* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
compiler: Introduce __always_unused
tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
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When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].
It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.
This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:
task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal
If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:
# ulimit -i unlimited
With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the root_plug example LSM code. It's unmaintained and
increasingly broken in various ways.
Made at the 2009 Kernel Summit in Tokyo!
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.
This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Commit c953094 ("early_printk: Allow more than one early console")
introduced a regression in the parsing of the earlyprintk= kernel
arguments.
If you specify "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" as a kernel
argument, the "serial,ttyS" should be parsed as a single argument
and not as "serial" and then "ttyS".
Also update the documentation to reflect you can specify the ttyS
directly without the "serial" argument.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB7D5E.6000301@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (262 commits)
sh: mach-ecovec24: Add user debug switch support
sh: Kill off unused se_skipped in alignment trap notification code.
sh: Wire up HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: use both register sets for display panning
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: implement display panning
sh: Fix up sh7705 flush_dcache_page() build.
sh: kfr2r09: document the PLL/FLL <-> RF relationship.
sh: mach-ecovec24: need asm/clock.h.
sh: mach-ecovec24: deassert usb irq on boot.
sh: Add KEYSC support for EcoVec24
sh: add kycr2_delay for sh_keysc
sh: cpufreq: Include CPU id in info messages.
sh: multi-evt support for SH-X3 proto CPU.
sh: clkfwk: remove bogus set_bus_parent() from SH7709.
sh: Fix the indication point of the liquid crystal of AP-325RXA(AP3300)
sh: Add EcoVec24 romImage defconfig
sh: USB disable process is needed if romImage boot for EcoVec24
sh: EcoVec24: add HIZA setting for LED
sh: EcoVec24: write MAC address in boot
sh: Add romImage support for EcoVec24
...
The difference between some loongson-based machines is very small, so, if
there is no necessary to add new kernel config options to cope with this
difference, it will be better to share the same kernel image file between
them, benefit from this, the linux distribution developers only have a need
to compile the kernel one time.
This machtype kernel command line argument will be used later to share the
same kernel image file between two different machines(menglong & yeeloong)
made by lemote.
Thanks very much to Zhang Le for cleaning up the machtype implementation.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
percpu: add chunk->base_addr
percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
percpu: improve boot messages
percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
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Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
KVM: correct error-handling code
KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
KVM: Add missing #include
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (87 commits)
NFSv4: Disallow 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=2' and 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=3'
NFS: Allow the "nfs" file system type to support NFSv4
NFS: Move details of nfs4_get_sb() to a helper
NFS: Refactor NFSv4 text-based mount option validation
NFS: Mount option parser should detect missing "port="
NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create()
NFS: Handle a zero-length auth flavor list
SUNRPC: Ensure that sunrpc gets initialised before nfs, lockd, etc...
nfs: fix compile error in rpc_pipefs.h
nfs: Remove reference to generic_osync_inode from a comment
SUNRPC: cache must take a reference to the cache detail's module on open()
NFS: Use the DNS resolver in the mount code.
NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
SUNRPC: Fix a typo in cache_pipefs_files
nfs: nfs4xdr: optimize low level decoding
nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of READ_BUF
nfs: nfs4xdr: simplify decode_exchange_id by reusing decode_opaque_inline
nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of COPYMEM
nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_sessionid helper
nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_verifier helper
...
This implements support for NMI debugging that was shamelessly copied
from the avr32 port. A bit of special magic is needed in the interrupt
exception path given that the NMI exception handler is stubbed in to the
regular exception handling table despite being reported in INTEVT. So we
mangle the lookup and kick off an EXPEVT-style exception dispatch from
the INTEVT path for exceptions that do_IRQ() has no chance of handling.
As a result, we also drop the evt2irq() conversion from the do_IRQ() path
and just do it in assembly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.
We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
With x86 converted to embedding allocator, lpage doesn't have any user
left. Kill it along with cpa handling code.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Now that all first chunk allocators are in mm/percpu.c, it makes sense
to make generalize percpu_alloc kernel parameter. Define PCPU_FC_*
and set pcpu_chosen_fc using early_param() in mm/percpu.c. Arch code
can use the set value to determine which first chunk allocator to use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Page size isn't always 4k depending on arch and configuration. Rename
4k first chunk allocator to page.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
By default the kernel honors the HPA (host protected area) of hard
drives. Using libata's ignore_hpa module option it's possible to
change this behaviour.
Document usage and options of libata.ignore_hpa in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Parameters like the minimum reserved port, and the number of slot entries
should really be module parameters rather than sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable
oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats
x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon
signals: declare sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo in syscalls.h
rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental
dma-debug: Put all hash-chain locks into the same lock class
dma-debug: fix off-by-one error in overlap function
The short name of the achitecture is 'arch_perfmon'. This patch
changes the kernel parameter to use this name.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some PHYs require longer timeouts for carrier detection, and
auto-negotiation process may take indefinite amount of time.
It may be inconvenient to force longer timeouts for sane PHYs,
so let's introduce a kernel command line option.
Since we're using module_param(), the option also can be
changed in runtime.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ftrace: Fix the output of profile
ring-buffer: Make it generally available
ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
tracing: Reset iterator in t_start()
trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start()
tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start()
tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
This reverts commit 9e9f46c44e.
Quoting from the commit message:
"At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's
try using it by default. It's an easy revert if it ends up causing
trouble."
And guess what? The _CRS code causes trouble.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.31:
intel-iommu: Fix one last ia64 build problem in Pass Through Support
VT-d: support the device IOTLB
VT-d: cleanup iommu_flush_iotlb_psi and flush_unmaps
VT-d: add device IOTLB invalidation support
VT-d: parse ATSR in DMA Remapping Reporting Structure
PCI: handle Virtual Function ATS enabling
PCI: support the ATS capability
intel-iommu: dmar_set_interrupt return error value
intel-iommu: Tidy up iommu->gcmd handling
intel-iommu: Fix tiny theoretical race in write-buffer flush.
intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. IOTLB flushing.
intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. context flushing.
VT-d: fix invalid domain id for KVM context flush
Fix !CONFIG_DMAR build failure introduced by Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support
Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/pci/{intel-iommu.c,intr_remapping.c}
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits)
mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module
jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium
mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure.
mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses
mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set
mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support
mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand
mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440
mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait & unlock_all as replaceable for some platform
mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver
mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs
mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static
mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module
mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size
mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs
...
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (49 commits)
[ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter
[ARM] S3C: Fix gpio-config off-by-one bug
[ARM] S3C64XX: add to_irq() support for EINT() GPIO
[ARM] S3C64XX: clock.c: fix typo in usb-host clock ctrlbit
[ARM] S3C64XX: fix HCLK gate defines
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open
OMAP2 clock/powerdomain: off by 1 error in loop timeout comparisons
OMAP3 SDRC: set FIXEDDELAY when disabling SDRC DLL
OMAP3: Add support for DPLL3 divisor values higher than 2
OMAP3 SRAM: convert SRAM code to use macros rather than magic numbers
OMAP3 SRAM: add more comments on the SRAM code
OMAP3 clock/SDRC: program SDRC_MR register during SDRC clock change
OMAP3 clock: add a short delay when lowering CORE clk rate
OMAP3 clock: initialize SDRC timings at kernel start
OMAP3 clock: remove wait for DPLL3 M2 clock to stabilize
[ARM] Add old Feroceon support to compressed/head.S
[ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit
[ARM] 5558/1: Add extra checks to ARM unwinder to avoid tracing corrupt stacks
[ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or !HOTPLUG_CPU
...
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (74 commits)
PCI: make msi_free_irqs() to use msix_mask_irq() instead of open coded write
PCI: Fix the NIU MSI-X problem in a better way
PCI ASPM: remove get_root_port_link
PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_sanity_check
PCI ASPM: remove has_switch field
PCI ASPM: cleanup calc_Lx_latency
PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_get_cap_device
PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm checks
PCI ASPM: cleanup __pcie_aspm_check_state_one
PCI ASPM: cleanup initialization
PCI ASPM: cleanup change input argument of aspm functions
PCI ASPM: cleanup misc in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm state in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup latency field in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup aspm state field in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: fix typo in struct pcie_link_state
PCI: drivers/pci/slot.c should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS
PCI: remove redundant __msi_set_enable()
PCI PM: consistently use type bool for wake enable variable
x86/ACPI: Correct maximum allowed _CRS returned resources and warn if exceeded
...
According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the
trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than
PTE TLB. The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual
size of percpu area and specific processor. As performance
degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific
and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more
data.
This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting
which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing.
While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something
failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working. Also,
kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized
quite some time ago.
[ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel. gcov may be useful for:
* debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
* test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
* minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
associated code is never run?)
The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
* change kbuild to include profiling flags
* provide functions needed by profiling code
* present profiling data as files in debugfs
Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.
For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which
might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the
console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver
can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or
other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at
runtime from userspace.
This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows
users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0.
The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl
call - this just allows to conditionally change the default.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
