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2015-07-06module: relocate module_init from init.h to module.hPaul Gortmaker1-0/+84
Modular users will always be users of init functionality, but users of init functionality are not necessarily always modules. Hence any functionality like module_init and module_exit would be more at home in the module.h file. And module.h should explicitly include init.h to make the dependency clear. We've already done all the legwork needed to ensure that this move does not cause any build regressions due to implicit header file include assumptions about where module_init lives. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2015-07-01Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+41
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module lock doing that too. A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits) modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS. rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() module: add per-module param_lock module: make perm const params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes. modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'. kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks module: Rework module_addr_{min,max} module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup() module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch() ...
2015-06-28param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.Rusty Russell1-0/+2
As Dan Streetman points out, the entire point of locking for is to stop sysfs accesses, so they're elided entirely in the !SYSFS case. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-06-27Merge tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1. A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and in the firmware subsystem. Nothing really major, full details in the shortlog. Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were reverted. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits) Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources" Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error" Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface" Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication" firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger(). base/platform: Remove code duplication of/platform: Use platform_device interface base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources firmware: use const for remaining firmware names firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES driver-core: make __device_attach() static ...
2015-06-27Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace clock "monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer even faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to deal with trace events. Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their confusion with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically, "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include tracing and also helps with live kernel patching. But the trace events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the trace events should not be named "ftrace". These include: include/trace/ftrace.h -> include/trace/trace_events.h include/linux/ftrace_event.h -> include/linux/trace_events.h Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed: ftrace_print_*() -> trace_print_*() (un)register_ftrace_event() -> (un)register_trace_event() ftrace_event_name() -> trace_event_name() ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -> trace_trigger_soft_disabled() ftrace_define_fields_##call() -> trace_define_fields_##call() ftrace_get_offsets_##call() -> trace_get_offsets_##call() Structures have been renamed: ftrace_event_file -> trace_event_file ftrace_event_{call,class} -> trace_event_{call,class} ftrace_event_buffer -> trace_event_buffer ftrace_subsystem_dir -> trace_subsystem_dir ftrace_event_raw_##call -> trace_event_raw_##call ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-> trace_event_data_offset_##call ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -> trace_event_type_funcs_##call And a few various variables and flags have also been updated. This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything external to that" * tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits) ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent() ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write() ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call() tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call() tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled() tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_* tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name() tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX ...
2015-06-23module: add per-module param_lockDan Streetman1-0/+1
Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params. Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module). The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect modification of any and all kernel params. While this generally works, there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg(). If the module to be loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/* config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param. This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is not blocked by changes to other module params. All built-in modules continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them will never cause load-time param changing. This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock the global param mutex. They are replaced with direct calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex. Suggested-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-28module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACINGPeter Zijlstra1-1/+3
Andrew worried about the overhead on small systems; only use the fancy code when either perf or tracing is enabled. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-28module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-treePeter Zijlstra1-3/+26
Currently __module_address() is using a linear search through all modules in order to find the module corresponding to the provided address. With a lot of modules this can take a lot of time. One of the users of this is kernel_text_address() which is employed in many stack unwinders; which in turn are used by perf-callchain and ftrace (possibly from NMI context). So by optimizing __module_address() we optimize many stack unwinders which are used by both perf and tracing in performance sensitive code. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-28module: Sanitize RCU usage and lockingPeter Zijlstra1-2/+10
Currently the RCU usage in module is an inconsistent mess of RCU and RCU-sched, this is broken for CONFIG_PREEMPT where synchronize_rcu() does not imply synchronize_sched(). Most usage sites use preempt_{dis,en}able() which is RCU-sched, but (most of) the modification sites use synchronize_rcu(). With the exception of the module bug list, which actually uses RCU. Convert everything over to RCU-sched. Furthermore add lockdep asserts to all sites, because it's not at all clear to me the required locking is observed, esp. on exported functions. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-24driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULESDmitry Torokhov1-0/+11
Commit f2411da74698 ("driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe support") broke build in case modules are disabled, because in this case "struct module" is not defined and we can't dereference it. Let's define module_requested_async_probing() helper and stub it out if modules are disabled. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-20driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe supportLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+2
Some init systems may wish to express the desire to have device drivers run their probe() code asynchronously. This implements support for this and allows userspace to request async probe as a preference through a generic shared device driver module parameter, async_probe. Implementation for async probe is supported through a module parameter given that since synchronous probe has been prevalent for years some userspace might exist which relies on the fact that the device driver will probe synchronously and the assumption that devices it provides will be immediately available after this. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-13tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class}Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-04-23crypto: api - Move module sig ifdef into accessor functionHerbert Xu1-0/+12
Currently we're hiding mod->sig_ok under an ifdef in open code. This patch adds a module_sig_ok accessor function and removes that ifdef. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-04-14Merge tag 'trace-v4.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints. Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called __print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be displayed as a a human comprehensible text. What is placed in the TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that user space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data and express the values too. Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT() macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty much exactly as is. The problem arises when enums are used. That's because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values by the C pre-processor. Thus, the enum string is exported to the format file, and this makes it useless for user space tools. The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings in the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is shown to user space. For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently has this in its format file: __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" }, { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" }) After adding: TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN); Its format file will contain this: __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { 0, "flush on task switch" }, { 1, "remote shootdown" }, { 2, "local shootdown" }, { 3, "local mm shootdown" })" * tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits) tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped writeback: Export enums used by tracepoint to user space v4l: Export enums used by tracepoints to user space SUNRPC: Export enums in tracepoints to user space mm: tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space irq/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space f2fs: Export the enums in the tracepoints to userspace net/9p/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to userspace x86/tlb/trace: Export enums in used by tlb_flush tracepoint tracing/samples: Update the trace-event-sample.h with TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values tracing: Update trace-event-sample with TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR documentation tracing: Give system name a pointer brcmsmac: Move each system tracepoints to their own header iwlwifi: Move each system tracepoints to their own header mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to xhci-hcd tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to kvm-s390 tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to intel-sst ...
2015-04-08tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to valuesSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+2
Update the infrastructure such that modules that declare TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() will have those enums converted into their values in the tracepoint print fmt strings. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vbhjp74q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching Pull livepatching fix from Jiri Kosina: - fix for potential race with module loading, from Petr Mladek. The race is very unlikely to be seen in real world and has been found by code inspection, but should be fixed for 4.0 anyway. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules
2015-03-17livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modulesPetr Mladek1-0/+4
There is a notifier that handles live patches for coming and going modules. It takes klp_mutex lock to avoid races with coming and going patches but it does not keep the lock all the time. Therefore the following races are possible: 1. The notifier is called sometime in STATE_MODULE_COMING. The module is visible by find_module() in this state all the time. It means that new patch can be registered and enabled even before the notifier is called. It might create wrong order of stacked patches, see below for an example. 2. New patch could still see the module in the GOING state even after the notifier has been called. It will try to initialize the related object structures but the module could disappear at any time. There will stay mess in the structures. It might even cause an invalid memory access. This patch solves the problem by adding a boolean variable into struct module. The value is true after the coming and before the going handler is called. New patches need to be applied when the value is true and they need to ignore the module when the value is false. Note that we need to know state of all modules on the system. The races are related to new patches. Therefore we do not know what modules will get patched. Also note that we could not simply ignore going modules. The code from the module could be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit() finishes. If we start supporting patches with semantic changes between function calls, we need to apply new patches to any still usable code. See below for an example. Finally note that the patch solves only the situation when a new patch is registered. There are no such problems when the patch is being removed. It does not matter who disable the patch first, whether the normal disable_patch() or the module notifier. There is nothing to do once the patch is disabled. Alternative solutions: ====================== + reject new patches when a patched module is coming or going; this is ugly + wait with adding new patch until the module leaves the COMING and GOING states; this might be dangerous and complicated; we would need to release kgr_lock in the middle of the patch registration to avoid a deadlock with the coming and going handlers; also we might need a waitqueue for each module which seems to be even bigger overhead than the boolean + stop modules from entering COMING and GOING states; wait until modules leave these states when they are already there; looks complicated; we would need to ignore the module that asked to stop the others to avoid a deadlock; also it is unclear what to do when two modules asked to stop others and both are in COMING state (situation when two new patches are applied) + always register/enable new patches and fix up the potential mess (registered patches order) in klp_module_init(); this is nasty and prone to regressions in the future development + add another MODULE_STATE where the kallsyms are visible but the module is not used yet; this looks too complex; the module states are checked on "many" locations Example of patch stacking breakage: =================================== The notifier could _not_ _simply_ ignore already initialized module objects. For example, let's have three patches (P1, P2, P3) for functions a() and b() where a() is from vmcore and b() is from a module M. Something like: a() b() P1 a1() b1() P2 a2() b2() P3 a3() b3(3) If you load the module M after all patches are registered and enabled. The ftrace ops for function a() and b() has listed the functions in this order: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1) ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3,b2,b1) , so the pointer to b3() is the first and will be used. Then you might have the following scenario. Let's start with state when patches P1 and P2 are registered and enabled but the module M is not loaded. Then ftrace ops for b() does not exist. Then we get into the following race: CPU0 CPU1 load_module(M) complete_formation() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch(P3); klp_enable_patch(P3); # STATE 1 klp_module_notify(M) klp_module_notify_coming(P1); klp_module_notify_coming(P2); klp_module_notify_coming(P3); # STATE 2 The ftrace ops for a() and b() then looks: STATE1: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3); STATE2: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b2,b1,b3); therefore, b2() is used for the module but a3() is used for vmcore because they were the last added. Example of the race with going modules: ======================================= CPU0 CPU1 delete_module() #SYSCALL try_stop_module() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch() klp_enable_patch() #save place to switch universe b() # from module that is going a() # from core (patched) mod->exit(); Note that the function b() can be called until we call mod->exit(). If we do not apply patch against b() because it is in MODULE_STATE_GOING, it will call patched a() with modified semantic and things might get wrong. [jpoimboe@redhat.com: use one boolean instead of two] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-14module: fix types of device tables aliasesAndrey Ryabinin1-1/+1
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro used to create aliases to device tables. Normally alias should have the same type as aliased symbol. Device tables are arrays, so they have 'struct type##_device_id[x]' types. Alias created by MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() will have non-array type - 'struct type##_device_id'. This inconsistency confuses compiler, it could make a wrong assumption about variable's size which leads KASan to produce a false positive report about out of bounds access. For every global variable compiler calls __asan_register_globals() passing information about global variable (address, size, size with redzone, name ...) __asan_register_globals() poison symbols redzone to detect possible out of bounds accesses. When symbol has an alias __asan_register_globals() will be called as for symbol so for alias. Compiler determines size of variable by size of variable's type. Alias and symbol have the same address, so if alias have the wrong size part of memory that actually belongs to the symbol could be poisoned as redzone of alias symbol. By fixing type of alias symbol we will fix size of it, so __asan_register_globals() will not poison valid memory. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-22module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.Rusty Russell1-1/+1
James Bottomley points out that it will be -1 during unload. It's only used for diagnostics, so let's not hide that as it could be a clue as to what's gone wrong. Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-and-documention-added-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <maasami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-11-11module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcntMasami Hiramatsu1-15/+1
Replace module_ref per-cpu complex reference counter with an atomic_t simple refcnt. This is for code simplification. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-07-27module: return bool from within_module*()Petr Mladek1-3/+5
The within_module*() functions return only true or false. Let's use bool as the return type. Note that it should not change kABI because these are inline functions. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-07-27module: add within_module() functionPetr Mladek1-0/+5
It is just a small optimization that allows to replace few occurrences of within_module_init() || within_module_core() with a single call. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-06Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont
2014-03-13module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLERusty Russell1-11/+8
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() calles MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE(); make it do the work directly. This also removes a wart introduced in the last patch, where the alias is defined to be an unknown struct type "struct type##__##name##_device_id" instead of "struct type##_device_id" (it's an extern so GCC doesn't care, but it's wrong). The other user of MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE (ISAPNP_CARD_TABLE) is unused, so delete it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-13module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per moduleTom Gundersen1-1/+1
Commit 78551277e4df5: "Input: i8042 - add PNP modaliases" had a bug, where the second call to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() overrode the first resulting in not all the modaliases being exposed. This fixes the problem by including the name of the device_id table in the __mod_*_device_table alias, allowing us to export several device_id tables per module. Suggested-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-07tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.hSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
There's nothing in the module.h header that requires tracepoint.h to be included, and there may be cases that tracepoint.h may need to include module.h, which will cause recursive header issues. But module.h requires seeing HAVE_JUMP_LABEL which is set in jump_label.h which it just coincidentally gets from tracepoint.h. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140307084712.5c68641a@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-01-16module: fix coding styleSeunghun Lee1-31/+31
Fix coding style of module.h Signed-off-by: Seunghun Lee <waydi1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-12-04module.h: Remove unnecessary semicolonJoe Perches1-1/+1
[All 8 callers already have semicolons. -- RR] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-09-23module: remove rmmod --wait option.Rusty Russell1-3/+0
The option to wait for a module reference count to reach zero was in the initial module implementation, but it was never supported in modprobe (you had to use rmmod --wait). After discussion with Lucas, It has been deprecated (with a 10 second sleep) in kmod for the last year. This finally removes it: the flag will evoke a printk warning and a normal (non-blocking) remove attempt. Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-09-03module: Fix mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too earlyLi Zhong1-0/+1
DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE helps to find the issue attached below. After some investigation, it seems the reason is: The mod->mkobj.kobj(ffffffffa01600d0 below) is freed together with mod itself in free_module(). However, its children still hold references to it, as the delay caused by DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE. So when the child(holders below) tries to decrease the reference count to its parent in kobject_del(), BUG happens as it tries to access already freed memory. This patch tries to fix it by waiting for the mod->mkobj.kobj to be really released in the module removing process (and some error code paths). [ 1844.175287] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed) [ 1844.178991] kobject: 'notes' (ffff8800370b2a00): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed) [ 1845.180118] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_cleanup, parent ffffffffa01600d0 [ 1845.182130] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): auto cleanup kobject_del [ 1845.184120] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa01601d0 [ 1845.185026] IP: [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] PGD 1a13067 PUD 1a14063 PMD 7bd30067 PTE 0 [ 1845.185026] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT [ 1845.185026] Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c [last unloaded: kprobe_example] [ 1845.185026] CPU: 0 PID: 18 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G O 3.11.0-rc6-next-20130819+ #1 [ 1845.185026] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007 [ 1845.185026] Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup [ 1845.185026] task: ffff88007ca51f00 ti: ffff88007ca5c000 task.ti: ffff88007ca5c000 [ 1845.185026] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812cda81>] [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] RSP: 0018:ffff88007ca5dd08 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 1845.185026] RAX: 0000000000002000 RBX: ffffffffa01600d0 RCX: ffffffff8177d638 [ 1845.185026] RDX: ffff88007ca5dc18 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffa01600d0 [ 1845.185026] RBP: ffff88007ca5dd18 R08: ffffffff824e9810 R09: ffffffffffffffff [ 1845.185026] R10: ffff8800ffffffff R11: dead4ead00000001 R12: ffffffff81a95040 [ 1845.185026] R13: ffff88007b27a960 R14: ffff88007c1f1600 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff81a23000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0 CR3: 0000000037207000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 1845.185026] Stack: [ 1845.185026] ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007ca5dd38 ffffffff812cdb7e [ 1845.185026] 0000000000000000 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ca5dd68 ffffffff812cdbfe [ 1845.185026] ffff88007c974800 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ff61a00 0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] Call Trace: [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff812cdb7e>] kobject_del+0x2e/0x40 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff812cdbfe>] kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x6e/0x1d0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff81063a45>] process_one_work+0x1e5/0x670 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810639e3>] ? process_one_work+0x183/0x670 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810642b3>] worker_thread+0x113/0x370 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810641a0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x290/0x290 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bfba>] kthread+0xda/0xe0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff814ff0f0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8150751a>] ret_from_fork+0x7a/0xb0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130 [ 1845.185026] Code: 81 48 c7 c7 28 95 ad 81 31 c0 e8 9b da 01 00 e9 4f ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 1d <f6> 87 00 01 00 00 01 74 1e 48 8d 7b 38 83 6b 38 01 0f 94 c0 84 [ 1845.185026] RIP [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] RSP <ffff88007ca5dd08> [ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0 [ 1845.185026] ---[ end trace 49a70afd109f5653 ]--- Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-08-20modules: add support for soft module dependenciesAndreas Robinson1-0/+5
Additional and optional dependencies not found while building the kernel and modules, can now be declared explicitly. Signed-off-by: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-15CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.Rusty Russell1-2/+2
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to do so. Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set: 1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym) 3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7) 5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym) 6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version for pasting. (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too). Let's solve this properly: 1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm. 3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(). 4) Make everyone use them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2013-01-21module: constify within_module_*Sasha Levin1-2/+2
These helper functions just check a set intersection with a range, and don't actually modify struct module. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-12module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.Rusty Russell1-5/+5
You should never look at such a module, so it's excised from all paths which traverse the modules list. We add the state at the end, to avoid gratuitous ABI break (ksplice). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-10module: signature checking hookRusty Russell1-0/+8
We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module (which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway). There's both a config option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key. If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the key. (Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26module: move __module_get and try_module_get() out of line.Steven Rostedt1-28/+4
With the preempt, tracepoint and everything, it's getting a bit chubby. For an Ubuntu-based config: Before: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56199906 3870760 1606616 61677282 3ad1ee2 (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8509342 850368 3358720 12718430 c2115e vmlinux After: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56183760 3867892 1606616 61658268 3acd49c (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8501842 849088 3358720 12709650 c1ef12 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (made all out-of-line)
2012-01-13module: struct module_ref should contains long fieldsEric Dumazet1-5/+16
module_ref contains two "unsigned int" fields. Thats now too small, since some machines can open more than 2^32 files. Check commit 518de9b39e8 (fs: allow for more than 2^31 files) for reference. We can add an aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) attribute to force alloc_percpu() allocating module_ref areas in single cache lines. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-10-31module.h: relocate MODULE_PARM_DESC into moduleparam.hPaul Gortmaker1-5/+0
There are files which use module_param and MODULE_PARM_DESC back to back. They only include moduleparam.h which makes sense, but the implicit presence of module.h everywhere hid the fact that MODULE_PARM_DESC wasn't in moduleparam.h at all. Relocate the macro to moduleparam.h so that the moduleparam infrastructure can be used independently of module.h Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31module.h: split out the EXPORT_SYMBOL into export.hPaul Gortmaker1-67/+1
A lot of files pull in module.h when all they are really looking for is the basic EXPORT_SYMBOL functionality. The recent data from Ingo[1] shows that this is one of several instances that has a significant impact on compile times, and it should be targeted for factoring out (as done here). Note that several commonly used header files in include/* directly include <linux/module.h> themselves (some 34 of them!) The most commonly used ones of these will have to be made independent of module.h before the full benefit of this change can be realized. We also transition THIS_MODULE from module.h to export.h, since there are lots of files with subsystem structs that in turn will have a struct module *owner and only be doing: .owner = THIS_MODULE; and absolutely nothing else modular. So, we also want to have the THIS_MODULE definition present in the lightweight header. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/76 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-08-11Tracepoint: Dissociate from module mutexMathieu Desnoyers1-12/+0
Copy the information needed from struct module into a local module list held within tracepoint.c from within the module coming/going notifier. This vastly simplifies locking of tracepoint registration / unregistration, because we don't have to take the module mutex to register and unregister tracepoints anymore. Steven Rostedt ran into dependency problems related to modules mutex vs kprobes mutex vs ftrace mutex vs tracepoint mutex that seems to be hard to fix without removing this dependency between tracepoint and module mutex. (note: it should be investigated whether kprobes could benefit of being dissociated from the modules mutex too.) This also fixes module handling of tracepoint list iterators, because it was expecting the list to be sorted by pointer address. Given we have control on our own list now, it's OK to sort this list which has tracepoints as its only purpose. The reason why this sorting is required is to handle the fact that seq files (and any read() operation from user-space) cannot hold the tracepoint mutex across multiple calls, so list entries may vanish between calls. With sorting, the tracepoint iterator becomes usable even if the list don't contain the exact item pointed to by the iterator anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110810191839.GC8525@Krystal Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-24module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent filesKay Sievers1-0/+1
Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules. This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for built-in ones. To allow access to the built-in modules we need to re-trigger all module load events that happened before any userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers. This adds the currently missing /sys/module/<name>/uevent files to all module entries. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split & trivial fix)
2011-07-24module: change attr callbacks to take struct module_kobjectKay Sievers1-11/+12
This simplifies the next patch, where we have an attribute on a builtin module (ie. module == NULL). Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split into 2)
2011-05-19module: Sort exported symbolsAlessio Igor Bogani1-2/+2
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>
2011-05-19module: each_symbol_section instead of each_symbolRusty Russell1-2/+3
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>
2011-05-19module: remove 64 bit alignment padding from struct module with CONFIG_TRACE*Richard Kennedy1-6/+7
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>
2011-05-19module: do not hide __modver_version_show declaration behind ifdefDmitry Torokhov1-2/+3
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>
2011-05-19module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versionsDmitry Torokhov1-5/+5
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>
2011-02-22module: explicitly align module_version_attribute structureDmitry Torokhov1-1/+1
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>
2011-02-03tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers1-1/+1
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>
2011-02-03tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt1-1/+1
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>