linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v4.8-rc1

dynamic_debug: only add header when used

2016-08-02T23:35:03+00:00

kernel.h header doesn't directly use dynamic debug, instead we can
include it in module.c (which used it via kernel.h).  printk.h only uses
it if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is on, changing the inclusion to only happen
in that case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468429793-16917-1-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com
[luisbg@osg.samsung.com: include dynamic_debug.h in drb_int.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468447828-18558-2-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz 
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: sysctl: Panic on RCU Stall

2016-06-15T23:00:05+00:00

It is not always easy to determine the cause of an RCU stall just by
analysing the RCU stall messages, mainly when the problem is caused
by the indirect starvation of rcu threads. For example, when preempt_rcu
is not awakened due to the starvation of a timer softirq.

We have been hard coding panic() in the RCU stall functions for
some time while testing the kernel-rt. But this is not possible in
some scenarios, like when supporting customers.

This patch implements the sysctl kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall. If
set to 1, the system will panic() when an RCU stall takes place,
enabling the capture of a vmcore. The vmcore provides a way to analyze
all kernel/tasks states, helping out to point to the culprit and the
solution for the stall.

The kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl is disabled by default.

Changes from v1:
- Fixed a typo in the git log
- The if(sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall) panic() is in a static function
- Fixed the CONFIG_TINY_RCU compilation issue
- The var sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall is now __read_mostly

Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge tag 'staging-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2016-05-21T05:20:48+00:00

Pull staging and IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big staging and iio driver update for 4.7-rc1.

  I think we almost broke even with this release, only adding a few more
  lines than we removed, which isn't bad overall given that there's a
  bunch of new iio drivers added.

  The Lustre developers seem to have woken up from their sleep and have
  been doing a great job in cleaning up the code and pruning unused or
  old cruft, the filesystem is almost readable :)

  Other than that, just a lot of basic coding style cleanups in the
  churn.  All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'staging-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (938 commits)
  Staging: emxx_udc: emxx_udc: fixed coding style issue
  staging/gdm724x: fix "alignment should match open parenthesis" issues
  staging/gdm724x: Fix avoid CamelCase
  staging: unisys: rename misleading var ii with frag
  staging: unisys: visorhba: switch success handling to error handling
  staging: unisys: visorhba: main path needs to flow down the left margin
  staging: unisys: visorinput: handle_locking_key() simplifications
  staging: unisys: visorhba: fail gracefully for thread creation failures
  staging: unisys: visornic: comment restructuring and removing bad diction
  staging: unisys: fix format string %Lx to %llx for u64
  staging: unisys: remove unused struct members
  staging: unisys: visorchannel: correct variable misspelling
  staging: unisys: visorhba: replace functionlike macro with function
  staging: dgnc: Need to check for NULL of ch
  staging: dgnc: remove redundant condition check
  staging: dgnc: fix 'line over 80 characters'
  staging: dgnc: clean up the dgnc_get_modem_info()
  staging: lustre: lnet: enable configuration per NI interface
  staging: lustre: o2iblnd: properly set ibr_why
  staging: lustre: o2iblnd: remove last of kiblnd_tunables_fini
  ...

include/linux: apply __malloc attribute

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Attach the malloc attribute to a few allocation functions.  This helps
gcc generate better code by telling it that the return value doesn't
alias any existing pointers (which is even more valuable given the
pessimizations implied by -fno-strict-aliasing).

A simple example of what this allows gcc to do can be seen by looking at
the last part of drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset:

	plane->state = kzalloc(sizeof(*plane->state), GFP_KERNEL);

	if (plane->state) {
		plane->state->plane = plane;
		plane->state->rotation = BIT(DRM_ROTATE_0);
	}

which compiles to

    e8 99 bf d6 ff          callq  ffffffff8116d540 
    48 85 c0                test   %rax,%rax
    48 89 83 40 02 00 00    mov    %rax,0x240(%rbx)
    74 11                   je     ffffffff814015c4 
    48 89 18                mov    %rbx,(%rax)
    48 8b 83 40 02 00 00    mov    0x240(%rbx),%rax [*]
    c7 40 40 01 00 00 00    movl   $0x1,0x40(%rax)

With this patch applied, the instruction at [*] is elided, since the
store to plane->state->plane is known to not alter the value of
plane->state.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel.h: add u64_to_user_ptr()

2016-04-30T00:03:49+00:00

This function had copies in 3 different files. Unify them in kernel.h.

Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Rob Clark 
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 	[drm/i915/]
Acked-by: Rob Clark 		[drm/msm/]
Acked-by: Lucas Stach 		[drm/etinav/]
Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'trace-v4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-03-24T17:52:25+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Nothing major this round.  Mostly small clean ups and fixes.

  Some visible changes:

   - A new flag was added to distinguish traces done in NMI context.

   - Preempt tracer now shows functions where preemption is disabled but
     interrupts are still enabled.

  Other notes:

   - Updates were done to function tracing to allow better performance
     with perf.

   - Infrastructure code has been added to allow for a new histogram
     feature for recording live trace event histograms that can be
     configured by simple user commands.  The feature itself was just
     finished, but needs a round in linux-next before being pulled.

     This only includes some infrastructure changes that will be needed"

* tag 'trace-v4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (22 commits)
  tracing: Record and show NMI state
  tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()
  tracing: Remove redundant reset per-CPU buff in irqsoff tracer
  x86: ftrace: Fix the misleading comment for arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
  tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile
  tracing: Have preempt(irqs)off trace preempt disabled functions
  tracing: Fix return while holding a lock in register_tracer()
  ftrace: Use kasprintf() in ftrace_profile_tracefs()
  ftrace: Update dynamic ftrace calls only if necessary
  ftrace: Make ftrace_hash_rec_enable return update bool
  tracing: Fix typoes in code comment and printk in trace_nop.c
  tracing, writeback: Replace cgroup path to cgroup ino
  tracing: Use flags instead of bool in trigger structure
  tracing: Add an unreg_all() callback to trigger commands
  tracing: Add needs_rec flag to event triggers
  tracing: Add a per-event-trigger 'paused' field
  tracing: Add get_syscall_name()
  tracing: Add event record param to trigger_ops.func()
  tracing: Make event trigger functions available
  tracing: Make ftrace_event_field checking functions available
  ...

panic: change nmi_panic from macro to function

2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00

Commit 1717f2096b54 ("panic, x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic
on NMI") and commit 58c5661f2144 ("panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save
registers even if looping in NMI context") introduced nmi_panic() which
prevents concurrent/recursive execution of panic().  It also saves
registers for the crash dump on x86.

However, there are some cases where NMI handlers still use panic().
This patch set partially replaces them with nmi_panic() in those cases.

Even this patchset is applied, some NMI or similar handlers (e.g.  MCE
handler) continue to use panic().  This is because I can't test them
well and actual problems won't happen.  For example, the possibility
that normal panic and panic on MCE happen simultaneously is very low.

This patch (of 3):

Convert nmi_panic() to a proper function and export it instead of
exporting internal implementation details to modules, for obvious
reasons.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Nicolas Iooss 
Cc: Javi Merino 
Cc: Gobinda Charan Maji 
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()

2016-03-22T22:02:40+00:00

The trace_printk() code will allocate extra buffers if the compile detects
that a trace_printk() is used. To do this, the format of the trace_printk()
is saved to the __trace_printk_fmt section, and if that section is bigger
than zero, the buffers are allocated (along with a message that this has
happened).

If trace_printk() uses a format that is not a constant, and thus something
not guaranteed to be around when the print happens, the compiler optimizes
the fmt out, as it is not used, and the __trace_printk_fmt section is not
filled. This means the kernel will not allocate the special buffers needed
for the trace_printk() and the trace_printk() will not write anything to the
tracing buffer.

Adding a "__used" to the variable in the __trace_printk_fmt section will
keep it around, even though it is set to NULL. This will keep the string
from being printed in the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats section as it is
not needed.

Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Fixes: 07d777fe8c398 "tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

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

2016-03-19T17:05:34+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...

lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

Create the kstrtobool_from_user() helper and move strtobool() logic into
the new kstrtobool() (matching all the other kstrto* functions).
Provides an inline wrapper for existing strtobool() callers.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar 
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam 
Cc: Kalle Valo 
Cc: Steve French 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds