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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-07-24T20:34:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-24T20:34:56+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Trivial updates all over the place as usual."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (29 commits)
  Fix typo in include/linux/clk.h .
  pci: hotplug: Fix typo in pci
  iommu: Fix typo in iommu
  video: Fix typo in drivers/video
  Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one
  arm,unicore32: Remove obsolete "select MISC_DEVICES"
  module.c: spelling s/postition/position/g
  cpufreq: Fix typo in cpufreq driver
  trivial: typo in comment in mksysmap
  mach-omap2: Fix typo in debug message and comment
  scsi: aha152x: Fix sparse warning and make printing pointer address more portable.
  Change email address for Steve Glendinning
  Btrfs: fix typo in convert_extent_bit
  via: Remove bogus if check
  netprio_cgroup.c: fix comment typo
  backlight: fix memory leak on obscure error path
  Documentation: asus-laptop.txt references an obsolete Kconfig item
  Documentation: ManagementStyle: fixed typo
  mm/vmscan: cleanup comment error in balance_pgdat
  mm: cleanup on the comments of zone_reclaim_stat
  ...
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Trivial updates all over the place as usual."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (29 commits)
  Fix typo in include/linux/clk.h .
  pci: hotplug: Fix typo in pci
  iommu: Fix typo in iommu
  video: Fix typo in drivers/video
  Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one
  arm,unicore32: Remove obsolete "select MISC_DEVICES"
  module.c: spelling s/postition/position/g
  cpufreq: Fix typo in cpufreq driver
  trivial: typo in comment in mksysmap
  mach-omap2: Fix typo in debug message and comment
  scsi: aha152x: Fix sparse warning and make printing pointer address more portable.
  Change email address for Steve Glendinning
  Btrfs: fix typo in convert_extent_bit
  via: Remove bogus if check
  netprio_cgroup.c: fix comment typo
  backlight: fix memory leak on obscure error path
  Documentation: asus-laptop.txt references an obsolete Kconfig item
  Documentation: ManagementStyle: fixed typo
  mm/vmscan: cleanup comment error in balance_pgdat
  mm: cleanup on the comments of zone_reclaim_stat
  ...
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<entry>
<title>module.c: spelling s/postition/position/g</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T08:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-19T20:29:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/debug: Add KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; to bare printks, convert printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;</title>
<updated>2012-06-06T07:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-22T02:50:07+00:00</published>
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Use a more current logging style:

 - Bare printks should have a KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; for consistency's sake
 - Add pr_fmt where appropriate
 - Neaten some macro definitions
 - Convert some Ok output to OK
 - Use "%s: ", __func__ in pr_fmt for summit
 - Convert some printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;

Message output is not identical in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337655007.24226.10.camel@joe2Laptop
[ merged two similar patches, tidied up the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Use a more current logging style:

 - Bare printks should have a KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; for consistency's sake
 - Add pr_fmt where appropriate
 - Neaten some macro definitions
 - Convert some Ok output to OK
 - Use "%s: ", __func__ in pr_fmt for summit
 - Convert some printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;

Message output is not identical in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337655007.24226.10.camel@joe2Laptop
[ merged two similar patches, tidied up the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:11:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:11:12+00:00</published>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
cc: x86@kernel.org
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
cc: x86@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>modules: make arch's use default loader hooks</title>
<updated>2011-07-24T12:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Bonn</name>
<email>jonas@southpole.se</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-30T19:22:12+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Tested-by: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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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 &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Tested-by: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface</title>
<updated>2011-04-04T16:48:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-16T21:29:47+00:00</published>
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Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&amp;jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&amp;jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&amp;jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&amp;jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&amp;jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&amp;jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: unify module_alloc code for vmalloc</title>
<updated>2011-01-14T01:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T23:46:02+00:00</published>
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Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for
module_init().  Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a
globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range().

__vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of
[VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior.

Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove
the duplication of code.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for
module_init().  Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a
globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range().

__vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of
[VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior.

Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove
the duplication of code.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2010-10-08T08:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-08T08:46:27+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/module.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/module.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race</title>
<updated>2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump label: x86 support</title>
<updated>2010-09-22T20:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-17T15:09:22+00:00</published>
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add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com&gt;

[ cleaned up some formatting ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com&gt;

[ cleaned up some formatting ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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