23 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Prevent no-handler signal syscall restart recursion.
sparc: Don't mask signal when we can't setup signal frame.
sparc64: Fix race in signal instruction flushing.
sparc64: Support RAW perf events.
22 Sep, 2010
2 commits
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Explicitly clear the "in-syscall" bit when we have no signal
handler and back up the program counters to back up the system
call.Reported-by: Al Viro
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Don't invoke the signal handler tracehook in that situation
either.Reported-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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If another cpu does a very wide munmap() on the signal frame area,
it can tear down the page table hierarchy from underneath us.Borrow an idea from the 64-bit fault path's get_user_insn(), and
disable cross call interrupts during the page table traversal
to lock them in place while we operate.Reported-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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:
13 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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Encoding is "(encoding << 16) | pic_mask"
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Kill all BKL usage.
09 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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They were all bogus artifacts and completely unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
29 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove input_free_device() in pxa27x_keypad_remove()
Input: mousedev - fix regression of inverting axes
Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
Input: hil_kbd - fix compile error
USB: drop tty argument from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument form handle_sysrq()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers
25 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.
sparc64: Fill a missing delay slot.
sparc64: Make lock backoff really a NOP on UP builds.
sparc64: simple microoptimizations for atomic functions
sparc64: Make rwsems 64-bit.
sparc64: Really fix atomic64_t interface types.
24 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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This is based upon a report by Meelis Roos showing that it's possible
that we'll try to fetch a property that is 32K in size with some
devices. With the current fixed 3K buffer we use for moving data in
and out of the firmware during PROM calls, that simply won't work.In fact, it will scramble random kernel data during bootup.
The reasoning behind the temporary buffer is entirely historical. It
used to be the case that we had problems referencing dynamic kernel
memory (including the stack) early in the boot process before we
explicitly told the firwmare to switch us over to the kernel trap
table.So what we did was always give the firmware buffers that were locked
into the main kernel image.But we no longer have problems like that, so get rid of all of this
indirect bounce buffering.Besides fixing Meelis's bug, this also makes the kernel data about 3K
smaller.It was also discovered during these conversions that the
implementation of prom_retain() was completely wrong, so that was
fixed here as well. Currently that interface is not in use.Reported-by: Meelis Roos
Tested-by: Meelis Roos
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it.
Acked-by: Alan Cox
Acked-by: Jason Wessel
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov -
If the code were already aligned to 64 bytes, wr instruction would be executed
twice --- once in delay slot and once in the jump target.Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
19 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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As noticed by Mikulas Patocka, the backoff macros don't
completely nop out for UP builds, we still get a
branch always and a delay slot nop.Fix this by making the branch to the backoff spin loop
selective, then we can nop out the spin loop completely.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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Simple microoptimizations for sparc64 atomic functions:
Save one instruction by using a delay slot.
Use %g1 instead of %g7, because %g1 is written earlier.Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
18 Aug, 2010
6 commits
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Basically tip-off the powerpc code, use a 64-bit type and atomic64_t
interfaces for the implementation.This gets us off of the by-hand asm code I wrote, which frankly I
think probably ruins I-cache hit rates.The idea was the keep the call chains less deep, but anything taking
the rw-semaphores probably is also calling other stuff and therefore
already has allocated a stack-frame. So no real stack frame savings
ever.Ben H. has posted patches to make powerpc use 64-bit too and with some
abstractions we can probably use a shared header file somewhere.With suggestions from Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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Linus noticed that some of the interface arguments
didn't get "int" --> "long" conversion, as needed.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix atomic64_t routine return values.
sparc64: Fix rwsem constant bug leading to hangs.
sparc: Hook up new fanotify and prlimit64 syscalls.
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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 -
Should return 'long' instead of 'int'.
Thanks to Dimitris Michailidis and Tony Luck.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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As noticed by Linus, it is critical that some of the
rwsem constants be signed. Yet, hex constants are
unsigned unless explicitly casted or negated.The most critical one is RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.
This bug was exacerbated by commit
424acaaeb3a3932d64a9b4bd59df6cf72c22d8f3 ("rwsem: wake queued readers
when writer blocks on active read lock")Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
17 Aug, 2010
3 commits
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The only tricky bit is the compat version of fanotify_mark, which
which on 32-bit the 64-bit mark argument is passed in as "high32",
"low32".Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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If a video head and keyboard are hooked up, specifying "console=ttyS0"
or similar to use a serial console will not work properly.The key issue is that we must register all serial console capable
devices with register_console(), otherwise the command line specified
device won't be found. The sun serial drivers would only register
themselves as console devices if the OpenFirmware specified console
device node matched. To fix this part we now unconditionally get
the serial console register by setting serial_drv->cons always.Secondarily we must not add_preferred_console() using the firmware
provided console setting if the user gaven an override on the kernel
command line using "console=" The "primary framebuffer" matching
logic was always triggering o n openfirmware device node match, make
it not when a command line override was given.Reported-by: Frans Pop
Tested-by: Frans Pop
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
15 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Use the defconfig files generated by "make savedefconfig" for
remaining defconfig files.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
11 Aug, 2010
4 commits
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in tree. Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.Let's remove this API.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
Cc: James Bottomley
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN). So we
can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment. So
fully-coherent architectures should return 1. This patch also fixes this
issue.Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* '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. -
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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
10 Aug, 2010
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Update defconfig.
sparc: Kill user copy check code.
sparc64: Fix perf_arch_get_caller_regs().
sparc64: Add missing ID to parport probing code. -
kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself. This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong"). This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.
[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros
Cc: Russell King (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Aug, 2010
4 commits
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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For whatever reason GCC isn't able to figure things out in
the control flow (in particular when min() and max() expressions
are involved) on sparc as well as it can on x86.So lots of useless incorrect user copy warnings get spewed and the
full-on compile failure mode of the user copy checks were never usable
on sparc at all.People can debug these kinds of problems on x86.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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After b0f82b81fe6bbcf78d478071f33e44554726bc81 ("perf: Drop the skip
argument from perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller") the build broke on sparc64
due to the lack of a module symbol export of __perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs.But that assembler helper can actually be complete eliminated now that
the semantics of this interface have been greatly simplified.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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SunBlade-2500 has 'parallel' device node with compatible
property "pnpALI,1533,3" so add that to the ID table.Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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
'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource") -
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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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* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (63 commits)
of/platform: Register of_platform_drivers with an "of:" prefix
of/address: Clean up function declarations
of/spi: call of_register_spi_devices() from spi core code
of: Provide default of_node_to_nid() implementation.
of/device: Make of_device_make_bus_id() usable by other code.
of/irq: Fix endian issues in parsing interrupt specifiers
of: Fix phandle endian issues
of/flattree: fix of_flat_dt_is_compatible() to match the full compatible string
of: remove of_default_bus_ids
of: make of_find_device_by_node generic
microblaze: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
sparc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
of/device: Replace of_device with platform_device in includes and core code
of/device: Protect against binding of_platform_drivers to non-OF devices
of: remove asm/of_device.h
of: remove asm/of_platform.h
of/platform: remove all of_bus_type and of_platform_bus_type references
of: Merge of_platform_bus_type with platform_bus_type
drivercore/of: Add OF style matching to platform bus
...Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/microblaze/kernel/Makefile due to just
some obj-y removals by the devicetree branch, while the microblaze
updates added a new file.