kernel/linux.git/include/linux/init.h, branch linux-2.6.28.y

adjust init section definitions

2008-10-29T21:02:09+00:00

Add rodata equivalents for assembly use, and fix the section attributes used by __REFCONST. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-10-20T20:35:07+00:00

* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits) tracing/fastboot: improve help text tracing/stacktrace: improve help text tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer ftrace: make some tracers reentrant ring-buffer: make reentrant ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace ... Manually fix conflicts: - init/main.c: initcall tracing - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.

init.h: remove long-dead __setup_null_param() macro

2008-10-16T18:21:30+00:00

This macro appears to have been unused for ages, and there are no invocations of it anywhere in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount

2008-10-14T08:35:12+00:00

When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed via removing a module, the pointers still exist. At modifying the code a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what it is expected to be before being replaced. There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module. Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with __init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader

2008-08-12T07:52:54+00:00

The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug" on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes it will 1) print if it had an error code 2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off) and 3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds. While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving number 3 to figure out what to optimize... ... and then I wished that the same thing was done for module loading. This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding where things are too slow in my boot. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Better interface for hooking early initcalls

2008-07-26T19:00:04+00:00

Added early initcall (pre-SMP) support, using an identical interface to that of regular initcalls. Functions called from do_pre_smp_initcalls() could be converted to use this cleaner interface. This is required by CPU hotplug, because early users have to register notifiers before going SMP. One such CPU hotplug user is the relay interface with buffer-only channels, which needs to register such a notifier, to be usable in early code. This in turn is used by kmemtrace. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init.h: remove obsolete content

2008-07-25T17:53:28+00:00

Remove apparently obsolete content from init.h referring to gcc 2.9x and to "no_module_init". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proper extern for late_time_init

2008-04-29T15:06:03+00:00

Add a proper extern for late_time_init in include/linux/init.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add missing init section definitions

2008-02-19T20:00:18+00:00

When adding __devinitconst etc. the __initconst variant were missed. Add this one and proper definitions for .head.text for use in .S files. The naming .head.text is preferred over .text.head as the latter will conflict for a function named head when introducing -ffunctions-sections. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

generic: add __FINITDATA

2008-02-06T21:39:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar