This patch makes shrink_dcache_sb consistent with dentry pruning policy.
On the first pass we iterate over dentry unused list and prepare some
dentries for removal.
However, since the existing code moves evicted dentries to the beginning of
the LRU it can happen that fresh dentries from other superblocks will be
inserted *before* our dentries.
This can result in significant slowdown of shrink_dcache_sb(). Moreover,
for virtual filesystems like unionfs which can call dput() during dentries
kill existing code results in O(n^2) complexity.
We observed 2 minutes shrink_dcache_sb() with only 35000 dentries.
To avoid this effects we propose to isolate sb dentries at the end
of LRU list.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the old-fashioned lk201 driver under drivers/tc/ that used to be
used by the old dz.c and zs.c drivers, which is now orphan code referred to
from nowhere and does not build anymore. A modern replacement is available
as drivers/input/keyboard/lkkbd.c.
There are no plans to do anything about this piece of code and it does not
fit anywhere anymore, so it is not just a matter of maintenance or the lack
of. There are still some bits that might be added to the new lkkbd.c
driver based on the old code, and the embedded hardware documentation which
is otherwise quite hard to get hold of might be useful to keep too. Both
of these can be done separately though. RIP.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When reading corrupted reiserfs directory data, d_reclen could be a
negative number or a big positive number, this can lead to kernel panic or
oop. The following patch adds a sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Requested by Jeff Garzik.
v3, updated from lkml comments.
Add info about various email clients and their applicability
in being used to send Linux kernel patches.
Some notes takes from http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients
Portions used with permission.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Other/Some pr_*() macros are already defined in kernel.h, but pr_err() was
defined multiple times in several other places
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for
NFS to make use of them. There are now accessor functions that do
asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to
complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion
of construction.
Note that the construction queue is now gone. Instead, keys under
construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that
anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use
it. This is done automatically for userspace.
The following auxiliary changes are also made:
(1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into
linux/key-type.h.
(2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does
not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly.
(3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if
they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining
__KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine.
(3) Documentation.
[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
reiserfs_invalidatepage will refuse to free pages if they have been logged
in data=journal mode, or were pinned down by a data=ordered operation. For
data=journal, this is fairly easy to trigger just with fsx-linux, and it
results in a large number of pages hanging around on the LRUs with
page->mapping == NULL.
Calling try_to_free_buffers when reiserfs decides it is done with the page
allows it to be freed earlier, and with much less VM thrashing. Lock
ordering rules mean that reiserfs can't call lock_page when it is releasing
the buffers, so TestSetPageLocked is used instead. Contention on these
pages should be rare, so it should be sufficient most of the time.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) were the earliest attempt on a generalized
cache managment API for I/O purposes. Originally it was basically the raw
MIPS low level cache API exported to the entire world. The API has
suffered from a lack of documentation, was not very widely used unlike it's
more modern brothers and can easily be replaced by dma_cache_sync. So
remove it rsp. turn the surviving bits back into an arch private API, as
discussed on linux-arch.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As it stands this comment is confusing, and not quite grammatical.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Finish the work : kill all #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS.
Thanks Robert !
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmision.com>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c:539: warning: `i2o_exec_lct_notify' defined but not used
comes when CONFIG_I2O_LCT_NOTIFY_ON_CHANGES=n, because its only callsite
is #ifdef'ed as such. So let's #ifdef the function definition also. Also
move the definition to before the callsite, to get rid of forward prototype.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- better categorisation and space checks for dual use unary/binary
operators
- warn on deprecated use of {SPIN,RW}_LOCK_UNLOCKED
- check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
- detect DOS line endings
- detect redundant casts for kalloc()
Andy Whitcroft (18):
Version: 0.10
asmlinkage is also a storage type
pull out inline specifiers
allow only some operators before a unary operator
parenthesised values may span line ends
add additional attribute matching
handle sparse annotations within pointer type space checks
support alternative function definition syntax for typedefs
check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
fix output format for case checks
deprecate SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED
allow complex macros with bracketing braces
detect and report DOS line endings
fastcall is a valid function attribute
bracket spacing is ok for 'for'
categorise operators into unary/binary/definitions
add heuristic to pick up on unannotated types
remove spurious warnings from cat_vet
Dave Jones (1):
Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
in the kernel.
The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in
unicode mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and
the keyboard driver.
Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Negative shifts are not allowed in C (the result is undefined). Same thing
with full-width shifts.
It works on most platforms but not on the VAX with gcc 4.0.1 (it results in an
"operand reserved" fault).
Shifting by more than the width of the value on the left is also not
allowed. I think the extra '>> 1' tacked on at the end in the original
code was an attempt to work around that. Getting rid of that is an extra
feature of this patch.
Here's the chapter and verse, taken from the final draft of the C99
standard ("6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators", paragraph 3):
"The integer promotions are performed on each of the operands. The
type of the result is that of the promoted left operand. If the
value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal
to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is
undefined."
Thank you to Jan-Benedict Glaw, Christoph Hellwig, Maciej Rozycki, Pekka
Enberg, Andreas Schwab, and Christoph Lameter for review. Special thanks
to Andreas for spotting that my fix only removed half the undefined
behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lund <firefly@vax64.dk>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__setup_str_* are referenced only during boot, hence there's no need to
waste image space for aligning these strings (with the aim of improving
performance).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various architectures may call bust_spinlocks() recursively; the function
itself, however, doesn't appear to be meant to be called in this manner.
Nevertheless, this doesn't appear to be a problem as long as
bust_spinlocks(0) doesn't get called twice in a row (otherwise,
unblank_screen() may enter the scheduler). However, at least on i386 die()
has been capable of returning (and on other architectures this should
really be that way, too) when notify_die() returns NOTIFY_STOP.
Short of getting a reply to a respective query, this patch makes
bust_spinlocks() increment/decrement oops_in_progress, and wake klogd only
when the count drops back to zero.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To go along with the existing "roundup_pow_of_two" routine, add one for
rounding down since that operation appears to crop up on a regular basis in
the source tree.
[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: fix unbalanced parentheses]
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@Linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface. The advantage
is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for
example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to
the console. As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking
deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated
since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match.
Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local
atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to
local_ops.txt.
"Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then
there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process
and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly
since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite
painful."
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows:
"The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all the
work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure. Basically,
you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of this, ramfs is
not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be
negligible space savings."
It seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.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>
The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "disk"
was NULL.
Since "disk" being NULL seems impossible at this point this patch
removes the NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(),
but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Coverity checker spotted that we'd have already oops'ed if "tty"
was NULL.
Since "tty" can't be NULL when we reach this line of code this patch
removes the NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>.
This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm.h doesn't use directly anything from mutex.h and backing-dev.h, so
remove them and add them back to files which need them.
Cross-compile tested on many configs and archs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" field
of the request structure upon completion of requests. Previously, it just
put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation of this as the uptodate
parameter to one of the functions in the block layer, being a block device.
For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not sufficient, and we noticed that, for
example, sg_turs from sg3_utils did not correctly detect problems due to
cciss having set rq->errors incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow NBD I/O to be cancelled when a network outage occurs. Previously, I/O
would just hang, and if enough I/O was hung in nbd, the system (at least
user-level) would completely hang until a TCP timeout (default, 15 minutes)
occurred.
The patch introduces a new ioctl NBD_SET_TIMEOUT that allows a transmit
timeout value (in seconds) to be specified. Any network send that exceeds the
timeout will be cancelled and the nbd connection will be shut down. I've
tested with various timeout values and 6 seconds seems to be a good choice for
the timeout. If the NBD_SET_TIMEOUT ioctl is not called, you get the old (I/O
hang) behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan all
devices. Previously this would generate read errors when uninitialized nbd
devices were scanned:
# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
/dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error
/dev/nbd0: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 509804544: Input/output error
/dev/nbd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
From now on, uninitialized nbd devices will have size zero, which
prevents these errors.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style
used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful
thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that
gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.c
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AUTO_DMA and FLOPPY_MOTOR_MASK in include/asm-*/floppy.h are dead symbols -
remove them.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The floppy driver is already written to be able to operate in virtual DMA
mode. Thus it can easily be adjusted to tolerate failure from
fd_request_dma() as long as virtual DMA mode is not disallowed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k). On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).
So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No longer used. TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE will also go soon but needs a couple of
other cleanups first
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are
really used if futexes are on.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros. Old vmcoreinfo macros
were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is
impossible to grep for them. So these names should be changed. This
discussion is the following:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data.
The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed
the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint.
So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch
to let the kernel output them.
makedumpfile site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html
- vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that
the compiler can check its use.
- vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t.
- Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec.
- Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE.
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.
makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump. It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis. To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information. These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.
To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml. As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)
Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)
And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Denis V. Lunev
Maciej W. Rozycki
Rene Herman
Lepton Wu
Randy Dunlap
Emil Medve
David Howells
Chris Mason
Ralf Baechle
J. Bruce Fields
Matti Linnanvuori
Cedric Le Goater
Satyam Sharma
Andy Whitcroft
Bill Nottingham
Peter Lund
Jan Beulich
Robert P. J. Day
Arjan van de Ven
Jan Kara
Mathieu Desnoyers
Grant Grundler
Adrian Bunk
Alexey Dobriyan
Steve Cameron
Paul Clements
Alan Cox
Avi Kivity
Alexey Dobriyan
Ken'ichi Ohmichi