From 22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:45:46 -0800 Subject: async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven --- kernel/module.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 496dcb57b608..c9332c90d5a0 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #if 0 #define DEBUGP printk @@ -816,6 +817,7 @@ sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags) mod->exit(); blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list, MODULE_STATE_GOING, mod); + async_synchronize_full(); mutex_lock(&module_mutex); /* Store the name of the last unloaded module for diagnostic purposes */ strlcpy(last_unloaded_module, mod->name, sizeof(last_unloaded_module)); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 17da2bd90abf428523de0fb98f7075e00e3ed42e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:14:10 +0100 Subject: [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08 Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- kernel/module.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index c9332c90d5a0..e8b51d41dd72 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -743,8 +743,8 @@ static void wait_for_zero_refcount(struct module *mod) mutex_lock(&module_mutex); } -asmlinkage long -sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags) +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, + unsigned int, flags) { struct module *mod; char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN]; @@ -2296,10 +2296,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, } /* This is where the real work happens */ -asmlinkage long -sys_init_module(void __user *umod, - unsigned long len, - const char __user *uargs) +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user *, umod, + unsigned long, len, const char __user *, uargs) { struct module *mod; int ret = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3