linux/kernel/module.c, branch v2.6.37

tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk()

2010-11-11T03:19:24Z

On use of trace_printk() there's a macro that determines if the format is static or a variable. If it is static, it defaults to __trace_bprintk() otherwise it uses __trace_printk(). A while ago, Lai Jiangshan added __trace_bprintk(). In that patch, we discussed a way to allow modules to use it. The difference between __trace_bprintk() and __trace_printk() is that for faster processing, just the format and args are stored in the trace instead of running it through a sprintf function. In order to do this, the format used by the __trace_bprintk() had to be persistent. See commit 1ba28e02a18cbdbea123836f6c98efb09cbf59ec The problem comes with trace_bprintk() where the module is unloaded. The pointer left in the buffer is still pointing to the format. To solve this issue, the formats in the module were copied into kernel core. If the same format was used, they would use the same copy (to prevent memory leak). This all worked well until we tried to merge everything. At the time this was written, Lai Jiangshan, Frederic Weisbecker, Ingo Molnar and myself were all touching the same code. When this was merged, we lost the part of it that was in module.c. This kept out the copying of the formats and unloading the module could cause bad pointers left in the ring buffer. This patch adds back (with updates required for current kernel) the module code that sets up the necessary pointers. Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

(trivial) Fix compiler warning in kernel/modules.c

2010-10-27T10:03:05Z

Building with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n gives following warning: /mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c: In function ‘post_relocation’: /mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2534:2: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘add_kallsyms’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type /mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2038:13: note: expected ‘struct load_info *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct load_info *’ Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into perf/core

2010-10-08T08:46:27Z

Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/module.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race

2010-10-05T18:29:27Z

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 Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

jump label: Base patch for jump label

2010-09-22T20:29:41Z

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 Signed-off-by: Jason Baron LKML-Reference: [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

module: cleanup comments, remove noinline

2010-08-05T03:29:13Z

On my (32-bit x86) machine, sys_init_module() uses 124 bytes of stack once load_module() is inlined. This effectively reverts ffb4ba76 which inlined it due to stack pressure. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: group post-relocation functions into post_relocation()

2010-08-05T03:29:13Z

This simply hoists more code out of load_module; we also put the identification of the extable and dynamic debug table in with the others in find_module_sections(). We move the taint check to the actual add/remove of the dynamic debug info: this is certain (find_module_sections is too early). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Yehuda Sadeh

module: move module args strndup_user to just before use

2010-08-05T03:29:12Z

Instead of copying and allocating the args and storing it in load_info, we can just allocate them right before we need them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: pass load_info into other functions

2010-08-05T03:29:10Z

Pass the struct load_info into all the other functions in module loading. This neatens things and makes them more consistent. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: fix sysfs cleanup for !CONFIG_SYSFS

2010-08-05T03:29:10Z

Restore the stub module_remove_modinfo_attrs, remove the now-unused !CONFIG_SYSFS module_sysfs_init. Also, rename mod_kobject_remove() to mod_sysfs_teardown() as it is the logical counterpart to mod_sysfs_setup now. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell