user/sven/linux.git/kernel/module.c, branch v3.4.15

module: taint kernel when lve module is loaded

2012-10-21T16:27:59Z

commit c99af3752bb52ba3aece5315279a57a477edfaf1 upstream. Cloudlinux have a product called lve that includes a kernel module. This was previously GPLed but is now under a proprietary license, but the module continues to declare MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") and makes use of some EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols. Forcibly taint it in order to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: Alex Lyashkov Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-26T02:20:53Z

Module size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc() which was removed a while ago. Limiting module size to 64MB is both pointless and affects real world use cases. Cc: Tim Abbott Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: move __module_get and try_module_get() out of line.

2012-03-26T02:20:52Z

With the preempt, tracepoint and everything, it's getting a bit chubby. For an Ubuntu-based config: Before: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56199906 3870760 1606616 61677282 3ad1ee2 (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8509342 850368 3358720 12718430 c2115e vmlinux After: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56183760 3867892 1606616 61658268 3acd49c (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8501842 849088 3358720 12709650 c1ef12 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (made all out-of-line)

params: _initcall-like kernel parameters

2012-03-26T02:20:51Z

This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we use this for early params as well, in future. Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order to add additional symbols between levels that are later used by the init code to split the calls into blocks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: add kernel param to force disable module load

2012-03-26T02:20:50Z

Sometimes we need to test a kernel of same version with code or config option changes. We already have sysctl to disable module load, but add a kernel parameter will be more convenient. Since modules_disabled is int, so here use bint type in core_param. TODO: make sysctl accept bool and change modules_disabled to bool Signed-off-by: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

error: implicit declaration of function 'module_flags_taint'

2012-01-16T00:21:07Z

Recent changes to kernel/module.c caused the following compile error: kernel/module.c: In function ‘show_taint’: kernel/module.c:1024:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘module_flags_taint’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors Correct this error by moving the definition of module_flags_taint outside of the #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD section. Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize

2012-01-12T23:02:15Z

Recent tools do not want to use /proc to retrieve module information. A few values are currently missing from sysfs to replace the information available in /proc/modules. This adds /sys/module/*/{coresize,initsize,taint} attributes. TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE (P) and TAINT_OOT_MODULE (O) flags are both always shown now, and do no longer exclude each other, also in /proc/modules. Replace the open-coded sysfs attribute initializers with the __ATTR() macro. Add the new attributes to Documentation/ABI. Cc: Lucas De Marchi Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug

2012-01-12T23:02:15Z

Use more flexible pr_debug. This allows: echo "module module +p" > /dbg/dynamic_debug/control to turn on debug messages when needed. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: struct module_ref should contains long fields

2012-01-12T23:02:14Z

module_ref contains two "unsigned int" fields. Thats now too small, since some machines can open more than 2^32 files. Check commit 518de9b39e8 (fs: allow for more than 2^31 files) for reference. We can add an aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) attribute to force alloc_percpu() allocating module_ref areas in single cache lines. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Rusty Russell CC: Tejun Heo CC: Robin Holt CC: David Miller Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: Fix performance regression on modules with large symbol tables

2012-01-12T23:02:14Z

Looking at /proc/kallsyms, one starts to ponder whether all of the extra strtab-related complexity in module.c is worth the memory savings. Instead of making the add_kallsyms() loop even more complex, I tried the other route of deleting the strmap logic and naively copying each string into core_strtab with no consideration for consolidating duplicates. Performance on an "already exists" insmod of nvidia.ko (runs add_kallsyms() but does not actually initialize the module): Original scheme: 1.230s With naive copying: 0.058s Extra space used: 35k (of a 408k module). Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell LKML-Reference: <73defb5e4bca04a6431392cc341112b1@localhost>