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Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:39:21 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Cc:	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delegate unknown module parameters to interested
 parties

[ Added Rusty "Module God" Russell ]


On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:11 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This is a sketch of what I had in mind for trace to do the event
> initialisation on the modules behalf.
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/module.h      |    8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/moduleparam.h |    3 ++-
>  init/main.c                 |    8 ++++----
>  kernel/module.c             |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/params.c             |   10 ++++++----
>  kernel/trace/trace_events.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
>  6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
> index b29e745..84daad8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/module.h
> +++ b/include/linux/module.h
> @@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ enum module_state
>  	MODULE_STATE_GOING,
>  };
>  
> +#define MODULE_UNKNOWN_PARAM (MODULE_STATE_GOING + 1)
> +
> +struct module_unknown_param {
> +	struct module *mod;
> +	char *param;
> +	char *val;
> +};
> +
>  struct module
>  {
>  	enum module_state state;
> diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
> index 112adf8..5e24ec1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
> +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
> @@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ extern int parse_args(const char *name,
>  		      char *args,
>  		      const struct kernel_param *params,
>  		      unsigned num,
> -		      int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val));
> +		      int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val, void *data),
> +		      void *data);
>  
>  /* Called by module remove. */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index e59af24..782780e 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ early_param("loglevel", loglevel);
>   * Unknown boot options get handed to init, unless they look like
>   * unused parameters (modprobe will find them in /proc/cmdline).
>   */
> -static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val)
> +static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val, void *data)
>  {
>  	/* Change NUL term back to "=", to make "param" the whole string. */
>  	if (val) {
> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void)
>  }
>  
>  /* Check for early params. */
> -static int __init do_early_param(char *param, char *val)
> +static int __init do_early_param(char *param, char *val, void *data)
>  {
>  	const struct obs_kernel_param *p;
>  
> @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static int __init do_early_param(char *param, char *val)
>  
>  void __init parse_early_options(char *cmdline)
>  {
> -	parse_args("early options", cmdline, NULL, 0, do_early_param);
> +	parse_args("early options", cmdline, NULL, 0, do_early_param, NULL);
>  }
>  
>  /* Arch code calls this early on, or if not, just before other parsing. */
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>  	parse_early_param();
>  	parse_args("Booting kernel", static_command_line, __start___param,
>  		   __stop___param - __start___param,
> -		   &unknown_bootoption);
> +		   &unknown_bootoption, NULL);
>  	/*
>  	 * These use large bootmem allocations and must precede
>  	 * kmem_cache_init()
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 2df4630..87ce541 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2544,6 +2544,24 @@ static int post_relocation(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
>  	return module_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
>  }
>  
> +static int unknown_param(char *param, char *val, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct module_unknown_param arg;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	arg.mod = data;
> +	arg.param = param;
> +	arg.val = val;
> +
> +	ret = blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list,
> +					  MODULE_UNKNOWN_PARAM,
> +					  &arg);
> +	if (ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK)
> +		return notifier_to_errno(ret);
> +
> +	return -ENOENT;
> +}
> +
>  /* Allocate and load the module: note that size of section 0 is always
>     zero, and we rely on this for optional sections. */
>  static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
> @@ -2637,7 +2655,8 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
>  	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
>  
>  	/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
> -	err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp, NULL);
> +	err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
> +			 unknown_param, mod);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		goto unlink;
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
> index 08107d1..d8c707c 100644
> --- a/kernel/params.c
> +++ b/kernel/params.c
> @@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ static int parse_one(char *param,
>  		     char *val,
>  		     const struct kernel_param *params,
>  		     unsigned num_params,
> -		     int (*handle_unknown)(char *param, char *val))
> +		     int (*handle_unknown)(char *param, char *val, void *data),
> +		     void *data)
>  {
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	int err;
> @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ static int parse_one(char *param,
>  
>  	if (handle_unknown) {
>  		DEBUGP("Unknown argument: calling %p\n", handle_unknown);
> -		return handle_unknown(param, val);
> +		return handle_unknown(param, val, data);
>  	}
>  
>  	DEBUGP("Unknown argument `%s'\n", param);
> @@ -173,7 +174,8 @@ int parse_args(const char *name,
>  	       char *args,
>  	       const struct kernel_param *params,
>  	       unsigned num,
> -	       int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val))
> +	       int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val, void *data),
> +	       void *data)
>  {
>  	char *param, *val;
>  
> @@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ int parse_args(const char *name,
>  
>  		args = next_arg(args, &param, &val);
>  		irq_was_disabled = irqs_disabled();
> -		ret = parse_one(param, val, params, num, unknown);
> +		ret = parse_one(param, val, params, num, unknown, data);
>  		if (irq_was_disabled && !irqs_disabled()) {
>  			printk(KERN_WARNING "parse_args(): option '%s' enabled "
>  					"irq's!\n", param);
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index 0725eea..d23cbf3 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -1330,10 +1330,21 @@ static void trace_module_remove_events(struct module *mod)
>  	up_write(&trace_event_mutex);
>  }
>  
> +static int trace_module_unknown_param(struct module_unknown_param *arg)
> +{
> +	if (strcmp(arg->param, "trace") == 0) {
> +		int ret = trace_set_clr_module_event(arg->mod, arg->val, 1);

This of course assumes that arg->mod is the system. Perhaps I could
rewrite this to only enable events in this module.

> +		return NOTIFY_STOP_MASK | (NOTIFY_OK - ret);
> +	}
> +
> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> +}


Wow! I was just going to add a direct hook into the module code, but
this is much more generic!

-- Steve

> +
>  static int trace_module_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
>  			       unsigned long val, void *data)
>  {
>  	struct module *mod = data;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
>  	switch (val) {
> @@ -1343,10 +1354,12 @@ static int trace_module_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
>  	case MODULE_STATE_GOING:
>  		trace_module_remove_events(mod);
>  		break;
> +	case MODULE_UNKNOWN_PARAM:
> +		ret = trace_module_unknown_param(data);
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
>  
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  #else
>  static int trace_module_notify(struct notifier_block *self,


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