1. 30 Mar, 2010 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  2. 14 Jan, 2009 1 commit
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      init: make initrd/initramfs decompression failure a KERN_EMERG event · 73310a16
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      Impact: More consistent behaviour, avoid policy in the kernel
      
      Upgrade/downgrade initrd/initramfs decompression failure from
      inconsistently a panic or a KERN_ALERT message to a KERN_EMERG event.
      It is, however, possible do design a system which can recover from
      this (using the kernel builtin code and/or the internal initramfs),
      which means this is policy, not a technical necessity.
      
      A good way to handle this would be to have a panic-level=X option, to
      force a panic on a printk above a certain level.  That is a separate
      patch, however.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      73310a16
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    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      bzip2/lzma: use a table to search for initramfs compression formats · b172fd88
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      Impact: Code simplification
      
      Instead of open-coding testing for initramfs compression formats, use
      a table.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      b172fd88
    • Alain Knaff's avatar
      bzip2/lzma: config and initramfs support for bzip2/lzma decompression · 30d65dbf
      Alain Knaff authored
      
      Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features
      
      This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch
      
      The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
      compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
      compressors give smaller sizes than gzip.  Lzma's decompresses faster
      than bzip2.
      
      It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
      compressors.
      
      The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
      the udpcast project
      
      This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28
      
      This part contains:
      - support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and
      old-style ramdisk
      - config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions
      not yet supported)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      30d65dbf
  7. 16 Oct, 2008 1 commit
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      inflate: refactor inflate malloc code · 2d6ffcca
      Thomas Petazzoni authored
      
      Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
      process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
      malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
      
      The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
      free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
      allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
      
      This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
      all the malloc/free implementations.
      
      The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
       - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
         allocations should be made
       - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
         allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
         the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
      
      The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
      function call.  This function will be called several times during the
      decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
      still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
      define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
      arch_decomp_wdog().
      
      Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
      kernel and improved by me.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarYoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2d6ffcca
    • Robert P. J. Day's avatar
      init/: delete hard-coded setting and testing of BUILD_CRAMDISK · cb345d73
      Robert P. J. Day authored
      
      There seems to be little point in explicitly setting, then testing the macro
      BUILD_CRAMDISK within the context of a single source file.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cb345d73
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4