linux-toradex.git/kernel/extable.c, branch v3.15-rc6

asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible

2014-02-14T02:13:22+00:00

main_extable_sort_needed is used by the build system and needs
to be a normal ELF symbol. Make it visible so that LTO
does not remove or mangle it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-8-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas

2013-11-28T17:49:41+00:00

The init_kernel_text() and core_kernel_text() functions should not
include the labels _einittext and _etext when checking if an address is
inside the .text or .init sections.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

extable: skip sorting if the table is empty

2013-09-11T22:58:25+00:00

At least on ARM no-MMU the extable is empty and so there is nothing to
sort. So add a check for the table to be empty which effectively only
changes that the misleading pr_notice is suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

extable: Flip the sorting message

2013-04-15T11:25:16+00:00

Now that we do sort the __extable at build time, we actually are
interested only in the case where we still do need to sort it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Daney 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366023109-12098-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

extable: Skip sorting if sorted at build time.

2012-04-19T22:06:55+00:00

If the build program sortextable has already sorted the exception
table, don't sort it again.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-3-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata

2011-05-20T06:56:56+00:00

A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a
passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not
return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data.

Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous,
without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by
volatile memory (memory that can be freed).

This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from
ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global
data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false
otherwise.

Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition
and document the function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305855298.1465.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
----
 arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |    1 +
 arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds  |    2 ++
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds |    1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S  |    3 +++
 kernel/extable.c                  |   12 +++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

core_kernel_data(): Fix architectures that do not define _sdata

2011-05-19T23:27:16+00:00

Some architectures such as Alpha do not define _sdata but _data:

  kernel/built-in.o: In function `core_kernel_data':
  kernel/extable.c:77: undefined reference to `_sdata'

So expand the scope of the data range to the text addresses too,
this might be more correct anyway because this way we can
cover readonly variables as well.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i878c8a0e0g0ep4v7i6vxnhz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers

2011-05-18T19:29:51+00:00

Now that functions may be selected individually, it only makes sense
that we should allow dynamically allocated trace structures to
be traced. This will allow perf to allocate a ftrace_ops structure
at runtime and use it to pick and choose which functions that
structure will trace.

Note, a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops will always be called
indirectly instead of being called directly from the mcount in
entry.S. This is because there's no safe way to prevent mcount
from being preempted before calling the function, unless we
modify every entry.S to do so (not likely). Thus, dynamically allocated
functions will now be called by the ftrace_ops_list_func() that
loops through the ops that are allocated if there are more than
one op allocated at a time. This loop is protected with a
preempt_disable.

To determine if an ftrace_ops structure is allocated or not, a new
util function was added to the kernel/extable.c called
core_kernel_data(), which returns 1 if the address is between
_sdata and _edata.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-05T18:04:19+00:00

* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param

2009-04-05T17:30:21+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param:
  module: use strstarts()
  strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))
  arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h
  module: don't use stop_machine on module load
  module: create a request_module_nowait()
  module: include other structures in module version check
  module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section.
  module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
  module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice
  Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
  module: remove module_text_address()
  module: __module_address
  module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol
  kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label
  param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/extable.c manually.