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This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").
The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
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Instead of having a callback function for each symbol in the kernel,
have a callback for each array of symbols.
This eases the logic when we move to sorted symbols and binary search.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
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Reorder struct module to remove 24 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds when the CONFIG_TRACE options are selected. This allows the
structure to fit into one fewer cache lines, and its size drops from 592
to 568 on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Doing so prevents the following warning from sparse:
CHECK kernel/params.c
kernel/params.c:817:9: warning: symbol '__modver_version_show' was not
declared. Should it be static?
since kernel/params.c is never compiled with MODULE being set.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to
align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary.
This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section
in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in
modules.
Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably
is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and
put those pointers in the special section.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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We force particular alignment when we generate attribute structures
when generation MODULE_VERSION() data and we need to make sure that
this alignment is followed when we iterate over these structures,
otherwise we may crash on platforms whose natural alignment is not
sizeof(void *), such as m68k.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
[ There are more issues here, but the fixes are incredibly ugly - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.
History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.
One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.
The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.
(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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lib/built-in.o:(__modver+0x8): undefined reference to `__modver_version_show'
lib/built-in.o:(__modver+0x2c): undefined reference to `__modver_version_show'
Simplest to just not emit anything: if they've disabled SYSFS they probably
want the smallest kernel possible.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.
This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Commit 9bea7f23952d5948f8e5dfdff4de09bb9981fb5f renamed use_module to
ref_module (and changed its return value), but forgot to update this
prototype in module.h.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This patch is a logical extension of the protection provided by
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to LKMs. The protection is provided by
splitting module_core and module_init into three logical parts
each and setting appropriate page access permissions for each
individual section:
1. Code: RO+X
2. RO data: RO+NX
3. RW data: RW+NX
In order to achieve proper protection, layout_sections() have
been modified to align each of the three parts mentioned above
onto page boundary. Next, the corresponding page access
permissions are set right before successful exit from
load_module(). Further, free_module() and sys_init_module have
been modified to set module_core and module_init as RW+NX right
before calling module_free().
By default, the original section layout and access flags are
preserved. When compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX=y,
the patch will page-align each group of sections to ensure that
each page contains only one type of content and will enforce
RO/NX for each group of pages.
-v1: Initial proof-of-concept patch.
-v2: The patch have been re-written to reduce the number of #ifdefs
and to make it architecture-agnostic. Code formatting has also
been corrected.
-v3: Opportunistic RO/NX protection is now unconditional. Section
page-alignment is enabled when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y.
-v4: Removed most macros and improved coding style.
-v5: Changed page-alignment and RO/NX section size calculation
-v6: Fixed comments. Restricted RO/NX enforcement to x86 only
-v7: Introduced CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, added
calls to set_all_modules_text_rw() and set_all_modules_text_ro()
in ftrace
-v8: updated for compatibility with linux 2.6.33-rc5
-v9: coding style fixes
-v10: more coding style fixes
-v11: minor adjustments for -tip
-v12: minor adjustments for v2.6.35-rc2-tip
-v13: minor adjustments for v2.6.37-rc1-tip
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CE2F914.9070106@free.fr>
[ minor cleanliness edits, -v14: build failure fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/module.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.
However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.
Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.
So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.
Future fixups:
- move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
belongs.
- get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
(called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
for other reasons.
Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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These were placed in the header in ef665c1a06 to get the various
SYSFS/MODULE config combintations to compile.
That may have been necessary then, but it's not now. These functions
are all local to module.c.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
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When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a
one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could
see who needs a module.
It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we
not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are
"used by me".
In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we
unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are
used by that module. But because we didn't have that list, we used to
first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me"
list of that module.
By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it
allows for some trivial fixes later too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
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Conflicts:
include/linux/module.h
kernel/module.c
Semantic conflict:
include/trace/events/module.h
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
possibly racy module refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed.
However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may
be taken by one CPU and released by another. Reference count summation
may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment,
leading to lower than expected count. A module which never has its
actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to
this race.
Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this
race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules. However there are
other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is
exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine.
Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of
module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements. The
increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will
always have its corresponding increment counted. The final refcount is
the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a
low-refcount from being returned.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the @refcnt argument, because it has side-effects, and arguments with
side-effects are not skipped by the jump over disabled instrumentation and are
executed even when the tracepoint is disabled.
This was also causing a GPF as found by Randy Dunlap:
Subject: 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing
LKML-Reference: <4BA2B69D.3000309@oracle.com>
Note, the current 2.6.34-rc has a fix for the actual cause of the GPF,
but this fixes one of its triggers.
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA7.6040406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Fix build for CONFIG_MODULES not enabled by providing a stub
for is_module_percpu_address().
kernel/lockdep.c:605: error: implicit declaration of function 'is_module_percpu_address'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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lockdep has custom code to check whether a pointer belongs to static
percpu area which is somewhat broken. Implement proper
is_kernel/module_percpu_address() and replace the custom code.
On UP, percpu variables are regular static variables and can't be
distinguished from them. Always return %false on UP.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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Better encapsulate module static percpu area handling so that code
outsidef of CONFIG_SMP ifdef doesn't deal with mod->percpu directly
and add mod->percpu_size and record percpu_size in it. Both percpu
fields are compiled out on UP. While at it, mark mod->percpu w/
__percpu.
This is to prepare for is_module_percpu_address().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.
Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h
Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems.
These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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ringbuffer*.c are the last users of local.h.
Remove the include from modules.h and add it to ringbuffer files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Use cpu ops to deal with the per cpu data instead of a local_t. Reduces memory
requirements, cache footprint and decreases cycle counts.
The this_cpu_xx operations are also used for !SMP mode. Otherwise we could
not drop the use of __module_ref_addr() which would make per cpu data handling
complicated. this_cpu_xx operations have their own fallback for !SMP.
V8-V9:
- Leave include asm/module.h since ringbuffer.c depends on it. Nothing else
does though. Another patch will deal with that.
- Remove spurious free.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
.tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure
definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option
into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.
This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost
relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.
A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save
for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
symbol in the kallsyms data).
Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin)
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR()
statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here
disagrees.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event
tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add trace points to trace module_load, module_free, module_get,
module_put and module_request, and use trace_event facility to
get the trace output.
Here's the sample output:
TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
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<...>-42 [000] 1.758380: module_request: fb0 wait=1 call_site=fb_open
...
<...>-60 [000] 3.269403: module_load: scsi_wait_scan
<...>-60 [000] 3.269432: module_put: scsi_wait_scan call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0
<...>-61 [001] 3.273168: module_free: scsi_wait_scan
...
<...>-1021 [000] 13.836081: module_load: sunrpc
<...>-1021 [000] 13.840589: module_put: sunrpc call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=-1
<...>-1027 [000] 13.848098: module_get: sunrpc call_site=try_module_get refcnt=0
<...>-1027 [000] 13.848308: module_get: sunrpc call_site=get_filesystem refcnt=1
<...>-1027 [000] 13.848692: module_put: sunrpc call_site=put_filesystem refcnt=0
...
modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437213: module_load: trace_events_sample F
modprobe-2587 [001] 1088.437786: module_put: trace_events_sample call_site=sys_init_module refcnt=0
Note:
- the taints flag can be 'F', 'C' and/or 'P' if mod->taints != 0
- the module refcnt is percpu, so it can be negative in a
specific cpu
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <4A891B3C.5030608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data
initialization.
Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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module.h
They're in linux/bug.h at present, which causes include order tangles. In
particular, linux/bug.h cannot be used by linux/atomic.h because,
according to Nikanth:
linux/bug.h pulls in linux/module.h => linux/spinlock.h => asm/spinlock.h
(which uses atomic_inc) => asm/atomic.h.
bug.h is a pretty low-level thing and module.h is a higher-level thing,
IMO.
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules. These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup. The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).
Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.
This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code. Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.
Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.
Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.
To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.
After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.
Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.
This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.
[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load
This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.
It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
blktrace: extract duplidate code
blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
blktrace: make classic output more classic
blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
blktrace: fix the original blktrace
blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
include/linux/memory.h
kernel/extable.c
kernel/module.c
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Impact: Expose some module.c symbols
Ksplice uses several functions from module.c in order to resolve
symbols and implement dependency handling. Calling these functions
requires holding module_mutex, so it is exported.
(This is just the module part of a bigger add-exports patch from Tim).
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: New API
kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds. Ksplice
needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly
resolve local symbols.
kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the
kallsyms table.
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: Replace and remove risky (non-EXPORTed) API
module_text_address() returns a pointer to the module, which given locking
improvements in module.c, is useless except to test for NULL:
1) If the module can't go away, use __module_text_address.
2) Otherwise, just use is_module_text_address().
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: New API, cleanup
ksplice wants to know the bounds of a module, not just the module text.
It makes sense to have __module_address. We then implement
is_module_address and __module_text_address in terms of this (and
change is_module_text_address() to bool while we're at it).
Also, add proper kerneldoc for them all.
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo
The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the
module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep
the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as
about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way
out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem.
So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline
parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably
kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module
unload.
(Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes)
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing
Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
Some changes result of this:
- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
developers.
- etc...
V2:
- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog
V3:
- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
!CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix spurious BUG_ON() triggered under load
module_refcount() isn't reliable outside stop_machine(), as demonstrated
by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>, networking can trigger it under load
(an inc on one cpu and dec on another while module_refcount() is tallying
can give false results, for example).
Almost noone should be using __module_get, but that's another issue.
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is
using a lot of memory.
Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines.
This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() &
percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage.
Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use
nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes.
On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce
size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module)
Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses
because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better
NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node,
thanks to percpu storage.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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