pm24.git/lib/Makefile, branch v2.6.26-rc2

infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects

2008-04-30T15:29:53Z

We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the kernel: 1) freeing of active objects 2) reinitialization of active objects Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt context and usually causes the machine to panic. While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due to the intrusiveness into the timer code. The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause instantly and keep the system operational. Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special knowledge of the bug reporter. The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive, but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug. Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble. The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is freed. The tracked object operations are: - initializing an object - adding an object to a subsystem list - deleting an object from a subsystem list Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message and a stack trace is printed. The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's limited to the requirements of the first user (timers). The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a global lock. The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line option enables the debugging code. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Greg KH Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

isolate ratelimit from printk.c for other use

2008-04-29T15:06:06Z

Due to the rcupreempt.h WARN_ON trigged, I got 2G syslog file. For some serious complaining of kernel, we need repeat the warnings, so here I isolate the ratelimit part of printk.c to a standalone file. Signed-off-by: Dave Young Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: generic versions of find_first_(zero_)bit, convert i386

2008-04-26T17:21:16Z

Generic versions of __find_first_bit and __find_first_zero_bit are introduced as simplified versions of __find_next_bit and __find_next_zero_bit. Their compilation and use are guarded by a new config variable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT. The generic versions of find_first_bit and find_first_zero_bit are implemented in terms of the newly introduced __find_first_bit and __find_first_zero_bit. This patch does not remove the i386-specific implementation, but it does switch i386 to use the generic functions by setting GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT=y for X86_32. Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2008-04-21T22:50:49Z

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits) [POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs [POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32 [POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO [POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers [POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors [POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc [POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep [POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header [POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts [POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const [POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable [POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup [POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ() [POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() [POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c [POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h [POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier. [POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26

2008-04-19T01:02:35Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits) [NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices [IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add(). [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found [PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init(). [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call. [INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call. SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked. [netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg. tc35815: Statistics cleanup natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms [TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code [TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table [TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16 ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16 sb1000.c: make const arrays static sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions ...

Generic semaphore implementation

2008-04-17T14:42:34Z

Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the unlikely() was unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

[LIB]: Drop the pcounter itself.

2008-03-28T23:39:58Z

The knock-out. The pcounter abstraction is not used any longer in the kernel. Not sure whether this should go via netdev tree, but as far as I remember it was added via this one, and besides Eric thinks that Andrew shouldn't mind this. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.

2008-02-14T00:56:49Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

lib/scatterlist.o needed by a module only - link it in unconditionally

2008-02-08T23:33:33Z

lib/scatterlist.c is needed by drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c, and we would like to be able to use the latter without PCI too, for example, on PXA270 ARM CPU. It is then possible to create a configuration with CONFIG_BLOCK=n, where only module code will need scatterlist.c. Therefore it must be in obj-y. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski Acked-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

iommu sg: add IOMMU helper functions for the free area management

2008-02-05T17:44:11Z

This adds IOMMU helper functions for the free area management. These functions take care of LLD's segment boundary limit for IOMMUs. They would be useful for IOMMUs that use bitmap for the free area management. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds