- Jun 13, 2016
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Heiko Carstens authored
commit c74ba8b3 ("arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory") introduced the __ro_after_init attribute which allows to add variables to the ro_after_init data section. This new section was added to rodata, even though it contains writable data. This in turn causes problems on architectures which mark the page table entries read-only that point to rodata very early. This patch allows architectures to implement an own handling of the .data..ro_after_init section. Usually that would be: - mark the rodata section read-only very early - mark the ro_after_init section read-only within mark_rodata_ro Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- Apr 13, 2016
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Borislav Petkov authored
04633df0 ("x86/cpu: Call verify_cpu() after having entered long mode too") added the call to verify_cpu() for sanitizing CPU configuration. The latter uses the stack minimally and it can happen that we land in startup_64() directly from a 64-bit bootloader. Then we want to use our own, known good stack. Do that. APs don't need this as the trampoline sets up a stack for them. Reported-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459434062-31055-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Mar 25, 2016
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Alexander Potapenko authored
KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler. This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the number of unique stack traces needed to be stored. Move the definition of __irq_entry to <linux/interrupt.h> so that the users don't need to pull in <linux/ftrace.h>. Also introduce the __softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andre...
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- Feb 22, 2016
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Kees Cook authored
One of the easiest ways to protect the kernel from attack is to reduce the internal attack surface exposed when a "write" flaw is available. By making as much of the kernel read-only as possible, we reduce the attack surface. Many things are written to only during __init, and never changed again. These cannot be made "const" since the compiler will do the wrong thing (we do actually need to write to them). Instead, move these items into a memory region that will be made read-only during mark_rodata_ro() which happens after all kernel __init code has finished. This introduces __ro_after_init as a way to mark such memory, and adds some documentation about the existing __read_mostly marking. This improves the security of the Linux kernel by marking formerly read-write memory regions as read-only on a fully booted up system. Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Feb 07, 2016
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Peter Hurley authored
Use a single common table of struct earlycon_id for both command line and devicetree. Re-define OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE() macro to instance a unique earlycon declaration (the declaration is only guaranteed to be unique within a compilation unit; separate compilation units must still use unique earlycon names). The semantics of OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE() is different; it declares an earlycon which can matched either on the command line or by devicetree. EARLYCON_DECLARE() is semantically unchanged; it declares an earlycon which is matched by command line only. Remove redundant instances of EARLYCON_DECLARE(). This enables all earlycons to properly initialize struct console with the appropriate name and index, which improves diagnostics and enables direct earlycon-to-console handoff. Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- Oct 01, 2015
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Marc Zyngier authored
DT enjoys a rather nice probing infrastructure for clocksources, while ACPI is so far stuck into a very distant past. This patch introduces a declarative API, allowing clocksources to be self-contained and be called when parsing the GTDT table. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Marc Zyngier authored
DT enjoys a rather nice probing infrastructure for irqchips, while ACPI is so far stuck into a very distant past. This patch introduces a declarative API, allowing irqchips to be self-contained and be called when a particular entry is matched in the MADT table. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Marc Zyngier authored
IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel requires before being able to use the device driver model. ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer. In order to allow some basic probing based on the ACPI tables, introduce "struct acpi_probe_entry" which contains just enough data and callbacks to match a table, an optional subtable, and call a probe function. A driver can, at build time, register itself and expect being called if the right entry exists in the ACPI table. A acpi_probe_device_table() is provided, taking an identifier for a set of acpi_prove_entries, and iterating over the registered entries. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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- Aug 20, 2015
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Andi Kleen authored
When building a kernel with .text.unlikely text the unlikely text for each translation unit was put next to the main .text code in the final vmlinux. The problem is that the linker doesn't allow more specific submatches of a section name in a different linker script statement after the main match. So we need to move them all into one line. With that change .text.unlikely is at the end of everything again. I also moved .text.hot into the same statement though, even though that's not strictly needed. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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- Apr 10, 2015
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Peter Hurley authored
The compiler and the linker must agree on the alignment of struct earlycon_id; empirical testing and commit 07fca0e5 ("tracing: Properly align linker defined symbols") suggests 32-byte alignment is the LCD. Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- Apr 08, 2015
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
Several tracepoints use the helper functions __print_symbolic() or __print_flags() and pass in enums that do the mapping between the binary data stored and the value to print. This works well for reading the ASCII trace files, but when the data is read via userspace tools such as perf and trace-cmd, the conversion of the binary value to a human string format is lost if an enum is used, as userspace does not have access to what the ENUM is. For example, the tracepoint trace_tlb_flush() has: __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" }, { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" }) Which maps the enum values to the strings they represent. But perf and trace-cmd do no know what value TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN is, and would not be able to map it. With TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), developers can place these in the event header files and ftrace will convert the enums to their values: By adding: TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN); $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tlb/tlb_flush/format [...] __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { 0, "flush on task switch" }, { 1, "remote shootdown" }, { 2, "local shootdown" }, { 3, "local mm shootdown" }) The above is what userspace expects to see, and tools do not need to be modified to parse them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150403013802.220157513@goodmis.org Cc: Guilherme Cox <cox@computer.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- Mar 29, 2015
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
This introduces a new .text.fixup input section that gets emitted together with the .text section for each input object file. Note that *(.text) *(.text.fixup) is not the same as *(.text .text.fixup) and we are looking for the latter, to ensure that fixup snippets that are assembled into a separate section in the object file do not end up out of range for the relative branch instructions it contains if the .text section itself grows very large. This helps prevent linker failures on large ARM kernels. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- Mar 26, 2015
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Peter Hurley authored
Earlycon matching can only be triggered if 'earlycon=...' has been specified on the kernel command line. To workaround this limitation requires tight coupling between arches and specific serial drivers in order to start an earlycon. Devicetree avoids this limitation with a link table that contains the required data to match earlycons. Mirror this approach for earlycon match by name. Re-purpose EARLYCON_DECLARE to generate a table entry which associates name with setup() function. Re-purpose setup_earlycon() to scan this table for an earlycon match, which is registered if found. Declare one "earlycon" early_param, which calls setup_earlycon(). This design allows setup_earlycon() to be called directly with a param string (as if 'earlycon=...' had been set on the command line). Re-registration (either directly or by early_param) is prevented. Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- Mar 24, 2015
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Daniel Lezcano authored
The current state of the different cpuidle drivers is the different PM operations are passed via the platform_data using the platform driver paradigm. This approach allowed to split the low level PM code from the arch specific and the generic cpuidle code. Unfortunately there are complaints about this approach as, in the context of the single kernel image, we have multiple drivers loaded in memory for nothing and the platform driver is not adequate for cpuidle. This patch provides a common interface via cpuidle ops for all new cpuidle driver and a definition for the device tree. It will allow with the next patches to a have a common definition with ARM64 and share the same cpuidle driver. The code is optimized to use the __init section intensively in order to reduce the memory footprint after the driver is initialized and unify the function names with ARM64. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
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- Feb 14, 2015
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
KASan uses constructors for initializing redzones for global variables. Globals instrumentation in GCC 4.9.2 produces constructors with priority (.init_array.00099) Currently kernel ignores such constructors. Only constructors with default priority supported (.init_array) This patch adds support for constructors with priorities. For kernel image we put pointers to constructors between __ctors_start/__ctors_end and do_ctors() will call them on start up. For modules we merge .init_array.* sections into resulting .init_array. Module code properly handles constructors in .init_array section. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Dec 01, 2014
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Will Deacon authored
IOMMU drivers must be initialised before any of their upstream devices, otherwise the relevant iommu_ops won't be configured for the bus in question. To solve this, a number of IOMMU drivers use initcalls to initialise the driver before anything has a chance to be probed. Whilst this solves the immediate problem, it leaves the job of probing the IOMMU completely separate from the iommu_ops to configure the IOMMU, which are called on a per-bus basis and require the driver to figure out exactly which instance of the IOMMU is being requested. In particular, the add_device callback simply passes a struct device to the driver, which then has to parse firmware tables or probe buses to identify the relevant IOMMU instance. This patch takes the first step in addressing this problem by adding an early initialisation pass for IOMMU drivers, giving them the ability to store some per-instance data in their iommu_ops structure and store that in their of_node. This can later be used when parsing OF masters to identify the IOMMU instance in question. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- Oct 02, 2014
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Yalin Wang authored
This patch changes the __init_end address to a page align address, so that free_initmem() can free the whole .init section, because if the end address is not page aligned, it will round down to a page align address, then the tail unligned page will not be freed. Signed-off-by: wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- Jul 01, 2014
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Zhengyu He authored
This fixes a typo that named the read_mostly section of percpu as readmostly. It works fine with SMP because the linker script specifies .data..percpu..readmostly. However, UP kernel builds don't have percpu sections defined and the non-percpu version of the section is called data..read_mostly, so .data..readmostly will float around and may break things unexpectedly. Looking at the original change that introduced data..percpu..readmostly (commit c957ef2c ), it looks like this was the original intention. Tested: Built UP kernel and confirmed the sections got merged. - Before the patch: $ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly' 38 .data..read_mostly 00004418 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0 2**6 50 .data..readmostly 00000014 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00444000 2**3 - After the patch: $ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly' 38 .data..read_mostly 00004438 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0 2**6 Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <hzy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- Jun 19, 2014
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Andreas Noever authored
Add pci_fixup_suspend_late as a new pci_fixup_pass. The pass is called from suspend_noirq and poweroff_noirq. Using the same pass for suspend and hibernate is consistent with resume_early which is called by resume_noirq and restore_noirq. The new quirk pass is required for Thunderbolt support on Apple hardware. Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- May 20, 2014
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Rob Herring authored
This adds the infrastructure to generic earlycon for earlycon setup using DT. The actual setup is not enabled until a following commit to add the FDT parsing. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
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Rob Herring authored
OF table sections all have the same pattern, so create a macro to define them and insure consistency. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Rob Herring authored
The cpu_method_of_table is the oddball of the various OF linker sections. In preparation to have common linker section definitions, align the cpu_method_of_table with the other definitions for the naming and ending with a blank struct. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Rob Herring authored
Make the irqchip OF match table section naming aligned with other OF match table sections in preparation to have a common definition. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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- May 07, 2014
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Vineet Gupta authored
ARC Linux (not supporting native unaligned access) was failing to boot because __start_kprobe_blacklist was not aligned. This was because per generated vmlinux.lds it was emitted right next to .rodata with strings etc hence could be randomly unaligned. Fix that by ensuring a word alignment. While 4 would suffice for 32bit arches and problem at hand, it is probably better to put 8. | Path: (null) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted | 3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430 #2 | task: 8f044000 ti: 8f01e000 task.ti: 8f01e000 | | [ECR ]: 0x00230400 => Misaligned r/w from 0x800fb0d3 | [EFA ]: 0x800fb0d3 | [BLINK ]: do_one_initcall+0x86/0x1bc | [ERET ]: init_kprobes+0x52/0x120 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: <dl9pf@gmx.de> Cc: <sparse@chrisli.org> Cc: <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5361DB14.7010406@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Apr 24, 2014
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro which builds a kprobes blacklist at kernel build time. The usage of this macro is similar to EXPORT_SYMBOL(), placed after the function definition: NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function); Since this macro will inhibit inlining of static/inline functions, this patch also introduces a nokprobe_inline macro for static/inline functions. In this case, we must use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for the inline function caller. When CONFIG_KPROBES=y, the macro stores the given function address in the "_kprobe_blacklist" section. Since the data structures are not fully initialized by the macro (because there is no "size" information), those are re-initialized at boot time by using kallsyms. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081705.26341.96719.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Mar 11, 2014
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Marek Szyprowski authored
Add support for custom reserved memory drivers. Call their init() function for each reserved region and prepare for using operations provided by them with by the reserved_mem->ops array. Based on previous code provided by Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
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- Feb 11, 2014
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Stephen Boyd authored
The goal of multi-platform kernels is to remove the need for mach directories and machine descriptors. To further that goal, introduce CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() to allow cpu hotplug/smp support to be separated from the machine descriptors. Implementers should specify an enable-method property in their cpus node and then implement a matching set of smp_ops in their hotplug/smp code, wiring it up with the CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() macro. When the kernel is compiled we'll collect all the enable-method smp_ops into one section for use at boot. At boot time we'll look for an enable-method in each cpu node and try to match that against all known CPU enable methods in the kernel. If there are no enable-methods in the cpu nodes we fallback to the cpus node and try to use any enable-method found there. If that doesn't work we fall back to the old way of using the machine descriptor. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
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- Oct 17, 2013
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Frantisek Hrbata authored
This adds the .init_array section as yet another section with constructors. This is needed because gcc could add __gcov_init calls to .init_array or .ctors section, depending on gcc (and binutils) version . v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because gcc uses .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time v3: - fail to load if that does happen somehow. Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- Jul 26, 2013
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- Jul 03, 2013
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Alexandre Bounine authored
Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable kernel modules. This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method. To simplify registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces rio_switch_ops data structure. The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines. If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch. Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management, switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO enumeration/discovery starts. This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 26, 2013
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Paul Gortmaker authored
Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ related sections were inter-operating with other __init like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone. Update the linker script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections. [lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>] Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- Jun 03, 2013
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Ever since commit 45f035ab ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- Mar 15, 2013
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Rusty Russell authored
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to do so. Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set: 1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym) 3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7) 5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym) 6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version for pasting. (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too). Let's solve this properly: 1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm. 3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(). 4) Make everyone use them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
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- Jan 24, 2013
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Prashant Gaikwad authored
Modify of_clk_init function so that it will determine which driver to initialize based on device tree instead of each driver registering to it. Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni and drivers/clocksource by Stephen Warren. Signed-off-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz> Tested-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Tested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Tested-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@anandra.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org> [mturquette@linaro.org: merge conflict from missing CLKSRC_OF_TABLES()] Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
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- Jan 10, 2013
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Thomas Petazzoni authored
With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its irq handling function through a header file in <linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>. When proposing to also move another irq controller driver in drivers/irqchip, Rob Herring raised the very valid point that moving things to drivers/irqchip was good in order to remove more stuff from arch/arm, but if it means adding gazillions of headers files in include/linux/irqchip/, it would not be very nice. So, upon the suggestion of Rob Herring and Arnd Bergmann, this commit introduces a small infrastructure that defines a central irqchip_init() function in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c, which is meant to be called as the ->init_irq() callback of ARM platforms. This function calls of_irq_init() with an array of match strings and init functions generated from a special linker section. Note that the irq controller driver initialization function is responsible for setting the global handle_arch_irq() variable, so that ARM platforms no longer have to define the ->handle_irq field in their DT_MACHINE structure. A global header, <linux/irqchip.h> is also added to expose the single irqchip_init() function to the reset of the kernel. A further commit moves the BCM2835 irq controller driver to this new small infrastructure, therefore removing the include/linux/irqchip/ directory. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [rob.herring: reword commit message to reflect use of linker sections.] Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
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- Jan 02, 2013
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Stephen Warren authored
It is desirable to move all clocksource drivers to drivers/clocksource, yet each requires its own initialization function. We'd rather not pollute <linux/> with a header for each function. Instead, create a single of_clksrc_init() function which will determine which clocksource driver to initialize based on device tree. Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
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- Oct 11, 2012
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David Daney authored
Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment to minimize padding. For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is no change. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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- May 16, 2012
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Steven Rostedt authored
Instead of just sorting the ip's of the functions per ftrace page, sort the entire list before adding them to the ftrace pages. This will allow the bsearch algorithm to be sped up as it can also sort by pages, not just records within a page. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- Mar 26, 2012
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Pawel Moll authored
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we use this for early params as well, in future. Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order to add additional symbols between levels that are later used by the init code to split the calls into blocks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- Mar 23, 2012
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Jan Beulich authored
Due to the alignment of following variables, these typically consume more than just the single byte that 'bool' requires, and as there are a few hundred instances, the cache pollution (not so much the waste of memory) sums up. Put these variables into their own section, outside of any half way frequently used memory range. Do the same also to the __warned variable of rcu_lockdep_assert(). (Don't, however, include the ones used by printk_once() and alike, as they can potentially be hot.) Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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