linux/kernel, branch v2.6.24

lockdep: fix kernel crash on module unload

2008-01-24T16:01:09Z

Michael Wu noticed in his lkml post at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119396182726091&w=2 that certain wireless drivers ended up having their name in module memory, which would then crash the kernel on module unload. The patch he proposed was a bit clumsy in that it increased the size of a lockdep entry significantly; the patch below tries another approach, it checks, on module teardown, if the name of a class is in module space and then zaps the class. This is very similar to what we already do with keys that are in module space. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched

2008-01-22T17:18:45Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix

rcu: fix section mismatch

2008-01-22T17:17:48Z

rcu_online_cpu() should be __cpuinit instead of __devinit. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4b6d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix

2008-01-22T10:24:58Z

setting cpu share to 1 causes hangs, as reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779 as the default share is 1024, the values of 0 and 1 can indeed cause problems. Limit it to 2 or higher values. These values can only be set by the root user - but still it makes sense to protect against nonsensical values. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

timer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-22T03:39:41Z

The caller is __cpuinit. Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4252f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hrtimer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-22T03:39:41Z

Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock') Noticed by Johannes Berg and confirmed by Sam Ravnborg. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c

2008-01-17T23:38:59Z

call_usermodehelper_exec() has an exit path that can leave the helper_lock() call at the top of the routine unbalanced. The attached patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lockdep: fix workqueue creation API lockdep interaction

2008-01-16T08:51:58Z

Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep. Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic. This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra

lockdep: fix internal double unlock during self-test

2008-01-16T08:51:58Z

Lockdep, during self-test (when it was simulating double unlocks) was sometimes unconditionally unlocking a spinlock when it had not been locked. This won't work for ticket locks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra

modules: de-mutex more symbol lookup paths in the module code

2008-01-14T16:52:22Z

Kyle McMartin reports sysrq_timer_list_show() can hit the module mutex from hard interrupt context. These paths don't need to though, since we long ago changed all the module list manipulation to occur via stop_machine(). Disabling preemption is enough. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds