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2006-07-14[PATCH] let the the lockdep options depend on DEBUG_KERNELAdrian Bunk
The lockdep options should depend on DEBUG_KERNEL since: - they are kernel debugging options and - they do otherwise break the DEBUG_KERNEL menu structure Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: kconfigIngo Molnar
Offer the following lock validation options: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: coreIngo Molnar
Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options - reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files. Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario. What does the lock validator do? It "observes" and maps all locking rules as they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems). Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of rules. If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal. If the new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out. When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing locking scenarios. In a typical system this means millions of separate scenarios. This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not corrupted by some other kernel subsystem). [see more details and conditionals of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and Documentation/lockdep-design.txt] Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs drastically. In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs. That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!). So in essence a race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself! In its short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they actually caused a real deadlock. To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per "lock instance", but per "lock-class". For example, all struct inode objects in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex. If there are 10,000 inodes cached, then there are 10,000 lock objects. But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are "unified" into this single lock-class. The advantage of the lock-class approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single (and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules. The set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel. To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup: lock-classes: 694 [max: 2048] direct dependencies: 1598 [max: 8192] indirect dependencies: 17896 all direct dependencies: 16206 dependency chains: 1910 [max: 8192] in-hardirq chains: 17 in-softirq chains: 105 in-process chains: 1065 stack-trace entries: 38761 [max: 131072] combined max dependencies: 2033928 hardirq-safe locks: 24 hardirq-unsafe locks: 176 softirq-safe locks: 53 softirq-unsafe locks: 137 irq-safe locks: 59 irq-unsafe locks: 176 The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns, and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios. More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at: http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt [bunk@stusta.de: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: locking API self testsIngo Molnar
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases. There are 210 testcases currently: +----------------------- | Locking API testsuite: +------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | -------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | double unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | bad unlock order: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+ recursive read-lock: | ok | | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+ non-nested unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+ hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok | soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok | hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok | soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok | sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq read-recursion/123: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/123: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/132: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/132: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/213: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/213: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/231: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/231: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/312: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/312: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/321: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/321: ok | --------------------------------+-----+---------------- Good, all 210 testcases passed! | --------------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: s390 CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER supportHeiko Carstens
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER support for s390. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, coreIngo Molnar
Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything to the console. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] lockdep: remove mutex deadlock checking codeIngo Molnar
With the lock validator we detect mutex deadlocks (and more), the mutex deadlock checking code is both redundant and slower. So remove it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] Add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPLArjan van de Ven
Temporarily add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL. These will be used as a transition measure for symbols that aren't used in the kernel and are on the way out. When a module uses such a symbol, a warning is printk'd at modprobe time. The main reason for removing unused exports is size: eacho export takes roughly between 100 and 150 bytes of kernel space in the binary. This patch gives users the option to immediately get this size gain via a config option. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27[PATCH] fix rt-mutex defaults and dependenciesRoman Zippel
Fix defaults and dependencies. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex testerThomas Gleixner
RT-mutex tester: scriptable tester for rt mutexes, which allows userspace scripting of mutex unit-tests (and dynamic tests as well), using the actual rt-mutex implementation of the kernel. [akpm@osdl.org: fixlet] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex debugIngo Molnar
Runtime debugging functionality for rt-mutexes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] i386: reliable stack trace support (i386)Jan Beulich
These are the i386-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. This is going to be even more useful once CFI annotations get added to he assembly code, namely to entry.S. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64)Jan Beulich
These are the x86_64-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. The only restriction with this is that it currently cannot unwind across the interrupt->normal stack boundary, as that transition is lacking proper annotation. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace supportJan Beulich
These are the generic bits needed to enable reliable stack traces based on Dwarf2-like (.eh_frame) unwind information. Subsequent patches will enable x86-64 and i386 to make use of this. Thanks to Andi Kleen and Ingo Molnar, who pointed out several possibilities for improvement. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-12[SPARC]: Handle UNWIND_INFO properly.David S. Miller
For sparc32 we need R_SPARC_UA32 relocation support, for sparc64 we need the handle R_SPARC_DISP32 relocations. Based upon reports and initial patch by Martin Habets. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-19[PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Set DEBUG_MUTEX to off by defaultTim Chen
DEBUG_MUTEX flag is on by default in current kernel configuration. During performance testing, we saw mutex debug functions like mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed (called by kfree()) is expensive as it goes through a global list of memory areas with mutex lock and do the checking. For benchmarks such as Volanomark and Hackbench, we have seen more than 40% drop in performance on some platforms. We suggest to set DEBUG_MUTEX off by default. Or at least do that later when we feel that the mutex changes in the current code have stabilized. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PARISC] Remove obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAPHelge Deller
Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP, it's now obsolete and won't work anyway. Remove it from lib/KConfig since it was only available on parisc. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Don't make debugfs depend on DEBUG_KERNELJens Axboe
We use it generally now, at least blktrace isn't a specific debug kernel feature. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-25[PATCH] x86_64: Don't enable CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO by default for DEBUG_KERNELAndi Kleen
DEBUG_KERNEL is often enabled just for sysrq, but this doesn't mean the user wants more heavyweight debugging information. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug optionsAndrew Morton
The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always seemed a bit confusing. Change them to: CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations" CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations" Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocatorsAl Viro
Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFOJan Beulich
As a foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this adds a config option (available to all architectures except IA64 and those where the module loader might have problems with the resulting relocations) to enable the generation of frame unwind information. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inliningIngo Molnar
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc to inline all the time. This requires several places that require to be inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNELAdrian Bunk
I know several people using MAGIC_SYSRQ not for kernel debugging but for trying to do a halfway normal shutdown in case of problems. Since there's no technical reason why MAGIC_SYSRQ would have to depend on DEBUG_KERNEL, I'm therefore suggesting to drop this dependency. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09[PATCH] mutex subsystem, debugging codeIngo Molnar
mutex implementation - add debugging code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] DEBUG_SLAB depends on SLABIngo Molnar
Make DEBUG_SLAB depend on SLAB. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] s390: cleanup KconfigMartin Schwidefsky
Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X, ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by S390, 64BIT and COMPAT. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] mm: remove bad_rangeNick Piggin
bad_range is supposed to be a temporary check. It would be a pity to throw it out. Make it depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM instead. CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE systems were relying on this to check pfn_valid in the page allocator. Add that to page_is_buddy instead. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel modulePaul E. McKenney
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2). This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks, CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how to run the test and interpret the output is also included. This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of the PREEMPT_RT patchset. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERJesper Juhl
Fix-up the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER help text language a bit. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32Brian Gerst
Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply to 32-bit systems. (X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32 (X86 || X86_64) becomes X86 Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12[PATCH] x86-64: Allow frame pointer and fix help text.Andi Kleen
Allow frame pointer and fix help text. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] detect soft lockupsIngo Molnar
This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29[PATCH] DEBUG_FS must depend on SYSFSAdrian Bunk
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y and CONFIG_SYSFS=n results in the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... LD vmlinux fs/built-in.o: In function `debugfs_init': inode.c:(.init.text+0x31be): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 <-- snip --> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28[PATCH] uml: split CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER from DEBUG_INFOPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Until now, FRAME_POINTER was set = DEBUG_INFO for UML. Change it to be the default way, so that it can be enabled alone (for instance to get better backtraces on crashes). The call-trace dumper which uses the frame pointer is not yet in, I'm going to introduce it in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] remove all kernel BUGsMatt Mackall
This patch eliminates all kernel BUGs, trims about 35k off the typical kernel, and makes the system slightly faster. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-03-29[PATCH] FRV: Fix kernel configurationDavid Howells
This fixes the FRV configuration to work with 2.6.12-rc1. It does this by breaking out the kernel hacking menu into a separate file, in the same way this is done in other archs. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-03-28[PATCH] uml: add kconfig debug depsPaolo \'Blaisorblade\' Giarrusso
Add some needed dependencies for some debug options and hide the MAGIC_SYSRQ option for UML, since it displays this option in another menu. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-03-13[PATCH] consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_INFOAdrian Bunk
We seem to have two CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO entries in Kconfig.debug. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-03-13Kconfig: cleanup kernel hacking menuSam Ravnborg
o This properly indents the kernel hacking menu. o Move LOG_BUF_SHIFT into kernel hacking menu (it already depended on DEBUG_KERNEL). o Add DEBUG_KERNEL dependency to EARLY_PRINTK, DEBUG_PREEMPT and FRAME_POINTER. o Remove overlong dependency, which included practically every arch. o Merge the two MAGIC_SYSRQ menu entries. o Remove unnecessary "default n" options. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-03-07[PATCH] add timing information to printk messagesTim Bird
Here's a little patch which is useful for showing timing information for kernel bootup activities. This patch adds a new Kconfig option under "Kernel Hacking" and a new option for the kernel command line. It also provides a script for showing delta information. Note that the timing data may not be correct on some platforms until after time_init() is called. Recently (as of about 2.6.10) I found that the message log produced by dmesg is truncated when I use this feature. That is, the first few printk messages of the boot sequence are not in the dmesg output, although they are printed to console during startup. This is a new behavior - dmesg output was fine as of 2.6.9. Increasing CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT had no effect on the truncation. Has something changed with printk recently? For more information on this patch, see: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/InstrumentedPrintk Here's some sample output: ... [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp hdc=ide-scsi console=vga console=ttyS0,115200 [4294667.296000] ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0 [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 1995.620 MHz processor. [ 21.397369] Using tsc for high-res timesource [ 21.399820] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 21.537244] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 21.544547] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 21.555066] Memory: 125076k/130240k available (2002k kernel code, 4556k reserved, 1006k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) [ 21.565775] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 21.574089] Calibrating delay loop... 3940.35 BogoMIPS (lpj=1970176) [ 21.596511] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 21.603263] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000 [ 21.603276] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000 [ 21.603287] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K [ 21.608884] CPU: L2 cache: 128K ... And now the patch... Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-20[PATCH] allow all architectures to set CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPTIngo Molnar
We think it'll work OK. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-15[PATCH] PA-RISC: Sort out io accessorsMatthew Wilcox
- sparse annotations for ioremap/iounmap (Randolph Chung) - Turn gsc_readb, __raw_readb and readb functions into static inline functions (Matthew Wilcox) - Document the difference between the gsc_readb, __raw_readb and readb families of functions (Matthew Wilcox) - Add a debugging option to determine when they are being used incorrectly (Matthew Wilcox) - Make memcpy_fromio's second argument const (Matthew Wilcox) Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-14[PATCH] uml: readd CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ for UMLPaolo \'Blaisorblade\' Giarrusso
This config option was lost during the creation of lib/Kconfig.debug, due to a bad expressed dependency; I also moved the option back to its original place for UML (it is near CONFIG_MCONSOLE since it depends on that). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-12[PATCH] PPC64 can do preempt debug tooPaul Mackerras
This patch enables the DEBUG_PREEMPT config option for PPC64. I have this turned on on my desktop G5 and it isn't finding any problems. (It did find one problem, in flush_tlb_pending(), that I have just sent a patch for.) BTW, do we really need to restrict which architectures the config option is available on? Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-09Merge kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/bleed-2.6Greg Kroah-Hartman
into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/usb-2.6
2005-01-07[PATCH] DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE for i386Adrian Bunk
The patch below implements CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE for i386 (more exactly, it allows disabling the verbose BUG() reporting). Also, require CONFIG_EMBEDDED for this option: we don't want to make it easy for people to disable useful debug info. (With lots of help from Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-07[PATCH] remove the BKL by turning it into a semaphoreIngo Molnar
This is the current remove-BKL patch. I test-booted it on x86 and x64, trying every conceivable combination of SMP, PREEMPT and PREEMPT_BKL. All other architectures should compile as well. (most of the testing was done with the zaphod patch undone but it applies cleanly on vanilla -mm3 as well and should work fine.) this is the debugging-enabled variant of the patch which has two main debugging features: - debug potentially illegal smp_processor_id() use. Has caught a number of real bugs - e.g. look at the printk.c fix in the patch. - make it possible to enable/disable the BKL via a .config. If this goes upstream we dont want this of course, but for now it gives people a chance to find out whether any particular problem was caused by this patch. This patch has one important fix over the previous BKL patch: on PREEMPT kernels if we preempted BKL-using code then the code still auto-dropped the BKL by mistake. This caused a number of breakages for testers, which breakages went away once this bug was fixed. Also the debugging mechanism has been improved alot relative to the previous BKL patch. Would be nice to test-drive this in -mm. There will likely be some more smp_processor_id() false positives but they are 1) harmless 2) easy to fix up. We could as well find more real smp_processor_id() related breakages as well. The most noteworthy fact is that no BKL-using code was found yet that relied on smp_processor_id(), which is promising from a compatibility POV. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-12-15debugfs: add debugfsGreg Kroah-Hartman
debugfs is a filesystem that is just for debug data. Start moving stuff out of proc and sysfs now :) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-11-18[PATCH] m32r: Kconfig.debug supportHirokazu Takata
This patch updates Kconfig and add Kconfig.debug for m32r. - arch/m32r/Kconfig: Move "Kernel hacking" menu to Kconfig.debug. - arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug: Newly added. - lib/Kconfig.debug: Add m32r arch. Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>