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* [PATCH] pause_on_oops command line optionAndrew Morton2006-03-231-16/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs. If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option. It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed. The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that architectures other than x86 will find it useful. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] make bug messages more consistentIngo Molnar2006-03-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Consolidate all kernel bug printouts to begin with the "BUG: " string. Makes it easier to find them in large bootup logs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: actively synchronize vmalloc area when registering certain ↵Jan Beulich2006-03-231-57/+116
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | callbacks Registering a callback handler through register_die_notifier() is obviously primarily intended for use by modules. However, the way these currently get called it is basically impossible for them to actually be used by modules, as there is, on non-PAE configurationes, a good chance (the larger the module, the better) for the system to crash as a result. This is because the callback gets invoked (a) in the page fault path before the top level page table propagation gets carried out (hence a fault to propagate the top level page table entry/entries mapping to module's code/data would nest infinitly) and (b) in the NMI path, where nested faults must absolutely not happen, since otherwise the IRET from the nested fault re-enables NMIs, potentially resulting in nested NMI occurences. Besides the modular aspect, similar problems would even arise for in- kernel consumers of the API if they touched ioremap()ed or vmalloc()ed memory inside their handlers. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdtZachary Amsden2005-10-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already have the CPU. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions i386 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi2005-09-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: inline asm cleanupZachary Amsden2005-09-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386 Inline asm cleanup. Use cr/dr accessor functions. Also, a potential bugfix. Also, some CR accessors really should be volatile. Reads from CR0 (numeric state may change in an exception handler), writes to CR4 (flipping CR4.TSD) and reads from CR2 (page fault) prevent instruction re-ordering. I did not add memory clobber to CR3 / CR4 / CR0 updates, as it was not there to begin with, and in no case should kernel memory be clobbered, except when doing a TLB flush, which already has memory clobber. I noticed that page invalidation does not have a memory clobber. I can't find a bug as a result, but there is definitely a potential for a bug here: #define __flush_tlb_single(addr) \ __asm__ __volatile__("invlpg %0": :"m" (*(char *) addr)) Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: compress the stack layout of do_page_fault()Ingo Molnar2005-09-051-14/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the main do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of stack used by the typical do_page_fault() invocation - resulting in a denser cache-layout. (Another minor effect is that in case of kernel crashes that come from a pagefault, we add less space to the already existing frame, giving the crash functions a slightly higher chance to do their stuff without overflowing the stack.) (The changes also result in slightly cleaner code.) argument bugfix from "Guillaume C." <guichaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] arch/i386/mm/fault.c: fix sparse warningsDomen Puncer2005-06-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: Save trap information for later analysisAlexander Nyberg2005-06-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we are faulting in kernel it is quite possible this will lead to a panic. Save trap number, cr2 (in case of page fault) and error_code in the current thread (these fields already exist for signal delivery but are not used here). This helps later kdump crash analyzing from user-space (a script has been submitted to dig this info out in gdb). Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+552
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!