<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/init/main.c, branch linux-2.6.38.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>kmemleak: Initialise kmemleak after debug_objects_mem_init()</title>
<updated>2011-06-03T01:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T15:25:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3f21d6a86ecd7a6cf28df5b3fba5b6d243dc3d54'/>
<id>3f21d6a86ecd7a6cf28df5b3fba5b6d243dc3d54</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 9b090f2da85bd0df5e1a1ecfe4120b7b50358f48 upstream.

Kmemleak frees objects via RCU and when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
is enabled, the RCU callback triggers a call to free_object() in
lib/debugobjects.c. Since kmemleak is initialised before debug objects
initialisation, it may result in a kernel panic during booting. This
patch moves the kmemleak_init() call after debug_objects_mem_init().

Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz &lt;marcin.slusarz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit 9b090f2da85bd0df5e1a1ecfe4120b7b50358f48 upstream.

Kmemleak frees objects via RCU and when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
is enabled, the RCU callback triggers a call to free_object() in
lib/debugobjects.c. Since kmemleak is initialised before debug objects
initialisation, it may result in a kernel panic during booting. This
patch moves the kmemleak_init() call after debug_objects_mem_init().

Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz &lt;marcin.slusarz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c</title>
<updated>2011-01-20T12:32:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-20T11:06:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2ce802f62ba32a7d95748ac92bf351f76affb6ff'/>
<id>2ce802f62ba32a7d95748ac92bf351f76affb6ff</id>
<content type='text'>
During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized.  During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.

lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available.  While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized.  During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.

lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available.  While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2011-01-08T00:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-08T00:58:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=23d69b09b78c4876e134f104a3814c30747c53f1'/>
<id>23d69b09b78c4876e134f104a3814c30747c53f1</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
  usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
  media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
  ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
  init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
  s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mmc: update workqueue usages
  mfd: update workqueue usages
  dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun.
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
  usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
  media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
  ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
  init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
  s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mmc: update workqueue usages
  mfd: update workqueue usages
  dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()</title>
<updated>2010-12-24T15:14:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-24T15:14:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ee4569a3a75e1a5ed53b0c4ff4d9fc456aa98ef1'/>
<id>ee4569a3a75e1a5ed53b0c4ff4d9fc456aa98ef1</id>
<content type='text'>
The call to flush_scheduled_work() in do_initcalls() is there to make
sure all works queued to system_wq by initcalls finish before the init
sections are dropped.

However, the call doesn't make much sense at this point - there
already are multiple different workqueues and different subsystems are
free to create and use their own.  Ordering requirements are and
should be expressed explicitly.

Drop the call to prepare for the deprecation and removal of
flush_scheduled_work().

Andrew suggested adding sanity check where the workqueue code checks
whether any pending or running work has the work function in the init
text section.  However, checking this for running works requires the
worker to keep track of the current function being executed, and
checking only the pending works will miss most cases.  As a violation
will almost always be caught by the usual page fault mechanism, I
don't think it would be worthwhile to make the workqueue code track
extra state just for this.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The call to flush_scheduled_work() in do_initcalls() is there to make
sure all works queued to system_wq by initcalls finish before the init
sections are dropped.

However, the call doesn't make much sense at this point - there
already are multiple different workqueues and different subsystems are
free to create and use their own.  Ordering requirements are and
should be expressed explicitly.

Drop the call to prepare for the deprecation and removal of
flush_scheduled_work().

Andrew suggested adding sanity check where the workqueue code checks
whether any pending or running work has the work function in the init
text section.  However, checking this for running works requires the
worker to keep track of the current function being executed, and
checking only the pending works will miss most cases.  As a violation
will almost always be caught by the usual page fault mechanism, I
don't think it would be worthwhile to make the workqueue code track
extra state just for this.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: Initialized IDR earlier</title>
<updated>2010-12-16T10:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T22:17:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9f58a205c62d0dad1df38d076324a89b1a0f1d65'/>
<id>9f58a205c62d0dad1df38d076324a89b1a0f1d65</id>
<content type='text'>
perf_event_init() wants to start using IDR trees, its needs in turn
are satisfied by mm_init().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.206992649@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
perf_event_init() wants to start using IDR trees, its needs in turn
are satisfied by mm_init().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.206992649@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Move perf_event_init() into main.c</title>
<updated>2010-12-16T10:36:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T22:17:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=24a24bb6ff3dc3a09bb131241be920ecc3f0e519'/>
<id>24a24bb6ff3dc3a09bb131241be920ecc3f0e519</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently we call perf_event_init() from sched_init(). In order to
make it more obvious move it to the cannnonical location.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.093629821@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently we call perf_event_init() from sched_init(). In order to
make it more obvious move it to the cannnonical location.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.093629821@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detector</title>
<updated>2010-11-26T14:14:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-25T17:38:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=004417a6d468e24399e383645c068b498eed84ad'/>
<id>004417a6d468e24399e383645c068b498eed84ad</id>
<content type='text'>
The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot,
some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall).

The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall()
and expects the hardware pmu to be present.

Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to
initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit
initcall right after that.

Cc: paulus &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: davem &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot,
some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall).

The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall()
and expects the hardware pmu to be present.

Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to
initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit
initcall right after that.

Cc: paulus &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: davem &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BKL: remove extraneous #include &lt;smp_lock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T15:26:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=451a3c24b0135bce54542009b5fde43846c7cf67'/>
<id>451a3c24b0135bce54542009b5fde43846c7cf67</id>
<content type='text'>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T17:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T17:43:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5704e44d283e907623e3775c1262f206a2c48cf3'/>
<id>5704e44d283e907623e3775c1262f206a2c48cf3</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
  dabusb: remove the BKL
  sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
  init/main.c: remove BKL notations
  blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
  rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
  dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
  dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
  tlclk: remove big kernel lock
  fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
  uml: kill big kernel lock
  parisc: remove big kernel lock
  cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
  alpha: kill big kernel lock
  isapnp: BKL removal
  s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
  hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
  dabusb: remove the BKL
  sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
  init/main.c: remove BKL notations
  blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
  rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
  dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
  dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
  tlclk: remove big kernel lock
  fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
  uml: kill big kernel lock
  parisc: remove big kernel lock
  cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
  alpha: kill big kernel lock
  isapnp: BKL removal
  s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
  hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init/main.c: remove BKL notations</title>
<updated>2010-10-19T09:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-27T07:06:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1fa4f3b57cf0c525027ea61011312de139b04f9b'/>
<id>1fa4f3b57cf0c525027ea61011312de139b04f9b</id>
<content type='text'>
According to commit 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84
(init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations
should be removed also.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
According to commit 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84
(init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations
should be removed also.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
