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Linux kernel release 3.x <http://kernel.org/>
These are the release notes for Linux version 3. Read them carefully,
as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong.
WHAT IS LINUX?
Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by
Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across
the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix,
including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand
loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management,
and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.
It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
accompanying COPYING file for more details.
ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),
today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,
IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
Xtensa, Tilera TILE, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has
also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although
functionality is then obviously somewhat limited.
Linux has also been ported to itself. You can now run the kernel as a
userspace application - this is called UserMode Linux (UML).
DOCUMENTATION:
- There is a lot of documentation available both in electronic form on
the Internet and in books, both Linux-specific and pertaining to
general UNIX questions. I'd recommend looking into the documentation
subdirectories on any Linux FTP site for the LDP (Linux Documentation
Project) books. This README is not meant to be documentation on the
system: there are much better sources available.
- There are various README files in the Documentation/ subdirectory:
these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some
drivers for example. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what
is contained in each file. Please read the Changes file, as it
contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading
your kernel.
- The Documentation/DocBook/ subdirectory contains several guides for
kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a
number of formats: PostScript (.ps), PDF, HTML, & man-pages, among others.
After installation, "make psdocs", "make pdfdocs", "make htmldocs",
or "make mandocs" will render the documentation in the requested format.
INSTALLING the kernel source:
- If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
unpack it:
gzip -cd linux-3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
or
bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
Replace "X" with the version number of the latest kernel.
Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
- You can also upgrade between 3.x releases by patching. Patches are
distributed in the traditional gzip and the newer bzip2 format. To
install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the
top level directory of the kernel source (linux-3.X) and execute:
gzip -cd ../patch-3.x.gz | patch -p1
or
bzip2 -dc ../patch-3.x.bz2 | patch -p1
Replace "x" for all versions bigger than the version "X" of your current
source tree, _in_order_, and you should be ok. You may want to remove
the backup files (some-file-name~ or some-file-name.orig), and make sure
that there are no failed patches (some-file-name# or some-file-name.rej).
If there are, either you or I have made a mistake.
Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels
(also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply
directly to the base 3.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 3.0
and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1
and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and
want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is,
patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in
Documentation/applying-patches.txt
Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this
process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any
patches found.
linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux
The first argument in the command above is the location of the
kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but
an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument.
- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
cd linux
make mrproper
You should now have the sources correctly installed.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Compiling and running the 3.x kernels requires up-to-date
versions of various software packages. Consult
Documentation/Changes for the minimum version numbers required
and how to get updates for these packages. Beware that using
excessively old versions of these packages can cause indirect
errors that are very difficult to track down, so don't assume that
you can just update packages when obvious problems arise during
build or operation.
BUILD directory for the kernel:
When compiling the kernel, all output files will per default be
stored together with the kernel source code.
Using the option "make O=output/dir" allow you to specify an alternate
place for the output files (including .config).
Example:
kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-3.X
build directory: /home/name/build/kernel
To configure and build the kernel, use:
cd /usr/src/linux-3.X
make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
make O=/home/name/build/kernel
sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used, then it must be
used for all invocations of make.
CONFIGURING the kernel:
Do not skip this step even if you are only upgrading one minor
version. New configuration options are added in each release, and
odd problems will turn up if the configuration files are not set up
as expected. If you want to carry your existing configuration to a
new version with minimal work, use "make oldconfig", which will
only ask you for the answers to new questions.
- Alternative configuration commands are:
"make config" Plain text interface.
"make menuconfig" Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.
"make nconfig" Enhanced text based color menus.
"make xconfig" X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.
"make gconfig" X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
"make oldconfig" Default all questions based on the contents of
your existing ./.config file and asking about
new config symbols.
"make silentoldconfig"
Like above, but avoids cluttering the screen
with questions already answered.
Additionally updates the dependencies.
"make olddefconfig"
Like above, but sets new symbols to their default
values without prompting.
"make defconfig" Create a ./.config file by using the default
symbol values from either arch/$ARCH/defconfig
or arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig,
depending on the architecture.
"make ${PLATFORM}_defconfig"
Create a ./.config file by using the default
symbol values from
arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig.
Use "make help" to get a list of all available
platforms of your architecture.
"make allyesconfig"
Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'y' as much as possible.
"make allmodconfig"
Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'm' as much as possible.
"make allnoconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'n' as much as possible.
"make randconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to random values.
"make localmodconfig" Create a config based on current config and
loaded modules (lsmod). Disables any module
option that is not needed for the loaded modules.
To create a localmodconfig for another machine,
store the lsmod of that machine into a file
and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter.
target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod
target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp
host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod localmodconfig
The above also works when cross compiling.
"make localyesconfig" Similar to localmodconfig, except it will convert
all module options to built in (=y) options.
You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools
in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt.
- NOTES on "make config":
- Having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can
under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a
nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers
- Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386. The
kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
- A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the
coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just
never get used in that case. The kernel will be slightly larger,
but will work on different machines regardless of whether they
have a math coprocessor or not.
- The "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a
bigger or slower kernel (or both), and can even make the kernel
less stable by configuring some routines to actively try to
break bad code to find kernel problems (kmalloc()). Thus you
should probably answer 'n' to the questions for "development",
"experimental", or "debugging" features.
COMPILING the kernel:
- Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available.
For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes.
Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel.
- Do a "make" to create a compressed kernel image. It is also
possible to do "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the
kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal
build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain.
- If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
will also have to do "make modules_install".
- Verbose kernel compile/build output:
Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not
totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need
to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed.
For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by inserting
"V=1" in the "make" command. E.g.:
make V=1 all
To have the build system also tell the reason for the rebuild of each
target, use "V=2". The default is "V=0".
- Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong. This is
especially true for the development releases, since each new release
contains new code which has not been debugged. Make sure you keep a
backup of the modules corresponding to that kernel, as well. If you
are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your
working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you
do a "make modules_install".
Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option
"LOCALVERSION" to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel version.
LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu.
- In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
image (e.g. .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation)
to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found.
- Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a
bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.
If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO, which
uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The
kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or
/boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image
and copy the new image over the old one. Then, you MUST RERUN LILO
to update the loading map!! If you don't, you won't be able to boot
the new kernel image.
Reinstalling LILO is usually a matter of running /sbin/lilo.
You may wish to edit /etc/lilo.conf to specify an entry for your
old kernel image (say, /vmlinux.old) in case the new one does not
work. See the LILO docs for more information.
After reinstalling LILO, you should be all set. Shutdown the system,
reboot, and enjoy!
If you ever need to change the default root device, video mode,
ramdisk size, etc. in the kernel image, use the 'rdev' program (or
alternatively the LILO boot options when appropriate). No need to
recompile the kernel to change these parameters.
- Reboot with the new kernel and enjoy.
IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
- If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please check
the file MAINTAINERS to see if there is a particular person associated
with the part of the kernel that you are having trouble with. If there
isn't anyone listed there, then the second best thing is to mail
them to me (torvalds@linux-foundation.org), and possibly to any other
relevant mailing-list or to the newsgroup.
- In all bug-reports, *please* tell what kernel you are talking about,
how to duplicate the problem, and what your setup is (use your common
sense). If the problem is new, tell me so, and if the problem is
old, please try to tell me when you first noticed it.
- If the bug results in a message like
unable to handle kernel paging request at address C0000010
Oops: 0002
EIP: 0010:XXXXXXXX
eax: xxxxxxxx ebx: xxxxxxxx ecx: xxxxxxxx edx: xxxxxxxx
esi: xxxxxxxx edi: xxxxxxxx ebp: xxxxxxxx
ds: xxxx es: xxxx fs: xxxx gs: xxxx
Pid: xx, process nr: xx
xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
or similar kernel debugging information on your screen or in your
system log, please duplicate it *exactly*. The dump may look
incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may
help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also
important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in
the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information
on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
- If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make
sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred).
This utility can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .
Alternatively, you can do the dump lookup by hand:
- In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help
me or anybody else very much: it will depend on your particular
kernel setup. What you should do is take the hex value from the EIP
line (ignore the "0010:"), and look it up in the kernel namelist to
see which kernel function contains the offending address.
To find out the kernel function name, you'll need to find the system
binary associated with the kernel that exhibited the symptom. This is
the file 'linux/vmlinux'. To extract the namelist and match it against
the EIP from the kernel crash, do:
nm vmlinux | sort | less
This will give you a list of kernel addresses sorted in ascending
order, from which it is simple to find the function that contains the
offending address. Note that the address given by the kernel
debugging messages will not necessarily match exactly with the
function addresses (in fact, that is very unlikely), so you can't
just 'grep' the list: the list will, however, give you the starting
point of each kernel function, so by looking for the function that
has a starting address lower than the one you are searching for but
is followed by a function with a higher address you will find the one
you want. In fact, it may be a good idea to include a bit of
"context" in your problem report, giving a few lines around the
interesting one.
If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled
kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as
possible will help. Please read the REPORTING-BUGS document for details.
- Alternatively, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you
cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the
kernel with -g; edit arch/i386/Makefile appropriately, then do a "make
clean". You'll also need to enable CONFIG_PROC_FS (via "make config").
After you've rebooted with the new kernel, do "gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore".
You can now use all the usual gdb commands. The command to look up the
point where your system crashed is "l *0xXXXXXXXX". (Replace the XXXes
with the EIP value.)
gdb'ing a non-running kernel currently fails because gdb (wrongly)
disregards the starting offset for which the kernel is compiled.
Linux kernel mirror (for testing)
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
kernel
os
linux
code
Clone this repository
https://tangled.org/tjh.dev/kernel
git@gordian.tjh.dev:tjh.dev/kernel
For self-hosted knots, clone URLs may differ based on your setup.
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
"I was going to hold these off until v3.8 was out, and send them with a
stable tag, but as everyone else is pushing much bigger fixes which
Linus is accepting, let's save people from the hastle of having to
patch v3.8 back into working or use a stable kernel.
Looking at the diffstat, this really is high value for its size; this
is miniscule compared to how the -rc6 to tip diffstat currently looks.
So, four patches in this set:
- Punit Agrawal reports that the kernel no longer boots on MPCore due
to a new assumption made in the GIC code which isn't true of
earlier GIC designs. This is the biggest change in this set.
- Punit's boot log also revealed a bunch of WARN_ON() dumps caused by
the DT-ification of the GIC support without fixing up non-DT
Realview - which now sees a greater number of interrupts than it
did before.
- A fix for the DMA coherent code from Marek which uses the wrong
check for atomic allocations; this can result in spinlock lockups
or other nasty effects.
- A fix from Will, which will affect all Android based platforms if
not applied (which use the 2G:2G VM split) - this causes
particularly 'make' to misbehave unless this bug is fixed."
* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 7641/1: memory: fix broken mmap by ensuring TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is aligned
ARM: DMA mapping: fix bad atomic test
ARM: realview: ensure that we have sufficient IRQs available
ARM: GIC: fix GIC cpumask initialization
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Revert iwlwifi reclaimed packet tracking, it causes problems for a
bunch of folks. From Emmanuel Grumbach.
2) Work limiting code in brcmsmac wifi driver can clear tx status
without processing the event. From Arend van Spriel.
3) rtlwifi USB driver processes wrong SKB, fix from Larry Finger.
4) l2tp tunnel delete can race with close, fix from Tom Parkin.
5) pktgen_add_device() failures are not checked at all, fix from Cong
Wang.
6) Fix unintentional removal of carrier off from tun_detach(),
otherwise we confuse userspace, from Michael S. Tsirkin.
7) Don't leak socket reference counts and ubufs in vhost-net driver,
from Jason Wang.
8) vmxnet3 driver gets it's initial carrier state wrong, fix from Neil
Horman.
9) Protect against USB networking devices which spam the host with 0
length frames, from Bjørn Mork.
10) Prevent neighbour overflows in ipv6 for locally destined routes,
from Marcelo Ricardo. This is the best short-term fix for this, a
longer term fix has been implemented in net-next.
11) L2TP uses ipv4 datagram routines in it's ipv6 code, whoops. This
mistake is largely because the ipv6 functions don't even have some
kind of prefix in their names to suggest they are ipv6 specific.
From Tom Parkin.
12) Check SYN packet drops properly in tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack(), from
Yuchung Cheng.
13) Fix races and TX skb freeing bugs in via-rhine's NAPI support, from
Francois Romieu and your's truly.
14) Fix infinite loops and divides by zero in TCP congestion window
handling, from Eric Dumazet, Neal Cardwell, and Ilpo Järvinen.
15) AF_PACKET tx ring handling can leak kernel memory to userspace, fix
from Phil Sutter.
16) Fix error handling in ipv6 GRE tunnel transmit, from Tommi Rantala.
17) Protect XEN netback driver against hostile frontend putting garbage
into the rings, don't leak pages in TX GOP checking, and add proper
resource releasing in error path of xen_netbk_get_requests(). From
Ian Campbell.
18) SCTP authentication keys should be cleared out and released with
kzfree(), from Daniel Borkmann.
19) L2TP is a bit too clever trying to maintain skb->truesize, and ends
up corrupting socket memory accounting to the point where packet
sending is halted indefinitely. Just remove the adjustments
entirely, they aren't really needed. From Eric Dumazet.
20) ATM Iphase driver uses a data type with the same name as the S390
headers, rename to fix the build. From Heiko Carstens.
21) Fix a typo in copying the inner network header offset from one SKB
to another, from Pravin B Shelar.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (56 commits)
net: sctp: sctp_endpoint_free: zero out secret key data
net: sctp: sctp_setsockopt_auth_key: use kzfree instead of kfree
atm/iphase: rename fregt_t -> ffreg_t
net: usb: fix regression from FLAG_NOARP code
l2tp: dont play with skb->truesize
net: sctp: sctp_auth_key_put: use kzfree instead of kfree
netback: correct netbk_tx_err to handle wrap around.
xen/netback: free already allocated memory on failure in xen_netbk_get_requests
xen/netback: don't leak pages on failure in xen_netbk_tx_check_gop.
xen/netback: shutdown the ring if it contains garbage.
net: qmi_wwan: add more Huawei devices, including E320
net: cdc_ncm: add another Huawei vendor specific device
ipv6/ip6_gre: fix error case handling in ip6gre_tunnel_xmit()
tcp: fix for zero packets_in_flight was too broad
brcmsmac: rework of mac80211 .flush() callback operation
ssb: unregister gpios before unloading ssb
bcma: unregister gpios before unloading bcma
rtlwifi: Fix scheduling while atomic bug
net: usbnet: fix tx_dropped statistics
tcp: ipv6: Update MIB counters for drops
...
We have received multiple reports of mmap failures when running with a
2:2 vm split. These manifest as either -EINVAL with a non page-aligned
address (ending 0xaaa) or a SEGV, depending on the application. The
issue is commonly observed in children of make, which appears to use
bottom-up mmap (assumedly because it changes the stack rlimit).
Further investigation reveals that this regression was triggered by
394ef6403abc ("mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on arm architecture"), whereby
TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is no longer page-aligned for bottom-up mmap, causing
get_unmapped_area to choke on misaligned addressed.
This patch fixes the problem by defining TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE in terms of
TASK_SIZE and explicitly aligns the result to 16M, matching the other
end of the heap.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Reported-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Pull drm regression fix from Dave Airlie:
"This one fixes a sleep while locked regression that was introduced
earlier in 3.8."
* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux:
drm/ttm: fix fence locking in ttm_buffer_object_transfer, 2nd try
Daniel Borkmann says:
====================
Cryptographically used keys should be zeroed out when our session
ends resp. memory is freed, thus do not leave them somewhere in the
memory.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Realview fails to boot with this warning:
BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#0, init/1
lock: 0xcf8bde10, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: init/1, .owner_cpu: 0
Backtrace:
[<c00185d8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x10c) from [<c03294e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:cf8bde10 r5:cf83d1c0 r4:cf8bde10 r3:cf83d1c0
[<c03294d0>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c018926c>] (spin_dump+0x84/0x98)
[<c01891e8>] (spin_dump+0x0/0x98) from [<c0189460>] (do_raw_spin_lock+0x100/0x198)
[<c0189360>] (do_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x198) from [<c032cbac>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x3c/0x44)
[<c032cb70>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x44) from [<c01c9224>] (pl011_console_write+0xe8/0x11c)
[<c01c913c>] (pl011_console_write+0x0/0x11c) from [<c002aea8>] (call_console_drivers.clone.7+0xdc/0x104)
[<c002adcc>] (call_console_drivers.clone.7+0x0/0x104) from [<c002b320>] (console_unlock+0x2e8/0x454)
[<c002b038>] (console_unlock+0x0/0x454) from [<c002b8b4>] (vprintk_emit+0x2d8/0x594)
[<c002b5dc>] (vprintk_emit+0x0/0x594) from [<c0329718>] (printk+0x3c/0x44)
[<c03296dc>] (printk+0x0/0x44) from [<c002929c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x28/0x6c)
[<c0029274>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0029304>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x24/0x2c)
[<c00292e0>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x0/0x2c) from [<c0070ab0>] (lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf0)
[<c00709d8>] (lockdep_trace_alloc+0x0/0xf0) from [<c00c0850>] (kmem_cache_alloc+0x24/0x11c)
[<c00c082c>] (kmem_cache_alloc+0x0/0x11c) from [<c00bb044>] (__get_vm_area_node.clone.24+0x7c/0x16c)
[<c00bafc8>] (__get_vm_area_node.clone.24+0x0/0x16c) from [<c00bb7b8>] (get_vm_area_caller+0x48/0x54)
[<c00bb770>] (get_vm_area_caller+0x0/0x54) from [<c0020064>] (__alloc_remap_buffer.clone.15+0x38/0xb8)
[<c002002c>] (__alloc_remap_buffer.clone.15+0x0/0xb8) from [<c0020244>] (__dma_alloc+0x160/0x2c8)
[<c00200e4>] (__dma_alloc+0x0/0x2c8) from [<c00204d8>] (arm_dma_alloc+0x88/0xa0)[<c0020450>] (arm_dma_alloc+0x0/0xa0) from [<c00beb00>] (dma_pool_alloc+0xcc/0x1a8)
[<c00bea34>] (dma_pool_alloc+0x0/0x1a8) from [<c01a9d14>] (pl08x_fill_llis_for_desc+0x28/0x568)
[<c01a9cec>] (pl08x_fill_llis_for_desc+0x0/0x568) from [<c01aab8c>] (pl08x_prep_slave_sg+0x258/0x3b0)
[<c01aa934>] (pl08x_prep_slave_sg+0x0/0x3b0) from [<c01c9f74>] (pl011_dma_tx_refill+0x140/0x288)
[<c01c9e34>] (pl011_dma_tx_refill+0x0/0x288) from [<c01ca748>] (pl011_start_tx+0xe4/0x120)
[<c01ca664>] (pl011_start_tx+0x0/0x120) from [<c01c54a4>] (__uart_start+0x48/0x4c)
[<c01c545c>] (__uart_start+0x0/0x4c) from [<c01c632c>] (uart_start+0x2c/0x3c)
[<c01c6300>] (uart_start+0x0/0x3c) from [<c01c795c>] (uart_write+0xcc/0xf4)
[<c01c7890>] (uart_write+0x0/0xf4) from [<c01b0384>] (n_tty_write+0x1c0/0x3e4)
[<c01b01c4>] (n_tty_write+0x0/0x3e4) from [<c01acfe8>] (tty_write+0x144/0x240)
[<c01acea4>] (tty_write+0x0/0x240) from [<c01ad17c>] (redirected_tty_write+0x98/0xac)
[<c01ad0e4>] (redirected_tty_write+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c371c>] (vfs_write+0xbc/0x150)
[<c00c3660>] (vfs_write+0x0/0x150) from [<c00c39c0>] (sys_write+0x4c/0x78)
[<c00c3974>] (sys_write+0x0/0x78) from [<c0014460>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)
This happens because the DMA allocation code is not respecting atomic
allocations correctly.
GFP flags should not be tested for GFP_ATOMIC to determine if an
atomic allocation is being requested. GFP_ATOMIC is not a flag but
a value. The GFP bitmask flags are all prefixed with __GFP_.
The rest of the kernel tests for __GFP_WAIT not being set to indicate
an atomic allocation. We need to do the same.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Pull virtio fix from Rusty Russell:
"Obviously I forgot to push this before linux.conf.au..."
* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
virtio_console: Don't access uninitialized data.
This fixes up
commit e8e89622ed361c46bf90ba4828e685a8b603f7e5
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Tue Dec 18 22:25:11 2012 +0100
drm/ttm: fix fence locking in ttm_buffer_object_transfer
which leaves behind a might_sleep in atomic context, since the
fence_lock spinlock is held over a kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) call. The fix
is to revert the above commit and only take the lock where we need it,
around the call to ->sync_obj_ref.
v2: Fixup things noticed by Maarten Lankhorst:
- Brown paper bag locking bug.
- No need for kzalloc if we clear the entire thing on the next line.
- check for bo->sync_obj (totally unlikely race, but still someone
else could have snuck in) and clear fbo->sync_obj if it's cleared
already.
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
We have conflicting type qualifiers for "freg_t" in s390's ptrace.h and the
iphase atm device driver, which causes the compile error below.
Unfortunately the s390 typedef can't be renamed, since it's a user visible api,
nor can I change the include order in s390 code to avoid the conflict.
So simply rename the iphase typedef to a new name. Fixes this compile error:
In file included from drivers/atm/iphase.c:66:0:
drivers/atm/iphase.h:639:25: error: conflicting type qualifiers for 'freg_t'
In file included from next/arch/s390/include/asm/ptrace.h:9:0,
from next/arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h:12,
from next/arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h:30,
from include/linux/thread_info.h:54,
from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
from include/linux/time.h:5,
from include/linux/stat.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from drivers/atm/iphase.c:43:
next/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:197:3: note: previous declaration of 'freg_t' was here
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On sctp_endpoint_destroy, previously used sensitive keying material
should be zeroed out before the memory is returned, as we already do
with e.g. auth keys when released.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Realview EB with a rev B MPcore tile results in lots of warnings at
boot because it can't allocate enough IRQs. Fix this by increasing
the number of available IRQs.
WARNING: at /home/rmk/git/linux-rmk/arch/arm/common/gic.c:757 gic_init_bases+0x12c/0x2ec()
Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ96, assuming pre-allocated
Modules linked in:
Backtrace:
[<c00185d8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x10c) from [<c03294e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:000002f5 r5:c042c62c r4:c044ff40 r3:c045f240
[<c03294d0>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c00292c8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x54/0x6c)
[<c0029274>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0029384>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x40)
[<c002934c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0x40) from [<c042c62c>] (gic_init_bases+0x12c/0x2ec)
[<c042c500>] (gic_init_bases+0x0/0x2ec) from [<c042cdc8>] (gic_init_irq+0x8c/0xd8)
[<c042cd3c>] (gic_init_irq+0x0/0xd8) from [<c042827c>] (init_IRQ+0x1c/0x24)
[<c0428260>] (init_IRQ+0x0/0x24) from [<c04256c8>] (start_kernel+0x1a4/0x300)
[<c0425524>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x300) from [<70008070>] (0x70008070)
---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1c ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rmk/git/linux-rmk/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:234 irq_domain_add_legacy+0x80/0x140()
Modules linked in:
Backtrace:
[<c00185d8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x10c) from [<c03294e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:000000ea r5:c0081a38 r4:00000000 r3:c045f240
[<c03294d0>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c00292c8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x54/0x6c)
[<c0029274>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0029304>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x24/0x2c)
[<c00292e0>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x0/0x2c) from [<c0081a38>] (irq_domain_add_legacy+0x80/0x140)
[<c00819b8>] (irq_domain_add_legacy+0x0/0x140) from [<c042c64c>] (gic_init_bases+0x14c/0x2ec)
[<c042c500>] (gic_init_bases+0x0/0x2ec) from [<c042cdc8>] (gic_init_irq+0x8c/0xd8)
[<c042cd3c>] (gic_init_irq+0x0/0xd8) from [<c042827c>] (init_IRQ+0x1c/0x24)
[<c0428260>] (init_IRQ+0x0/0x24) from [<c04256c8>] (start_kernel+0x1a4/0x300)
[<c0425524>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x300) from [<70008070>] (0x70008070)
---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1d ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rmk/git/linux-rmk/arch/arm/common/gic.c:762 gic_init_bases+0x170/0x2ec()
Modules linked in:
Backtrace:
[<c00185d8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x10c) from [<c03294e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:000002fa r5:c042c670 r4:00000000 r3:c045f240
[<c03294d0>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c00292c8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x54/0x6c)
[<c0029274>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0029304>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x24/0x2c)
[<c00292e0>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x0/0x2c) from [<c042c670>] (gic_init_bases+0x170/0x2ec)
[<c042c500>] (gic_init_bases+0x0/0x2ec) from [<c042cdc8>] (gic_init_irq+0x8c/0xd8)
[<c042cd3c>] (gic_init_irq+0x0/0xd8) from [<c042827c>] (init_IRQ+0x1c/0x24)
[<c0428260>] (init_IRQ+0x0/0x24) from [<c04256c8>] (start_kernel+0x1a4/0x300)
[<c0425524>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x300) from [<70008070>] (0x70008070)
---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1e ]---
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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