user/sven/linux.git/kernel/module.c, branch tmp/leds/core

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08

2009-01-14T13:15:21Z

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot

2009-01-07T16:45:46Z

Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven

module: add MODULE_STATE_LIVE notify

2009-01-06T23:59:21Z

Add a module notifier call which notifies that the state of a module changes from MODULE_STATE_COMING to MODULE_STATE_LIVE. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: add within_module_core() and within_module_init()

2009-01-06T23:59:20Z

This series of patches allows kprobes to probe module's __init and __exit functions. This means, you can probe driver initialization and terminating. Currently, kprobes can't probe __init function because these functions are freed after module initialization. And it also can't probe module __exit functions because kprobe increments reference count of target module and user can't unload it. this means __exit functions never be called unless removing probes from the module. To solve both cases, this series of patches introduces GONE flag and sets it when the target code is freed(for this purpose, kprobes hooks MODULE_STATE_* events). This also removes refcount incrementing for allowing user to unload target module. Users can check which probes are GONE by debugfs interface. For taking timing of freeing module's .init text, these also include a patch which adds module's notifier of MODULE_STATE_LIVE event. This patch: Add within_module_core() and within_module_init() for checking whether an address is in the module .init.text section or .text section, and replace within() local inline functions in kernel/module.c with them. kprobes uses these functions to check where the kprobe is inserted. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove remaining unwinder code

2009-01-06T23:59:11Z

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Gabor Gombas Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar , Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: convert to stop_machine_create/destroy.

2009-01-04T22:10:15Z

The module code relies on a non-failing stop_machine call. So we create the kstop threads in advance and with that make sure the call won't fail. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules for parisc

2009-01-04T22:10:13Z

When creating the final layout of a kernel module in memory, allow the module loader to reserve some additional memory in front of a given section. This is currently only needed for the parisc port which needs to put the stub entries there to fulfill the 17/22bit PCREL relocations with large kernel modules like xfs. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (renamed fn)

module: fix warning of unused function when !CONFIG_PROC_FS

2009-01-04T22:10:11Z

Fix this warning: kernel/module.c:824: warning: ‘print_unload_info’ defined but not used print_unload_info() just was used when CONFIG_PROC_FS was defined. This patch mark print_unload_info() inline to solve the problem. Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Américo Wang

kernel/module.c: compare symbol values when marking symbols as exported in /proc/kallsyms.

2009-01-04T22:10:11Z

When there are two symbols in a module with the same name, one of which is exported, both will be marked as exported in /proc/kallsyms. There aren't any instances of this in the current kernel, but it is easy to construct a simple module with two compilation units that exhibits the problem. $ objdump -j .text -t testmod.ko | grep foo 00000000 l F .text 00000032 foo 00000080 g F .text 00000001 foo $ sudo insmod testmod.ko $ grep "T foo" /proc/kallsyms c28e8000 T foo [testmod] c28e8080 T foo [testmod] Fix this by comparing the symbol values once we've found the exported symbol table entry matching the symbol name. Tested using Ksplice: $ ksplice-create --patch=this_commit.patch --id=bar . $ sudo ksplice-apply ksplice-bar.tar.gz Done! $ grep "T foo" /proc/kallsyms c28e8080 T foo [testmod] Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions

2008-12-08T14:11:44Z

Impact: trace more functions When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the normal function tracer too. arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c: I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie: "write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store the original return address of the function inside current, we had crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing. kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c: Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer: __kernel_text_address() To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar