27 Jan, 2007
1 commit
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I wouldn't mind if CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO went away entirely. But if it's there,
it should work properly. Currently it's quite haphazard: both real vma and
fixmap are mapped, both are put in the two different AT_* slots, sysenter
returns to the vma address rather than the fixmap address, and core dumps yet
are another story.This patch makes CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO disable the real vma and use the fixmap
area consistently. This makes it actually compatible with what the old vdso
implementation did.Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Dec, 2006
3 commits
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Move header includes for the nopud / nopmd types to the location of the actual
pte / pgd type definitions. This allows generic 4-level page type code to be
written before the split 2/3 level page table headers are included.Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton -
Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but
it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This
modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h
which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much
more maintainer and hopefully user friendly.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen -
On x86_64 we have to be careful with calculating the physical
address of kernel symbols. Both because of compiler odditities
and because the symbols live in a different range of the virtual
address space.Having a defintition of __pa_symbol that works on both x86_64 and
i386 simplifies writing code that works for both x86_64 and
i386 that has these kinds of dependencies.So this patch adds the trivial i386 __pa_symbol definition.
Added assembly magic similar to RELOC_HIDE as suggested by Andi Kleen.
Just picked it up from x86_64.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
28 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.
Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Zachary Amsden
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
26 Apr, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
28 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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i386 can use generic funcs.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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Enable selection of different user/kernel VM splits for i386, including an
optimized mode for 1GB physical RAM, which gives the kernel a direct (non
HIGHMEM) mapping to the entire 1GB rather than just the first 896MB.There is a similarly a similarly optimized mode for machines with exactly 2GB
of physical RAM.This can speed up the kernel by avoiding having to create/destroy temporary
HIGHMEM mappings, and by not having to include HIGHMEM support at all on such
machines. The flip side is that there's less virtual addressing left for
userspace in these alternatives, and some binary-only kernel modules may
misbehave unless rebuilt with the same VMSPLIT option as the main kernel
image.Original idea/patch from Jens Axboe, modified based on suggestions from Linus
et al.Signed-off-by: Mark Lord
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Sep, 2005
2 commits
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I don't think we need to call hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() anymore
in 2.6.13 because of the rework with free_pgtables(). It now collect
all the pte page at the time of munmap. It used to only collect page
table pages when entire one pgd can be freed and left with staled pte
pages. Not anymore with 2.6.13. This function will never be called
and We should turn it into a BUG_ON.I also spotted two problems here, not Adam's fault :-)
(1) in huge_pte_alloc(), it looks like a bug to me that pud is not
checked before calling pmd_alloc()
(2) in hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(), it also missed a call to
pmd_free_tlb. I think a tlb flush is required to flush the mapping
for the page table itself when we clear out the pmd pointing to a
pte page. However, since hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() is never
called, so it won't trigger the bug.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Cc: Adam Litke
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Someone mentioned that almost all the architectures used basically the same
implementation of get_order. This patch consolidates them into
asm-generic/page.h and includes that in the appropriate places. The
exceptions are ia64 and ppc which have their own (presumably optimised)
versions.Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory. To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel
so we can do just that. You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDEDbzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB. If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jun, 2005
2 commits
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Provide the architecture specific implementation for SPARSEMEM for i386 SMP
and NUMA systems.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
discontig.c has some assumptions that mem_map[]s inside of a node are
contiguous. Teach it to make sure that each region that it's bringing online
is actually made up of valid ranges of ram.Written-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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A lot of the code in arch/*/mm/hugetlbpage.c is quite similar. This patch
attempts to consolidate a lot of the code across the arch's, putting the
combined version in mm/hugetlb.c. There are a couple of uglyish hacks in
order to covert all the hugepage archs, but the result is a very large
reduction in the total amount of code. It also means things like hugepage
lazy allocation could be implemented in one place, instead of six.Tested, at least a little, on ppc64, i386 and x86_64.
Notes:
- this patch changes the meaning of set_huge_pte() to be more
analagous to set_pte()
- does SH4 need s special huge_ptep_get_and_clear()??Acked-by: William Lee Irwin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
