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 <alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode helper binary for all these events very early in the boot. Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in executing. So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers to make the kernel start out with them disabled. We enable them when we've at least initialized stuff a bit. Problems related to an uninitialized init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex reported by various people. Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming. Things like "swap" instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx". And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change init_tmpfs() to shmem_init(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For each CPU, do the calibration delay only once. For subsequent calls, use the cached per-CPU value of loops_per_jiffy. This saves about 200ms of resume time on dual core Intel Atom N5xx based systems. This helps bring down the kernel resume time on such systems from about 500ms to about 300ms. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cpu_loops_per_jiffy static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up message text] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things up after upstream rmk changes] Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit a2c8990aed5ab ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"),
Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree,
this patch removes them all.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: um: Make rwsem.S depend on CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM * 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: debug: Make CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to unhide debug options * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Remove unused CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system
* 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: mips: Fix i8253 clockevent fallout i8253: Cleanup outb/inb magic arm: Footbridge: Use common i8253 clockevent mips: Use common i8253 clockevent x86: Use common i8253 clockevent i8253: Create common clockevent implementation i8253: Export i8253_lock unconditionally pcpskr: MIPS: Make config dependencies finer grained pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies i8253: Move remaining content and delete asm/i8253.h i8253: Consolidate definitions of PIT_LATCH x86: i8253: Consolidate definitions of global_clock_event i8253: Alpha, PowerPC: Remove unused asm/8253pit.h alpha: i8253: Cleanup remaining users of i8253pit.h i8253: Remove I8253_LOCK config i8253: Make pcsp sound driver use the shared i8253_lock i8253: Make pcspkr input driver use the shared i8253_lock i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock i8253: Unify all kernel declarations of i8253_lock i8253: Create linux/i8253.h and use it in all 8253 related files
Secondary CPU bringup typically calls calibrate_delay() during its
initialization. However, calibrate_delay() modifies a global variable
(loops_per_jiffy) used for udelay() and __delay().
A side effect of 71c696b1 ("calibrate: extract fall-back calculation
into own helper") introduced in the 2.6.39 merge window means that we
end up with a substantial period where loops_per_jiffy is zero. This
causes the spinlock debugging code to malfunction:
u64 loops = loops_per_jiffy * HZ;
for (;;) {
for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
if (arch_spin_trylock(&lock->raw_lock))
return;
__delay(1);
}
...
}
by never calling arch_spin_trylock() - resulting in the CPU locking
up in an infinite loop inside __spin_lock_debug().
Work around this by only writing to loops_per_jiffy only once we have
completed all the calibration decisions.
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.39-stable)
--
Better solutions (such as omitting the calibration for secondary CPUs,
or arranging for calibrate_delay() to return the LPJ value and leave
it to the caller to decide where to store it) are a possibility, but
would be much more invasive into each architecture.
I think this is the best solution for -rc and stable, but it should be
revisited for the next merge window.
init/calibrate.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.
To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.
The details of the crash are:
(1) 2nd kernel boots up
(2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
in start_kernel().
(3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
&q->list.next.
Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time. According to commit b99b87f70c7785ab ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this. However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it. Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.
Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>