01 Aug, 2006
1 commit
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The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables. The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker. The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both. In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash". The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents. To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e. preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section. The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel. On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.This patch addresses the problem in two ways.
First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced. This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland. There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries. The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has. If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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MAX_NR_CONSOLES, fg_console, want_console and last_console are more of a
function of the VT layer than the TTY one. Moving these to vt.h and vt_kern.h
allows all of the framebuffer and VT console drivers to remove their
dependency on tty.h.[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Add __start_rodata and __end_rodata to sections.h to avoid extern
declarations. Needed by s390 code (see following patch).[akpm@osdl.org: update architectures]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
30 Jun, 2006
6 commits
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (23 commits)
[PARISC] Move os_id_to_string() inside #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
[PARISC] Fix do_gettimeofday() hang
[PARISC] Fix PCREL22F relocation problem for most modules
[PARISC] Refactor show_regs in traps.c
[PARISC] Add os_id_to_string helper
[PARISC] OS_ID_LINUX == 0x0006
[PARISC] Ensure Space ID hashing is turned off
[PARISC] Match show_cache_info with reality
[PARISC] Remove unused macro fixup_branch in syscall.S
[PARISC] Add is_compat_task() helper
[PARISC] Update Thibaut Varene's CREDITS entry
[PARISC] Reduce data footprint in pdc_stable.c
[PARISC] pdc_stable version 0.30
[PARISC] Work around machines which do not support chassis warnings
[PARISC] PDC_CHASSIS is implemented on all machines
[PARISC] Remove unconditional #define PIC in syscall macros
[PARISC] Use MFIA in current_text_addr on pa2.0 processors
[PARISC] Remove dead function pc_in_user_space
[PARISC] Test ioc_needs_fdc variable instead of open coding
[PARISC] Fix gcc 4.1 warnings in sba_iommu.c
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
[PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
[PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes
[PATCH] 64bit Resource: convert a few remaining drivers to use resource_size_t where needed
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change pnp core to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change resource core to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: introduce resource_size_t for the start and end of struct resource
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in misc drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in arch and core code
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pcmcia drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in video drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in ide drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in mtd drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pci core and hotplug drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in networks drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in sound drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: C99 changes for struct resource declarationsFixed up trivial conflict in drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c (the printk that
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Add ->retrigger() irq op to consolidate hw_irq_resend() implementations.
(Most architectures had it defined to NOP anyway.)NOTE: ia64 needs testing. i386 and x86_64 tested.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Cleanup: change ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU into a Kconfig method.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Consolidation: remove the irq_affinity[NR_IRQS] array and move it into the
irq_desc[NR_IRQS].affinity field.[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
functionality.While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
the new 'irq chip' abstraction.The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
(level/edge/etc.) type of details.This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
(master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
and more consolidation between architectures.We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.This patch:
rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch. But having
both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
truly is.I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
frequently.So lets get over with this quickly. The conversion was done automatically
via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jun, 2006
16 commits
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With Goto-san's patch, we can add new pgdat/node at runtime. I'm now
considering node-hot-add with cpu + memory on ACPI.I found acpi container, which describes node, could evaluate cpu before
memory. This means cpu-hot-add occurs before memory hot add.In most part, cpu-hot-add doesn't depend on node hot add. But register_cpu(),
which creates symbolic link from node to cpu, requires that node should be
onlined before register_cpu(). When a node is onlined, its pgdat should be
there.This patch-set holds off creating symbolic link from node to cpu
until node is onlined.This removes node arguments from register_cpu().
Now, register_cpu() requires 'struct node' as its argument. But the array of
struct node is now unified in driver/base/node.c now (By Goto's node hotplug
patch). We can get struct node in generic way. So, this argument is not
necessary now.This patch also guarantees add cpu under node only when node is onlined. It
is necessary for node-hot-add vs. cpu-hot-add patch following this.Moreover, register_cpu calculates cpu->node_id by cpu_to_node() without regard
to its 'struct node *root' argument. This patch removes it.Also modify callers of register_cpu()/unregister_cpu, whose args are changed
by register-cpu-remove-node-struct patch.[Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org: fix it]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Ashok Raj
Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Apparently gettimeoffset can return small negative values (usually in
the 100us range). If xtime.tv_nsec is accidentally less than this,
though (a fortunately unlikely event) it triggers the loop forever.I've added a test and correct adjustment for this case. It has a
warning printk in there which I'd like to leave for the time being
just in case this problem implicates some other part of the kernel.Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
The new problem, which has been affecting many more modules was that
our new ioremap really takes chunks out of our vmalloc space. The net
result being that any two kernel vmalloc's now have to slot into the
chunked up space. So the vmallocs for a modules init and core sectons
are no longer necessarily contiguous. Unfortunately, the module loader
thinks that any internal symbol references should be satisfiable using the
jump instruction, which isn't true if the symbol is referenced from init
to core and vmalloc placed them a long way apart.Fix this by introducing a new stub type for intra module inter sectional
jumps and using it.Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
show_regs() was one bloaty function. Split it into a few cleaner
functions and define a clean macro to print a line of registers.[And from Thibaut, only print fprs on a usermode trap.]
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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We were assigned an OS_ID of 0x0006. Consistently use OS_ID_LINUX
instead of using the magic number. Also update the OS_ID_ defines in
asm/pdc.h to reflect this.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Check PDC_CACHE to see if spaceid hashing is turned on, and fail to
boot if that is the case.However, some old machines do not implement the PDC_CACHE_RET_SPID
firmware call, so continue to boot if the call fails because of
PDC_BAD_OPTION (but fail in all other error returns).Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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show_cache_info and struct pdc_cache_cf were out of sync with
published documentation. Fix the reporting of cache associativity
and update the pdc_cache_cf bitfields to match documentation.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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... And convert signal.c and ptrace.c to use it instead of open
coded equivalents.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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pdc_stable v0.30:
This patch introduces 3 more files to the /sys/firmware/stable tree:
- diagnostic, which contains a cryptic hex string
- osdep1, a 16 bytes os-dependent storage area always available
- osdep2, another os-dependent storage area which existence/size depends
on hversion.This patch also adds code to setup the "Linux" signature in stable
storage. That is to say that starting with this patch, the kernel will
now sign its OSID (0x0006, thx LaMont) in Stable Storage upon boot,
whether pdc_stable is enabled or not.Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
pdc_chassis v0.05:
Some machines seems not to implement Chassis warn support. Work around these.
Also cleanup a bit of the code.Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
This patch removes a limitation of the original code, so that CHASSIS
codes can be sent to all machines. On machines with a LCD panel, this
code displays "INI" during bootup, "RUN" when the system is booted and
running, "FLT" when a panic occurs, etc.This part of the code can be enabled/disabled through CONFIG_PDC_CHASSIS
This patch also adds minimalistic support for Chassis warnings, through
a proc entry '/proc/chassis', which will reflect the warnings status (PSU
or fans failure when they happen, NVRAM battery level and temperature
thresholds overflows).This part of the code can be enabled/disabled through CONFIG_PDC_CHASSIS_WARN
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
This code has been crufting up the file without any use for quite
a long time, so let's kill it.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Joel Soete noticed correctly that the fixup's clobbers must be listed
as the ASM clobbers. FIXUP_BRANCH in unaligned.c has a new macro which
lists all the clobbers in the fixup, we use this throughout the file
to simplify the process of listing clobbers in the future.A missing "r1" clobber is added to our uaccess.h for the 64-bit
__put_kernel_asm. Interestingly this is a pretty serious bug since gcc
generates pretty good use of r1 as a temporary and the uses of
__put_kernel_asm are varied and dangerous if r1 is scratched during
an invalid write.Signed-off-by: Joel Soete
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
ldcw,co should always be used on pa2.0, otherwise the strict cache
width alignment requirement is not relaxed.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
23 Jun, 2006
2 commits
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- When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
the kernel still try to install the alternate stack. This behavior is
the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications
V3.- Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag
SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal
delivery.These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Chris Zankel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Nathan Scott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Apr, 2006
5 commits
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Most are easy, but sync_file_range needed special handling when entering
through the 32-bit syscall table.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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More work towards supporing multiple page sizes on 64-bit. Convert
some assumptions that 64bit uses 3 level page tables into testing
PT_NLEVELS. Also some BUG() to BUG_ON() conversions and some cleanups
to assembler.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
Make the defconfig more generally useful. Turn on IPv6, modules,
cardbus, etc. Boots 32bit on 715 with HIL, B160L with sound,
PrecisionBook, and C3000.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
Fix a spelling mistake, add a KERN_INFO flag, and fix some whitespace
uglies.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
11 Apr, 2006
2 commits
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While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't
being exported from lib/string.c. Investigating further, I noticed a
changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more
architectures. The justification was that "other arches do it."I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines
__HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it
themselves. Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch. Its definition is sometimes configurable. Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree. But it looks a bit messy.SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config. Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture. So, I wrote configurable node's
number.This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64. But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config. But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too. So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. It
would be simpler.See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114358010523896&w=2
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Jack Steiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2006
4 commits
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With c3000_defconfig and b180_defconfig, FAT couldn't be used
because no NLS modules were built.Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
Some symbols are exported both in parisc_ksyms.c, and at their
definition site. Nuke the redundant EXPORT_SYMBOL in ksyms to quiet
warnings when vmlinux is linked.Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Move ioremap/iounmap EXPORT_SYMBOL to ioremap.c where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
