)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "e899aa823ad74860a17b541b0ad38f513728923d", "tree": "019c4a1b7baafe9967aa50cc49e809c11d39f944", "parents": [ "ff083c8372f6312bb3a8c7f7b748920aeeb210c9" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Machek", "email": "pavel@suse.cz", "time": "Tue Jan 06 14:40:53 2009 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jan 06 15:59:12 2009 -0800" }, "message": "strict_strto* is not strict enough\n\nIt decodes \"\\n\" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight\nwill turn your backlight off, etc...\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nCc: Yi Yang \u003cyi.y.yang@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d97106ab53f812910a62d18afb9dbe882819c1ba", "tree": "edd1a2c287b7d98ee7b62e7ea6457c8a10abe016", "parents": [ "3bfacef412b4bc993a8992217e50f1245f2fd3a6" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat Jan 03 11:46:17 2009 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat Jan 03 11:46:17 2009 -0800" }, "message": "Make %p print \u0027(null)\u0027 for NULL pointers\n\nBefore, when we only ever printed out the pointer value itself, a NULL\npointer would never cause issues and might as well be printed out as\njust its numeric value.\n\nHowever, with the extended %p formats, especially %pR, we might validly\nwant to print out resources for debugging. And sometimes they don\u0027t\neven exist, and the resource pointer is just NULL. Print it out as\nsuch, rather than oopsing.\n\nThis is a more generic version of a patch done by Trent Piepho (catching\nall %p cases rather than just %pR, and using \"(null)\" instead of\n\"[NULL]\" to match glibc).\n\nRequested-by: Trent Piepho \u003cxyzzy@speakeasy.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "411c41eea58bd3500cf897e2c27dd5330935a3a8", "tree": "c6987d1351581def73321b7c8d518ac75db876a2", "parents": [ "9c8f92aed16dbd1924910f3305f5992a4f29fe2a" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Tue Nov 25 00:40:37 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Tue Nov 25 00:40:37 2008 -0800" }, "message": "aoe: remove private mac address format function\n\nAdd %pm to omit the colons when printing a mac address.\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b9ac99855dcc0316ba2feee2b0d3e578f8315b75", "tree": "7ca8a4864a3a8f29bc53ab705954c7e7220d2686", "parents": [ "48148938b494cd57029a43c758e9972307a31d2a" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Mon Nov 03 17:09:55 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Nov 03 17:09:55 2008 -0800" }, "message": "printk: ipv4 address digits printed in reverse order\n\nput_dec_trunc prints the digits in reverse order and is reversed\ninside number(). Continue using put_dec_trunc, but reverse each quad\nin ip4_addr_string.\n\n[Noticed by Julius Volz]\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6b9a1066f8d4c57c1b778affd91fc38e1121b6f8", "tree": "6dd772a39de80c2eef621f40e307156fcb1ec2a8", "parents": [ "5b095d98928fdb9e3b75be20a54b7a6cbf6ca9ad" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Wed Oct 29 12:53:10 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 29 12:53:10 2008 -0700" }, "message": "printk: remove %p6 format specifier, fix up comments\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4aa996066ffc0dba24036c961ee38dfdfbfc061c", "tree": "61af96e4806e71048b981936b54abdb5506e950a", "parents": [ "96631ed16c514cf8b28fab991a076985ce378c26" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Wed Oct 29 12:49:58 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 29 12:49:58 2008 -0700" }, "message": "printk: add %I4, %I6, %i4, %i6 format specifiers\n\nFor use in printing IPv4, or IPv6 addresses in the usual way:\n\n%i4 and %I4 are currently equivalent and print the address in\ndot-separated decimal x.x.x.x\n\n%I6 prints 16-bit network order hex with colon separators:\nxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx\n\n%i6 omits the colons.\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "689afa7da106032a3e859ae35494f80dd6eac640", "tree": "470f00c94ff2f179c6b0405c4726b92a51e7110a", "parents": [ "3a2dfbe8acb154905fdc2fd03ec56df42e6c4cc4" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Tue Oct 28 16:04:44 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Tue Oct 28 16:04:44 2008 -0700" }, "message": "printk: add %p6 format specifier for IPv6 addresses\n\nTakes a pointer to a IPv6 address and formats it in the usual\ncolon-separated hex format:\nxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx\n\nEach 16 bit word is printed in network-endian byteorder.\n\n%#p6 is also supported and will omit the colons.\n\n%p6 is a replacement for NIP6_FMT and NIP6()\n%#p6 is a replacement for NIP6_SEQFMT and NIP6()\n\nNote that NIP6() took a struct in6_addr whereas this takes a pointer\nto a struct in6_addr.\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "dd45c9cf687682c9ce256ab14bd8914db77410bb", "tree": "0769c1655b55f2528e9aaf8f96ba8d856f72f0ca", "parents": [ "1080d709fb9d8cd4392f93476ee46a9d6ea05a5b" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Mon Oct 27 15:47:12 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@davemloft.net", "time": "Mon Oct 27 17:06:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses\n\nAdd format specifiers for printing out six colon-separated bytes:\n\nMAC addresses (%pM):\nxx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx\n\n%#pM is also supported and omits the colon separators.\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "332d2e7834986a9326ec3fa6a91641daef81746c", "tree": "06a7bdc9675485577080b5af964fd6480a2670fa", "parents": [ "88e366217e8f75bd7eab64f4aa4ff9583070b0af" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Oct 20 15:07:34 2008 +1100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Oct 20 09:12:32 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Implement %pR to print struct resource content\n\nAdd a %pR option to the kernel vsnprintf that prints the range of\naddresses inside a struct resource passed by pointer.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9d85db2244d71fa4f2f9747a090c1920f07a8b4b", "tree": "5ae72c9df6cdc1ade8fcff0c3bbe7aad5f875fe5", "parents": [ "22d27051b4b2a2650c54fa3f08c2c271c6234a2f" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Thu Oct 16 13:40:35 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 14:58:08 2008 -0700" }, "message": "lib: remove defining macros for strict_strto??\n\nOpen-code them rather than using defining macros. The function bodies are now\nnext to their kerneldoc comments as a bonus.\n\nAdd casts to the signed cases as they call into the unsigned versions.\n\nAvoids the sparse warnings:\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: expected unsigned long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: got long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: expected unsigned long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:249:1: got long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: expected unsigned long long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: got long long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: expected unsigned long long *res\nlib/vsprintf.c:251:1: got long long *res\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "22d27051b4b2a2650c54fa3f08c2c271c6234a2f", "tree": "ca1b72ecfdbc710ff6ab975ef85af53daaf6911b", "parents": [ "aa46a63efc896f0a6d54e7614e750788793582e5" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Thu Oct 16 13:40:35 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 14:58:07 2008 -0700" }, "message": "lib: trivial whitespace tidy\n\nRemove extra lines before the EXPORT_SYMBOL()s\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "aa46a63efc896f0a6d54e7614e750788793582e5", "tree": "c5b7b23186e6a47f56f00b139bf61a8faa477692", "parents": [ "73b4a24f5ff09389ba6277c53a266b142f655ed2" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Thu Oct 16 13:40:34 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 14:58:07 2008 -0700" }, "message": "lib: pull base-guessing logic to helper function\n\nThe default base is 10 unless there is a leading zero, in which\ncase the base will be guessed as 8.\n\nThe base will only be guesed as 16 when the string starts with \u00270x\u0027\nthe third character is a valid hex digit.\n\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "20036fdcaf05fac0a84ed81a56906493a7d822e2", "tree": "df06d92ffa8190dfafa59cbb7528564f8d0a055a", "parents": [ "9536727ef696861b205834dd2e01456b91088cb7" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@firstfloor.org", "time": "Wed Oct 15 22:02:02 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 11:21:32 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions\n\nAdd documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions\n\nThis patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc.\n\nHope I didn\u0027t miss any other extension.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "deac93df26b20cf8438339b5935b5f5643bc30c9", "tree": "8e67edd505e4a8bde380c724b67ce9ca98b8ee91", "parents": [ "7ae115b4f50d3c5824f1a15e572b5de9d1b06d35" ], "author": { "name": "James Bottomley", "email": "James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com", "time": "Wed Sep 03 20:43:36 2008 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Sep 09 11:51:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures\n\nIt was introduced by \"vsprintf: add support for \u0027%pS\u0027 and \u0027%pF\u0027 pointer\nformats\" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2. However,\nthe current way its coded doesn\u0027t work on parisc64. For two reasons: 1)\nparisc isn\u0027t in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for\nfunction descriptors\n\nMake dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing\narchitecture overrides. I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64\nand ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that\u0027s where the kernel\ninternal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.\n\nSigned-off-by: James Bottomley \u003cJames.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Kyle McMartin \u003ckyle@mcmartin.ca\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "29a6d39bf3a890ad1d29e66baa9f4bc8d9334f3a", "tree": "099db96f315e95e28755e88a2914c1abbc3dcb70", "parents": [ "afa9b649aa699297258dbb67aaae651c9ad4245f" ], "author": { "name": "Yi Yang", "email": "yi.y.yang@intel.com", "time": "Tue Aug 12 15:08:58 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Aug 12 16:07:29 2008 -0700" }, "message": "lib/vsprintf.c: wrong conversion function used\n\nFix wrong conversion function used by strict_strtou*\n\nSigned-off-by: Yi Yang \u003cyi.y.yang@intel.com\u003e\nReported-by: Swen Schillig \u003cswen@vnet.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2", "tree": "0069dd9dba6554f74436ea1d836ecc054a6b95d7", "parents": [ "4d8a743cdd2690c0bc8d1b8cbd02cffb1ead849f" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:43:12 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:55:51 2008 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf: add support for \u0027%pS\u0027 and \u0027%pF\u0027 pointer formats\n\nThey print out a pointer in symbolic format, if possible (ie using\nsymbolic KALLSYMS information). The \u0027%pS\u0027 format is for regular direct\npointers (which can point to data or code and that you find on the stack\nduring backtraces etc), while \u0027%pF\u0027 is for C function pointer types.\n\nOn most architectures, the two mean exactly the same thing, but some\narchitectures use an indirect pointer for C function pointers, where the\nfunction pointer points to a function descriptor (which in turn contains\nthe actual pointer to the code). The \u0027%pF\u0027 code automatically does the\nappropriate function descriptor dereference on such architectures.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4d8a743cdd2690c0bc8d1b8cbd02cffb1ead849f", "tree": "772c0e66fba248da8736edc4b633ddf294b86e8b", "parents": [ "78a8bf69b32980879975f7e31d30386c50bfe851" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:24:57 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:24:57 2008 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf: add infrastructure support for extended \u0027%p\u0027 specifiers\n\nThis expands the kernel \u0027%p\u0027 handling with an arbitrary alphanumberic\nspecifier extension string immediately following the \u0027%p\u0027. Right now\nit\u0027s just being ignored, but the next commit will start adding some\nspecific pointer type extensions.\n\nNOTE! The reason the extension is appended to the \u0027%p\u0027 is to allow\nminimal gcc type checking: gcc will still see the \u0027%p\u0027 and will check\nthat the argument passed in is indeed a pointer, and yet will not\ncomplain about the extended information that gcc doesn\u0027t understand\nabout (on the other hand, it also won\u0027t actually check that the pointer\ntype and the extension are compatible).\n\nAlphanumeric characters were chosen because there is no sane existing\nuse for a string format with a hex pointer representation immediately\nfollowed by alphanumerics (which is what such a format string would have\ntraditionally resulted in).\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "78a8bf69b32980879975f7e31d30386c50bfe851", "tree": "577521810087b901f9207f9cdbbe884ced43e490", "parents": [ "0f9bfa569d46f2346a53a940b2b9e49a38635732" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:16:15 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:16:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf: split out \u0027%p\u0027 handling logic\n\nThe actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function.\nThis makes it easier to read, and allows for simple future extension\nof %p handling.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0f9bfa569d46f2346a53a940b2b9e49a38635732", "tree": "ca301743d54bc7f4e0fea3f541db1b23768f9934", "parents": [ "1b40a895df6c7d5a80e71f65674060b03d84bbef" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:06:25 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Jul 06 16:06:25 2008 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf: split out \u0027%s\u0027 handling logic\n\nThe actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function.\nThis makes it easier to read, and allows for future sharing of the\nstring code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4f9d5f4a353440f2265781bfa641587964901861", "tree": "4e0ecda794f226859349b67c18a0a3dc43155f17", "parents": [ "8ca3ed87db062201e1fa15b64a9214e193fc3a8a" ], "author": { "name": "Hoang-Nam Nguyen", "email": "hnguyen@linux.vnet.ibm.com", "time": "Sat Feb 23 15:23:37 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat Feb 23 17:12:14 2008 -0800" }, "message": "lib/vsprintf.c: fix bug omitting minus sign of numbers (module_param)\n\nlib/vsprintf.c: Fix bug omitting minus sign of numbers (module_param)\n\nSigned-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen \u003chnguyen@de.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Yi Yang \u003cyi.y.yang@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9b706aee7d92d6ac3002547aea12e3eaa0a750ae", "tree": "b1e945b7d6eccd4ef44d80e1f3a4596a4a629c78", "parents": [ "b6fbb669c8ef3a112121697ca901c290ccd35eb2" ], "author": { "name": "Denys Vlasenko", "email": "vda.linux@googlemail.com", "time": "Sat Feb 09 23:24:09 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Thomas Gleixner", "email": "tglx@linutronix.de", "time": "Sat Feb 09 23:24:09 2008 +0100" }, "message": "x86: trivial printk optimizations\n\nIn arch/x86/boot/printf.c gets rid of unused tail of digits: const char\n*digits \u003d \"0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\"; (we are using 0-9a-f\nonly)\n\nUses smaller/faster lowercasing (by ORing with 0x20)\nif we know that we work on numbers/digits. Makes\nstrtoul smaller, and also we are getting rid of\n\n static const char small_digits[] \u003d \"0123456789abcdefx\";\n static const char large_digits[] \u003d \"0123456789ABCDEFX\";\n\nsince this works equally well:\n\n static const char digits[16] \u003d \"0123456789ABCDEF\";\n\nSize savings:\n\n$ size vmlinux.org vmlinux\n text data bss dec hex filename\n 877320 112252 90112 1079684 107984 vmlinux.org\n 877048 112252 90112 1079412 107874 vmlinux\n\nIt may be also a tiny bit faster because code has less\nbranches now, but I doubt it is measurable.\n\n[ hugh@veritas.com: uppercase pointers fix ]\n\nSigned-off-by: Denys Vlasenko \u003cvda.linux@googlemail.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "06b2a76d25d3cfbd14680021c1d356c91be6904e", "tree": "d7bc9d65fc7cfa9b30a9e3c731fd7a3e8d8c0100", "parents": [ "10e6f32bdf02448f787d78647e75cf98a02f19a4" ], "author": { "name": "Yi Yang", "email": "yi.y.yang@intel.com", "time": "Fri Feb 08 04:21:57 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Feb 08 09:22:41 2008 -0800" }, "message": "Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use them\n\nCurrently, for every sysfs node, the callers will be responsible for\nimplementing store operation, so many many callers are doing duplicate\nthings to validate input, they have the same mistakes because they are\ncalling simple_strtol/ul/ll/uul, especially for module params, they are\njust numeric, but you can echo such values as 0x1234xxx, 07777888 and\n1234aaa, for these cases, module params store operation just ignores\nsuccesive invalid char and converts prefix part to a numeric although input\nis acctually invalid.\n\nThis patch tries to fix the aforementioned issues and implements\nstrict_strtox serial functions, kernel/params.c uses them to strictly\nvalidate input, so module params will reject such values as 0x1234xxxx and\nreturns an error:\n\nwrite error: Invalid argument\n\nAny modules which export numeric sysfs node can use strict_strtox instead of\nsimple_strtox to reject any invalid input.\n\nHere are some test results:\n\nBefore applying this patch:\n\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]#\n\nAfter applying this patch:\n\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo -n 4096 \u003e /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak\n4096\n[root@yangyi-dev /]#\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiler warnings]\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one found by tiwai@suse.de]\nSigned-off-by: Yi Yang \u003cyi.y.yang@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nCc: \"Randy.Dunlap\" \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nCc: Takashi Iwai \u003ctiwai@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "96e3e18eed3b48f6d4377dee0326a106e8a04569", "tree": "d6e4d66ec415ffc934930f32ed62cebe403e9a29", "parents": [ "9965a5d5a5aab575f995ba58dc80285aa0f6ecbf" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jul 31 00:38:13 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 31 15:39:39 2007 -0700" }, "message": "lib: move kasprintf to a separate file\n\nkasprintf pulls in kmalloc which proved to be fatal for at least\nbootimage target on alpha.\nMove it to a separate file so only users of kasprintf are exposed\nto the dependency on kmalloc.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@goop.org\u003e\nCc: Meelis Roos \u003cmroos@linux.ee\u003e\nCc: Richard Henderson \u003crth@twiddle.net\u003e\nCc: Ivan Kokshaysky \u003cink@jurassic.park.msu.ru\u003e\nCc: Jay Estabrook \u003cjay.estabrook@hp.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4277eedd7908a0ca8b66fad46ee76b0ad96e6ef2", "tree": "88780b40c23883af5e9958a7f397f23ff5619ff7", "parents": [ "b39a734097d5095d63eb9c709a6aaf965633bb01" ], "author": { "name": "Denis Vlasenko", "email": "vda.linux@googlemail.com", "time": "Sun Jul 15 23:41:56 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 09:05:52 2007 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 2: base 10 conversion speedup, v2\n\nOptimize integer-to-string conversion in vsprintf.c for base 10. This is\nby far the most used conversion, and in some use cases it impacts\nperformance. For example, top reads /proc/$PID/stat for every process, and\nwith 4000 processes decimal conversion alone takes noticeable time.\n\nUsing code from\n\nhttp://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/decimal.html\n(with permission from the author, Douglas W. Jones)\n\nbinary-to-decimal-string conversion is done in groups of five digits at\nonce, using only additions/subtractions/shifts (with -O2; -Os throws in\nsome multiply instructions).\n\nOn i386 arch gcc 4.1.2 -O2 generates ~500 bytes of code.\n\nThis patch is run tested. Userspace benchmark/test is also attached.\nI tested it on PIII and AMD64 and new code is generally ~2.5 times\nfaster. On AMD64:\n\n# ./vsprintf_verify-O2\nOriginal decimal conv: .......... 151 ns per iteration\nPatched decimal conv: .......... 62 ns per iteration\nTesting correctness\n12895992590592 ok... [Ctrl-C]\n# ./vsprintf_verify-O2\nOriginal decimal conv: .......... 151 ns per iteration\nPatched decimal conv: .......... 62 ns per iteration\nTesting correctness\n26025406464 ok... [Ctrl-C]\n\nMore realistic test: top from busybox project was modified to\nreport how many us it took to scan /proc (this does not account\nany processing done after that, like sorting process list),\nand then I test it with 4000 processes:\n\n#!/bin/sh\ni\u003d4000\nwhile test $i !\u003d 0; do\n sleep 30 \u0026\n let i--\ndone\nbusybox top -b -n3 \u003e/dev/null\n\non unpatched kernel:\n\ntop: 4120 processes took 102864 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 91757 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 92517 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 92581 microseconds to scan\n\non patched kernel:\n\ntop: 4120 processes took 75460 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 66451 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 67267 microseconds to scan\ntop: 4120 processes took 67618 microseconds to scan\n\nThe speedup comes from much faster generation of /proc/PID/stat\nby sprintf() calls inside the kernel.\n\nSigned-off-by: Douglas W Jones \u003cjones@cs.uiowa.edu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Denys Vlasenko \u003cvda.linux@googlemail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b39a734097d5095d63eb9c709a6aaf965633bb01", "tree": "78afaae4c1229163279b902bacf99445dc16e767", "parents": [ "4b4e5a1411c8b970983fb6022db1da31c4f5c301" ], "author": { "name": "Denis Vlasenko", "email": "vda.linux@googlemail.com", "time": "Sun Jul 15 23:41:54 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 09:05:52 2007 -0700" }, "message": "vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 1 (easy and obvious stuff)\n\n* There is no point in having full \"0...9a...z\" constant vector,\n if we use only \"0...9a...f\" (and \"x\" for \"0x\").\n\n* Post-decrement usually needs a few more instructions, so use\n pre decrement instead where makes sense:\n-       while (i \u003c precision--) {\n+       while (i \u003c\u003d --precision) {\n\n* if base !\u003d 10 (\u003d\u003e base 8 or 16), we can avoid using division\n in a loop and use mask/shift, obtaining much faster conversion.\n (More complex optimization for base 10 case is in the second patch).\n\nOverall, size vsprintf.o shows ~80 bytes smaller text section\nwith this patch applied.\n\nSigned-off-by: Douglas W Jones \u003cjones@cs.uiowa.edu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Denys Vlasenko \u003cvda.linux@googlemail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c6b40d16d1cfa1a01158049bb887a9bbe48ef7ba", "tree": "72eac6e26f928780fe722ad45ff6eeb6807d2356", "parents": [ "757dea93e136b219af09d3cd56a81063fdbdef1a" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Tue May 08 00:27:20 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:15:05 2007 -0700" }, "message": "fix sscanf %n match at end of input string\n\nI was playing with some code that sometimes got a string where a %n\nmatch should have been done where the input string ended, for example\nlike this:\n\n sscanf(\"abc123\", \"abc%d%n\", \u0026a, \u0026n); /* doesn\u0027t work */\n sscanf(\"abc123a\", \"abc%d%n\", \u0026a, \u0026n); /* works */\n\nHowever, the scanf function in the kernel doesn\u0027t convert the %n in that\ncase because it has already matched the complete input after %d and just\ncompletely stops matching then. This patch fixes that.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "11443ec7d9286dd25663516436a14edfb5f43857", "tree": "121137dbd7b323cd5dce71cbb8da8119a642b731", "parents": [ "9684e51cd157607f0727c1550e7df6e31de40808" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@goop.org", "time": "Mon Apr 30 15:09:56 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Apr 30 16:40:40 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Add kvasprintf()\n\nAdd a kvasprintf() function to complement kasprintf().\n\nNo in-tree users yet, but I have some coming up.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: EXPORT it]\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nCc: Keir Fraser \u003ckeir@xensource.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ea6f3281a145d16ed53e88b0627f78d5cde6068f", "tree": "75aa9f225b73cb7bdcca87e42462f03c0d8f612e", "parents": [ "91dd26ad2c04a1bbf179df4dca98f34db2f70716" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Peschke", "email": "mp3@de.ibm.com", "time": "Mon Feb 12 00:51:56 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Feb 12 09:48:28 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] scnprintf(): fix a comment\n\nThe return value of scnprintf() never exceeds @size.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Peschke \u003cmp3@de.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "72fd4a35a824331d7a0f4168d7576502d95d34b3", "tree": "be27880bc36b7f62e8044a88b8744a35c5317714", "parents": [ "262086cf5b5343c2b81c97b1c606058e921859df" ], "author": { "name": "Robert P. J. Day", "email": "rpjday@mindspring.com", "time": "Sat Feb 10 01:45:59 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun Feb 11 10:51:32 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.\n\nA variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in\nsource files, including:\n\n * make multi-line initial descriptions single line\n * denote some function names, constants and structs as such\n * change erroneous opening \u0027/*\u0027 to \u0027/**\u0027 in a few places\n * reword some text for clarity\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert P. J. Day \u003crpjday@mindspring.com\u003e\nCc: \"Randy.Dunlap\" \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0a6047eef1c465c38aacfbdab193161b3f0cd144", "tree": "3347213ad162a9570d6f4c5cffa1f8db7abb7cba", "parents": [ "27d68a36c4f1ca2fc6be82620843493462c08c51" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jun 28 17:09:34 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jun 28 17:09:34 2006 -0700" }, "message": "Fix vsnprintf off-by-one bug\n\nThe recent vsnprintf() fix introduced an off-by-one, and it\u0027s now\npossible to overrun the target buffer by one byte.\n\nThe \"end\" pointer points to past the end of the buffer, so if we\nhave to truncate the result, it needs to be done though \"end[-1]\".\n\n[ This is just an alternate and simpler patch to one proposed by Andrew\n and Jeremy, who actually noticed the problem ]\n\nAcked-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@goop.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e905914f96e11862b130dd229f73045dad9a34e8", "tree": "0e7cff381970e2439de521c3d42ded8c49f69354", "parents": [ "f796937a062c7aeb44cd0e75e1586c8543634a7d" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@xensource.com", "time": "Sun Jun 25 05:49:17 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jun 25 10:01:23 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Implement kasprintf\n\nImplement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf. This allocates the\nmemory required for the formatted string, including the trailing \u0027\\0\u0027.\nReturns NULL on allocation failure.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f796937a062c7aeb44cd0e75e1586c8543634a7d", "tree": "c3cfcbb27e291621e31cff71288f3e82d8b149a8", "parents": [ "891c668b90ded38cec36f0852c4983573597170d" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@xensource.com", "time": "Sun Jun 25 05:49:17 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jun 25 10:01:23 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix bounds check in vsnprintf, to allow for a 0 size and NULL buffer\n\nThis change allows callers to use a 0-byte buffer and a NULL buffer pointer\nwith vsnprintf, so it can be used to determine how large the resulting\nformatted string will be.\n\nPreviously the code effectively treated a size of 0 as a size of 4G (on\n32-bit systems), with other checks preventing it from actually trying to\nemit the string - but the terminal \\0 would still be written, which would\ncrash if the buffer is NULL.\n\nThis change changes the boundary check so that \u0027end\u0027 points to the putative\nlocation of the terminal \u0027\\0\u0027, which is only written if size \u003e 0.\n\nvsnprintf still allows the buffer size to be set very large, to allow\nunbounded buffer sizes (to implement sprintf, etc).\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: fix long-vs-longlong confusion]\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4e57b6817880946a3a78d5d8cad1ace363f7e449", "tree": "b6b5f3f9e8e52cc55d98239a4992e72e983c8fa4", "parents": [ "b0423a0d9cc836b2c3d796623cd19236bfedfe63" ], "author": { "name": "Tim Schmielau", "email": "tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de", "time": "Sun Oct 30 15:03:48 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Oct 30 17:37:32 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] fix missing includes\n\nI recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of\nsched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h\nfrom module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h\nby ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after\nthis disentangling (patch to follow later).\nHowever, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.\n\nIn order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as\npossible, I\u0027ve split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for\ni386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real\npatch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only\nadding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any\nhunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts\nwill pick it up again in the next round.\n\nSigned-off-by: Tim Schmielau \u003ctim@physik3.uni-rostock.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8032230694ec56c168a1404c67a54d281536cbed", "tree": "b3079a0781ab60de50cf4a0cc69e073985c165b4", "parents": [ "acd3bd82c08d1a399760605706a86821148243d9" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@www.linux.org.uk", "time": "Tue Aug 23 22:48:17 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Aug 23 18:43:46 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] %t... in vsnprintf\n\nhandling of %t... (ptrdiff_t) in vsnprintf\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }