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2011-05-20extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdataSteven Rostedt
A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data. Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous, without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by volatile memory (memory that can be freed). This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false otherwise. Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition and document the function. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305855298.1465.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> ---- arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds | 2 ++ arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++ kernel/extable.c | 12 +++++++++++- 7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2011-05-20core_kernel_data(): Fix architectures that do not define _sdataIngo Molnar
Some architectures such as Alpha do not define _sdata but _data: kernel/built-in.o: In function `core_kernel_data': kernel/extable.c:77: undefined reference to `_sdata' So expand the scope of the data range to the text addresses too, this might be more correct anyway because this way we can cover readonly variables as well. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i878c8a0e0g0ep4v7i6vxnhz@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-18ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracersSteven Rostedt
Now that functions may be selected individually, it only makes sense that we should allow dynamically allocated trace structures to be traced. This will allow perf to allocate a ftrace_ops structure at runtime and use it to pick and choose which functions that structure will trace. Note, a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops will always be called indirectly instead of being called directly from the mcount in entry.S. This is because there's no safe way to prevent mcount from being preempted before calling the function, unless we modify every entry.S to do so (not likely). Thus, dynamically allocated functions will now be called by the ftrace_ops_list_func() that loops through the ops that are allocated if there are more than one op allocated at a time. This loop is protected with a preempt_disable. To determine if an ftrace_ops structure is allocated or not, a new util function was added to the kernel/extable.c called core_kernel_data(), which returns 1 if the address is between _sdata and _edata. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-05Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-04-05Merge ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param: module: use strstarts() strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h module: don't use stop_machine on module load module: create a request_module_nowait() module: include other structures in module version check module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section. module: clarify the force-loading taint message. module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols module: remove module_text_address() module: __module_address module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/extable.c manually.
2009-03-31module: remove module_text_address()Rusty Russell
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>
2009-03-22tracing, Text Edit Lock: Fix one sparse warning in kernel/extable.cDmitri Vorobiev
Impact: cleanup. The global mutex text_mutex if declared in linux/memory.h, so this file needs to be included into kernel/extable.c, where the same mutex is defined. This fixes the following sparse warning: kernel/extable.c:32:1: warning: symbol 'text_mutex' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> LKML-Reference: <1237741871-5827-3-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-20tracing, Text Edit Lock - kprobes architecture independent support, nommu fixIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix on SH !CONFIG_MMU Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure on the SH architecture: kernel/built-in.o: In function `disable_all_kprobes': kernel/kprobes.c:1382: undefined reference to `text_mutex' [...] And observed: | Introduced by commit 4460fdad85becd569f11501ad5b91814814335ff ("tracing, | Text Edit Lock - kprobes architecture independent support") from the | tracing tree. text_mutex is defined in mm/memory.c which is only built | if CONFIG_MMU is defined, which is not true for sh allmodconfig. Move this lock to kernel/extable.c (which is already home to various kernel text related routines), which file is always built-in. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> LKML-Reference: <20090320110602.86351a91.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-19symbols, stacktrace: look up init symbols after module symbolsIngo Molnar
Impact: fix incomplete stacktraces I noticed such weird stacktrace entries in lockdep dumps: [ 0.285956] {HARDIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bce90>] mark_irqflags+0xbe/0x125 [ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bf2fd>] __lock_acquire+0x674/0x82d [ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bf5b2>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x128 [ 0.285956] [<ffffffff8135b636>] rt_spin_lock+0xc8/0xd0 [ 0.285956] [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff The stacktrace entry is cut off after rt_spin_lock. After much debugging i found out that stacktrace entries that belong to init symbols dont get printed out, due to commit: a2da405: module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text. The reason is this check added to core_kernel_text(): - if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext && + if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING && + addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext && addr <= (unsigned long)_einittext) return 1; This will discard inittext symbols even though their symbol table is still present and even though stacktraces done while the system was booting up might still be relevant. To not reintroduce the (not well-specified) bug addressed in that commit, first do a module symbols lookup, then a final init-symbols lookup. This will work fine on architectures that have separate address spaces for modules (such as x86) - and should not crash any other architectures either. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <new-discussion> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09tracing/function-graph-tracer: drop the kernel_text_address checkFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2008-12-30Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter ↵Frederic Weisbecker
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>
2008-09-10debug: add notifier chain debugging, v2Arjan van de Ven
- unbreak ia64 (and powerpc) where function pointers dont point at code but at data (reported by Tony Luck) [ mingo@elte.hu: various cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-29module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text.Rusty Russell
Current code could cause a bug in symbol_put_addr() if an arch used kmalloc module text: we might think the symbol belongs to the core kernel. The downside is that this might make backtraces through (discarded) init functions harder to read on some archs, but we already have that issue for modules and noone has complained. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2006-05-15[PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernelTrent Piepho
Even since a previous patch: Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel. symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try to acquire the same lock. This deadlocks the kernel of course. This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly. Also, it now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address(). The latter has an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address uses) ourselves. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!