linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/module.c, branch linux-3.7.y

s390/vmalloc: have separate modules area

2012-10-09T12:17:01+00:00

Add a special module area on top of the vmalloc area, which may be only
used for modules and bpf jit generated code.
This makes sure that inter module branches will always happen without a
trampoline and in addition having all the code within a 2GB frame is
branch prediction unit friendly.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

2012-07-20T09:15:04+00:00

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

modules: make arch's use default loader hooks

2011-07-24T12:36:04+00:00

This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race

2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00

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

[S390] kprobes: add parameter check to module_free()

2010-06-08T16:58:23+00:00

When unregistering kprobes, kprobes calls module_free() and
always passes NULL for the mod parameter.  Add a check to
prevent NULL pointer dereferences.

See commit 740a8de0796dd12890b3c8ddcfabfcb528b78d40 for more details.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] module: fix memory leak in s390 module loader

2009-10-06T08:35:06+00:00

The s390 version of module_frob_arch_sections allocates additional
syminfos for got and plt offsets. These syminfos are freed on
sucessful module load. If the module fails to load (e.g. missing
dependency when using insmod instead of modprobe) this area is not
freed.
This patch lets module_free free this area. Please note, we have to
set the pointer to NULL since module_free is called several times
from the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries.

2009-06-12T12:17:05+00:00

Everyone cut and paste this comment from my original one.  We now do
it generically, so cut the comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Amerigo Wang

[S390] module function call optimization

2009-03-26T14:24:24+00:00

Avoid the detour over the PLT if the branch target of a function call
in a module is in the range of the bras (16-bit) or brasl (32-bit)
instruction. The PLT is still generated but it is unused.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Use generic bug.

2007-04-27T14:01:42+00:00

Generic bug implementation for s390. Will increase the value of the
console output on BUG() statements since registers r0-r5,r14 will
not be clobbered by a printk() call that was previously done before
the illegal instruction of BUG() was hit.
Also implements an architecture specific WARN_ON(). Output of that
could be increased but requires common code change.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[S390] Avoid excessive inlining.

2007-02-05T20:18:53+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky