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Alexey Dobriyan
3ee2a19908 proc: : uninline name_to_int()
Save ~360 bytes.

	add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 104/-463 (-359)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	name_to_int                                    -     104    +104
	proc_pid_lookup                              217     126     -91
	proc_lookupfd_common                         212     121     -91
	proc_task_lookup                             289     194     -95
	__proc_create                                588     402    -186

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194850.GA17730@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
4b2e0162e4 fs/proc: Add compiler check for -Wno-override-init to support gcc < 4.2
With gcc < 4.2 (e.g. 4.1.2):

      CC      fs/proc/task_mmu.o
    cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-override-init"

To fix this, only enable the compiler option when it is actually
supported by the compiler.

Fixes: ca52953f5f ("fs/proc/task_mmu.c: suppress compilation warnings with W=1")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-03 12:45:23 -04:00
Valdis Kletnieks
ca52953f5f fs/proc/task_mmu.c: suppress compilation warnings with W=1
Suppress a bunch of warnings of the form:

  fs/proc/task_mmu.c: In function 'show_smap_vma_flags':
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c:635:22: warning: initialized field overwritten [-Wt override-init]
     [ilog2(VM_READ)] = "rd",
                        ^~~~
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c:635:22: note: (near initialization for 'mnemonics[0]')

They happen because of the way we intentionally build the table, so
silence the warning when building with 'make W=1'.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8727.1470022083@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
0097875bd4 proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
/proc/thread-self is derived from /proc/self.  /proc/thread-self
points to the directory in proc containing information about the
current thread.

This funtionality has been missing for a long time, and is tricky to
implement in userspace as gettid() is not exported by glibc.  More
importantly this allows fixing defects in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
where in a threaded application today they wind up being empty files
when only the initial pthread has exited, causing problems for other
threads.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-08-04 10:07:11 -07:00
Grant Likely
8357041a69 of: remove /proc/device-tree
The same data is now available in sysfs, so we can remove the code
that exports it in /proc and replace it with a symlink to the sysfs
version.

Tested on versatile qemu model and mpc5200 eval board. More testing
would be appreciated.

v5: Fixed up conflicts with mainline changes

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
2014-03-11 20:48:32 +00:00
Joonsoo Kim
db3808c1ba mm, vmalloc: move get_vmalloc_info() to vmalloc.c
Now get_vmalloc_info() is in fs/proc/mmu.c.  There is no reason that this
code must be here and it's implementation needs vmlist_lock and it iterate
a vmlist which may be internal data structure for vmalloc.

It is preferable that vmlist_lock and vmlist is only used in vmalloc.c
for maintainability. So move the code to vmalloc.c

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
Joe Millenbach
4f73bc4dd3 tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTY
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.

The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer.  Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.

bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY.  The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.

add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function                                     old     new   delta
chr_dev_init                                 166     170      +4
allow_signal                                  80      82      +2
static.__warned                              143     142      -1
disallow_signal                               63      62      -1
__set_special_pids                            95      94      -1
unregister_console                           126     121      -5
start_kernel                                 546     541      -5
register_console                             593     588      -5
copy_from_user                                45      40      -5
sys_setsid                                   128     120      -8
sys_vhangup                                   32      19     -13
do_exit                                     1543    1526     -17
bitmap_zero                                   60      40     -20
arch_local_irq_save                          137     117     -20
release_task                                 674     652     -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore                308     260     -48

Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-18 16:15:27 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
e656d8a6f7 procfs: Use the proc generic infrastructure for proc/self.
I had visions at one point of splitting proc into two filesystems.  If
that had happened proc/self being the the part of proc that actually deals
with pids would have been a nice cleanup.  As it is proc/self requires
a lot of unnecessary infrastructure for a single file.

The only user visible change is that a mounted /proc for a pid namespace
that is dead now shows a broken proc symlink, instead of being completely
invisible.  I don't think anyone will notice or care.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-11-19 03:09:34 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
faf60af17f procfs: Move /proc/pid/fd[info] handling code to fd.[ch]
This patch prepares the ground for further extension of
/proc/pid/fd[info] handling code by moving fdinfo handling
code into fs/proc/fd.c.

I think such move makes both fs/proc/base.c and fs/proc/fd.c
easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:01 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
6b4e306aa3 ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
Create files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ to allow controlling the
namespaces of a process.

This addresses three specific problems that can make namespaces hard to
work with.
- Namespaces require a dedicated process to pin them in memory.
- It is not possible to use a namespace unless you are the child
  of the original creator.
- Namespaces don't have names that userspace can use to talk about
  them.

The namespace files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ can be opened and the
file descriptor can be used to talk about a specific namespace, and
to keep the specified namespace alive.

A namespace can be kept alive by either holding the file descriptor
open or bind mounting the file someplace else.  aka:
mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /some/filesystem/path
mount --bind /proc/self/fd/<N> /some/filesystem/path

This allows namespaces to be named with userspace policy.

It requires additional support to make use of these filedescriptors
and that will be comming in the following patches.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2011-05-10 14:31:44 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
bf33cbdf8a proc: move proc_console.c to fs/proc/consoles.c
Filename is supposed to match procfile name for random junk.

Add __init while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
23308ba54d console: add /proc/consoles
It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system
and with what flags.

It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was
removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are
handled and it makes more sense to me.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> [cleanups]
Signed-off-by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-16 12:50:17 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
cfbef3cb16 procfs: simplify conditional processing of fs/proc.o.
Since the entire fs/proc directory is conditionally included based on
CONFIG_PROC_FS, it's redundant to check that same variable within that
directory.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:20 -07:00
Keika Kobayashi
d3d64df21d proc: export statistics for softirq to /proc
Export statistics for softirq in /proc/softirqs and /proc/stat.

1. /proc/softirqs
Implement /proc/softirqs which shows the number of softirq
for each CPU like /proc/interrupts.

2. /proc/stat
Add the "softirq" line to /proc/stat.
This line shows the number of softirq for all cpu.
The first column is the total of all softirqs and
each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: remove redundant for_each_possible_cpu() loop]
Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
59c7572e82 proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
Now that everything was moved to their more or less expected places,
apply rm(1).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:54:05 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6d80e53f00 proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:48:31 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d6917e19f3 proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 15:15:46 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
df8106dbb5 proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 15:14:05 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8591cf4322 proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 15:05:11 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
fe2510426a proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 15:02:18 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
cf9887f102 proc: switch /proc/cmdline to seq_file
and move it to fs/proc/cmdline.c while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 14:29:04 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b457d15161 proc: switch /proc/version to seq_file
and move it to fs/proc/version.c while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 14:19:58 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e1759c215b proc: switch /proc/meminfo to seq_file
and move it to fs/proc/meminfo.c while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 13:52:40 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
9617760287 proc: switch /proc/uptime to seq_file
and move it to fs/proc/uptime.c while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 13:48:01 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
5b3acc8de8 proc: switch /proc/loadavg to seq_file
and move it to fs/proc/loadavg.c while I'm at it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 13:45:28 +04:00
Eric W. Biederman
457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Mika Kukkonen
5c46010af2 [PATCH] Fix kernel build with EMBEDDED & PROC_FS & !PROC_SYSCTL
Without attached patch against current -git I get following with
!PROC_SYSCTL (with EMBEDDED and PROC_FS set):

    CC      init/version.o
    LD      init/built-in.o
    LD      vmlinux
  fs/built-in.o: In function `do_proc_sys_lookup':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26583): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_revalidate':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x265bb): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_readdir':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26720): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x267d8): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x268e7): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26910): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_write':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x2695d): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x2699c): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_read':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x269e9): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26a25): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_permission':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26ad1): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26adb): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_lookup':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26b39): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Virhe 1

All those functions are in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, which has no CONFIG_
#define's in it, so the patch makes the compilation of that file to depend
on CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL (the simplest choice).

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-27 09:05:16 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
77b14db502 [PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support
With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.

For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.

The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(

We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files.  Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in.  The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible.  By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Mike Galbraith
c36264dfb2 [PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabled
Attempts to read() from the non-existent dmesg buffer will return zero and
userspace tends to get stuck in a busyloop.

So just remove /dev/kmsg altogether if CONFIG_PRINTK=n.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
666bfddbe8 [PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image
  either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers
  have been stored by crashed kernel.
o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option.
o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore.

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in
the affected files.  And to clearly indicate the dependency between
/proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c

From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>

This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the
previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot.

Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00