world-writable sysfs termination file
net: can: at91_can: world-writable sysfs files
MAINTAINERS: update email ids of the be2net driver maintainers.
bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash
r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.
r8169: RxFIFO overflow oddities with 8168 chipsets.
r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset.
include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel to accept a NULL argument
net: Provide compat support for SIOCGETMIFCNT_IN6 and SIOCGETSGCNT_IN6.
net: Support compat SIOCGETVIFCNT ioctl in ipv4.
net: Fix bug in compat SIOCGETSGCNT handling.
niu: Fix races between up/down and get_stats.
tcp_ecn is an integer not a boolean
atl1c: Add missing PCI device ID
s390: Fix possibly wrong size in strncmp (smsgiucv)
s390: Fix wrong size in memcmp (netiucv)
qeth: allow OSA CHPARM change in suspend state
qeth: allow HiperSockets framesize change in suspend
qeth: add more strict MTU checking
qeth: show new mac-address if its setting fails
...
This patch fixes the below compilation errors.
CC drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o
CC net/mac80211/led.o
drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c: In function 'ci13xxx_msm_notify_event':
drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: 'USB_AHBBURST' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:43: error: 'USB_AHBMODE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget] Error 2
MSM USB driver is not supported on boards like trout (MSM7201) which
has an external PHY.
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (27 commits)
gpu/stub: fix acpi_video build error, fix stub kconfig dependencies
drm/radeon/kms: dynamically allocate power state space
drm/radeon/kms: fix s/r issues with bios scratch regs
agp: ensure GART has an address before enabling it
Revert "agp: AMD AGP is used on UP1100 & UP1500 alpha boxen"
amd-k7-agp: remove non-x86 code
drm/radeon/kms/evergreen: always set certain VGT regs at CP init
drm/radeon/kms: add updated ib_execute function for evergreen
drm/radeon: remove 0x4243 pci id
drm/radeon/kms: Enable new pll calculation for avivo+ asics
drm/radeon/kms: add new pll algo for avivo asics
drm/radeon/kms: add pll debugging output
drm/radeon/kms: switch back to min->max pll post divider iteration
drm/radeon/kms: rv6xx+ thermal sensor fixes
drm/nv50: fix display on 0x50
drm/nouveau: correctly pair hwmon_init and hwmon_fini
drm/i915: Only bind to function 0 of the PCI device
drm/i915: Suppress spurious vblank interrupts
drm: Avoid leak of adjusted mode along quick set_mode paths
drm: Simplify and defend later checks when disabling a crtc
...
nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity,
this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second
argument as well.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] libsas: fix runaway error handler problem
[SCSI] fix incorrect value of SCSI_MAX_SG_CHAIN_SEGMENTS due to include file ordering
[SCSI] arcmsr: Fix the issue of system hangup after commands timeout on ARC-1200
[SCSI] mpt2sas: fix Integrated Raid unsynced on shutdown problem
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Kernel Panic during Large Topology discovery
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix the race between broadcast asyn event and scsi command completion
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Correct resizing calculation for max_queue_depth
[SCSI] mpt2sas: fix internal device reset for older firmware prior to MPI Rev K
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix device removal handshake for zoned devices
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.
History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.
One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.
The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.
(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
