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<title>user/sven/linux.git/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v3.4.46</title>
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<updated>2012-03-29T21:28:26Z</updated>
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T21:28:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-03-29T21:28:26Z</published>
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Pull x86 updates from Ingo Molnar.

This touches some non-x86 files due to the sanitized INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
config usage.

Fixed up trivial conflicts due to just header include changes (removing
headers due to cpu_idle() merge clashing with the &lt;asm/system.h&gt; split).

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic/amd: Be more verbose about LVT offset assignments
  x86, tls: Off by one limit check
  x86/ioapic: Add io_apic_ops driver layer to allow interception
  x86/olpc: Add debugfs interface for EC commands
  x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
  x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs
  x86: Stop recursive fault in print_context_stack after stack overflow
  x86/io_apic: Move and reenable irq only when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y
  x86/apic: Add separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers
  locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage
  x86/kconfig: Update defconfigs
  x86: Fix excessive MSR print out when show_msr is not specified
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T01:08:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-24T01:08:58Z</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman:

 - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity.

   Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and
   are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing
   network devices.

   sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call
   and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c.  Hopefully
   this means the code is now approachable.

   Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until
   something was found that was usable.

 - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation
   is fixed.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits)
  sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away
  sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
  sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.
  sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
  sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir
  sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
  sysctl: remove an unused variable
  sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users
  sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.
  sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.
  sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header
  sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy
  sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
  sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir
  sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
  sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set
  sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry
  sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.
  sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.
  sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header
  ...
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<entry>
<title>nmi watchdog: do not use cpp symbol in Kconfig</title>
<updated>2012-03-23T23:58:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-23T22:01:51Z</published>
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ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG is a macro defined by arch, but config
HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR depends on it.  This is wrong, ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
has to be a Kconfig config, and arch's need it should select it
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage</title>
<updated>2012-03-23T12:18:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Raghavendra K T</name>
<email>raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T09:55:08Z</published>
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Get rid of INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK entirely replacing it with
UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK instead of the reverse meaning.

Whoever wants to change the default spinlock inlining
behavior and uninline the spinlocks for some weird reason,
such as spinlock debugging, paravirt etc. can now all just
select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK

Original discussion at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/21/357

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120322095502.30866.75756.sendpatchset@codeblue
[ tidied up the changelog a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-20T17:29:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-20T17:29:15Z</published>
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Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&amp;key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
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<title>rcu: Print scheduling-clock information on RCU CPU stall-warning messages</title>
<updated>2012-02-21T17:03:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-16T21:29:10Z</published>
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There have been situations where RCU CPU stall warnings were caused by
issues in scheduling-clock timer initialization.  To make it easier to
track these down, this commit causes the RCU CPU stall-warning messages
to print out the number of scheduling-clock interrupts taken in the
current grace period for each stalled CPU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Move RCU_TRACE to lib/Kconfig.debug</title>
<updated>2012-02-21T17:03:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-06T23:10:44Z</published>
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The RCU_TRACE kernel parameter has always been intended for debugging,
not for production use.  Formalize this by moving RCU_TRACE from
init/Kconfig to lib/Kconfig.debug.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>watchdog: Update Kconfig entries</title>
<updated>2012-02-11T14:11:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao</name>
<email>fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T22:42:21Z</published>
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The soft and hard lockup thresholds have changed so the
corresponding Kconfig entries need to be updated accordingly.
Add a reference to  watchdog_thresh while at it.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao &lt;fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328827342-6253-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks</title>
<updated>2012-01-25T00:40:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-21T21:34:05Z</published>
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- Stop validating subdirectories now that we only register leaf tables

- Cleanup and improve the duplicate filename check.
  * Run the duplicate filename check under the sysctl_lock to guarantee
    we never add duplicate names.
  * Reduce the duplicate filename check to nearly O(M*N) where M is the
    number of entries in tthe table we are registering and N is the
    number of entries in the directory before we got there.

- Move the duplicate filename check into it's own function and call
  it directtly from __register_sysctl_table

- Kill the config option as the sanity checks are now cheap enough
  the config option is unnecessary. The original reason for the config
  option was because we had a huge table used to verify the proc filename
  to binary sysctl mapping.  That table has now evolved into the binary_sysctl
  translation layer and is no longer part of the sysctl_check code.

- Tighten up the permission checks.  Guarnateeing that files only have read
  or write permissions.

- Removed redudant check for parents having a procname as now everything has
  a procname.

- Generalize the backtrace logic so that we print a backtrace from
  any failure of __register_sysctl_table that was not caused by
  a memmory allocation failure.  The backtrace allows us to track
  down who erroneously registered a sysctl table.

Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=y):
    make-dummies 0 999 -&gt; 12s
    rmmod dummy        -&gt; 0.08s

Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=n):
    make-dummies 0 999 -&gt; 0.7s
    rmmod dummy        -&gt; 0.06s
    make-dummies 0 99999 -&gt; 1m13s
    rmmod dummy          -&gt; 0.38s

Benchmark after:
    make-dummies 0 999 -&gt; 0.65s
    rmmod dummy        -&gt; 0.055s
    make-dummies 0 9999 -&gt; 1m10s
    rmmod dummy         -&gt; 0.39s

The sysctl sanity checks now impose no measurable cost.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kmemleak: Add support for memory hotplug</title>
<updated>2011-12-02T16:12:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>lauraa@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-15T23:49:09Z</published>
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Ensure that memory hotplug can co-exist with kmemleak
by taking the hotplug lock before scanning the memory
banks.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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