kernel_optimize_test/kernel
Andi Kleen be27425dcc Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:17:28 -07:00
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debug Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb 2011-08-01 13:39:40 -10:00
events perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check 2011-07-21 20:41:55 +02:00
gcov gcov: disable CONSTRUCTORS for UML 2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
irq Revert "irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified" 2011-08-23 10:36:51 -07:00
power PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset 2011-08-14 13:34:31 +02:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-22 16:52:18 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c async: Fixed an include coding style issue 2011-06-14 22:48:46 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit_tree,rcu: Convert call_rcu(__put_tree) to kfree_rcu() 2011-07-20 14:10:11 -07:00
audit_watch.c
audit.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks 2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 2011-07-27 19:26:38 -07:00
compat.c Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-07-30 00:08:53 -07:00
configs.c kernel/configs.c: include MODULE_*() when CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=n 2011-07-25 20:57:15 -07:00
cpu.c
cpuset.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() 2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
delayacct.c KVM: Steal time implementation 2011-07-14 12:59:14 +03:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl 2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() 2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent 2011-08-04 09:09:27 +02:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c hrtimers: Fix typo causing erratic timers 2011-05-25 15:31:58 -07:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Fix jump_label update for modules 2011-06-29 09:59:17 -04:00
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt sched: Isolate preempt counting in its own config option 2011-06-10 15:15:40 +02:00
kexec.c treewide: Convert uses of struct resource to resource_size(ptr) 2011-06-10 14:55:36 +02:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c Boot up with usermodehelper disabled 2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist 2011-07-15 15:11:47 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed 2011-05-28 17:02:57 +02:00
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock 2011-08-09 11:57:35 +02:00
Makefile jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order 2011-08-05 23:57:33 +02:00
module.c module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent files 2011-07-24 22:06:04 +09:30
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c lockdep, mutex: provide mutex_lock_nest_lock 2011-05-25 08:39:17 -07:00
mutex.h
notifier.c notifiers: sys: move reboot notifiers into reboot.h 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
nsproxy.c make sure that nsproxy_cache is initialized early enough 2011-07-20 01:44:07 -04:00
padata.c
panic.c panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot 2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
params.c module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent files 2011-07-24 22:06:04 +09:30
pid_namespace.c
pid.c rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check 2011-07-08 22:21:58 +02:00
pm_qos_params.c plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads 2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c posix-timers: RCU conversion 2011-05-24 12:10:51 +02:00
printk.c cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning 2011-08-09 18:22:22 -07:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: remove some duplicate code from profile_hits() 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
ptrace.c connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers 2011-07-18 21:38:33 +02:00
range.c
rcupdate.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcutiny.c
rcutorture.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rcutree_plugin.h softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity 2011-07-20 10:50:12 -07:00
rcutree_trace.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rcutree.c rcu: Prevent RCU callbacks from executing before scheduler initialized 2011-07-13 08:17:56 -07:00
rcutree.h rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file 2011-06-16 16:12:05 -07:00
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c resources: Add lookup_resource() 2011-07-30 21:21:39 +02:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads 2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
sched_autogroup.c
sched_autogroup.h sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groups 2011-07-01 10:39:08 +02:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: Cleanup duplicate local variable in [enqueue|dequeue]_task_fair 2011-07-22 12:47:22 +02:00
sched_features.h Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2011-07-24 09:07:03 -07:00
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groups 2011-07-01 10:39:08 +02:00
sched_stats.h sched: More sched_domain iterations fixes 2011-05-28 17:02:54 +02:00
sched_stoptask.c
sched.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: sys_ssetmask/sys_rt_sigsuspend should use set_current_blocked() 2011-07-27 12:53:36 -07:00
smp.c generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts 2011-06-17 10:17:12 +02:00
softirq.c softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity 2011-07-20 10:50:12 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c stack_trace: Add weak save_stack_trace_regs() 2011-06-14 22:48:52 -04:00
stop_machine.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sys.c Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers 2011-08-25 10:17:28 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c xfs: remove subdirectories 2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00
sysctl_check.c xfs: remove subdirectories 2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00
sysctl.c sysctl,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_head) to kfree 2011-07-20 14:10:18 -07:00
taskstats.c taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listeners 2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c timers: Consider slack value in mod_timer() 2011-06-03 15:02:32 +02:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
watchdog.c perf, x86: P4 PMU - Introduce event alias feature 2011-07-14 17:25:04 -04:00
workqueue_sched.h
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2011-07-22 15:07:15 -07:00