25 Sep, 2009

1 commit


24 Sep, 2009

2 commits

  • * remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
    not needed after kref conversion
    * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it

    NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
    due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
    headers and files alone.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     
  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
    Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
    Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
    Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
    kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
    arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
    kbuild: add static to prototypes
    kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
    kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
    kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
    gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
    kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
    checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
    markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
    checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
    checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
    ctags: usability fix
    kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
    gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
    kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
    kbuild: introduce ld-option
    ...

    Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Sep, 2009

2 commits

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
    trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
    trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
    trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
    trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
    trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
    trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
    trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
    trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
    trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
    trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
    trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
    trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
    trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
    trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
    trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
    trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
    trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
    trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
    trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
    trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     

21 Sep, 2009

2 commits


16 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
    powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
    sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
    percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
    x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
    percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
    percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
    vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
    vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
    percpu: add chunk->base_addr
    percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
    percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
    percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
    percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
    percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
    percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
    percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
    percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
    percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
    percpu: improve boot messages
    percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
    ...

    Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c

    Linus Torvalds
     

09 Sep, 2009

1 commit


02 Sep, 2009

2 commits

  • Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent. This
    replaces the parent's session keyring. Because the COW credential code does
    not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
    change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again. Normally this
    will be after a wait*() syscall.

    To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
    cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
    the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
    the process may replace its parent's session keyring.

    The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
    as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
    the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.

    Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
    This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
    which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. This allows the
    replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
    execution.

    This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
    the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
    alter the parent process's PAG membership. However, since kAFS doesn't use
    PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
    keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
    the newpag flag.

    This can be tested with the following program:

    #include
    #include
    #include

    #define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT 18

    #define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
    key_serial_t keyring, key;
    long ret;

    keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
    OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");

    key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
    OSERROR(key, "add_key");

    ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
    OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");

    return 0;
    }

    Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:

    [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
    Session Keyring
    -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses
    355907932 --alswrv 4043 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.4043
    [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
    [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
    Session Keyring
    -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses
    1055658746 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a
    [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
    [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
    Session Keyring
    -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: hello
    340417692 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a

    Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
    'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     
  • Implement TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for most of those architectures in which isn't yet
    available, and, whilst we're at it, have it call the appropriate tracehook.

    After this patch, blackfin, m68k* and xtensa still lack support and need
    alteration of assembly code to make it work.

    Resume notification can then be used (by a later patch) to install a new
    session keyring on the parent of a process.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Russell King

    cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

09 Jul, 2009

1 commit

  • Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
    considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
    implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
    tedious and adding new entries error-prone.

    This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
    end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld
    uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
    discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.

    ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
    subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
    image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.

    defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
    alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Acked-by: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Tested-by: Michal Simek
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Cc: Tony Luck

    Tejun Heo
     

24 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also,
    .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch
    and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy
    variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

    This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

    [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
    Cc: Bryan Wu
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: Jesper Nilsson
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Tony Luck
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: Rusty Russell
    Cc: Ingo Molnar

    Tejun Heo
     

19 Jun, 2009

1 commit


17 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • * create mm/init-mm.c, move init_mm there
    * remove INIT_MM, initialize init_mm with C99 initializer
    * unexport init_mm on all arches:

    init_mm is already unexported on x86.

    One strange place is some OMAP driver (drivers/video/omap/) which
    won't build modular, but it's already wants get_vm_area() export.
    Somebody should look there.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing #includes]
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Americo Wang
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

12 Jun, 2009

1 commit


04 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
    trivial: Update my email address
    trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
    trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
    trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
    trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
    trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
    trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
    trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
    trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
    trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
    trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
    trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
    trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
    trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
    trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
    trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
    trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
    trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
    trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
    trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

03 Apr, 2009

1 commit


30 Mar, 2009

2 commits


13 Feb, 2009

1 commit


14 Jan, 2009

1 commit


11 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • Impact: build fix

    Ingo Molnar wrote:

    > tip/arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.c: In function 'show_interrupts':
    > tip/arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.c:85: error: 'struct kernel_stat' has no member named 'irqs'
    > make[2]: *** [arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.o] Error 1
    > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    >

    So could move kstat_irqs array to irq_desc struct.

    (s390, m68k, sparc) are not touched yet, because they don't support genirq

    Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Yinghai Lu
     

01 Jan, 2009

1 commit


17 Oct, 2008

3 commits


07 Sep, 2008

1 commit


25 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
    boundary. For example:

    u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);

    always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.

    The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
    example):

    #define PAGE_SHIFT 12
    #define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
    #define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
    ...
    #define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)

    The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
    PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
    Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
    typeof(addr) for the mask.

    Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
    include/linux/mm.h.

    See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
    Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Andrea Righi
     

17 May, 2008

1 commit


04 May, 2008

1 commit

  • This replaces the duplicated arch-specific versions of "sys_pipe()" with
    one unified implementation. This removes almost 250 lines of duplicated
    code.

    It's marked __weak, so that *if* an architecture wants to override the
    default implementation it can do so by simply having its own replacement
    version, since many architectures use alternate calling conventions for
    the 'pipe()' system call for legacy reasons (ie traditional UNIX
    implementations often return the two file descriptors in registers)

    I still haven't changed the cris version even though Linus says the BKL
    isn't needed. The arch maintainer can easily do it if there are really
    no obstacles.

    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ulrich Drepper
     

29 Apr, 2008

1 commit


17 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
    implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
    extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
    warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
    unlikely() was unnecessary.

    Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

    Matthew Wilcox
     

24 Feb, 2008

2 commits


09 Feb, 2008

1 commit


08 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
    BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
    between crashkernel area and already used memory.

    This patch:

    Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
    If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
    has been reserved in the past. This is to avoid conflicts.

    Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
    inside reserve_bootmem_core().

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
    Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle
    Cc:
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Cc: Vivek Goyal
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Bernhard Walle
     

07 Feb, 2008

1 commit


29 Jan, 2008

1 commit


20 Oct, 2007

1 commit