linux-toradex.git/init, branch v2.6.33.1 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules ima: initialize ima before inodes can be allocated 2010-02-07T08:06:22+00:00 Eric Paris eparis@redhat.com 2009-12-09T20:29:01+00:00 54bb6552bd9405dc7685653157a4ec260c77a71c ima wants to create an inode information struct (iint) when inodes are allocated. This means that at least the part of ima which does this allocation (the allocation is filled with information later) should before any inodes are created. To accomplish this we split the ima initialization routine placing the kmem cache allocator inside a security_initcall() function. Since this makes use of radix trees we also need to make sure that is initialized before security_initcall(). Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 
ima wants to create an inode information struct (iint) when inodes are
allocated.  This means that at least the part of ima which does this
allocation (the allocation is filled with information later) should
before any inodes are created.  To accomplish this we split the ima
initialization routine placing the kmem cache allocator inside a
security_initcall() function.  Since this makes use of radix trees we also
need to make sure that is initialized before security_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernels 2010-01-11T17:34:04+00:00 Albin Tonnerre albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com 2010-01-08T22:42:42+00:00 7dd65feb6c603e13eba501c34c662259ab38e70e This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images. Russell King said: : Testing on a Cortex A9 model: : - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel : - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel : : which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two. : : However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code: : - new is 99% of the size of the old code : - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code : : What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better: : - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image : - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took : : So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I : can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional : compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.) : : I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO. This patch: The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on: Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's much faster to extract, at least in that case. This part contains: - Makefile routine to support lzo compression - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in compressed kernels - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here - config dialog for kernel compression [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.

Russell King said:

: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort.  The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.

This patch:

The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction.  Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:

Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip  1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo   1.75Mo 0.48s

So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.

This part contains:
 - Makefile routine to support lzo compression
 - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
   compressed kernels
 - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
   block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
 - config dialog for kernel compression

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-19T17:48:14+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2009-12-19T17:48:14+00:00 3981e152864fcc1dbbb564e1f4c0ae11a09639d2 * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk x86: Reenable TSC sync check at boot, even with NONSTOP_TSC x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C x86: Increase MAX_EARLY_RES; insufficient on 32-bit NUMA x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0 x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid() x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space x86: Add IA32_TSC_AUX MSR and use it x86, msr/cpuid: Register enough minors for the MSR and CPUID drivers initramfs: add missing decompressor error check bzip2: Add missing checks for malloc returning NULL bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure 
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system
  Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it
  x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
  x86: Reenable TSC sync check at boot, even with NONSTOP_TSC
  x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
  Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C
  x86: Increase MAX_EARLY_RES; insufficient on 32-bit NUMA
  x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0
  x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
  x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n
  x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space
  x86: Add IA32_TSC_AUX MSR and use it
  x86, msr/cpuid: Register enough minors for the MSR and CPUID drivers
  initramfs: add missing decompressor error check
  bzip2: Add missing checks for malloc returning NULL
  bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-19T17:47:49+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2009-12-19T17:47:49+00:00 aac3d39693529ca538e37ebdb6ed5d6432a697c7 * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) sched: Fix broken assertion sched: Assert task state bits at build time sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU sched: Make warning less noisy sched: Simplify set_task_cpu() sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE sched: Fix task_hot() test order sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down() sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init() sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK ... 
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  sched: Fix broken assertion
  sched: Assert task state bits at build time
  sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states
  sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR
  sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits
  sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU
  sched: Make warning less noisy
  sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()
  sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks
  sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c
  sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues
  sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing
  sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks
  sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups
  sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE
  sched: Fix task_hot() test order
  sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()
  sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init()
  sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  ...
Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00 5a865c0606eb44d5d12cabb429751c83712183de * 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits) net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge kbuild: generate modules.builtin genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}() score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190 kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root Kbuild: clean up marker net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated drop explicit include of autoconf.h kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated kbuild: drop include/asm kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH ... Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h) 
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init() 2009-12-16T18:01:53+00:00 Peter Zijlstra a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl 2009-12-16T17:04:31+00:00 933b0618d8b2a59c7a0742e43836544e02f1e9bd A UP machine has 1 active cpu, not having the boot-cpu in the active map when starting the scheduler confuses things. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.423469527@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
A UP machine has 1 active cpu, not having the boot-cpu in the
active map when starting the scheduler confuses things.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.423469527@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
initramfs: add missing decompressor error check 2009-12-15T22:04:24+00:00 Phillip Lougher phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk 2009-12-14T21:45:19+00:00 54291362d2a5738e1b0495df2abcb9e6b0563a3f The decompressors return error by calling a supplied error function, and/or by returning an error return value. The initramfs code, however, fails to check the exit code returned by the decompressor, and only checks the error status set by calling the error function. This patch adds a return code check and calls the error function. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> LKML-Reference: <4b26b1ef.0+ZWxT6886olqcSc%phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 
The decompressors return error by calling a supplied error function, and/or
by returning an error return value.  The initramfs code, however, fails to
check the exit code returned by the decompressor, and only checks the error
status set by calling the error function.

This patch adds a return code check and calls the error function.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <4b26b1ef.0+ZWxT6886olqcSc%phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
init/main.c: fix symbol shadows noise 2009-12-15T16:53:26+00:00 H Hartley Sweeten hartleys@visionengravers.com 2009-12-15T02:00:18+00:00 196a15b4ee99f627fbc2c07e58e14aab2065fa80 The symbol 'call' is a static symbol used for initcall_debug. This same symbol name is used locally by a couple functions and produces the following sparse warnings: warning: symbol 'call' shadows an earlier one Fix this noise by renaming the local symbols. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
The symbol 'call' is a static symbol used for initcall_debug.  This same
symbol name is used locally by a couple functions and produces the
following sparse warnings:

	warning: symbol 'call' shadows an earlier one

Fix this noise by renaming the local symbols.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag 2009-12-15T16:53:24+00:00 Jie Zhang jie.zhang@analog.com 2009-12-15T02:00:02+00:00 ea637639591def87a54cea811cbac796980cb30d The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory. While this is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is allowed to return uninitialized memory. This can easily be a significant performance penalty. So for constrained embedded systems were security is irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily. This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised memory for the brk and stack region. Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory.  While this
is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace
under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is
allowed to return uninitialized memory.  This can easily be a significant
performance penalty.  So for constrained embedded systems were security is
irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily.

This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised
memory for the brk and stack region.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated 2009-12-12T12:08:15+00:00 Sam Ravnborg sam@ravnborg.org 2009-10-17T22:52:28+00:00 273b281fa22c293963ee3e6eec418f5dda2dbc83 Fix up all users of utsrelease.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> 
Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>