15 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.Reported-by: Ben Hawkes
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Tony Luck
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Fenghua Yu
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Helge Deller
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc:
24 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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The tlb flushing code uses the mm_users field of the mm_struct to
decide if each page table entry needs to be flushed individually with
IPTE or if a global flush for the mm_struct is sufficient after all page
table updates have been done. The comment for mm_users says "How many
users with user space?" but the /proc code increases mm_users after it
found the process structure by pid without creating a new user process.
Which makes mm_users useless for the decision between the two tlb
flusing methods. The current code can be confused to not flush tlb
entries by a concurrent access to /proc files if e.g. a fork is in
progres. The solution for this problem is to make the tlb flushing
logic independent from the mm_users field.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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fix this build error:
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:272: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'
arch/s390/kernel/entry.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here
make[1]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/process.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/s390/kernel] Error 2introduced by d7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
18 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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Use the defconfig files generated by "make savedefconfig" for
remaining defconfig files.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
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unifdef-y and header-y have same semantic, so drop unifdef-y
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
14 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Aug, 2010
3 commits
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Fix this warning:
arch/s390/appldata/appldata_net_sum.c: In function 'appldata_get_net_sum_data':
arch/s390/appldata/appldata_net_sum.c:89: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer typewhich was introduced with be1f3c2c027cc5ad735df6a45a542ed1db7ec48b
"net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures"Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
commit 485d527686850d68a0e9006dd9904f19f122485e "sys_personality: change
sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long" changed
the syscall interface for sys_personality.
Just follow the common code change in our arch code to avoid confusion.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
11 Aug, 2010
5 commits
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
block: update request stacking methods to support discards
block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
writeback: cleanup bdi_register
writeback: add new tracepoints
writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
writeback: move last_active to bdi
writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
writeback: simplify bdi code a little
writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
...Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens. -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (68 commits)
U6715 16550A serial driver support
Char: nozomi, set tty->driver_data appropriately
Char: nozomi, fix tty->count counting
serial: max3107: Fix gpiolib support
hsu: call PCI pm hooks in suspend/resume function
hsu: some code cleanup
hsu: add a periodic timer to check dma rx channel
hsu: driver for Medfield High Speed UART device
mxser: remove unnesesary NULL check
serial: add support for OX16PCI958 card
serial: 68328serial.c: remove dead (ALMA_ANS | DRAGONIXVZ | M68EZ328ADS)
timbuart: use __devinit and __devexit macros for probe and remove
serial: MMIO32 support for 8250_early.c
serial: mcf: don't take spinlocks in already protected functions
serial: general fixes in the serial_rs485 structure
serial: fix missing bit coverage of ASYNC_FLAGS
serial: "altera_uart: simplify altera_uart_console_putc()" checkpatch fixes
serial: crisv10: formatting of pointers in printk()
vt: Fix warning: statement with no effect due to vt_kern.h
tty_io: remove casts from void*
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] dasd: tunable missing interrupt handler
[S390] dasd: allocate fallback cqr for reserve/release
[S390] topology: use default MC domain initializer
[S390] initrd: change default load address
[S390] cmm, smsgiucv_app: convert sender to uppercase
[S390] cmm: add missing __init/__exit annotations
[S390] cio: use all available paths for some internal I/O
[S390] ccwreq: add ability to use all paths
[S390] cio: ccw_device_online_store return -EINVAL in case of missing driver
[S390] cio: Log the response from the unit check handler
[S390] cio: CHSC SIOSL Support -
This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.
Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:
These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
LINEMODE in the server.There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
are disabled. Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
of signals are all disabled. This allows the telnetd to turn
off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
what state the user wants the terminal to be in.New ioctl:
TIOCSIG Generate a signal to processes in the
current process group of the pty.There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
bit set. This allows the process on the server side of the pty
to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
here:http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741
Signed-off-by: Howard Chu
Cc: Alan Cox
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
Fix sget() race with failing mount
vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
BFS: clean up the superblock usage
AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
cifs: truncate fallout
mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
mbcache: Remove unused features
add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
update VFS documentation for method changes.
All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
...Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
10 Aug, 2010
8 commits
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Provide an INIT_MM_CONTEXT intializer macro which can be used to
statically initialize mm_struct:mm_context of init_mm. This way we can
get rid of code which will do the initialization at run time (on s390).In addition the current code can be found at a place where it is not
expected. So let's have a common initializer which architectures
can use if needed.This is based on a patch from Suzuki Poulose.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Suzuki Poulose
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add a flags field to help glibc implementing statvfs(3) efficiently.
We copy the flag values from glibc, and add a new ST_VALID flag to
denote that f_flags is implemented.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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... and since we never hash its inodes, default
->drop_inode() will work just fine.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Use default MC sched domain initializer, since performance meassurements
finally showed that this is indeed better.
Besides the fact that the powersavings flags functions didn't make too
much sense, but were unused anyway.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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Change default load address of the initrd in case of IPL from reader.
The new load address is directly behind the kernel image.
This way we can see immediatly if there are any problems with the code
which tries to rescue the initrd in case the bootmem bitmap would
overlap with the initrd.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
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The sender kernel parameter contains a z/VM user ID where
alphabetic characters must be specified in uppercase.Allow users to specify lowercase characters and convert the
sender string to uppercase at module initialization.Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
Add missing __init and __exit annoations for module init and exit
functions. This will save us huge amounts of memory... sort of.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
A Linux interface for the CHSC command
store-I/O-operation-status-and-initiate-logging (SIOSL).
Model-dependent logging within the channel subsystem can be invoked
via a helper function or a writable subchannel device attribute.Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
08 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Architectures don't need to define ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD anymore.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
Acked-by: James Bottomley
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
07 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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* 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
time: Implement timespec_add
x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistenciesTrivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e28c ("Merge branch
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
06 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
trivial: fix a typo in a filename
frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile
kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line
Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly
Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version
Makefile.build: make KBUILD_SYMTYPES work again
05 Aug, 2010
4 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (39 commits)
random: Reorder struct entropy_store to remove padding on 64bits
padata: update API documentation
padata: Remove padata_get_cpumask
crypto: pcrypt - Update pcrypt cpumask according to the padata cpumask notifier
crypto: pcrypt - Rename pcrypt_instance
padata: Pass the padata cpumasks to the cpumask_change_notifier chain
padata: Rearrange set_cpumask functions
padata: Rename padata_alloc functions
crypto: pcrypt - Dont calulate a callback cpu on empty callback cpumask
padata: Check for valid cpumasks
padata: Allocate cpumask dependend recources in any case
padata: Fix cpu index counting
crypto: geode_aes - Convert pci_table entries to PCI_VDEVICE (if PCI_ANY_ID is used)
pcrypt: Added sysfs interface to pcrypt
padata: Added sysfs primitives to padata subsystem
padata: Make two separate cpumasks
padata: update documentation
padata: simplify serialization mechanism
padata: make padata_do_parallel to return zero on success
padata: Handle empty padata cpumasks
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (276 commits)
[SCSI] zfcp: Trigger logging in the FCP channel on qdio error conditions
[SCSI] zfcp: Introduce experimental support for DIF/DIX
[SCSI] zfcp: Enable data division support for FCP devices
[SCSI] zfcp: Prevent access on uninitialized memory.
[SCSI] zfcp: Post events through FC transport class
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup QDIO attachment and improve processing.
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup function parameters for sbal value.
[SCSI] zfcp: Use correct width for timer_interval field
[SCSI] zfcp: Remove SCSI device when removing unit
[SCSI] zfcp: Use memdup_user and kstrdup
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix retry after failed "open port" erp action
[SCSI] zfcp: Fail erp after timeout
[SCSI] zfcp: Use forced_reopen in terminate_rport_io callback
[SCSI] zfcp: Register SCSI devices after successful fc_remote_port_add
[SCSI] zfcp: Do not try "forced close" when port is already closed
[SCSI] zfcp: Do not unblock rport from REOPEN_PORT_FORCED
[SCSI] sd: add support for runtime PM
[SCSI] implement runtime Power Management
[SCSI] convert to the new PM framework
[SCSI] Unify SAM_ and SAM_STAT_ macros
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits)
phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support
igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init
e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579
hso: Add new product ID
can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device
l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace
can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling
Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue"
net: cleanup inclusion
phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support
u32: negative offset fix
net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev"
igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X
ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0
e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case
e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation
ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice
net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams
cxgb4: update driver version
cxgb4: add new PCI IDs
...Manually fix up conflicts in:
- drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration
infrastructure changes
- drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support
and cleaning up the IDs
- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (198 commits)
KVM: VMX: Fix host GDT.LIMIT corruption
KVM: MMU: using __xchg_spte more smarter
KVM: MMU: cleanup spte set and accssed/dirty tracking
KVM: MMU: don't atomicly set spte if it's not present
KVM: MMU: fix page dirty tracking lost while sync page
KVM: MMU: fix broken page accessed tracking with ept enabled
KVM: MMU: add missing reserved bits check in speculative path
KVM: MMU: fix mmu notifier invalidate handler for huge spte
KVM: x86 emulator: fix xchg instruction emulation
KVM: x86: Call mask notifiers from pic
KVM: x86: never re-execute instruction with enabled tdp
KVM: Document KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2 ioctl
KVM: x86: emulator: inc/dec can have lock prefix
KVM: MMU: Eliminate redundant temporaries in FNAME(fetch)
KVM: MMU: Validate all gptes during fetch, not just those used for new pages
KVM: MMU: Simplify spte fetch() function
KVM: MMU: Add gpte_valid() helper
KVM: MMU: Add validate_direct_spte() helper
KVM: MMU: Add drop_large_spte() helper
KVM: MMU: Use __set_spte to link shadow pages
...
04 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/Makefile
03 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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It is now possible to assign options to AS, CC and LD
on the command line - which is only used when building modules.{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE was all used both in the top-level Makefile
in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify
additional options to AS, CC, LD when building modules
without overriding the original value.Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE
that is used by arch specific files and free up
{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE so they can be assigned on
the command line.All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated.
Note: Previously we had a MODFLAGS variable for both
AS and CC. But in favour of consistency this was dropped.
So in some cases arch Makefile has one assignmnet replaced by
two assignmnets.Note2: MODFLAGS was not documented and is dropped
without any notice. I do not expect much/any breakage
from this.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Chen Liqin
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger [blackfin]
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [avr32]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
02 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/util/hist.cMerge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
01 Aug, 2010
6 commits
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This patch converts unnecessary divide and modulo operations
in the KVM large page related code into logical operations.
This allows to convert gfn_t to u64 while not breaking 32
bit builds.Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel
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As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Equivalent support is provided
by overlapping memory regions.Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
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Newer (guest) kernels use sigp sense running in their spinlock
implementation to check if the other cpu is running before yielding
the processor. This revealed some wrong guest settings, causing
unnecessary exits for every sigp sense running.Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity -
This patch fixes
ERROR: "__kvm_s390_vcpu_store_status" [arch/s390/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined!triggered by
commit 3268c56840dcee78c3e928336550f4e1861504c4 (kvm.git)
Author: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu May 13 12:21:46 2010 +0300
KVM: s390: Centrally lock arch specific vcpu ioctlsReported-by: Sachin Sant
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity -
Now that all arch specific ioctls have centralized locking, it is easy to
move it to the central dispatcher.Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
