linux/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, branch v2.6.30

Remove unused support code for refok sections.

2009-04-28T02:51:58Z

The old refok sections .text.init.refok .data.init.refok .exit.text.refok have been deprecated since commit 312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8. After the other patches in this patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up by eliminating all the remaining references to them. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add new HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro.

2009-04-26T16:20:38Z

This patch is preparation for replacing all uses of ".head.text" or ".text.head" in the kernel with macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having to touch a lot of the kernel. Since some linker scripts do more complex things than referencing HEAD_TEXT, we add a HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro that just contains the actual name. I've defined HEAD_TEXT_SECTION in a new header, include/linux/section-names.h, so that this section name only needs to appear in one place. I anticipate creating similar macro structures for a number of other section names. The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names of the form ".text.foo". Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus

2009-04-01T22:49:02Z

Conflicts: include/linux/slub_def.h lib/Kconfig.debug mm/slob.c mm/slub.c

Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2

2009-03-27T16:28:43Z

Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk

2009-03-24T23:38:26Z

This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'. The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface, (an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function, file, module, format string, and line number. for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack': echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control to disable them: echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancements

2009-03-13T15:57:42Z

Impact: new feature This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing engines can use it. (They just have to play with {start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks unless they want to override them.) The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal some metadata informations: - syscall name, param types, param names, number of params The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition because we don't know if its prototype is available in the namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its metadata struct. The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branches 'tracing/doc', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/printk' and 'linus' into tracing/core

2009-03-10T08:56:25Z

tracing: trace_printk() fix, move format array to data section

2009-03-09T09:11:08Z

Impact: fix kernel crash when using trace_printk() trace_printk_fmt section is defined into the readonly section. But we do: trace_printk_fmt = fmt; to fill in that table of format strings - which is not read-only. Under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y this crashes ... Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branches 'tracing/doc', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/printk' and 'tracing/textedit' into tracing/core

2009-03-08T15:48:51Z

tracing: add trace_bprintk()

2009-03-06T16:59:11Z

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 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar