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  1. Oct 29, 2014
  3. Oct 28, 2014
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE · 0eafa468
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      

The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period.  This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years.  It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      0eafa468
  5. Oct 14, 2014
    • Valentin Rothberg's avatar
      lib: rename TEST_MODULE to TEST_LKM · 8a6f0b47
      Valentin Rothberg authored 
      

The "_MODULE" suffix is reserved for tristates compiled as loadable kernel
modules (LKM).  The "TEST_MODULE" feature thereby violates this
convention.  The feature is used to compile the lib/test_module.c kernel
module.

Sadly this convention is not made explicit, but the Kconfig code documents
it.  The following code (./scripts/kconfig/confdata.c) is used to generate
the autoconf.h header file during the build process.  When a feature is
selected as a kernel module ('m'), it is suffixed with "_MODULE" to
indicate it.

	switch (*value) {
	case 'n':
		break;
	case 'm':
		suffix = "_MODULE";
		/* fall through */

This causes problems for static code analysis, which assumes a consistent
use of the "_MODULE" suffix.

This patch renames the feature and its reference in a Makefile to
"TEST_LKM", which still expresses the test of a LKM.

Signed-off-by: default avatarValentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8a6f0b47
  7. Sep 26, 2014
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpf: mini eBPF library, test stubs and verifier testsuite · 3c731eba
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      

1.
the library includes a trivial set of BPF syscall wrappers:
int bpf_create_map(int key_size, int value_size, int max_entries);
int bpf_update_elem(int fd, void *key, void *value);
int bpf_lookup_elem(int fd, void *key, void *value);
int bpf_delete_elem(int fd, void *key);
int bpf_get_next_key(int fd, void *key, void *next_key);
int bpf_prog_load(enum bpf_prog_type prog_type,
		  const struct sock_filter_int *insns, int insn_len,
		  const char *license);
bpf_prog_load() stores verifier log into global bpf_log_buf[] array

and BPF_*() macros to build instructions

2.
test stubs configure eBPF infra with 'unspec' map and program types.
These are fake types used by user space testsuite only.

3.
verifier tests valid and invalid programs and expects predefined
error log messages from kernel.
40 tests so far.

$ sudo ./test_verifier
 #0 add+sub+mul OK
 #1 unreachable OK
 #2 unreachable2 OK
 #3 out of range jump OK
 #4 out of range jump2 OK
 #5 test1 ld_imm64 OK
 ...

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3c731eba
  9. Sep 19, 2014
    • Aaron Tomlin's avatar
      sched: Add default-disabled option to BUG() when stack end location is overwritten · 0d9e2632
      Aaron Tomlin authored 
      

Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule()
does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is
often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted
region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined
and often results in a sporadic page fault which cannot be
handled.

This patch checks for a stack overrun and takes appropriate
action since the damage is already done, there is no point
in continuing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: bmr@redhat.com
Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: jgh@redhat.com
Cc: minchan@kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-4-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      0d9e2632
  11. Aug 29, 2014
  13. Aug 28, 2014
  15. Aug 13, 2014
    • Davidlohr Bueso's avatar
      locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/ · 214e0aed
      Davidlohr Bueso authored 
      

Specifically:
  Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt
  Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
  Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
  Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt
  Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt
  Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt
  Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      214e0aed
  17. Aug 07, 2014
    • Alex Elder's avatar
      printk: rename DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL · 42a9dc0b
      Alex Elder authored 
      

Commit a8fe19eb ("kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console
loglevels") makes consistent use of symbolic values for printk() log
levels.

The naming scheme used is different from the one used for
DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL though.  Change that symbol name to be
MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT for consistency.  And because the value of that
symbol comes from a similarly-named config option, rename
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42a9dc0b
  19. Aug 03, 2014
  21. Jul 30, 2014
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 v2 · bfaf2dd3
      Andi Kleen authored 
      

I found that a lot of unresolvable variables when using gdb on the
kernel become resolvable when dwarf4 is enabled. So add a Kconfig flag
to enable it.

It definitely increases the debug information size, but on the other
hand this isn't so bad when debug fusion is used.

v2: Use cc-option
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      bfaf2dd3
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      kbuild: Support split debug info v4 · 866ced95
      Andi Kleen authored 
      This is an alternative approach to lower the overhead of debug info
(as we discussed a few days ago)

gcc 4.7+ and newer binutils have a new "split debug info" debug info
model where the debug info is only written once into central ".dwo" files.

This avoids having to copy it around multiple times, from the object
files to the final executable. It lowers the disk space
requirements. In addition it defaults to compressed debug data.

More details here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission

This patch adds a new option to enable it. It has to be an option,
because it'll undoubtedly break everyone's debuginfo packaging scheme.
gdb/objdump/etc. all still work, if you have new enough versions.

I don't see big compile wins (maybe a second or two faster or so), but the
object dirs with debuginfo get significantly smaller. My standard kernel
config (slightly bigger than defconfig) shrinks from 2.9G disk space
to 1.1G objdir (with non reduced debuginfo). I presume if you are IO limited
the compile time difference will be larger.

Only problem I've seen so far is that it doesn't play well with older
versions of ccache (apparently fixed, see
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10005

)

v2: various fixes from Dirk Gouders. Improve commit message slightly.
v3: Fix clean rules and improve Kconfig slightly
v4: Fix merge error in last version (Sam Ravnborg)
    Clarify description that it mainly helps disk size.
Cc: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      866ced95
  23. Jul 23, 2014
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  27. Jul 09, 2014
  29. Jun 23, 2014
  31. Jun 21, 2014
  33. Jun 04, 2014
  35. May 13, 2014
  37. May 12, 2014
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  41. Apr 18, 2014
  43. Apr 02, 2014
  45. Feb 23, 2014
  47. Feb 04, 2014
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      kbuild: don't enable DEBUG_INFO when building for COMPILE_TEST · 12b13835
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      

It really isn't very interesting to have DEBUG_INFO when doing compile
coverage stuff (you wouldn't want to run the result anyway, that's kind
of the whole point of COMPILE_TEST), and it currently makes the build
take longer and use much more disk space for "all{yes,mod}config".

There's somewhat active discussion about this still, and we might end up
with some new config option for things like this (Andi points out that
the silly X86_DECODER_SELFTEST option also slows down the normal
coverage tests hugely), but I'm starting the ball rolling with this
simple one-liner.

DEBUG_INFO isn't that noticeable if you have tons of memory and a good
IO subsystem, but it hurts you a lot if you don't - for very little
upside for the common use.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      12b13835
  49. Jan 24, 2014
    • Kees Cook's avatar
      test: check copy_to/from_user boundary validation · 3e2a4c18
      Kees Cook authored 
      

To help avoid an architecture failing to correctly check kernel/user
boundaries when handling copy_to_user, copy_from_user, put_user, or
get_user, perform some simple tests and fail to load if any of them
behave unexpectedly.

Specifically, this is to make sure there is a way to notice if things
like what was fixed in commit 8404663f ("ARM: 7527/1: uaccess:
explicitly check __user pointer when !CPU_USE_DOMAINS") ever regresses
again, for any architecture.

Additionally, adds new "user" selftest target, which loads this module.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3e2a4c18
    • Kees Cook's avatar
      test: add minimal module for verification testing · 93e9ef83
      Kees Cook authored 
      

This is a pair of test modules I'd like to see in the tree.  Instead of
putting these in lkdtm, where I've been adding various tests that trigger
crashes, these don't make sense there since they need to be either
distinctly separate, or their pass/fail state don't need to crash the
machine.

These live in lib/ for now, along with a few other in-kernel test modules,
and use the slightly more common "test_" naming convention, instead of
"test-".  We should likely standardize on the former:

$ find . -name 'test_*.c' | grep -v /tools/ | wc -l
4
$ find . -name 'test-*.c' | grep -v /tools/ | wc -l
2

The first is entirely a no-op module, designed to allow simple testing of
the module loading and verification interface.  It's useful to have a
module that has no other uses or dependencies so it can be reliably used
for just testing module loading and verification.

The second is a module that exercises the user memory access functions, in
an effort to make sure that we can quickly catch any regressions in
boundary checking (e.g.  like what was recently fixed on ARM).

This patch (of 2):

When doing module loading verification tests (for example, with module
signing, or LSM hooks), it is very handy to have a module that can be
built on all systems under test, isn't auto-loaded at boot, and has no
device or similar dependencies.  This creates the "test_module.ko" module
for that purpose, which only reports its load and unload to printk.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      93e9ef83
  51. Jan 22, 2014
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      dma-debug: introduce debug_dma_assert_idle() · 0abdd7a8
      Dan Williams authored 
      

Record actively mapped pages and provide an api for asserting a given
page is dma inactive before execution proceeds.  Placing
debug_dma_assert_idle() in cow_user_page() flagged the violation of the
dma-api in the NET_DMA implementation (see commit 77873803 "net_dma:
mark broken").

The implementation includes the capability to count, in a limited way,
repeat mappings of the same page that occur without an intervening
unmap.  This 'overlap' counter is limited to the few bits of tag space
in a radix tree.  This mechanism is added to mitigate false negative
cases where, for example, a page is dma mapped twice and
debug_dma_assert_idle() is called after the page is un-mapped once.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0abdd7a8
  53. Jan 12, 2014
  55. Nov 26, 2013
    • Jason Baron's avatar
      panic: Make panic_timeout configurable · 5800dc3c
      Jason Baron authored 
      

The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option
'panic=x', or via /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not
sufficient when the panic occurs before we are able to set up
these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT so that we can
set the desired value from the .config.

The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait
forever. Also adds set_arch_panic_timeout(new_timeout,
arch_default_timeout), which is intended to be used by arches in
arch_setup(). The idea being that the new_timeout is only set if
the user hasn't changed from the arch_default_timeout.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a1674daec27c534df409697025ac568ebcee91e.1385418410.git.jbaron@akamai.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      5800dc3c
  57. Nov 13, 2013
  59. Oct 29, 2013
  61. Oct 16, 2013
  63. Sep 13, 2013
  65. Sep 11, 2013
  67. Sep 05, 2013
    • Vineet Gupta's avatar
      Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC · cc80ae38
      Vineet Gupta authored 
      Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack
unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage.
Thus it's explicit usage on ARC is discouraged (gcc is free to use it,
for some tricky stack frames even if -fomit-frame-pointer).

Hence no point enabling it for ARC.

References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1593937.html


Signed-off-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      cc80ae38
  69. Jul 25, 2013
    • Russell King's avatar
      kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers · c817a67e
      Russell King authored 
      

Implement debugging for kobject release functions.  kobjects are
reference counted, so the drop of the last reference to them is not
predictable. However, the common case is for the last reference to be
the kobject's removal from a subsystem, which results in the release
function being immediately called.

This can hide subtle bugs, which can occur when another thread holds a
reference to the kobject at the same time that a kobject is removed.
This results in the release method being delayed.

In order to make these kinds of problems more visible, the following
patch implements a delayed release; this has the effect that the
release function will be out of order with respect to the removal of
the kobject in the same manner that it would be if a reference was
being held.

This provides us with an easy way to allow driver writers to debug
their drivers and fix otherwise hidden problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      c817a67e