Subject: [merged] kprobes-ensure-blacklist-data-is-aligned.patch removed from -mm tree To: vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx,masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx,mingo@xxxxxxx,mingo@xxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:27:51 -0700 The patch titled Subject: kprobes: ensure blacklist data is aligned has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was kprobes-ensure-blacklist-data-is-aligned.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kprobes: ensure blacklist data is aligned ARC Linux (not supporting native unaligned access) was failing to boot because __start_kprobe_blacklist was not aligned. This was because per generated vmlinux.lds it was emitted right next to .rodata with strings etc hence could be randomly unaligned. Fix that by ensuring a word alignment. While 4 would suffice for 32bit arches and problem at hand, it is probably better to put 8. | Path: (null) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted | 3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430 #2 | task: 8f044000 ti: 8f01e000 task.ti: 8f01e000 | | [ECR ]: 0x00230400 => Misaligned r/w from 0x800fb0d3 | [EFA ]: 0x800fb0d3 | [BLINK ]: do_one_initcall+0x86/0x1bc | [ERET ]: init_kprobes+0x52/0x120 Fixes commit 376e242429bf8539ef39a080ac113c8799840b13 Author: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu Apr 17 17:17:05 2014 +0900 Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Thu Apr 24 10:02:56 2014 +0200 kprobes: Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro to maintain kprobes blacklist Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~kprobes-ensure-blacklist-data-is-aligned include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~kprobes-ensure-blacklist-data-is-aligned +++ a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ #endif #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES -#define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_kprobe_blacklist) = .; \ +#define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() . = ALIGN(8); \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_kprobe_blacklist) = .; \ *(_kprobe_blacklist) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_kprobe_blacklist) = .; #else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx are arc-call-find_vma-with-the-mmap_sem-held.patch arc-call-find_vma-with-the-mmap_sem-held-fix.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html