user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/slab.h, branch v2.6.34.6

slab: Generify kernel pointer validation

2010-04-09T17:09:50Z

As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate(). Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

failslab: add ability to filter slab caches

2010-02-26T17:19:39Z

This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs. In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by default (all caches are faulty). One may define specific set of slabs like this: # mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab # Turn on cache filter (off by default) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter # Turn on fault injection echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Akinobu Mita Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD

2009-06-15T13:50:49Z

Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum

kmemcheck: add mm functions

2009-06-15T10:40:03Z

With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this: 1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or uninitialized. 2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized. There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and "recently freed". If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck. If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object. In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option). Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for atomicity. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum

slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot

2009-06-12T15:53:33Z

As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and even then you'll be missing some. For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code using that to do the test. Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks

2009-06-11T16:03:29Z

This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the slab allocator. The patch also adds the SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE flag to avoid recursive calls to kmemleak when it allocates its own data structures. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: introduce kzfree()

2009-02-21T01:57:48Z

kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator. Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use. These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily aware of the actual object size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' into for-linus

2008-12-29T09:45:47Z

slab: Fix comment on #endif

2008-12-29T09:40:56Z

This #endif in slab.h is described as closing the inner block while it's for the big CONFIG_NUMA one. That makes reading the code a bit harder. This trivial patch fixes the comment. Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.

2008-11-26T14:47:25Z

This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read code. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg