ACPI defines a hardware signature. BIOS calculates the signature according to
hardware configure and if hardware changes while hibernated, the signature
will change. In that case, S4 resume should fail.
Still, there may be systems on which this mechanism does not work correctly,
so it is better to provide a workaround for them. For this reason, add a new
switch to the acpi_sleep= command line argument allowing one to disable
hardware signature checking.
[shaohua.li@intel.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Boot-time test for system suspend states (STR or standby). The generic
RTC framework triggers wakeup alarms, which are used to exit those states.
- Measures some aspects of suspend time ... this uses "jiffies" until
someone converts it to use a timebase that works properly even while
timer IRQs are disabled.
- Triggered by a command line parameter. By default nothing even
vaguely troublesome will happen, but "test_suspend=mem" will give
you a brief STR test during system boot. (Or you may need to use
"test_suspend=standby" instead, if your hardware needs that.)
This isn't without problems. It fires early enough during boot that for
example both PCMCIA and MMC stacks have misbehaved. The workaround in
those cases was to boot without such media cards inserted.
[matthltc@us.ibm.com: fix compile failure in boot time suspend selftest]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of using the variable mmu_huge_psize to keep track of the huge
page size we use an array of MMU_PAGE_* values. For each supported huge
page size we need to know the hugepte_shift value and have a
pgtable_cache. The hstate or an mmu_huge_psizes index is passed to
functions so that they know which huge page size they should use.
The hugepage sizes 16M and 64K are setup(if available on the hardware) so
that they don't have to be set on the boot cmd line in order to use them.
The number of 16G pages have to be specified at boot-time though (e.g.
hugepagesz=16G hugepages=5).
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow configurations with the default huge page size which is different to
the traditional HPAGE_SIZE size. The default huge page size is the one
represented in the legacy /proc ABIs, SHM, and which is defaulted to when
mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
This is implemented with a new kernel option default_hugepagesz=, which
defaults to HPAGE_SIZE if not specified.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add an hugepagesz=... option similar to IA64, PPC etc. to x86-64.
This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.
This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.
This patch:
Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.
Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.
The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: show irqtrace
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
softlockup: allow panic on lockup
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
netfilter: nf_conntrack_sctp: fix sparse warnings
netfilter: nf_nat_sip: c= is optional for session
netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: collapse tcpmss_reverse_mtu{4,6} into one function
netfilter: nfnetlink_log: send complete hardware header
netfilter: xt_time: fix time's time_mt()'s use of do_div()
netfilter: accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters (v4)
netlink: add NLA_PUT_BE64 macro
netfilter: nf_nat_core: eliminate useless find_appropriate_src for IP_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_RANDOM
hdlcdrv: Fix CRC calculation.
Revert "pkt_sched: Make default qdisc nonshared-multiqueue safe."
net: In __netif_schedule() use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON
net: Improve simple_tx_hash().
pkt_sched: Remove unused variable skb in dev_deactivate_queue function.
sunhme: Remove stop/wake TX queue calls in set-multicast-list handler.
ucc_geth: do not touch net queue in adjust_link phylib callback
gianfar: do not touch net queue in adjust_link phylib callback
atl1: Do not wake queue before queue has been started.
Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.
This patch:
- reimplements accounting with respect to the extension infrastructure,
- makes one global version of seq_print_acct() instead of two seq_print_counters(),
- makes it possible to enable it at boot time (for CONFIG_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSFS=n),
- makes it possible to enable/disable it at runtime by sysctl or sysfs,
- extends counters from 32bit to 64bit,
- renames ip_conntrack_counter -> nf_conn_counter,
- enables accounting code unconditionally (no longer depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT),
- set initial accounting enable state based on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
- removes buggy IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING event handling.
If accounting is enabled newly created connections get additional acct extend.
Old connections are not changed as it is not possible to add a ct_extend area
to confirmed conntrack. Accounting is performed for all connections with
acct extend regardless of a current state of "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct".
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It's not possible to enable the unknown_nmi_panic sysctl option
until init is run. It's useful to be able to panic the kernel
during boot too, this adds a parameter to enable this option.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
PCI: handle pci_name() being const
PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
...
Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (80 commits)
ide-floppy: fix unfortunate function naming
ide-tape: unify idetape_create_read/write_cmd
ide: add ide_pc_intr() helper
ide-{floppy,scsi}: read Status Register before stopping DMA engine
ide-scsi: add more debugging to idescsi_pc_intr()
ide-scsi: use pc->callback
ide-floppy: add more debugging to idefloppy_pc_intr()
ide-tape: always log debug info in idetape_pc_intr() if debugging is enabled
ide-tape: add ide_tape_io_buffers() helper
ide-tape: factor out DSC handling from idetape_pc_intr()
ide-{floppy,tape}: move checking of ->failed_pc to ->callback
ide: add ide_issue_pc() helper
ide: add PC_FLAG_DRQ_INTERRUPT pc flag
ide-scsi: move idescsi_map_sg() call out from idescsi_issue_pc()
ide: add ide_transfer_pc() helper
ide-scsi: set drive->scsi flag for devices handled by the driver
ide-{cd,floppy,tape}: remove checking for drive->scsi
ide: add PC_FLAG_ZIP_DRIVE pc flag
ide-tape: factor out waiting for good ireason from idetape_transfer_pc()
ide-tape: set PC_FLAG_DMA_IN_PROGRESS flag in idetape_transfer_pc()
...
* 'timers/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: add PCI ID for 6300ESB force hpet
x86: add another PCI ID for ICH6 force-hpet
kernel-paramaters: document pmtmr= command line option
acpi_pm clccksource: fix printk format warning
nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport
nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead
hrtimer: Remove unused variables in ktime_divns()
hrtimer: remove warning in hres_timers_resume
posix-timers: print RT watchdog message
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (241 commits)
[ARM] 5171/1: ep93xx: fix compilation of modules using clocks
[ARM] 5133/2: at91sam9g20 defconfig file
[ARM] 5130/4: Support for the at91sam9g20
[ARM] 5160/1: IOP3XX: gpio/gpiolib support
[ARM] at91: Fix NAND FLASH timings for at91sam9x evaluation kits.
[ARM] 5084/1: zylonite: Register AC97 device
[ARM] 5085/2: PXA: Move AC97 over to the new central device declaration model
[ARM] 5120/1: pxa: correct platform driver names for PXA25x and PXA27x UDC drivers
[ARM] 5147/1: pxaficp_ir: drop pxa_gpio_mode calls, as pin setting
[ARM] 5145/1: PXA2xx: provide api to control IrDA pins state
[ARM] 5144/1: pxaficp_ir: cleanup includes
[ARM] pxa: remove pxa_set_cken()
[ARM] pxa: allow clk aliases
[ARM] Feroceon: don't disable BPU on boot
[ARM] Orion: LED support for HP mv2120
[ARM] Orion: add RD88F5181L-FXO support
[ARM] Orion: add RD88F5181L-GE support
[ARM] Orion: add Netgear WNR854T support
[ARM] s3c2410_defconfig: update for current build
[ARM] Acer n30: Minor style and indentation fixes.
...
x2apic support. Interrupt-remapping must be enabled before enabling x2apic,
this is needed to ensure that IO interrupts continue to work properly after the
cpu mode is changed to x2apic(which uses 32bit extended physical/cluster
apic id).
On systems where apicid's are > 255, BIOS can handover the control to OS in
x2apic mode. Or if the OS handover was in legacy xapic mode, check
if it is capable of x2apic mode. And if we succeed in enabling
Interrupt-remapping, then we can enable x2apic mode in the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Cc: steiner@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Applies on top of the previous patch:
x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:
add_efi_memmap
is specified.
Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix stale references to source files in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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>
ACPI PM: Add possibility to change suspend sequence
There are some systems out there that don't work correctly with
our current suspend/hibernation code ordering. Provide a workaround
for these systems allowing them to pass 'acpi_sleep=old_ordering' in
the kernel command line so that it will use the pre-ACPI 2.0 ("old")
suspend code ordering.
Unfortunately, this requires us to add a platform hook to the
resuming of devices for recovering the platform in case one of the
device drivers' .suspend() routines returns error code. Namely,
ACPI 1.0 specifies that _PTS should be called before suspending
devices, but _WAK still should be called before resuming them in
order to undo the changes made by _PTS. However, if there is an
error during suspending devices, they are automatically resumed
without returning control to the PM core, so the _WAK has to be
called from within device_resume() in that cases.
The patch also reorders and refactors the ACPI suspend/hibernation
code to avoid duplication as far as reasonably possible.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Contention for scarce PCI memory resources has been growing
due to an increasing number of PCI slots in large multi-node
systems. The kernel currently attempts by default to
allocate memory for all PCI expansion ROMs so there has
also been an increasing number of PCI memory allocation
failures seen on these systems. This occurs because the
BIOS either (1) provides insufficient PCI memory resource
for all the expansion ROMs or (2) provides adequate PCI
memory resource for expansion ROMs but provides the
space in kernel unexpected BIOS assigned P2P non-prefetch
windows.
The resulting PCI memory allocation failures may be benign
when related to memory requests for expansion ROMs themselves
but in some cases they can occur when attempting to allocate
space for more critical BARs. This can happen when a successful
expansion ROM allocation request consumes memory resource
that was intended for a non-ROM BAR. We have seen this
happen during PCI hotplug of an adapter that contains a
P2P bridge where successful memory allocation for an
expansion ROM BAR on device behind the bridge consumed
memory that was intended for a non-ROM BAR on the P2P bridge.
In all cases the allocation failure messages can be very
confusing for users.
This patch provides a new 'pci=norom' kernel boot parameter
that can be used to disable the default PCI expansion ROM memory
resource allocation. This provides a way to avoid the above
described issues on systems that do not contain PCI devices
for which drivers or user-level applications depend on the
default PCI expansion ROM memory resource allocation behavior.
Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Loop through mtrr chunk_size and gran_size from 1M to 2G to find out
the optimal value so user does not need to add mtrr_chunk_size and
mtrr_gran_size to the kernel command line.
If optimal value is not found, print out all list to help select less
optimal value.
Add mtrr_spare_reg_nr= so user could set 2 instead of 1, if the card
need more entries.
v2: find the one with more spare entries
v3: fix hole_basek offset
v4: tight the compare between range and range_new
loop stop with 4g
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
some BIOS like to use continus MTRR layout, and X driver can not add
WB entries for graphical cards when 4g or more RAM installed.
the patch will change MTRR to discrete.
mtrr_chunk_size= could be used to have smaller continuous block to hold holes.
default is 256m, could be set according to size of graphics card memory.
mtrr_gran_size= could be used to send smallest mtrr block to avoid run out of MTRRs
v2: fix -1 for UC checking
v3: default to disable, and need use enable_mtrr_cleanup to enable this feature
skip the var state change warning.
remove next_basek in range_to_mtrr()
v4: correct warning mask.
v5: CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER
v6: fix 1g, 2g, 512 aligment with extra hole
v7: gran_sizek to prevent running out of MTRRs.
v8: fix hole_basek caculation caused when removing next_basek
gran_sizek using when basek is 0.
need to apply
[PATCH] x86: fix trimming e820 with MTRR holes.
right after this one.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
allow users to configure the softlockup detector to generate a panic
instead of a warning message.
high-availability systems might opt for this strict method (combined
with panic_timeout= boot option/sysctl), instead of generating
softlockup warnings ad infinitum.
also, automated tests work better if the system reboots reliably (into
a safe kernel) in case of a lockup.
The full spectrum of configurability is supported: boot option, sysctl
option and Kconfig option.
it's default-disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
cio_msg= is gone, also remove it from kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The sequence executed in check_sal_cache_flush:
- pend a timer interrupt
- call SAL_CACHE_FLUSH
- see if interrupt is still pending
can hang HP machines with buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations.
Provide a kernel command-line argument to allow users skip this
check if desired. Using this parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush
to call ia64_pal_cache_flush() instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86 PCI: call dmi_check_pciprobe()
x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
x86/pci: remove flag in pci_cfg_space_size_ext
x86: fix section mismatch in pci_scan_bus
Remove the rest of the old mac_esp driver. Also ditch the rest of the
machw mechanism, it needs to be replaced by a fake openfirmware tree.
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards.
also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with acpi.
it could spare some calling when we have several peer root buses.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:
1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects
Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.
While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.
The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.
Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.
The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.
Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.
The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.
The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list
Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.
The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).
The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.
The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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>
