linux-toradex.git/fs/proc/vmcore.c, branch v3.10.2

proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE

2013-05-01T21:29:46+00:00

Supply a function (proc_remove()) to remove a proc entry (and any subtree
rooted there) by proc_dir_entry pointer rather than by name and (optionally)
root dir entry pointer.  This allows us to eliminate all remaining pde->name
accesses outside of procfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: Split kcore bits from linux/procfs.h into linux/kcore.h

2013-04-29T19:42:02+00:00

Split kcore bits from linux/procfs.h into linux/kcore.h.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/proc/vmcore.c: put if tests in the top of the while loop to reduce duplication

2013-02-28T03:10:11+00:00

In read_vmcore() two `if' tests are duplicated.  Change the position of
them could reduce the duplication.  This change does not affect the
behaviour of the function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid `if (foo = bar)' thing, use min_t()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/max_t/min_t/]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc: clean up printks

2013-02-28T03:10:11+00:00

- use pr_foo() throughout

- remove a couple of duplicated KERN_WARNINGs, via WARN(KERN_WARNING "...")

- nuke a few warnings which I've never seen happen, ever.

Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fadump: Introduce cleanup routine to invalidate /proc/vmcore.

2012-02-22T23:50:02+00:00

With the firmware-assisted dump support we don't require a reboot when we
are in second kernel after crash. The second kernel after crash is a normal
kernel boot and has knowledge about entire system RAM with the page tables
initialized for entire system RAM. Hence once the dump is saved to disk, we
can just release the reserved memory area for general use and continue
with second kernel as production kernel.

Hence when we release the reserved memory that contains dump data, the
'/proc/vmcore' will not be valid anymore. Hence this patch introduces
a cleanup routine that invalidates and removes the /proc/vmcore file. This
routine will be invoked before we release the reserved dump memory area.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

fs: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros

2011-10-31T23:30:31+00:00

These files were getting  via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason.  Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages

2011-05-27T00:12:37+00:00

The balloon driver in a Xen guest frees guest pages and marks them as
mmio.  When the kernel crashes and the crash kernel attempts to read the
oldmem via /proc/vmcore a read from ballooned pages will generate 100%
load in dom0 because Xen asks qemu-dm for the page content.  Since the
reads come in as 8byte requests each ballooned page is tried 512 times.

With this change a hook can be registered which checks wether the given
pfn is really ram.  The hook has to return a value > 0 for ram pages, a
value < 0 on error (because the hypercall is not known) and 0 for non-ram
pages.

This will reduce the time to read /proc/vmcore.  Without this change a
512M guest with 128M crashkernel region needs 200 seconds to read it, with
this change it takes just 2 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: 6485/5: proc/vmcore - allow archs to override vmcore_elf_check_arch()

2010-11-30T13:39:55+00:00

Allow architectures to redefine this macro if needed. This is useful for
example in architectures where 64-bit ELF vmcores are not supported.
Specifying zero vmcore_elf64_check_arch() allows compiler to optimize
away unnecessary parts of parse_crash_elf64_headers().

We also rename the macro to vmcore_elf64_check_arch() to reflect that it
is used for 64-bit vmcores only.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

/proc/vmcore: fix seeking

2010-09-23T00:22:38+00:00

Commit 73296bc611 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore")
broke seeking on /proc/vmcore.  This changes it back to use default_llseek
in order to restore the original behaviour.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is zero on procfs and some other virtual
file systems.  We should merge generic_file_llseek and default_llseek some
day and clean this up in a proper way, but for 2.6.35/36, reverting vmcore
is the safer solution.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Reported-by: CAI Qian 
Tested-by: CAI Qian 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing

2010-05-20T00:23:28+00:00

* 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  sunrpc: Include missing smp_lock.h
  procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl
  procfs: Push down the bkl from ioctl
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg
  procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore
  procfs: Kill BKL in llseek on proc base