- 07 Aug, 2014 40 commits
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Apparently, bitmap_and is supposed to return whether the new bitmap is empty. But it didn't take potential garbage bits in the last word into account. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
There is no guarantee that *src does not contain garbage bits outside the lower nbits, so we need to mask it before the shift-and-assign. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
__reg_op(..., REG_OP_ALLOC) always returns 0, so we might as well use that and save an instruction. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Changing the pos parameter of __reg_op to unsigned allows the compiler to generate slightly smaller and simpler code. Also update its callers bitmap_*_region to receive and pass unsigned int. The return types of bitmap_find_free_region and bitmap_allocate_region are still int to allow a negative error code to be returned. An int is certainly capable of representing any realistic return value. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
A few lines above, it was stated that positions for non-set bits are mapped to -1, which is obviously also what the code does. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
We want len to be the index of the first '\n', or the length of the string if there is no newline. This is a good example of the usefulness of strchrnul(). Use that instead, thus eliminating a branch and a call to strlen(). Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "start" is non-negative. Also, use the names "start" and "len" for the two parameters for consistency with bitmap_set. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "start" is non-negative. Also, use the names "start" and "len" for the two parameters in both header file and implementation, instead of the previous mix. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. I didn't change the return type, since that might change the semantics of some expression containing a call to bitmap_weight(). Certainly an int is capable of holding the result. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
This change is only for consistency with the changes to the other bitmap_* functions; it doesn't change the size of the generated code: inside BITS_TO_LONGS there is a sizeof(long), which causes bits to be interpreted as unsigned anyway. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Since the extra bits are "don't care", there is no reason to mask the last word to the used bits when complementing. This shaves off yet a few bytes. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Many functions in lib/bitmap.c start with an expression such as lim = bits/BITS_PER_LONG. Since bits has type (signed) int, and since gcc cannot know that it is in fact non-negative, it generates worse code than it could. These patches, mostly consisting of changing various parameters to unsigned, gives a slight overall code reduction: add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 8/16 up/down: 251/-414 (-163) function old new delta tick_device_uses_broadcast 335 425 +90 __irq_alloc_descs 498 554 +56 __bitmap_andnot 73 115 +42 __bitmap_and 70 101 +31 bitmap_weight - 11 +11 copy_hugetlb_page_range 752 762 +10 follow_hugetlb_page 846 854 +8 hugetlb_init 1415 1417 +2 hugetlb_nrpages_setup 130 131 +1 hugetlb_add_hstate 377 376 -1 bitmap_allocate_region 82 80 -2 select_task_rq_fair 2202 2191 -11 hweight_long 66 55 -11 __reg_op 230 219 -11 dm_stats_message 2849 2833 -16 bitmap_parselist 92 74 -18 __bitmap_weight 115 97 -18 __bitmap_subset 153 129 -24 __bitmap_full 128 104 -24 __bitmap_empty 120 96 -24 bitmap_set 179 149 -30 bitmap_clear 185 155 -30 __bitmap_equal 136 105 -31 __bitmap_intersects 148 108 -40 __bitmap_complement 109 67 -42 tick_device_setup_broadcast_func.isra 81 - -81 [The increases in __bitmap_and{,not} are due to bug fixes 17/18,18/18. No idea why bitmap_weight suddenly appears.] While 163 bytes treewide is insignificant, I believe the bitmap functions are often called with locks held, so saving even a few cycles might be worth it. While making these changes, I found a few other things that might be worth including. 16,17,18 are actual bug fixes. The rest shouldn't change the behaviour of any of the functions, provided no-one passed negative nbits values. If something should come up, it should be fairly bisectable. A few issues I thought about, but didn't know what to do with: * Many of the functions misbehave if nbits is compile-time 0; the out-of-line functions generally handle 0 correctly. bitmap_fill() is particularly bad, whether the 0 is known at compile time or not. It would probably be nice to add detection of at least compile-time 0 and handle that appropriately. * I didn't change __bitmap_shift_{left,right} to use unsigned because I want to fully understand why the algorithm works before making that change. However, AFAICT, they behave correctly for all (positive) shift amounts. This is not the case for the small_const_nbits versions. If for example nbits = n = BITS_PER_LONG, the shift operators turn into no-ops (at least on x86), so one get *dst = *src, whereas one would expect to get *dst=0. That difference in behaviour is somewhat annoying. This patch (of 18): The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The helper merge_and_restore_back_links() makes sure to call the caller's cmp function during the final ->prev pointer fixup, so that the cmp function may call cond_resched(). However, if the cmp function does not call cond_resched() at all, this is entirely redundant. If it does, doing at least two function calls for every two pointer assignments is a bit excessive. This patch limits the calls to once for every 256 iterations. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
There is no reason to maintain the list structure while freeing the debug elements. Aside from the redundant pointer manipulations, it is also inefficient from a locality-of-reference viewpoint, since they are visited in a random order (wrt. the order they were allocated). Furthermore, if we jumped to exit: after detecting list corruption, it is actually dangerous. So just free the elements in the order they were allocated, using the backing array elts. Allocate that using kcalloc(), so that if allocation of one of the debug element fails, we just end up calling kfree(NULL) for the trailing elements. Minor details: Use sizeof(*elts) instead of sizeof(void *), and return err immediately when allocation of elts fails, to avoid introducing another label just before the final return statement. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Add a check to make sure that the prev pointer of the list head points to the last element on the list. Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
It's been nearly 3 years now since commit 55036ba7 ("lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()") so it's time to remove this deprecated and unused static inline. 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>
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Fabian Frederick authored
Use kernel.h definition. Signed-off-by:
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mathias Krause authored
Complement commit 68aecfb9 ("lib/string_helpers.c: make arrays static") by making the arrays const -- not only pointing to const strings. This moves them out of the data section to the r/o data section: text data bss dec hex filename 1150 176 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.old.o 1326 0 0 1326 52e lib/string_helpers.new.o Signed-off-by:
Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gui Hecheng authored
For modern filesystems such as btrfs, t/p/e size level operations are common. add size unit t/p/e parsing to memparse Signed-off-by:
Gui Hecheng <guihc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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George Spelvin authored
The function may be useful for other drivers, so export it. (Suggested by Tejun Heo.) Note that I inverted the return value of glob_match; returning true on match seemed to make more sense. Signed-off-by:
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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George Spelvin authored
This was useful during development, and is retained for future regression testing. GCC appears to have no way to place string literals in a particular section; adding __initconst to a char pointer leaves the string itself in the default string section, where it will not be thrown away after module load. Thus all string constants are kept in explicitly declared and named arrays. Sorry this makes printk a bit harder to read. At least the tests are more compact. Signed-off-by:
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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George Spelvin authored
This is a helper function from drivers/ata/libata_core.c, where it is used to blacklist particular device models. It's being moved to lib/ so other drivers may use it for the same purpose. This implementation in non-recursive, so is safe for the kernel stack. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparse warning] Signed-off-by:
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Cleanup unused `if 0'-ed functions, which have been dead since 2006 (commits 87c2ce3b ("lib/zlib*: cleanups") by Adrian Bunk and 4f3865fb ("zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version") by Richard Purdie): - zlib_deflateSetDictionary - zlib_deflateParams - zlib_deflateCopy - zlib_inflateSync - zlib_syncsearch - zlib_inflateSetDictionary - zlib_inflatePrime Signed-off-by:
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ken Helias authored
The name was modified from hlist_add_after() to hlist_add_behind() when adjusting the order of arguments to match the one with klist_add_after(). This is necessary to break old code when it would use it the wrong way. Make klist follow this naming scheme for consistency. Signed-off-by:
Ken Helias <kenhelias@firemail.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ken Helias authored
All other add functions for lists have the new item as first argument and the position where it is added as second argument. This was changed for no good reason in this function and makes using it unnecessary confusing. The name was changed to hlist_add_behind() to cause unconverted code to generate a compile error instead of using the wrong parameter order. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Ken Helias <kenhelias@firemail.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> [intel driver bits] Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ken Helias authored
The argument names for hlist_add_after() are poorly chosen because they look the same as the ones for hlist_add_before() but have to be used differently. hlist_add_after_rcu() has made a better choice. Signed-off-by:
Ken Helias <kenhelias@firemail.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Neil Zhang authored
Fix coccinelle warnings. Signed-off-by:
Neil Zhang <zhangwm@marvell.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara authored
We need interrupts disabled when calling console_trylock_for_printk() only so that cpu id we pass to can_use_console() remains valid (for other things console_sem provides all the exclusion we need and deadlocks on console_sem due to interrupts are impossible because we use down_trylock()). However if we are rescheduled, we are guaranteed to run on an online cpu so we can easily just get the cpu id in can_use_console(). We can lose a bit of performance when we enable interrupts in vprintk_emit() and then disable them again in console_unlock() but OTOH it can somewhat reduce interrupt latency caused by console_unlock(). We differ from (reverted) commit 939f04be in that we avoid calling console_unlock() from vprintk_emit() with lockdep enabled as that has unveiled quite some bugs leading to system freezes during boot (e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/242, https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/28/521). Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Tested-by:
Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
Some small cleanups to kernel/printk/printk.c. None of them should cause any change in behavior. - When CONFIG_PRINTK is defined, parenthesize the value of LOG_LINE_MAX. - When CONFIG_PRINTK is *not* defined, there is an extra LOG_LINE_MAX definition; delete it. - Pull an assignment out of a conditional expression in console_setup(). - Use isdigit() in console_setup() rather than open coding it. - In update_console_cmdline(), drop a NUL-termination assignment; the strlcpy() call that precedes it guarantees it's not needed. - Simplify some logic in printk_timed_ratelimit(). Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Reviewed-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
Use the IS_ENABLED() macro rather than #ifdef blocks to set certain global values. Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Acked-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
Fix a few comments that don't accurately describe their corresponding code. It also fixes some minor typographical errors. Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Reviewed-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
Commit a8fe19eb ("kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevels") makes consistent use of symbolic values for printk() log levels. The naming scheme used is different from the one used for DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL though. Change that symbol name to be MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT for consistency. And because the value of that symbol comes from a similarly-named config option, rename CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL as well. Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
In do_syslog() there's a path used by kmsg_poll() and kmsg_read() that only needs to know whether there's any data available to read (and not its size). These callers only check for non-zero return. As a shortcut, do_syslog() returns the difference between what has been logged and what has been "seen." The comments say that the "count of records" should be returned but it's not. Instead it returns (log_next_idx - syslog_idx), which is a difference between buffer offsets--and the result could be negative. The behavior is the same (it'll be zero or not in the same cases), but the count of records is more meaningful and it matches what the comments say. So change the code to return that. Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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