Move complete knowledge of namespaces into the kobject layer
so we can use that information when reporting kobjects to
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel:
One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a
reference,
Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being
initialised.
This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code.
So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (154 commits)
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: use AMD standard command-set with Winbond flash chips
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Fix MODULE_ALIAS and linkage for new 0701 commandset ID
mtd: mxc_nand: Remove duplicate NAND_CMD_RESET case value
mtd: update gfp/slab.h includes
jffs2: Stop triggering block erases from jffs2_write_super()
jffs2: Rename jffs2_erase_pending_trigger() to jffs2_dirty_trigger()
jffs2: Use jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger() to trigger pending erases
jffs2: Require jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger() to be called with lock held
jffs2: Wake GC thread when there are blocks to be erased
jffs2: Erase pending blocks in GC pass, avoid invalid -EIO return
jffs2: Add 'work_done' return value from jffs2_erase_pending_blocks()
mtd: mtdchar: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode
mtd/maps/pcmciamtd: Fix printk format for ssize_t in debug messages
drivers/mtd: Use kmemdup
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Fix argument order in bootloc warning
mtd: nand: add Toshiba TC58NVG0 device ID
pcmciamtd: add another ID
pcmciamtd: coding style cleanups
pcmciamtd: fixing obvious errors
mtd: chips: add SST39WF160x NOR-flashes
...
Trivial conflicts due to dev_node removal in drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, pat: Update the page flags for memtype atomically instead of using memtype_lock
x86, pat: In rbt_memtype_check_insert(), update new->type only if valid
x86, pat: Migrate to rbtree only backend for pat memtype management
x86, pat: Preparatory changes in pat.c for bigger rbtree change
rbtree: Add support for augmented rbtrees
* 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hweight: Use a 32-bit popcnt for __arch_hweight32()
arch, hweight: Fix compilation errors
x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
bitops: Optimize hweight() by making use of compile-time evaluation
* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build
x86, atomic64: In selftest, distinguish x86-64 from 586+
x86-32: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero test
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
x86-32: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless test
x86: Implement atomic[64]_dec_if_positive()
lib: Only test atomic64_dec_if_positive on archs having it
x86-32: Rewrite 32-bit atomic64 functions in assembly
lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
x86-32: Allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64
x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations
rcu head introduce rcu head init on stack
Debugobjects transition check
rcu: fix build bug in RCU_FAST_NO_HZ builds
rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ must check RCU dyntick state
rcu: make SRCU usable in modules
rcu: improve the RCU CPU-stall warning documentation
rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations
rcu: permit discontiguous cpu_possible_mask CPU numbering
rcu: improve RCU CPU stall-warning messages
rcu: print boot-time console messages if RCU configs out of ordinary
rcu: disable CPU stall warnings upon panic
rcu: enable CPU_STALL_VERBOSE by default
rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends
rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling
rcu: rename rcutiny rcu_ctrlblk to rcu_sched_ctrlblk
rcu: shrink rcutiny by making synchronize_rcu_bh() be inline
rcu: fix now-bogus rcu_scheduler_active comments.
rcu: Fix bogus CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING in comments to reflect reality.
rcu: ignore offline CPUs in last non-dyntick-idle CPU check
...
If there are no active threasd using a semaphore, it is always correct
to unqueue blocked threads. This seems to be what was intended in the
undo code.
What was done instead, was to look for a sem count of zero - this is an
impossible situation, given that at least one thread is known to be
queued on the semaphore. The code might be correct as written, but it's
hard to reason about and it's not what was intended (otherwise the goto
out would have been unconditional).
Go for checking the active count - the alternative is not worth the
headache.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement a basic state machine checker in the debugobjects.
This state machine checker detects races and inconsistencies within the "active"
life of a debugobject. The checker only keeps track of the current state; all
the state machine logic is kept at the object instance level.
The checker works by adding a supplementary "unsigned int astate" field to the
debug_obj structure. It keeps track of the current "active state" of the object.
The only constraints that are imposed on the states by the debugobjects system
is that:
- activation of an object sets the current active state to 0,
- deactivation of an object expects the current active state to be 0.
For the rest of the states, the state mapping is determined by the specific
object instance. Therefore, the logic keeping track of the state machine is
within the specialized instance, without any need to know about it at the
debugobject level.
The current object active state is changed by calling:
debug_object_active_state(addr, descr, expect, next)
where "expect" is the expected state and "next" is the next state to move to if
the expected state is found. A warning is generated if the expected is not
found.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
CC: niv@us.ibm.com
CC: peterz@infradead.org
CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The CPU_STALL_VERBOSE kernel configuration parameter was added to
2.6.34 to identify any preempted/blocked tasks that were preventing
the current grace period from completing when running preemptible
RCU. As is conventional for new configurations parameters, this
defaulted disabled. It is now time to enable it by default.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is no need to disable lockdep after an RCU lockdep splat,
so remove the debug_lockdeps_off() from lockdep_rcu_dereference().
To avoid repeated lockdep splats, use a static variable in the inlined
rcu_dereference_check() and rcu_dereference_protected() macros so that
a given instance splats only once, but so that multiple instances can
be detected per boot.
This is controlled by a new config variable CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY,
which is disabled by default. This provides the normal lockdep behavior
by default, but permits people who want to find multiple RCU-lockdep
splats per boot to easily do so.
Requested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add a missing EXPORT_SYMBOL.
I must be the first person that wants to use this function :-)
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes 2 issues with the LZO decompressor:
- It doesn't handle the case where a block isn't compressed at all. In
this case, calling lzo1x_decompress_safe will fail, so we need to just
use memcpy() instead (the upstream LZO code does something similar)
- Since commit 54291362d2 ("initramfs: add
missing decompressor error check") , the decompressor return code is
checked in the init/initramfs.c The LZO decompressor didn't return the
expected value, causing the initramfs code to falsely believe a
decompression error occured
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: bert schulze <spambemyguest@googlemail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
memset() is called with the wrong address and the kernel panics.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit ef0658f3de changed precision
from int to s8.
There is existing kernel code that uses a larger precision.
An example from the audit code:
vsnprintf(...,..., " msg='%.1024s'", (char *)data);
which overflows precision and truncates to nothing.
Extending precision size fixes the audit system issue.
Other changes:
Change the size of the struct printf_spec.type from u16 to u8 so
sizeof(struct printf_spec) stays as small as possible.
Reorder the struct members so sizeof(struct printf_spec) remains 64 bits
without alignment holes.
Document the struct members a bit more.
Original-patch-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
cciss: unlock on error path
cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
paride: fix off-by-one test
drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
...
radix_tree_tag_get() is not safe to use concurrently with radix_tree_tag_set()
or radix_tree_tag_clear(). The problem is that the double tag_get() in
radix_tree_tag_get():
if (!tag_get(node, tag, offset))
saw_unset_tag = 1;
if (height == 1) {
int ret = tag_get(node, tag, offset);
may see the value change due to the action of set/clear. RCU is no protection
against this as no pointers are being changed, no nodes are being replaced
according to a COW protocol - set/clear alter the node directly.
The documentation in linux/radix-tree.h, however, says that
radix_tree_tag_get() is an exception to the rule that "any function modifying
the tree or tags (...) must exclude other modifications, and exclude any
functions reading the tree".
The problem is that the next statement in radix_tree_tag_get() checks that the
tag doesn't vary over time:
BUG_ON(ret && saw_unset_tag);
This has been seen happening in FS-Cache:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2010-April/msg00013.html
To this end, remove the BUG_ON() from radix_tree_tag_get() and note in various
comments that the value of the tag may change whilst the RCU read lock is held,
and thus that the return value of radix_tree_tag_get() may not be relied upon
unless radix_tree_tag_set/clear() and radix_tree_delete() are excluded from
running concurrently with it.
Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ <romain.degez@smartjog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rwsems can be used with IRQs disabled, particularily in early boot
before IRQs are enabled. Currently the spin_unlock_irq() usage in the
slow-patch will unconditionally enable interrupts and cause problems
since interrupts are not yet initialized or enabled.
This patch uses save/restore versions of IRQ spinlocks in the slowpath
to ensure interrupts are not unintentionally disabled.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The log of commit edaac8e316 ("ratelimit:
Fix/allow use in atomic contexts"), indicates that we want to suppress the
callback when the trylock fails.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To prevent from wrongly using the return value.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Earlier in this function we set the last byte of "buf" to NULL so we
always hit the break statement and "i" is never equal to NAME_MAX_LEN.
This patch doesn't change how the driver works but it silences a Smatch
warning and it makes it clearer that we don't write past the end of the
array.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.
A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Rename the extisting runtime hweight() implementations to
__arch_hweight(), rename the compile-time versions to __const_hweight()
and then have hweight() pick between them.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100318111929.GB11152@aftab>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265028224.24455.154.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
This patch marks two functions, which only get called at
initialization, as __init.
Here is also interesting, that modpost doesn't catch here the right
function name.
WARNING: lib/built-in.o(.text+0x585f): Section mismatch in reference
from the function T.506() to the variable .init.data:obj
The function T.506() references the variable __initdata obj.
This is often because T.506 lacks a __initdata annotation or the
annotation of obj is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
LKML-Reference: <1269632315-19403-1-git-send-email-henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We see only one section mismatch now after thousands of randconfigs, and a
bug has been filed about that one.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments. The supplied
arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
sufficiently large input. That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID).
Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the
function from blk-settings.c to lib.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Add support for resource windows. This is for bridge resources, i.e.,
regions where a bridge forwards transactions from the primary to the
secondary side.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add support for bus number resources. This is for bridges with a range of
bus numbers behind them.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization
MAINTAINERS: Add Arnaldo as tools/perf/ co-maintainer
perf trace: Don't use pager if scripting
perf trace/scripting: Remove extraneous header read
perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2
x86/stacktrace: Don't dereference bad frame pointers
perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id
perf_events, x86: Fixup fixed counter constraints
perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag
perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE
perf, x86: add some IBS macros to perf_event.h
perf, x86: make IBS macros available in perf_event.h
hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback
x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field
perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union
perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency
perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
inflate_fast() can do either POST INC or PRE INC on its pointers walking
the memory to decompress. Default is PRE INC.
The sout pointer offset was miscalculated in one case as the calculation
assumed sout was a char * This breaks inflate_fast() iff configured to do
POST INC.
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 6846ee5ca6 ("zlib: Fix build of
powerpc boot wrapper") made the new optimized inflate only available on
arch's that define CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS.
This patch will again enable the optimization for all arch's by defining
our own endian independent version of unaligned access. As an added
bonus, arch's that define CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS do a
plain load instead.
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Constify struct sysfs_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.
Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime
* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime
* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed
* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.
Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime
* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime
* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed
* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This reverts commit a069c266ae.
It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it,
but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new
modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses
list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more.
So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it
compiled in. It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience
isn't worth it.
Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds separate I/O and memory specs, so we don't have to change the
field width in a shared spec, which then lets us make all the specs const
and static, since they never change.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
