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Rafael J. Wysocki
bff9d18656 Remove SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK system state
The SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK system state is never used, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-21 13:58:17 -07:00
Xi Wang
a3860c1c5d introduce SIZE_MAX
ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating
allocation size.  While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there
is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'.

This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve
portability and readability for allocation size validation.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce004178be Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc
Pull sparc changes from David S. Miller:
 "This has the generic strncpy_from_user() implementation architectures
  can now use, which we've been developing on linux-arch over the past
  few days.

  For good measure I ran both a 32-bit and a 64-bit glibc testsuite run,
  and the latter of which pointed out an adjustment I needed to make to
  sparc's user_addr_max() definition.  Linus, you were right, STACK_TOP
  was not the right thing to use, even on sparc itself :-)

  From Sam Ravnborg, we have a conversion of sparc32 over to the common
  alloc_thread_info_node(), since the aspect which originally blocked
  our doing so (sun4c) has been removed."

Fix up trivial arch/sparc/Kconfig and lib/Makefile conflicts.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc: Fix user_addr_max() definition.
  lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/
  kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h
  sparc: Increase portability of strncpy_from_user() implementation.
  sparc: Optimize strncpy_from_user() zero byte search.
  sparc: Add full proper error handling to strncpy_from_user().
  sparc32: use the common implementation of alloc_thread_info_node()
2012-05-24 15:10:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
446969084d kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h
And make sure that everything using it explicitly includes
that header file.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-24 13:10:05 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
07d777fe8c tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()
Currently, trace_printk() uses a single buffer to write into
to calculate the size and format needed to save the trace. To
do this safely in an SMP environment, a spin_lock() is taken
to only allow one writer at a time to the buffer. But this could
also affect what is being traced, and add synchronization that
would not be there otherwise.

Ideally, using percpu buffers would be useful, but since trace_printk()
is only used in development, having per cpu buffers for something
never used is a waste of space. Thus, the use of the trace_bprintk()
format section is changed to be used for static fmts as well as dynamic ones.
Then at boot up, we can check if the section that holds the trace_printk
formats is non-empty, and if it does contain something, then we
know a trace_printk() has been added to the kernel. At this time
the trace_printk per cpu buffers are allocated. A check is also
done at module load time in case a module is added that contains a
trace_printk().

Once the buffers are allocated, they are never freed. If you use
a trace_printk() then you should know what you are doing.

A buffer is made for each type of context:

  normal
  softirq
  irq
  nmi

The context is checked and the appropriate buffer is used.
This allows for totally lockless usage of trace_printk(),
and they no longer even disable interrupts.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-23 21:15:55 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
f187e9fd68 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "It's mostly fixes, but there's also two late items:

   - preliminary GTK GUI support for perf report
   - PMU raw event format descriptors in sysfs, to be parsed by tooling

  The raw event format in sysfs is a new ABI.  For example for the 'CPU'
  PMU we have:

    aldebaran:~> ll /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/*
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/any
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/cmask
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/edge
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/inv
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/pc
    -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/umask

  those lists of fields contain a specific format:

    aldebaran:~> cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp
    config1:0-63

  So, those who wish to specify raw events can now use the following
  event format:

    -e cpu/cmask=1,event=2,umask=3

  Most people will not want to specify any events (let alone raw
  events), they'll just use whatever default event the tools use.

  But for more obscure PMU events that have no cross-architecture
  generic events the above syntax is more usable and a bit more
  structured than specifying hex numbers."

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  perf tools: Remove auto-generated bison/flex files
  perf annotate: Fix off by one symbol hist size allocation and hit accounting
  perf tools: Add missing ref-cycles event back to event parser
  perf annotate: addr2line wants addresses in same format as objdump
  perf probe: Finder fails to resolve function name to address
  tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output
  perf symbols: Handle NULL dso in dso__name_len
  perf symbols: Do not include libgen.h
  perf tools: Fix bug in raw sample parsing
  perf tools: Fix display of first level of callchains
  perf tools: Switch module.h into export.h
  perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header
  perf: Fix mmap_page capabilities and docs
  perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design
  perf tools: Fix modifier to be applied on correct events
  perf tools: Fix various casting issues for 32 bits
  perf tools: Simplify event_read_id exit path
  tracing: Fix ftrace stack trace entries
  tracing: Move the tracing_on/off() declarations into CONFIG_TRACING
  perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser
  ...
2012-03-31 13:34:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a591afc01d Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
  ...
2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7fd52392c5 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-26 17:19:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ed2d265d12 The following text was taken from the original review request:
"[RFC - PATCH 0/7] consolidation of BUG support code."
 		https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/26/525
 --
 
 The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under
 the one <linux/bug.h> file.  Due to historical reasons, we have
 some BUG code in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for
 BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h,
 but old code in kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time.  As
 a band-aid, kernel.h was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them.
 
 This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions.
 Here is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:
 
       CC      lib/string.o
       lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
       lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
       make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
       $
       $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
       #include <linux/bug.h>
       $
 
 We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
 still get a compile fail!  [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.]
 Ugh - very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.
 
 With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:
 
 1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
    implicit presence of BUG code.
 2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and
    hence relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
 3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h>
 4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.
 
 During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2.
 But to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless
 build failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix
 the problem areas in advance.
 
 [1]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
 [2]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414
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Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one
  <linux/bug.h> file.  Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code
  in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e.  the support for BUILD_BUG in
  linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in
  kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time.  As a band-aid, kernel.h
  was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them.

  This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions.  Here
  is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:

      CC      lib/string.o
      lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
      lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
      make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
      $
      $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
      #include <linux/bug.h>
      $

  We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
  still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh -
  very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.

  With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:

  1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
     implicit presence of BUG code.
  2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence
     relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
  3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h>
  4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.

  During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2.  But
  to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build
  failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem
  areas in advance.

	[1]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
	[2]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414"

Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul
and linux-next.

* tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
  bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
  BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
  bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users
  lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN
  spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency
  x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
2012-03-24 10:08:39 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1ac101a5d6 procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat
== stat_check.py
num = 0
with open("/proc/stat") as f:
        while num < 1000 :
                data = f.read()
                f.seek(0, 0)
                num = num + 1
==

perf shows

    20.39%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] format_decode
    13.41%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] number
    12.61%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] vsnprintf
    10.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] memcpy
     4.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] radix_tree_lookup
     4.43%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] seq_printf

This patch removes most of calls to vsnprintf() by adding num_to_str()
and seq_print_decimal_ull(), which prints decimal numbers without rich
functions provided by printf().

On my 8cpu box.
== Before patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.150s
user    0m0.026s
sys     0m0.121s

== After patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.055s
user    0m0.022s
sys     0m0.030s

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove incorrect comment, use less statck in num_to_str(), move comment from .h to .c, simplify seq_put_decimal_ull()]
[andrea@betterlinux.com: avoid breaking the ABI in /proc/stat]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:42 -07:00
Joe Perches
6061d949dd include/ and checkpatch: prefer __scanf to __attribute__((format(scanf,...)
It's equivalent to __printf, so prefer __scanf.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:36 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6605f9ac69 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent 2012-03-22 09:17:57 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
93d68e5229 tracing: Move the tracing_on/off() declarations into CONFIG_TRACING
The tracing_on/off() declarations were under CONFIG_RING_BUFFER, but
the functions are now only defined under CONFIG_TRACING as they are
specific to ftrace and not the ring buffer.

But the declarations were still defined under the ring buffer and
this caused the build to fail when CONFIG_RING_BUFFER was set but
CONFIG_TRACING was not.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-20 12:28:29 -04:00
Salman Qazi
9993bc635d sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset.  However,
when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be
carried over from the previous kernel.  The computation of
cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the
machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec.  The
overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is
enough room to store the final answer.

We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and
remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing
the multiplication separately on the two components.

Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous
fix in __cycles_2_ns().

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-13 16:27:51 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker
6c03438ede kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
This header isn't using bug.h infrastructure, but due to historical
reasons, it was including it.  Removing it revealed several implicit
dependencies (since kernel.h is everywhere) so we've fixed those 1st
before deploying this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-03-04 17:54:36 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
35edd9103c bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
The support for BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the
addition of linux/bug.h -- with this chunk off separate,
you can run into situations where a person gets a compile
fail even when they've included linux/bug.h, like this:

    CC      lib/string.o
  lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
  lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
  make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
  $
  $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
  #include <linux/bug.h>
  $

Since the above violates the principle of least surprise, move
the BUG chunks from kernel.h to bug.h so it is all together.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-03-04 17:54:35 -05:00
H. Peter Anvin
d8e5ddef21 sysinfo: Move struct sysinfo to a separate header file
struct sysinfo is just about the only thing exported to userspace from
<linux/kernel.h>, so move it into a separate header file with a
residual #include in <linux/kernel.h>.

Originally-by: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4pr1xnnksprt7t0h3w5fw4rv@git.kernel.org
2012-02-20 12:48:46 -08:00
Joe Perches
ff2d8b19a3 treewide: convert uses of ATTRIB_NORETURN to __noreturn
Use the more commonly used __noreturn instead of ATTRIB_NORETURN.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Joe Perches
9402c95f34 treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses
It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it.

Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Joe Perches
4da4785995 kernel.h: neaten panic prototype
Use __printf macro.
Convert NORET_AND to ATTRIB_NORET.
Use the normal kernel style for pointer arguments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
541048a1d3 Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, reboot: Fix typo in nmi reboot path
  x86, NMI: Add to_cpumask() to silence compile warning
  x86, NMI: NMI selftest depends on the local apic
  x86: Add stack top margin for stack overflow checking
  x86, NMI: NMI-selftest should handle the UP case properly
  x86: Fix the 32-bit stackoverflow-debug build
  x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus
  x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftest
  x86, reboot: Use NMI instead of REBOOT_VECTOR to stop cpus
  x86: Clean up the range of stack overflow checking
  x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow
  x86: Check stack overflow in detail
2012-01-11 19:13:04 -08:00
David Daney
1399ff86f2 kernel.h: add BUILD_BUG() macro
We can place this in definitions that we expect the compiler to remove by
dead code elimination.  If this assertion fails, we get a nice error
message at build time.

The GCC function attribute error("message") was added in version 4.3, so
we define a new macro __linktime_error(message) to expand to this for
GCC-4.3 and later.  This will give us an error diagnostic from the
compiler on the line that fails.  For other compilers
__linktime_error(message) expands to nothing, and we have to be content
with a link time error, but at least we will still get a build error.

BUILD_BUG() expands to the undefined function __build_bug_failed() and
will fail at link time if the compiler ever emits code for it.  On GCC-4.3
and later, attribute((error())) is used so that the failure will be noted
at compile time instead.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Mitsuo Hayasaka
55af77969f x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow
Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack
overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a
high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may
corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to
reading them unless systems stop.

This patch adds the sysctl parameter
kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting
the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user
stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 11:37:47 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
2449b8ba07 module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
2011-11-07 07:54:42 +10:30
Joe Perches
67d0a07544 kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
Mark obsolete/deprecated strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> functions
and macros as obsolete.

Update checkpatch to warn about their use.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:57 -07:00
Andy Shevchenko
55036ba76b lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
As suggested by Andrew Morton in [1] there is better to have most
significant part first in the function name.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/20/22

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
Joe Perches
b9075fa968 treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...)))
Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
Standardized the location of __printf too.

Done via script and a little typing.

$ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \
  grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \
  xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }'

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:54 -07:00
Mimi Zohar
b78049831f lib: add error checking to hex2bin
hex2bin converts a hexadecimal string to its binary representation.
The original version of hex2bin did not do any error checking.  This
patch adds error checking and returns the result.

Changelog v1:
- removed unpack_hex_byte()
- changed return code from boolean to int

Changelog:
- use the new unpack_hex_byte()
- add __must_check compiler option (Andy Shevchenko's suggestion)
- change function API to return error checking result
  (based on Tetsuo Handa's initial patch)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 23:24:44 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
91d41fdf31 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending:
  target: Convert to DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T usage for sectors / dev_max_sectors
  kernel.h: Add DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL and DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T macro usage
  iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1
  iscsi: Add Serial Number Arithmetic LT and GT into iscsi_proto.h
  iscsi: Use struct scsi_lun in iscsi structs instead of u8[8]
  iscsi: Resolve iscsi_proto.h naming conflicts with drivers/target/iscsi
2011-07-27 13:21:40 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger
36a26c69b4 kernel.h: Add DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL and DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T macro usage
Add new DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T macro usage for 32-bit architectures requiring
a new DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL, and existing 64-bit usage with DIV_ROUND_UP.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-26 09:17:07 +00:00
Arnaud Lacombe
b9d4f42668 include/linux/kernel.h: hide internal macros from userspace
Unexpose to userland the following macros
 - __FUNCTION__
 - NUMA_BUILD
 - COMPACTION_BUILD
 - REBUILD_DUE_TO_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
WANG Cong
9d00f92f43 include/linux/kernel.h: fix a headers_check warning
Fix the warning:

  usr/include/linux/kernel.h:65: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel

As Michal noted, BUILD_BUG_ON stuffs should be moved
under #ifdef __KERNEL__.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
1ecc818c51 Merge branch 'sched/core-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into sched/core 2011-07-01 13:20:51 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d902db1eb6 sched: Generalize sleep inside spinlock detection
The sleeping inside spinlock detection is actually used
for more general sleeping inside atomic sections
debugging: preemption disabled, rcu read side critical
sections, interrupts, interrupt disabled, etc...

Change the name of the config and its help section to
reflect its more general role.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-23 00:44:38 +02:00
Dr. David Alan Gilbert
ca39599c63 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO: fix sparse breakage
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO and BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL must return values, even in the
CHECKER case otherwise various users of it become syntactically invalid.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c196e32a11 lib: add kstrto*_from_user()
There is quite a lot of code which does copy_from_user() + strict_strto*()
or simple_strto*() combo in slightly different ways.

Before doing conversions all over tree, let's get final API correct.

Enter kstrtoull_from_user() and friends.

Typical code which uses them looks very simple:

	TYPE val;
	int rv;

	rv = kstrtoTYPE_from_user(buf, count, 0, &val);
	if (rv < 0)
		return rv;
	[use val]
	return count;

There is a tiny semantic difference from the plain kstrto*() API -- the
latter allows any amount of leading zeroes, while the former copies data
into buffer on stack and thus allows leading zeroes as long as it fits
into buffer.

This shouldn't be a problem for typical usecase "echo 42 > /proc/x".

The point is to make reading one integer from userspace _very_ simple and
very bug free.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:52 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
903c0c7cdc sparse: define dummy BUILD_BUG_ON definition for sparse
BUILD_BUG_ON() causes a syntax error to detect coding errors.  So it
causes sparse to detect an error too.  This reduces sparse's usefulness.

This patch makes a dummy BUILD_BUG_ON() definition for sparse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:46 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
cdbe61bfe7 ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
Now that functions may be selected individually, it only makes sense
that we should allow dynamically allocated trace structures to
be traced. This will allow perf to allocate a ftrace_ops structure
at runtime and use it to pick and choose which functions that
structure will trace.

Note, a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops will always be called
indirectly instead of being called directly from the mcount in
entry.S. This is because there's no safe way to prevent mcount
from being preempted before calling the function, unless we
modify every entry.S to do so (not likely). Thus, dynamically allocated
functions will now be called by the ftrace_ops_list_func() that
loops through the ops that are allocated if there are more than
one op allocated at a time. This loop is protected with a
preempt_disable.

To determine if an ftrace_ops structure is allocated or not, a new
util function was added to the kernel/extable.c called
core_kernel_data(), which returns 1 if the address is between
_sdata and _edata.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18 15:29:51 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
33ee3b2e2e kstrto*: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right
1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty,
   libc way to indicate failure.
2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and
   comments pretend they do.
3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants,
   but users want strtou8()
4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong:
   Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist
   because conversion should be strict by default.

The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types.
Enter
	kstrtoull()
	kstrtoll()
	kstrtoul()
	kstrtol()
	kstrtouint()
	kstrtoint()

	kstrtou64()
	kstrtos64()
	kstrtou32()
	kstrtos32()
	kstrtou16()
	kstrtos16()
	kstrtou8()
	kstrtos8()

Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well.

strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and
eventually will be removed altogether.

Use kstrto*() in code today!

Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if
      they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution,
      because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these
      functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and
      __alignof__ at least always works.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:14 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
ffbbf2da9e kernel.h: fix kernel-doc warning
Fix kernel-doc warning in kernel.h from commit 7ef88ad561
("BUILD_BUG_ON: make it handle more cases"):

  Warning(include/linux/kernel.h:605): No description found for parameter 'condition'
  Warning(include/linux/kernel.h:605): Excess function parameter 'cond' description in 'BUILD_BUG_ON'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-01 08:23:22 +10:00
Rusty Russell
1765e3a493 Remove MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON
Now BUILD_BUG_ON() can handle optimizable constants, we don't need
MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON any more.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-24 14:45:11 +10:30
Rusty Russell
7ef88ad561 BUILD_BUG_ON: make it handle more cases
BUILD_BUG_ON used to use the optimizer to do code elimination or fail
at link time; it was changed to first the size of a negative array (a
nicer compile time error), then (in
8c87df457c) to a bitfield.

This forced us to change some non-constant cases to MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON();
as Jan points out in that commit, it didn't work as intended anyway.

bitfields: needs a literal constant at parse time, and can't be put under
	"if (__builtin_constant_p(x))" for example.
negative array: can handle anything, but if the compiler can't tell it's
	a constant, silently has no effect.
link time: breaks link if the compiler can't determine the value, but the
	linker output is not usually as informative as a compiler error.

If we use the negative-array-size method *and* the link time trick,
we get the ability to use BUILD_BUG_ON() under __builtin_constant_p()
branches, and maximal ability for the compiler to detect errors at
build time.

We also document it thoroughly.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
2011-01-24 14:45:10 +10:30
Tejun Heo
2ce802f62b lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 13:32:33 +01:00
Mel Gorman
3e7d344970 mm: vmscan: reclaim order-0 and use compaction instead of lumpy reclaim
Lumpy reclaim is disruptive.  It reclaims a large number of pages and
ignores the age of the pages it reclaims.  This can incur significant
stalls and potentially increase the number of major faults.

Compaction has reached the point where it is considered reasonably stable
(meaning it has passed a lot of testing) and is a potential candidate for
displacing lumpy reclaim.  This patch introduces an alternative to lumpy
reclaim whe compaction is available called reclaim/compaction.  The basic
operation is very simple - instead of selecting a contiguous range of
pages to reclaim, a number of order-0 pages are reclaimed and then
compaction is later by either kswapd (compact_zone_order()) or direct
compaction (__alloc_pages_direct_compact()).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional task_struct naming]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Andrew Morton
71a9048448 include/linux/kernel.h: abs(): fix handling of 32-bit unsigneds on 64-bit
Michal reports:

In the framebuffer subsystem the abs() macro is often used as a part of
the calculation of a Manhattan metric, which in turn is used as a measure
of similarity between video modes.  The arguments of abs() are sometimes
unsigned numbers.  This worked fine until commit a49c59c0 ("Make sure the
value in abs() does not get truncated if it is greater than 2^32:) , which
changed the definition of abs() to prevent truncation.  As a result of
this change, in the following piece of code:

u32 a = 0, b = 1;
u32 c = abs(a - b);

'c' will end up with a value of 0xffffffff instead of the expected 0x1.

A problem caused by this change and visible by the end user is that
framebuffer drivers relying on functions from modedb.c will fail to find
high resolution video modes similar to that explicitly requested by the
user if an exact match cannot be found (see e.g.

Fix this by special-casing `long' types within abs().

This patch reduces x86_64 code size a bit - drivers/video/uvesafb.o shrunk
by 15 bytes, presumably because it is doing abs() on 4-byte quantities,
and expanding those to 8-byte longs adds code.

testcase:

#define oldabs(x) ({				\
		long __x = (x);			\
		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
	})

#define newabs(x) ({						\
		long ret;					\
		if (sizeof(x) == sizeof(long)) {		\
			long __x = (x);				\
			ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
		} else {					\
			int __x = (x);				\
			ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
		}						\
		ret;						\
	})

typedef unsigned int u32;

main()
{
	u32 a = 0;
	u32 b = 1;
	u32 oldc = oldabs(a - b);
	u32 newc = newabs(a - b);

	printf("%u %u\n", oldc, newc);
}

akpm:/home/akpm> gcc t.c
akpm:/home/akpm> ./a.out
4294967295 1

Reported-by: Michal Januszewski <michalj@gmail.com>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:07 -08:00
Mimi Zohar
dc88e46029 lib: hex2bin converts ascii hexadecimal string to binary
Similar to the kgdb_hex2mem() code, hex2bin converts a string
to binary using the hex_to_bin() library call.

Changelog:
- Replace parameter names with src/dst (based on David Howell's comment)
- Add 'const' where needed (based on David Howell's comment)
- Replace int with size_t (based on David Howell's comment)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-11-29 08:55:11 +11:00
James Morris
1d6d75684d Merge branch 'master' into next 2010-11-29 08:27:07 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
968ab1838a include/linux/kernel.h: Move logging bits to include/linux/printk.h
Move the logging bits from kernel.h into printk.h so that
there is a bit more logical separation of the generic from
the printk logging specific parts.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-15 13:37:37 -08:00
Dan Rosenberg
eaf06b241b Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
James Morris
074e61ec37 kernel: add roundup() code comment from akpm
Add roundup() code comment from akpm.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-11-10 09:01:31 +11:00