user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kexec.h, branch v3.2.78

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

2011-11-01T00:46:07Z

Quoth Andrew: - Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their butts and review some threaded hugepages patches. - alpha - vfs bits - drivers/misc - a few core kerenl tweaks - printk() features - MAINTAINERS updates - backlight merge - leds merge - various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates * akpm: (127 commits) epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto and simple_strto as obsolete llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above() lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set() drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed ...

treewide: use printf not attribute__((format(printf,...)))

2011-11-01T00:30:54Z

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification. Standardized the location of __printf too. Done via script and a little typing. $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \ grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \ xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*$\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*$\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }' [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] kdump: Add infrastructure for unmapping crashkernel memory

2011-10-30T14:16:42Z

This patch introduces a mechanism that allows architecture backends to remove page tables for the crashkernel memory. This can protect the loaded kdump kernel from being overwritten by broken kernel code. Two new functions crash_map_reserved_pages() and crash_unmap_reserved_pages() are added that can be implemented by architecture code. The crash_map_reserved_pages() function is called before and crash_unmap_reserved_pages() after the crashkernel segments are loaded. The functions are also called in crash_shrink_memory() to create/remove page tables when the crashkernel memory size is reduced. To support architectures that have large pages this patch also introduces a new define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN. The crashkernel start and size must always be aligned with KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN. Cc: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] kdump: Add KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT

2011-10-30T14:16:41Z

On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

kdump: Allow shrinking of kdump region to be overridden

2011-04-01T05:14:30Z

On ppc64 the crashkernel region almost always overlaps an area of firmware. This works fine except when using the sysfs interface to reduce the kdump region. If we free the firmware area we are guaranteed to crash. Rename free_reserved_phys_range to crash_free_reserved_phys_range and make it a weak function so we can override it. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems

2010-02-17T02:17:38Z

Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Biederman

kexec: premit reduction of the reserved memory size

2009-12-16T15:20:13Z

Implement shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more than enough. For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M, you can do: # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Cc: Neil Horman Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec/i386: allocate page table pages dynamically

2008-10-31T09:01:56Z

Impact: save .text size when kexec is built in but not loaded This patch adds an architecture specific struct kimage_arch into struct kimage. The pointers to page table pages used by kexec are added to struct kimage_arch. The page tables pages are dynamically allocated in machine_kexec_prepare instead of statically from BSS segment. This will save up to 20k memory when kexec image is not loaded. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kexec jump: rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE

2008-08-15T15:35:42Z

Rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE, because control page is used for not only code on some platform. For example in kexec jump, it is used for data and stack too. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak powerpc and arm, finish conversion] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Russell King Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kdump: report actual value of VMCOREINFO_OSRELEASE in VMCOREINFO

2008-08-05T21:33:46Z

The current implementation reports the structure name as VMCOREINFO_OSRELEASE in VMCOREINFO, e.g. VMCOREINFO_OSRELEASE=init_uts_ns.name.release That doesn't make sense because it's always the same. Instead, use the value, e.g. VMCOREINFO_OSRELEASE=2.6.26-rc3 That's also what the 'makedumpfile -g' does. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Cc: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds