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<title>linux-toradex.git/init/main.c, branch v3.3-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)</title>
<updated>2012-01-12T23:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-12T23:02:18+00:00</published>
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module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-01-12T03:12:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-12T03:12:10+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
  mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
  x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
  x86: Fix mmap random address range
  x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
  x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
  x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
  x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
  x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
  mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
  x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
  x86: Fix mmap random address range
  x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
  x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
  x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
  x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
  x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
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<entry>
<title>mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled</title>
<updated>2011-12-06T08:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislaw Gruszka</name>
<email>sgruszka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-29T16:05:11+00:00</published>
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When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.

To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.

To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init/main.c: Execute lockdep_init() as early as possible</title>
<updated>2011-12-06T07:16:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>tom.leiming@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-17T05:34:31+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:

  [    0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
  [    0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
  [    0.000000]  [&lt;c00164bc&gt;] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
  [    0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffff

The warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().

It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;tom.leiming@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:

  [    0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
  [    0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
  [    0.000000]  [&lt;c00164bc&gt;] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
  [    0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffff

The warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().

It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;tom.leiming@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T04:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T04:20:46+00:00</published>
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* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
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* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T02:40:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Schmidt</name>
<email>mschmidt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-09T22:03:37+00:00</published>
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The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (neatened implementations)
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The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (neatened implementations)
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier</title>
<updated>2011-10-25T18:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-12T23:17:54+00:00</published>
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Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier</title>
<updated>2011-09-30T02:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wangyanqing</name>
<email>udknight@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-29T07:09:40+00:00</published>
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Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()</title>
<updated>2011-09-28T17:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-28T17:23:44+00:00</published>
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Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline.</title>
<updated>2011-09-21T20:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-21T07:51:40+00:00</published>
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When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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