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commit 2e885057b7f75035f0b85e02f737891482815a81 upstream.
In ELF64, the sh_flags field is 64-bits wide. recordmcount was
erroneously treating it as a 32-bit wide field. For little endian
objects this works because the flags of interest (SHF_EXECINSTR)
reside in the lower 32 bits of the word, and you get the same result
with either a 32-bit or 64-bit read. Big endian objects on the
other hand do not work at all with this error.
The fix: Correctly treat sh_flags as 64-bits wide in elf64 objects.
The symptom I observed was that my
__start_mcount_loc..__stop_mcount_loc was empty even though ftrace
function tracing was enabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324345362-12230-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 364212fddaaa60c5a64f67a0f5624ad996ecc8a0 upstream.
Thomas Lange reported that when he did a 'make localmodconfig', his
config was missing the brcmsmac driver, even though he had the module
loaded.
Looking into this, I found the file:
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/Makefile
had the following in the Makefile:
MODULEPFX := brcmsmac
obj-$(CONFIG_BRCMSMAC) += $(MODULEPFX).o
The way streamline-config.pl works, is parsing all the
obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
lines to find that CONFIG_FOO belongs to the module foo.ko.
But in this case, the brcmsmac.o was not used, but a variable in its place.
By changing streamline-config.pl to remember defined variables in Makefiles
and substituting them when they are used in the obj-X lines, allows
Thomas (and others) to have their brcmsmac module stay configured
when it is loaded and running "make localmodconfig".
Reported-by: Thomas Lange <thomas-lange2@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Lange <thomas-lange2@gmx.de>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit d060d963e88f3e990cec2fe5214de49de9a49eca upstream.
Simplify the way lines ending with backslashes (continuation) in Makefiles
is parsed. This is needed to implement a necessary fix.
Tested-by: Thomas Lange <thomas-lange2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 3f198dfee49d2e9c30583c62b0c79286c78c7b44 upstream.
Help text under choice menu is never displayed because it does not have
symbol name associated with it, however many kconfigs have help text
under choice, assuming that it will be displayed when user selects help.
for example in Kconfig if we have:
choice
prompt "Choice"
---help---
HELP TEXT ...
config A
bool "A"
config B
bool "B"
endchoice
Without this patch "HELP TEXT" is not displayed when user selects help
option when "Choice" is highlighted from menuconfig or xconfig or
gconfig.
This patch changes the logic in menu_get_ext_help to display help for
cases which dont have symbol names like choice.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install
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Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to
the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on
any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
relying on it).
Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Warn about uses of printk_ratelimit() because it uses a global state and
can hide subsequent useful messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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depmod from module-init-tools < 3.13 and the busybox depmod check if the
kernel release starts with <num>.<num>.<num>. To support these versions,
we create a symlink with two numbers prepended.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Do not bloat the Makefile with multiline shell statements. No
user-visible change intended.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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This patch silences a Makefile.asm-generic message
by defining a dummy rule for all.
make -f /usr/src/git/scripts/Makefile.asm-generic \
obj=arch/x86/include/generated/asm
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
perf: Fix SIGIO handling
perf top: Don't stop if no kernel symtab is found
perf top: Handle kptr_restrict
perf top: Remove unused macro
perf events: initialize fd array to -1 instead of 0
perf tools: Make sure kptr_restrict warnings fit 80 col terms
perf tools: Fix build on older systems
perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
perf: Remove duplicate headers
ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
tracing: Update btrfs's tracepoints to use u64 interface
tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machine
ftrace: Set ops->flag to enabled even on static function tracing
tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return
ftrace: Have ftrace_startup() return failure code
jump_label: Check entries limit in __jump_label_update
ftrace/recordmcount: Avoid STT_FUNC symbols as base on ARM
scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events for etags too
scripts/tags.sh: Fix ctags for DEFINE_EVENT()
x86/ftrace: Fix compiler warning in ftrace.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/ to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file> to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
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While find_secsym_ndx often finds the unamed local STT_SECTION, if a
section has only one function in it, the ARM toolchain generates the
STT_FUNC symbol before the STT_SECTION, and recordmcount finds this
instead.
This is problematic on ARM because in ARM ELFs, "if a [STT_FUNC] symbol
addresses a Thumb instruction, its value is the address of the
instruction with bit zero set (in a relocatable object, the section
offset with bit zero set)". This leads to incorrect mcount addresses
being recorded.
Fix this by not using STT_FUNC symbols as the base on ARM.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305134631-31617-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Seems that Peter Zijlstra treats us emacs users as second class
citizens and the commit:
commit 15664125f7cadcb6d725cb2d9b90f9715397848d
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events
only updated ctags (for vim) and did not do the work to let us
lowly emacs users benefit from such a change.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The regex to handle DEFINE_EVENT() should not be the same as
the TRACE_EVENT() as the first parameter in DEFINE_EVENT is the
template name, not the event name. We need the second parameter
as that is what the trace_... will use.
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kconfig-for-40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
xconfig: merge code path to conf_write()
kconfig: do not record timestamp in .config
gconfig: Hide unused left treeview when start up the interface
gconfig: enable rules hint for main treeviews
MAINTAINERS: Update KCONFIG entry
kconfig-language: add to hints
kconfig: Document the new "visible if" syntax
kconfig: quiet commands when V=0
kconfig: change update-po-config to reflect new layout of arch/um
kconfig: make update-po-config work in KBUILD_OUTPUT
kconfig: rearrange clean-files
kconfig: change gconf to modify hostprogs-y like nconf and mconf
kconfig: change qconf to modify hostprogs-y like nconf and mconf
kconfig: only build kxgettext when needed
nconfig: Silence unused return values from wattrset
kconfig: Do not record timestamp in auto.conf and autoconf.h
kconfig: get rid of unused flags
kconfig: allow multiple inclusion of the same file
kconfig: Avoid buffer underrun in choice input
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
export_report: use warn() to issue WARNING, so they go to stderr
export_report: sort SECTION 2 output
export_report: do collectcfiles work in perl itself
kbuild: make versioncheck work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: make includecheck work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: make headerdep work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: add targets to PHONY
kbuild: don't warn about include/linux/version.h not including itself
eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'packaging' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Create a kernel-headers RPM
rpm-pkg: Fix when current directory is a symlink
Replace '-' in kernel version with '_'
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Currently, printk lines with a only KERN_PREFIX and a quoted string
without a comma or close paren that exceed 80 columns are flagged with a
warning.
ie:
printk(KERN_WARNING "some long string that extends beond 80 cols..."
"and is continued on another line\n");
Allow this form instead of emitting a warning.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many module or file local logging functions use specific prefixes other
than pr|dev|netdev. Allow all forms like foo_printk and foo_err to be
longer than 80 columns.
Also allow MODULE_<BAR> declarations to be longer than 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a warning for unterminated quoted strings with line continuations as
these frequently add unwanted whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avoid to have multiple path saving the config. This fixes an error check
miss when the window is being closed and the user requested the config
to be written.
Reported-by: Hiromu Yakura <hiromu1996@gmail.com>
Pointed-out-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o
scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Convert to a /bin/sh script
kbuild: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility
kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+
kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c
kbuild: Fix Makefile.asm-generic for um
kbuild: Allow to combine multiple W= levels
kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0
Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name
kbuild: asm-generic support
kbuild: implement several W= levels
kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
kbuild: Drop unused LINUX_COMPILE_TIME and LINUX_COMPILE_DOMAIN macros
kbuild: Use the deterministic mode of ar
kbuild: Call gzip with -n
kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation
Fix up trivial conflict in Makefile
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To compile binaries which depend on new kernel interfaces, we need a
kernel-headers RPM
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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The better fix would be to stop using the parent directory (principle of
least surprise), but as long as we use it, use it consistently.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Also count CONFIG_MODVERSIONS warnings, and print a NOTE at start of
SECTION 2 if any were issued. Section 2 will be empty if the build is
lacking this CONFIG_ item, and user may have missed the warnings, as
they're off screen.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Sort SECTION 2 modules by name. Within those module listings, sort
the symbol providers by name, and remove the count, as it is
misleading; its the kernel-wide count of uses of that symbol, not the
count pertaining to the module being outlined. (this can be seen by
grepping the output for a single symbol). The count is still used to
sort the symbols.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Avoid spawning a shell pipeline doing cat, grep, sed, and do it all
inside perl. The <*.c> globbing construct works at least as far back
as 5.8.9
Note that this is not just an optimization; the sed command
in the pipeline was unterminated, due to lack of escape on the
end-of-line (\$) in the regex, resulting in this:
$ perl ../linux-2.6/scripts/export_report.pl > /dev/null
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated `s' command
sh: .mod.c/: not found
Comments on an earlier patch sought an all-perl implementation.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
cc: Arnaud Lacombe lacombar@gmail.com
cc: Stephen Hemminger shemminger@vyatta.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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When the gconfig program starts in full mode view, it shows the
left treeview which belongs to the 'split mode view'. The patch
fix this visual issue.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Due to the large amount of rows in the treeviews, is difficult to
match columns with rows, setting the rules hint to 'true' allows the
treeview to alternate background colors in the rows making the data
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
treewide: fix a few typos in comments
regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
treewide: remove extra semicolons
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
tg3: Update version to 3.119
tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
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Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
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move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/
to Documentation/security/,
add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and
update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file>
to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
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Modifications to recordmcount must be performed on all object
files to stay consistent with what the kernel code may expect.
Add the recordmcount files to the main dependencies to make sure
any change to them causes a full recompile.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133646.GP13293@sepie.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it
writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance
with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools.
Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE
and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through
SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the
st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are
stored. See:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900
http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").
The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
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Haavard's e-mail address at Atmel is no longer valid.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
net/mac80211/sta_info.h
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Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Introduce mcount_adjust{,_32,_64} to the C implementation of
recordmcount analog to $mcount_adjust in the perl script.
The adjustment is added to the address of the relocations
against the mcount symbol. If this adjustment is done by
recordmcount at compile time the ftrace_call_adjust function
can be turned into a nop.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code to get the symbol, string, and relp pointers in the two functions
sift_rel_mcount() and nop_mcount() are identical and also non-trivial.
Moving this duplicate code into a single helper function makes the code
easier to read and more maintainable.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.723658553@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code in sift_rel_mcount() and nop_mcount() to get the mcount symbol
number is identical. Replace the two locations with a call to a function
that does the work.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.488093407@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There's some sections that should not have mcount recorded and should not have
modifications to the that code. But currently they waste some time by calling
mcount anyway (which simply returns). As the real answer should be to
either whitelist the section or have gcc ignore it fully.
This change adds a option to recordmcount to warn when it finds a section
that is ignored by ftrace but still contains mcount callers. This is not on
by default as developers may not know if the section should be completely
ignored or added to the whitelist.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.476989377@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There are sections that are ignored by ftrace for the function tracing because
the text is in a section that can be removed without notice. The mcount calls
in these sections are ignored and ftrace never sees them. The downside of this
is that the functions in these sections still call mcount. Although the mcount
function is defined in assembly simply as a return, this added overhead is
unnecessary.
The solution is to convert these callers into nops at compile time.
A better solution is to add 'notrace' to the section markers, but as new sections
come up all the time, it would be nice that they are delt with when they
are created.
Later patches will deal with finding these sections and doing the proper solution.
Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for giving me the right nops to use for x86.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.237101176@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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PROGBITS is not enough to determine if the section should be modified
or not. Only process sections that are marked as executable.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.991485123@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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