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  1. Dec 11, 2009
  3. Nov 26, 2009
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      tracing: Fix kmem event exports · 4d795fb1
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
Commit 53d0422c ("tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENT")
moved the kmem tracepoint creation from util.c to page_alloc.c,
but forgot to move the exports.

Move them back.

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4d795fb1
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENT · 53d0422c
      Li Zefan authored 
      
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 333987   69800   27228  431015   693a7 mm/built-in.o.old
 330030   69800   27228  427058   68432 mm/built-in.o

8 events are converted:

  kmem_alloc: kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc
  kmem_alloc_node: kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node
  kmem_free: kfree, kmem_cache_free
  mm_page: mm_page_alloc_zone_locked, mm_page_pcpu_drain

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      53d0422c
  5. Jun 17, 2009
  7. Jun 01, 2009
  9. Apr 15, 2009
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events · ad8d75ff
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ad8d75ff
  11. Apr 14, 2009
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: create automated trace defines · a8d154b0
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.

This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/mytrace.h>

This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.

Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/foo.h>
 #include <trace/bar.h>
 #include <trace/fido.h>

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.

This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      a8d154b0
    • Andy Grover's avatar
      mm: document get_user_pages_fast() · 9de100d0
      Andy Grover authored 
      
While better than get_user_pages(), the usage of gupf(), especially the
return values and the fact that it can potentially only partially pin the
range, warranted some documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9de100d0
  13. Apr 03, 2009
  15. Apr 01, 2009
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      memdup_user(): introduce · 610a77e0
      Li Zefan authored 
      
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows
kmalloc():

        dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!dst)
                return -ENOMEM;
        if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) {
		kfree(dst);
		return -EFAULT
	}

memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code.  With this new function, we
don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes.  It
also produces smaller code and kernel text.

A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used.  I'll
prepare a patchset to do this conversion.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      610a77e0
  17. Feb 21, 2009
  19. Aug 12, 2008
  21. Jul 27, 2008
  23. Jul 26, 2008
  25. Nov 15, 2007
  27. Oct 16, 2007
  29. Jul 18, 2007
    • Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
      add kstrndup · 1e66df3e
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored 
      
Add a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup.  Like strndup this
returns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies
no more than the specified number of bytes from the source.

Remove private strndup() from irda code.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
      1e66df3e
  31. Jul 17, 2007
  33. Oct 04, 2006
  35. Oct 01, 2006
    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      [PATCH] kmemdup: introduce · 1a2f67b4
      Alexey Dobriyan authored 
      
One of idiomatic ways to duplicate a region of memory is

	dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!dst)
		return -ENOMEM;
	memcpy(dst, src, len);

which is neat code except a programmer needs to write size twice.  Which
sometimes leads to mistakes.  If len passed to kmalloc is smaller that len
passed to memcpy, it's straight overwrite-beyond-end.  If len passed to
memcpy is smaller than len passed to kmalloc, it's either a) legit
behaviour ;-), or b) cloned buffer will contain garbage in second half.

Slight trolling of commit lists shows several duplications bugs
done exactly because of diverged lenghts:

	Linux:
		[CRYPTO]: Fix memcpy/memset args.
		[PATCH] memcpy/memset fixes
	OpenBSD:
		kerberosV/src/lib/asn1: der_copy.c:1.4

If programmer is given only one place to play with lengths, I believe, such
mistakes could be avoided.

With kmemdup, the snippet above will be rewritten as:

	dst = kmemdup(src, len, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!dst)
		return -ENOMEM;

This also leads to smaller code (kzalloc effect). Quick grep shows
200+ places where kmemdup() can be used.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1a2f67b4
  37. Mar 25, 2006
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls · 40c07ae8
      Pekka Enberg authored 
      
As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a
compile-time constant size.  Please note that the patch increases kernel
text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86).

Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      40c07ae8
    • Al Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators · 871751e2
      Al Viro authored 
      
Implement /proc/slab_allocators.   It produces output like:

idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e
buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75
mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42
mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370
vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370
vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3
vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e
vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2
vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142
vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214
fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133
fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3
files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf
signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3
sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3
sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8
anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3
size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145
size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302
size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302
size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4

Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
DESC
slab-leaks3-locking-fix
EDESC
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      871751e2
  39. Mar 24, 2006
  41. Jan 09, 2006