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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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<title>percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique</title>
<updated>2009-10-29T13:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-29T13:34:13+00:00</published>
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This patch updates percpu related symbols in oprofile such that percpu
symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols.  This serves
two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol
collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols.

* drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c: s/cpu_buffer/op_cpu_buffer/

Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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This patch updates percpu related symbols in oprofile such that percpu
symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols.  This serves
two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol
collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols.

* drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c: s/cpu_buffer/op_cpu_buffer/

Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>oprofile: warn on freeing event buffer too early</title>
<updated>2009-10-09T19:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-09T01:17:44+00:00</published>
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A race shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are canceled
or flushed before the event buffer is freed. A warning is triggered
now if the buffer is freed too early.

Also, this patch adds some comments about event buffer protection,
reworks some code and adds code to clear buffer_pos during alloc and
free of the event buffer.

Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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A race shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are canceled
or flushed before the event buffer is freed. A warning is triggered
now if the buffer is freed too early.

Also, this patch adds some comments about event buffer protection,
reworks some code and adds code to clear buffer_pos during alloc and
free of the event buffer.

Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: fix race condition in event_buffer free</title>
<updated>2009-10-09T16:02:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-09T13:02:33+00:00</published>
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Looking at the 2.6.31-rc9 code, it appears there is a race condition
in the event_buffer cleanup code path (shutdown). This could lead to
kernel panic as some CPUs may be operating on the event buffer AFTER
it has been freed. The attached patch solves the problem and makes
sure CPUs check if the buffer is not NULL before they access it as
some may have been spinning on the mutex while the buffer was being
freed.

The race may happen if the buffer is freed during pending reads. But
it is not clear why there are races in add_event_entry() since all
workqueues or handlers are canceled or flushed before the event buffer
is freed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Looking at the 2.6.31-rc9 code, it appears there is a race condition
in the event_buffer cleanup code path (shutdown). This could lead to
kernel panic as some CPUs may be operating on the event buffer AFTER
it has been freed. The attached patch solves the problem and makes
sure CPUs check if the buffer is not NULL before they access it as
some may have been spinning on the mutex while the buffer was being
freed.

The race may happen if the buffer is freed during pending reads. But
it is not clear why there are races in add_event_entry() since all
workqueues or handlers are canceled or flushed before the event buffer
is freed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>cpumask: use zalloc_cpumask_var() where possible</title>
<updated>2009-09-24T00:04:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-15T06:58:26+00:00</published>
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Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>const: mark remaining super_operations const</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:01:09+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>oprofile: Adding switch counter to oprofile statistic variables</title>
<updated>2009-07-20T14:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-09T12:56:25+00:00</published>
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This patch moves the multiplexing switch counter from x86 code to
common oprofile statistic variables. Now the value will be available
and usable for all architectures. The initialization and
incrementation also moved to common code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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This patch moves the multiplexing switch counter from x86 code to
common oprofile statistic variables. Now the value will be available
and usable for all architectures. The initialization and
incrementation also moved to common code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>oprofile: Grouping multiplexing code in oprof.c</title>
<updated>2009-07-20T14:43:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-19T14:45:34+00:00</published>
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This patch moves multiplexing code to a single section of code. This
reduces the use of #ifdefs especially within functions.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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This patch moves multiplexing code to a single section of code. This
reduces the use of #ifdefs especially within functions.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: Remove oprofile_multiplexing_init()</title>
<updated>2009-07-20T14:43:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-15T13:44:18+00:00</published>
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oprofile_multiplexing_init() can be removed when moving the
initialization of oprofile_time_slice to oprofile_create_files().

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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oprofile_multiplexing_init() can be removed when moving the
initialization of oprofile_time_slice to oprofile_create_files().

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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