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Rusty Russell
811d66a0e1 module: group post-relocation functions into post_relocation()
This simply hoists more code out of load_module; we also put the
identification of the extable and dynamic debug table in with the
others in find_module_sections().

We move the taint check to the actual add/remove of the dynamic debug
info: this is certain (find_module_sections is too early).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
2010-08-05 12:59:13 +09:30
Rusty Russell
6526c534b2 module: move module args strndup_user to just before use
Instead of copying and allocating the args and storing it in
load_info, we can just allocate them right before we need them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell
49668688dd module: pass load_info into other functions
Pass the struct load_info into all the other functions in module
loading.  This neatens things and makes them more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:10 +09:30
Rusty Russell
36b0360d17 module: fix sysfs cleanup for !CONFIG_SYSFS
Restore the stub module_remove_modinfo_attrs, remove the now-unused
!CONFIG_SYSFS module_sysfs_init.

Also, rename mod_kobject_remove() to mod_sysfs_teardown() as
it is the logical counterpart to mod_sysfs_setup now.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:10 +09:30
Rusty Russell
8f6d037815 module: sysfs cleanup
We change the sysfs functions to take struct load_info, and call
them all in mod_sysfs_setup().

We also clean up the #ifdefs a little.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:09 +09:30
Rusty Russell
d913188c75 module: layout_and_allocate
layout_and_allocate() does everything up to and including the final
struct module placement inside the allocated module memory.  We have
to store the symbol layout information in our struct load_info though.

This avoids the nasty code we had before where 'mod' pointed first
to the version inside the temporary allocation containing the entire
file, then later was moved to point to the real struct module: now
the main code only ever sees the final module address.

(Includes fix for the Tony Luck-found Linus-diagnosed failure path
 error).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:09 +09:30
Rusty Russell
511ca6ae43 module: fix crash in get_ksymbol() when oopsing in module init
Andrew had the sole pleasure of tickling this bug in linux-next; when we set
up "info->strtab" it's pointing into the temporary copy of the module.  For
most uses that is fine, but kallsyms keeps a pointer around during module
load (inside mod->strtab).

If we oops for some reason inside a module's init function, kallsyms will use
the mod->strtab pointer into the now-freed temporary module copy.

(Later oopses work fine: after init we overwrite mod->strtab to point to a
 compacted core-only strtab).

Reported-by: Andrew "Grumpy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty "Buggy" Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Andrew "Happy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:08 +09:30
Rusty Russell
eded41c1c6 module: kallsyms functions take struct load_info
Simple refactor causes us to lift struct definition to top of file.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:08 +09:30
Rusty Russell
d6df72a06e module: refactor out section header rewriting: FIX modversions
We can't do the find_sec after removing the SHF_ALLOC flags; it won't
find the sections.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:07 +09:30
Rusty Russell
8b5f61a795 module: refactor out section header rewriting
Put all the "rewrite and check section headers" in one place.  This
adds another iteration over the sections, but it's far clearer.  We
iterate once for every find_section() so we already iterate over many
times.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
3264d3f9dd module: add load_info
Btw, here's a patch that _looks_ large, but it really pretty trivial, and
sets things up so that it would be way easier to split off pieces of the
module loading.

The reason it looks large is that it creates a "module_info" structure
that contains all the module state that we're building up while loading,
instead of having individual variables for all the indices etc.

So the patch ends up being large, because every "symindex" access instead
becomes "info.index.sym" etc. That may be a few characters longer, but it
then means that we can just pass a pointer to that "info" structure
around. and let all the pieces fill it in very naturally.

As an example of that, the patch also moves the initialization of all
those convenience variables into a "setup_module_info()" function. And at
this point it really does become very natural to start to peel off some of
the error labels and move them into the helper functions - now the
"truncated" case is gone, and is handled inside that setup function
instead.

So maybe you don't like this approach, and it does make the variable
accesses a bit longer, but I don't think unreadably so. And the patch
really does look big and scary, but there really should be absolutely no
semantic changes - most of it was a trivial and mindless rename.

In fact, it was so mindless that I on purpose kept the existing helper
functions looking like this:

-       err = check_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex, versindex);
+       err = check_modinfo(mod, info.sechdrs, info.index.info, info.index.vers);

rather than changing them to just take the "info" pointer. IOW, a second
phase (if you think the approach is ok) would change that calling
convention to just do

	err = check_modinfo(mod, &info);

(and same for "layout_sections()", "layout_symtabs()" etc.) Similarly,
while right now it makes things _look_ bigger, with things like this:

	versindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__versions");

becoming

	info->index.vers = find_sec(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, info->secstrings, "__versions");

in the new "setup_module_info()" function, that's again just a result of
it being a search-and-replace patch. By using the 'info' pointer, we could
just change the 'find_sec()' interface so that it ends up being

	info->index.vers = find_sec(info, "__versions");

instead, and then we'd actually have a shorter and more readable line. So
for a lot of those mindless variable name expansions there's would be room
for separate cleanups.

I didn't move quite everything in there - if we do this to layout_symtabs,
for example, we'd want to move the percpu, symoffs, stroffs, *strmap
variables to be fields in that module_info structure too. But that's a
much smaller patch, I moved just the really core stuff that is currently
being set up and used in various parts.

But even in this rough form, it removes close to 70 lines from that
function (but adds 22 lines overall, of course - the structure definition,
the helper function declarations and call-sites etc etc).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
44032e6316 module: reduce stack usage for each_symbol()
And now that I'm looking at that call-chain (to see if it would make sense
to use some other more specific lock - doesn't look like it: all the
readers are using RCU and this is the only writer), I also give you this
trivial one-liner. It changes each_symbol() to not put that constant array
on the stack, resulting in changing

        movq    $C.388.31095, %rsi      #, tmp85
        subq    $376, %rsp      #,
        movq    %rdi, %rbx      # fn, fn
        leaq    -208(%rbp), %rdi        #, tmp84
        movq    %rbx, %rdx      # fn,
        rep movsl
        xorl    %esi, %esi      #
        leaq    -208(%rbp), %rdi        #, tmp87
        movq    %r12, %rcx      # data,
        call    each_symbol_in_section.clone.0  #

into

        xorl    %esi, %esi      #
        subq    $216, %rsp      #,
        movq    %rdi, %rbx      # fn, fn
        movq    $arr.31078, %rdi        #,
        call    each_symbol_in_section.clone.0  #

which is not so much about being obviously shorter and simpler because we
don't unnecessarily copy that constant array around onto the stack, but
also about having a much smaller stack footprint (376 vs 216 bytes - see
the update of 'rsp').

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Rusty Russell
22e268ebec module: refactor load_module part 5
1) Extract out the relocation loop into apply_relocations
2) Extract license and version checks into check_module_license_and_versions
3) Extract icache flushing into flush_module_icache
4) Move __obsparm warning into find_module_sections
5) Move license setting into check_modinfo.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell
9f85a4bbb1 module: refactor load_module part 4
Allocate references inside module_unload_init(), clean up inside
module_unload_free().

This version fixed to do allocation before __this_cpu_write, thanks to
bug reports from linux-next from Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
and Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell
40dd2560ec module: refactor load_module part 3
Extract out the allocation and copying in from userspace, and the
first set of modinfo checks.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:04 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
65b8a9b4d5 module: refactor load_module part 2
Here's a second one. It's slightly less trivial - since we now have error
cases - and equally untested so it may well be totally broken. But it also
cleans up a bit more, and avoids one of the goto targets, because the
"move_module()" helper now does both allocations or none.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:03 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
f91a13bb99 module: refactor load_module
I'd start from the trivial stuff. There's a fair amount of straight-line
code that just makes the function hard to read just because you have to
page up and down so far. Some of it is trivial to just create a helper
function for.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:02 +09:30
Eric Dumazet
2409e74278 module: module_unload_init() cleanup
No need to clear mod->refptr in module_unload_init(), since
alloc_percpu() already clears allocated chunks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed unused var)
2010-08-05 12:59:02 +09:30
Jason Baron
b82bab4bbe dynamic debug: move ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module()
The command

	echo "file ec.c +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control

causes an oops.

Move the call to ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module().  In this
way it should be called from all error paths.  Currently, we are missing
the remove if the module init routine fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-27 14:32:06 -07:00
Yehuda Sadeh
ff49d74ad3 module: initialize module dynamic debug later
We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures
only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This
fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying
to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data
twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle
the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure.

Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-04 20:17:22 -07:00
Rusty Russell
9bea7f2395 module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c"
Problem: it's hard to avoid an init routine stumbling over a
request_module these days.  And it's not clear it's always a bad idea:
for example, a module like kvm with dynamic dependencies on kvm-intel
or kvm-amd would be neater if it could simply request_module the right
one.

In this particular case, it's libcrc32c:

	libcrc32c_mod_init
	 crypto_alloc_shash
	  crypto_alloc_tfm
	   crypto_find_alg
	    crypto_alg_mod_lookup
	     crypto_larval_lookup
	      request_module

If another module is waiting inside resolve_symbol() for libcrc32c to
finish initializing (ie. bne2 depends on libcrc32c) then it does so
holding the module lock, and our request_module() can't make progress
until that is released.

Waiting inside resolve_symbol() without the lock isn't all that hard:
we just need to pass the -EBUSY up the call chain so we can sleep
where we don't hold the lock.  Error reporting is a bit trickier: we
need to copy the name of the unfinished module before releasing the
lock.

Other notes:
1) This also fixes a theoretical issue where a weak dependency would allow
   symbol version mismatches to be ignored.
2) We rename use_module to ref_module to make life easier for the only
   external user (the out-of-tree ksplice patches).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tim Abbot <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Tested-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell
be593f4ce4 module: verify_export_symbols under the lock
It disabled preempt so it was "safe", but nothing stops another module
slipping in before this module is added to the global list now we don't
hold the lock the whole time.

So we check this just after we check for duplicate modules, and just
before we put the module in the global list.

(find_symbol finds symbols in coming and going modules, too).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
3bafeb6247 module: move find_module check to end
I think Rusty may have made the lock a bit _too_ finegrained there, and
didn't add it to some places that needed it. It looks, for example, like
PATCH 1/2 actually drops the lock in places where it's needed
("find_module()" is documented to need it, but now load_module() didn't
hold it at all when it did the find_module()).

Rather than adding a new "module_loading" list, I think we should be able
to just use the existing "modules" list, and just fix up the locking a
bit.

In fact, maybe we could just move the "look up existing module" a bit
later - optimistically assuming that the module doesn't exist, and then
just undoing the work if it turns out that we were wrong, just before
adding ourselves to the list.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell
75676500f8 module: make locking more fine-grained.
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> reports that we still have some
contention over module loading which is slowing boot.

Linus also disliked a previous "drop lock and regrab" patch to fix the
bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" message.

This is more ambitious: we only grab the lock where we need it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
6407ebb271 module: Make module sysfs functions private.
These were placed in the header in ef665c1a06 to get the various
SYSFS/MODULE config combintations to compile.

That may have been necessary then, but it's not now.  These functions
are all local to module.c.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
80a3d1bb41 module: move sysfs exposure to end of load_module
This means a little extra work, but is more logical: we don't put
anything in sysfs until we're about to put the module into the
global list an parse its parameters.

This also gives us a logical place to put duplicate module detection
in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
c8e21ced08 module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.
Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
2c02dfe7fe module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-way
When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a
one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could
see who needs a module.

It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we
not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are
"used by me".

In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we
unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are
used by that module.  But because we didn't have that list, we used to
first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me"
list of that module.

By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it
allows for some trivial fixes later too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
2010-06-05 11:17:35 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Rusty Russell
293a7cfeed module: fix reference to mod->percpu after freeing module.
Rafael sees a sometimes crash at precpu_modfree from kernel/module.c; it
only occurred with another (since-reverted) patch, but that patch simply
changed timing to uncover this bug, it was otherwise unrelated.

The comment about the mod being freed is self-explanatory, but neither
Tejun nor I read it.  This bug was introduced in 259354deaa, after it
had previously been fixed in 6e2b75740b.  How embarrassing.

Reported-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Embarrassingly-Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-31 11:21:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
218ce73514 Revert "module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization."
This reverts commit 480b02df3a, since
Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in
load_module().

Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is
definitely not the right thing to do.  That just turns the mutex from a
lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually
protect what it's supposed to protect.

Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 16:48:30 -07:00
Wenji Huang
7d52669b14 module: remove duplicate declaration of __ksymtab_gpl_future
Minor cleanup on duplicate __{start/stop}__ksymtab_gpl_future.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a8251096b4 Merge branch 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing
  hisax_fcpcipnp: fix broken isapnp device table.
  isapnp: move definitions to mod_devicetable.h so file2alias can reach them.
2010-05-21 17:15:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
90b9a32d8f Merge branch 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: (25 commits)
  kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notification
  MAINTAINERS: update kgdb, kdb, and debug_core info
  debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entry
  printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell
  kgdboc,kdb: Allow kdb to work on a non open console port
  kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a tasklet
  mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace
  powerpc,kgdb: Introduce low level trap catching
  x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hook
  kgdb: remove post_primary_code references
  kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb
  kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb
  kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
  sparc,sunzilog: Add console polling support for sunzilog serial driver
  sh,sh-sci: Use NO_POLL_CHAR in the SCIF polled console code
  kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll
  kgdb: core changes to support kdb
  kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)
  kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)
  kgdb,blackfin: Add in kgdb_arch_set_pc for blackfin
  ...
2010-05-21 11:08:05 -07:00
Chris Wright
2c3c8bea60 sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Jason Wessel
67fc4e0cb9 kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)
This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which
live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core
will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc...

CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:21 -05:00
Rusty Russell
480b02df3a module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
This fixes "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c." which
happened at boot time due to multiple parallel module loads.

The problem was a deadlock: we wait for a module to finish
initializing, but we keep the module_lock mutex so it can't complete.
In particular, this could reasonably happen if a module does a
request_module() in its initialization routine.

So we change use_module() to return an errno rather than a bool, and if
it's -EBUSY we drop the lock and wait in the caller, then reaquire the
lock.

Reported-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
2010-05-19 17:33:39 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
b8ae30ee26 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
  sched, wait: Use wrapper functions
  sched: Remove a stale comment
  ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
  ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
  sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()
  sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field
  sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()
  sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics
  sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
  sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints
  rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
  stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
  cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
  ...
2010-05-18 08:27:54 -07:00
Tejun Heo
3fc1f1e27a stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop.  As cpu stoppers are
guaranteed to be available for all online cpus,
stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed.

With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the
new implementation is much simpler.  Asking the cpu_stop to execute
the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug
disabled is enough.

stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources
anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct
stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are
removed.

The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as
necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very
large machines.  According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic
creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very
large machines.  cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online
cpus and should have the same effect.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-05-06 18:49:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c1ab9cab75 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/module.h
	kernel/module.c

Semantic conflict:
	include/trace/events/module.h

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
              possibly racy module refcounting")

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 10:18:47 +02:00
Nick Piggin
5fbfb18d7a Fix up possibly racy module refcounting
Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed.
However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may
be taken by one CPU and released by another.  Reference count summation
may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment,
leading to lower than expected count.  A module which never has its
actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to
this race.

Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this
race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules.  However there are
other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is
exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine.

Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of
module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements.  The
increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will
always have its corresponding increment counted.  The final refcount is
the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a
low-refcount from being returned.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-05 19:50:02 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
eb0c53771f tracing: Fix compile error in module tracepoints when MODULE_UNLOAD not set
If modules are configured in the build but unloading of modules is not,
then the refcnt is not defined. Place the get/put module tracepoints
under CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD since it references this field in the module
structure.

As a side-effect, this patch also reduces the code when MODULE_UNLOAD
is not set, because these unused tracepoints are not created.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-31 22:56:59 -04:00
Li Zefan
ae832d1e03 tracing: Remove side effect from module tracepoints that caused a GPF
Remove the @refcnt argument, because it has side-effects, and arguments with
side-effects are not skipped by the jump over disabled instrumentation and are
executed even when the tracepoint is disabled.

This was also causing a GPF as found by Randy Dunlap:

Subject: 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing
LKML-Reference: <4BA2B69D.3000309@oracle.com>

Note, the current 2.6.34-rc has a fix for the actual cause of the GPF,
but this fixes one of its triggers.

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA7.6040406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-31 22:56:58 -04:00
Tejun Heo
10fad5e46f percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()
lockdep has custom code to check whether a pointer belongs to static
percpu area which is somewhat broken.  Implement proper
is_kernel/module_percpu_address() and replace the custom code.

On UP, percpu variables are regular static variables and can't be
distinguished from them.  Always return %false on UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2010-03-29 23:07:12 +09:00
Tejun Heo
259354deaa module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_size
Better encapsulate module static percpu area handling so that code
outsidef of CONFIG_SMP ifdef doesn't deal with mod->percpu directly
and add mod->percpu_size and record percpu_size in it.  Both percpu
fields are compiled out on UP.  While at it, mark mod->percpu w/
__percpu.

This is to prepare for is_module_percpu_address().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-03-29 23:07:12 +09:00
Eric W. Biederman
361795b1eb sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on module dynamic attributes
A little more whack-a-mole annotating the dynamic sysfs attributes.  I
had everything built into my earlier test kernel, and so I missed
these.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:51 -08:00
Denys Vlasenko
3d9a854c2d Rename .data[.percpu][.XXX] to .data[..percpu][..XXX].
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 11:26:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo
ab386128f2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu 2010-02-02 14:38:15 +09:00
Ben Hutchings
10b465aaf9 modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notes
Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections
via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did
not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs().
This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong
names or with null name pointers.

Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs()
and add_notes_attrs().

Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-06 01:11:29 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e1783a240f module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters
Use cpu ops to deal with the per cpu data instead of a local_t. Reduces memory
requirements, cache footprint and decreases cycle counts.

The this_cpu_xx operations are also used for !SMP mode. Otherwise we could
not drop the use of __module_ref_addr() which would make per cpu data handling
complicated. this_cpu_xx operations have their own fallback for !SMP.

V8-V9:
- Leave include asm/module.h since ringbuffer.c depends on it. Nothing else
  does though. Another patch will deal with that.
- Remove spurious free.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-05 15:34:50 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
dcc7cd0112 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
  kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
  kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
  kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
  kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
  kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
Rusty Russell
d4703aefdb module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab.  They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html

Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-12-15 16:28:34 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
d0316554d3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
Helge Deller
35dead4235 modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs
On the parisc architecture we face for each and every loaded kernel module
this kernel "badness warning":
  sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ac97_bus/sections/.text'
  Badness at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487

Reason for that is, that on parisc all kernel modules do have multiple
.text sections due to the usage of the -ffunction-sections compiler flag
which is needed to reach all jump targets on this platform.

An objdump on such a kernel module gives:
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000058  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  2 .text.ac97_bus_match 0000001c  00000000  00000000  00000058  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  3 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  000000d4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
...
Since the .text sections are empty (size of 0 bytes) and won't be
loaded by the kernel module loader anyway, I don't see a reason
why such sections need to be listed under
/sys/module/<module_name>/sections/<section_name> either.

The attached patch does solve this issue by not exporting section
names which are empty.

This fixes bugzilla http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14703

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
CC: roland@redhat.com
CC: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-02 15:38:25 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
a6f5aa1ea0 kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it
leads to false positives.

Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28 17:07:54 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
c017b4be3e kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined
by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-10-28 15:11:00 +00:00
Tejun Heo
23fb064bb9 percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator
With ia64 converted, there's no arch left which still uses legacy
percpu allocator.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Delightedly-acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-02 13:29:29 +09:00
Paul Mundt
3ae91c21dd module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build.
Starting from commit 4a4962263f "reduce
symbol table for loaded modules (v2)", the kernel/module.c build is broken
with CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled.

  CC      kernel/module.o
kernel/module.c:1995: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'Elf_Hdr'
kernel/module.c:1995: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
kernel/module.c: In function 'load_module':
kernel/module.c:2203: error: 'strmap' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2203: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/module.c:2203: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/module.c:2239: error: 'symoffs' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2239: error: implicit declaration of function 'layout_symtab'
kernel/module.c:2240: error: 'stroffs' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2

There are three different issues:

    - layout_symtab() takes a const Elf_Ehdr

    - layout_symtab() needs to return a value

    - symoffs/stroffs/strmap are referenced by the load_module() code
      despite being ifdefed out, which seems unnecessary given the noop
      behaviour of layout_symtab()/add_kallsyms() in the case of
      CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4187e7e9f1 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()
  tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events
  tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open()
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write()
  tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user()
  tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-26 10:13:54 -07:00
Rusty Russell
ffa9f12a41 module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.

All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-09-25 00:32:59 +09:30
Rusty Russell
a263f7763c module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).

(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2009-09-25 00:32:59 +09:30
Jan Beulich
554bdfe5ac module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25 00:32:57 +09:30
Jan Beulich
4a4962263f module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25 00:32:57 +09:30
Ingo Molnar
115e8a2882 modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()
Linus reported this new build warning:

  kernel/module.c:2951: warning: ?struct marker? declared inside parameter list
  kernel/module.c:2951: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Caused by:

  fc53776: tracing: Remove markers

module_layout() is an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols
listed in its argument list so that it gets a proper argument types
signature that modversions can pick up to decide whether a
module is version-compatible or not. If these dont match then we
wont even look at a module.

Remove the stale marker symbol.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909210908020.4950@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-23 10:34:21 +02:00
Bernd Schmidt
eb8cdec4a9 nommu: add support for Memory Protection Units (MPU)
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the
"simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory
protection.

In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page
boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel.

There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload)
however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design
time.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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>
2009-09-22 07:17:43 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
fc5377668c tracing: Remove markers
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event
tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
ed011b22ce Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-06 06:11:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ea6bff3685 modules: Fix build error in the !CONFIG_KALLSYMS case
> James Bottomley (1):
>       module: workaround duplicate section names

-tip testing found that this patch breaks the build on x86 if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled:

 kernel/module.c: In function ‘load_module’:
 kernel/module.c:2367: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘sect_attrs’
 distcc[8269] ERROR: compile kernel/module.c on ph/32 failed
 make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
 make: *** [kernel] Error 2
 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Commit 1b364bf misses the fact that section attributes are only
built and dealt with if kallsyms is enabled. The patch below fixes
this.

( note, technically speaking this should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS as
  well but this patch is correct too and keeps the #ifdef less
  intrusive - in the KALLSYMS && !SYSFS case the code is a NOP. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Replaced patch with a slightly cleaner variation by James Bottomley ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-28 19:35:00 -10:00
James Bottomley
1b364bf438 module: workaround duplicate section names
The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal?
[ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ]

However, there's a problem with commit
6d76013381 in that if you fail to allocate
a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication),
it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs()

This should fix it

[ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory,
  but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this
  prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ]

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-27 12:33:19 -07:00
Rusty Russell
7d1d16e416 module: fix BUG_ON() for powerpc (and other function descriptor archs)
The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-27 12:33:19 -07:00
Li Zefan
7ead8b8313 tracing/events: Add module tracepoints
Add trace points to trace module_load, module_free, module_get,
module_put and module_request, and use trace_event facility to
get the trace output.

Here's the sample output:

     TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
        | |       |          |         |
    <...>-42    [000]     1.758380: module_request: fb0 wait=1 call_site=fb_open
    ...
    <...>-60    [000]     3.269403: module_load: scsi_wait_scan
    <...>-60    [000]     3.269432: module_put: scsi_wait_scan call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0
    <...>-61    [001]     3.273168: module_free: scsi_wait_scan
    ...
    <...>-1021  [000]    13.836081: module_load: sunrpc
    <...>-1021  [000]    13.840589: module_put: sunrpc call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=-1
    <...>-1027  [000]    13.848098: module_get: sunrpc call_site=try_module_get refcnt=0
    <...>-1027  [000]    13.848308: module_get: sunrpc call_site=get_filesystem refcnt=1
    <...>-1027  [000]    13.848692: module_put: sunrpc call_site=put_filesystem refcnt=0
    ...
 modprobe-2587  [001]  1088.437213: module_load: trace_events_sample F
 modprobe-2587  [001]  1088.437786: module_put: trace_events_sample call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0

Note:

- the taints flag can be 'F', 'C' and/or 'P' if mod->taints != 0

- the module refcnt is percpu, so it can be negative in a
  specific cpu

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <4A891B3C.5030608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17 11:25:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo
384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
Mike Frysinger
6560dc160f module: use MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX with module_layout
The check_modstruct_version() needs to look up the symbol "module_layout"
in the kernel, but it does so literally and not by a C identifier.  The
trouble is that it does not include a symbol prefix for those ports that
need it (like the Blackfin and H8300 port).  So make sure we tack on the
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX define to the front of it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-27 12:15:45 -07:00
Joe Perches
ad361c9884 Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats
Commit 5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
Tejun Heo
e74e396204 percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator
This patch makes most !CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA archs use
dynamic percpu allocator.  The first chunk is allocated using
embedding helper and 8k is reserved for modules.  This ensures that
the new allocator behaves almost identically to the original allocator
as long as static percpu variables are concerned, so it shouldn't
introduce much breakage.

s390 and alpha use custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() to work around addressing
range limit the addressing model imposes.  Unfortunately, this breaks
if the address is specified using a variable, so for now, the two
archs aren't converted.

The following architectures are affected by this change.

* sh
* arm
* cris
* mips
* sparc(32)
* blackfin
* avr32
* parisc (broken, under investigation)
* m32r
* powerpc(32)

As this change makes the dynamic allocator the default one,
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is replaced with its invert -
CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA, which is added to yet-to-be converted
archs.  These archs implement their own setup_per_cpu_areas() and the
conversion is not trivial.

* powerpc(64)
* sparc(64)
* ia64
* alpha
* s390

Boot and batch alloc/free tests on x86_32 with debug code (x86_32
doesn't use default first chunk initialization).  Compile tested on
sparc(32), powerpc(32), arm and alpha.

Kyle McMartin reported that this change breaks parisc.  The problem is
still under investigation and he is okay with pushing this patch
forward and fixing parisc later.

[ Impact: use dynamic allocator for most archs w/o custom percpu setup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:13:35 +09:00
Peter Oberparleiter
b99b87f70c kernel: constructor support
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load.  Constructors are e.g.  used for gcov data
initialization.

Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b231125af7 printk: add KERN_DEFAULT loglevel to print_modules()
Several WARN_ON() messages omit the '\n' at the end of the string, which
is a simple (and understandable) error.  The next line printed after
that warning line is usually the current module list, and that printk
does not have a log-level marker - resulting in one long mixed-up line.

Adding this loglevel marker will now avoid this unreadable mess.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 11:07:14 -07:00
Rusty Russell
ad6561dffa module: trim exception table on init free.
It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules.  These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup.  The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).

Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.

This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code.  Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.

Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.

Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
2009-06-12 21:47:04 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
512626a04e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
  kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
  kmemleak: Add modules support
  kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
  kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Add the base support

Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
	drivers/char/vt.c
	init/main.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3296ca27f5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits)
  nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition.
  TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures.
  TOMOYO: Remove unused field.
  integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure
  TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter.
  security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models
  TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader.
  TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers.
  SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages
  TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex.
  tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct
  smack: Remove redundant initialization.
  integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix
  rootplug: Remove redundant initialization.
  smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data
  integrity: move ima_counts_get
  integrity: path_check update
  IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions
  IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
  selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool
  ...
2009-06-11 10:01:41 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
4f2294b6dc kmemleak: Add modules support
This patch handles the kmemleak operations needed for modules loading so
that memory allocations from inside a module are properly tracked.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:03:31 +01:00
James Morris
d254117099 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +10:00
Steven Rostedt
93eb677d74 ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.

To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.

After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.

Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.

This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.

[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17 16:59:15 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
19e4529ee7 modules: Fix up build when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=n.
Commit 3d43321b70 ("modules: sysctl to
block module loading") introduces a modules_disabled variable that is
only defined if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is enabled, despite being used in
other places. This moves it up and fixes up the build.

  CC      kernel/module.o
kernel/module.c: In function 'sys_init_module':
kernel/module.c:2401: error: 'modules_disabled' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2401: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/module.c:2401: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-15 08:17:31 +10:00
Steven Rostedt
6d723736e4 tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load

This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.

It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:58:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d6de2c80e9 async: Fix module loading async-work regression
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we
synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to
mount root filesystems etc.

However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the
module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished
probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to
use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken.

We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code,
where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped
the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running.
That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit
5d38258ec0 "ACPI battery: fix async boot
oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all
async work to be completed.

It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be
built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle
from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple
fix to wait is the right one.

This fixes at least

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063

but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and
is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug
report (no bugzilla entry).

We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com>
Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-11 12:44:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell
2e45e77787 Revert "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section."
This reverts commit 9cb610d8e3.

This was an impressively stupid patch.  Firstly, we reset the SHF_ALLOC
flag lower down in the same function, so the patch was useless.  Even
better, find_sec() ignores sections with SHF_ALLOC not set, so
it breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y with CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD=n, which
refuses to load the module since it can't find the __versions section.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-07 17:12:43 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Kees Cook
3d43321b70 modules: sysctl to block module loading
Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since
there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system
bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25.

Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability
checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE.  Given existing /dev/mem protections, this
should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading
after initial boot-time module loading has finished.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-03 11:47:11 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Rusty Russell
49502677e1 module: use strstarts()
Impact: minor cleanup.

I'm not going to neaten anyone else's code, but I'm happy to clean up
my own.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:37 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e91defa26c module: don't use stop_machine on module load
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> discovered that boot times are slowed
by about half a second because all the stop_machine_create() calls,
and he only probes about 40 modules (I have 125 loaded on this laptop).

We only do stop_machine_create() so we can unlink the module if
something goes wrong, but it's overkill (and buggy anyway: if
stop_machine_create() fails we still call stop_machine_destroy()).

Since we are only protecting against kallsyms (esp. oops) walking the
list, synchronize_sched() is sufficient (synchronize_rcu() is probably
sufficient, but we're not in a hurry).

Kay says of this patch:
	... no module takes more than 40 millisecs to link now, most of
	them are between 3 and 8 millisecs.

	That looks very different to the numbers without this patch
	and the otherwise same setup, where we get heavy noise in the
	traces and many delays of up to 200 millisecs until linking,
	most of them taking 30+ millisecs.

Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:35 +10:30
Rusty Russell
8c8ef42aee module: include other structures in module version check
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version 'struct module' using a dummy
export, but other things matter too:

1) 'struct modversion_info' determines the layout of the __versions section,
2) 'struct kernel_param' determines the layout of the __params section,
3) 'struct kernel_symbol' determines __ksymtab*.
4) 'struct marker' determines __markers.
5) 'struct tracepoint' determines __tracepoints.

So we rename 'struct_module' to 'module_layout' and include these in
the signature.  Now it's general we can add others later on without
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
9cb610d8e3 module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section.
Impact: reduce kernel memory usage

This patch just takes off the SHF_ALLOC flag on __versions so we don't
keep them around after module load.

This saves about 7% of module memory if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y.

Cc: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
c6e665c8f0 module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
Impact: Message cleanup

Two of three callers of try_to_force_load() are not because of a
missing version, so change the messages:

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "magic" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: bad vermagic: kernel tainted.

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "nocrc" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: no versions for exported symbols: kernel tainted.

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "<symname>" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: <symname>: kernel tainted.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Tim Abbott
c6b3780191 module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice
Impact: Expose some module.c symbols

Ksplice uses several functions from module.c in order to resolve
symbols and implement dependency handling.  Calling these functions
requires holding module_mutex, so it is exported.

(This is just the module part of a bigger add-exports patch from Tim).

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Anders Kaseorg
75a66614db Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
Impact: New API

kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds.  Ksplice
needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly
resolve local symbols.

kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the
kallsyms table.

Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
a6e6abd575 module: remove module_text_address()
Impact: Replace and remove risky (non-EXPORTed) API

module_text_address() returns a pointer to the module, which given locking
improvements in module.c, is useless except to test for NULL:

1) If the module can't go away, use __module_text_address.
2) Otherwise, just use is_module_text_address().

Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e610499e26 module: __module_address
Impact: New API, cleanup

ksplice wants to know the bounds of a module, not just the module text.

It makes sense to have __module_address.  We then implement
is_module_address and __module_text_address in terms of this (and
change is_module_text_address() to bool while we're at it).

Also, add proper kerneldoc for them all.

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:31 +10:30