15 May, 2008

1 commit

  • I noticed this because alpha was broken due to the recent commit commit
    bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ("avoid overflows in
    kernel/time.c"). Most arches do something like this in their
    asm/param.h:

    #ifdef __KERNEL__
    # define HZ CONFIG_HZ
    #else
    # define HZ 100
    #endif

    A few arches though (namely alpha/h8300/um/v850/xtensa) either do no set
    HZ at all for !__KERNEL__, or they set it wrongly. This should bring all
    arches in line by setting up HZ for userspace.

    Without this currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha:

    perl.c: In function 'perl_construct':
    perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function)
    -> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha;stamp=1210252894

    Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: maximilian attems
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    [ HZ on alpha is 1024 for historical reasons. - Linus ]
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Frysinger
     

03 May, 2008

1 commit


29 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • Unaligned access is ok for the following arches:
    cris, m68k, mn10300, powerpc, s390, x86

    Arches that use the memmove implementation for native endian, and
    the byteshifting for the opposite endianness.
    h8300, m32r, xtensa

    Packed struct for native endian, byteshifting for other endian:
    alpha, blackfin, ia64, parisc, sparc, sparc64, mips, sh

    m86knommu is generic_be for Coldfire, otherwise unaligned access is ok.

    frv, arm chooses endianness based on compiler settings, uses the byteshifting
    versions. Remove the unaligned trap handler from frv as it is now unused.

    v850 is le, uses the byteshifting versions for both be and le.

    Remove the now unused asm-generic implementation.

    Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Harvey Harrison
     

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
     

03 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • Currently include/linux/kvm.h is not considered by make headers_install,
    because Kbuild cannot handle " unifdef-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.h. This problem
    was introduced by

    commit fb56dbb31c4738a3918db81fd24da732ce3b4ae6
    Author: Avi Kivity
    Date: Sun Dec 2 10:50:06 2007 +0200

    KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVM

    Currently, make headers_check barfs due to , which
    includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion s, export kvm.
    only if the arch actually supports it.

    Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

    which makes this an 2.6.25 regression.

    One way of solving the issue is to enhance Kbuild, but Avi and David conviced
    me, that changing headers_install is not the way to go. This patch changes
    the definition for linux/kvm.h to unifdef-y.

    If  unifdef-y is used for linux/kvm.h "make headers_check" will fail on all
    architectures without asm/kvm.h. Therefore, this patch also provides
    asm/kvm.h on all architectures.

    Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
    Acked-by: Avi Kivity
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christian Borntraeger
     

14 Mar, 2008

1 commit

  • Al Viro wrote:
    >
    > After that commit in asm-h8300/uaccess.h we have
    >
    > #define get_user(x, ptr) \
    > ({ \
    > int __gu_err = 0; \
    > uint32_t __gu_val = 0; \
    > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    > switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \
    > case 1: \
    > case 2: \
    > case 4: \
    > __gu_val = *(ptr); \
    > break; \
    > case 8: \
    > memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr))); \
    > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    >
    > which, of course, is FUBAR whenever we actually hit that case - memcpy of
    > 8 bytes into uint32_t is obviously wrong. Why don't we simply do

    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Yoshinori Sato
     

24 Feb, 2008

2 commits


10 Feb, 2008

1 commit


09 Feb, 2008

3 commits

  • When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
    not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
    do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening result, however, is
    subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
    HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).

    This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
    example.

    This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
    32-bit platforms. When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
    way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
    since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
    64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g. on 64-bit s390), but
    since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
    the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).

    The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
    of the valid output range. This could be avoided at the expense of having
    to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result. Since the intent is
    to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
    semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.

    At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
    the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
    compiles. This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
    is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
    In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
    constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
    Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.

    Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
    Makefile. Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
    architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
    m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
    sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
    sh tree.

    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
    Cc: Ralf Baechle ,
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg ,
    Cc: Paul Mundt ,
    Cc: Richard Henderson ,
    Cc: Michael Starvik ,
    Cc: David Howells ,
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato ,
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata ,
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven ,
    Cc: Roman Zippel ,
    Cc: William L. Irwin ,
    Cc: Chris Zankel ,
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin ,
    Cc: Jan Engelhardt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    H. Peter Anvin
     
  • Some arches (like alpha and ia64) already have a clean posix_types.h header.
    This brings all the others in line by removing all references to __GLIBC__
    (and some undocumented __USE_ALL).

    Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Roland McGrath
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Frysinger
     
  • Move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're
    required whether or not A.OUT format is available.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

08 Feb, 2008

3 commits

  • Use the new generic cmpxchg_local (disables interrupt). Also use the generic
    cmpxchg as fallback if SMP is not set.

    Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mathieu Desnoyers
     
  • struct user.u_ar0 is defined to contain a pointer offset on all
    architectures in which it is defined (all architectures which define an
    a.out format except SPARC.) However, it has a pointer type in the headers,
    which is pointless -- is not exported to userspace, and it
    just makes the code messy.

    Redefine the field as "unsigned long" (which is the same size as a pointer
    on all Linux architectures) and change the setting code to user offsetof()
    instead of hand-coded arithmetic.

    Cc: Linux Arch Mailing List
    Cc: Bryan Wu
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Lennert Buytenhek
    Cc: Håvard Skinnemoen
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Tony Luck
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    H. Peter Anvin
     
  • asm/elf.h, asm/page.h and asm/user.h don't export to userspace now, so we can
    drop #ifdef __KERNEL__ for them.

    [k.shutemov@gmail.com: remove #ifdef __KERNEL_]
    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
    Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Kirill A. Shutemov
     

07 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • This patch removes the unused mm_{ptov,vtop}().

    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Acked-by: Greg Ungerer
    Acked-by: Bryan Wu
    Cc: Miles Bader
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Adrian Bunk
     

01 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • A userspace program may wish to set the mark for each packets its send
    without using the netfilter MARK target. Changing the mark can be used
    for mark based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering.

    It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

    Signed-off-by: Laszlo Attila Toth
    Acked-by: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Laszlo Attila Toth
     

11 Dec, 2007

1 commit

  • Some places where CLOCK_TICK_RATE may be used incorrectly:

    arch/arm/mach-mx3/time.c:125: __raw_writel((v / CLOCK_TICK_RATE) - 1, MXC_GPT_GPTPR);
    drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c:103: timer_margin = (((u64)heartbeat * CLOCK_TICK_RATE) & 0xffffffff);
    drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c:105: timer_margin = (((u64)heartbeat * CLOCK_TICK_RATE) >> 32);
    drivers/watchdog/ks8695_wdt.c:64: unsigned long tval = wdt_time * CLOCK_TICK_RATE;

    I'm not sure whether this definition is used there, but adding parentheses
    should be good anyway.

    Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Roel Kluin
     

23 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • Add a Kconfig entry which will toggle some sanity checks on the sg
    entry and tables.

    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Jens Axboe
     
  • Change the page member of the scatterlist structure to be an unsigned
    long, and encode more stuff in the lower bits:

    - Bits 0 and 1 zero: this is a normal sg entry. Next sg entry is located
    at sg + 1.
    - Bit 0 set: this is a chain entry, the next real entry is at ->page_link
    with the two low bits masked off.
    - Bit 1 set: this is the final entry in the sg entry. sg_next() will return
    NULL when passed such an entry.

    It's thus important that sg table users use the proper accessors to get
    and set the page member.

    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Jens Axboe
     

20 Oct, 2007

3 commits


19 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
    Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Acked-By: David Howells
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
    Cc: Bryan Wu
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Greg Ungerer
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
    Cc: Richard Curnow
    Cc: William Lee Irwin III
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    Cc: Miles Bader
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

17 Oct, 2007

4 commits

  • dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) were the earliest attempt on a generalized
    cache managment API for I/O purposes. Originally it was basically the raw
    MIPS low level cache API exported to the entire world. The API has
    suffered from a lack of documentation, was not very widely used unlike it's
    more modern brothers and can easily be replaced by dma_cache_sync. So
    remove it rsp. turn the surviving bits back into an arch private API, as
    discussed on linux-arch.

    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Paul Mundt
    Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
    Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ralf Baechle
     
  • All asm/ipc.h files do only #include .

    This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
    contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.

    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Adrian Bunk
     
  • Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
    32bit targets.

    GCC can be made to warn about usage of long long types with ISO C90
    (-ansi), but only with -pedantic. You can write this in a way that even
    then it doesn't cause warnings, namely by:

    #ifdef __GNUC__
    __extension__ typedef __signed__ long long __s64;
    __extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;
    #endif

    The __extension__ keyword in front of this switches off any pedantic
    warnings for this expression.

    Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Olaf Hering
     
  • DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED was used for semaphores used as completions and we've
    got rid of them. Well, except for one in libusual that the maintainer
    explicitly wants to keep as semaphore. So convert that useage to an
    explicit sema_init and kill of DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED so that new code is
    reminded to use a completion.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Acked-by: "Satyam Sharma"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     

03 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations, since we don't have
    enough space in each reloc. The idea is to store a value with one
    relocation so that subsequent ones can access it.

    Actually, this patch is required for Blackfin. Currently if BINFMT_FLAT is
    enabled, git-tree kernel will fail to compile.

    Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt
    Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu
    Cc: David McCullough
    Cc: Greg Ungerer
    Cc: Miles Bader
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

    Bernd Schmidt
     

01 Aug, 2007

1 commit

  • Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures. The
    flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with
    TIF_PERFMON_WORK.

    Signed-off-by: stephane eranian
    Cc:
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephane Eranian
     

23 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Now that the last inlined instances are gone, all that is left to do
    is turning disable_irq_nosync on arm26 and m68k from defines to aliases
    and we are all set - we can make these externs in linux/interrupt.h
    uncoditional and kill remaining instances in asm/irq.h

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Al Viro
     

20 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • New arch macro STACK_TOP_MAX it gives the larges valid stack address for the
    architecture in question.

    It differs from STACK_TOP in that it will not distinguish between
    personalities but will always return the largest possible address.

    This is used to create the initial stack on execve, which we will move down to
    the proper location once the binfmt code has figured out where that is.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Zijlstra
     

18 Jul, 2007

3 commits

  • Add function helper, fb_is_primary_device(). Given struct fb_info, it will
    return a nonzero value if the device is the primary display.

    Currently, only the i386 is supported where the function checks for the
    IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag.

    Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas
    Cc: David Miller
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Antonino A. Daplas
     
  • Move arch-specific bits of fb_mmap() to their respective subdirectories

    [bob.picco@hp.com: efi_range_is_wc is referenced but not declared]
    [bunk@stusta.de: fix include/asm-m68k/fb.h]
    Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Antonino A. Daplas
     
  • It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not.
    This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called
    GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated
    using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing
    storage and discarding.

    An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for
    __GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The
    flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would
    change the semantics of an existing API. After this patch is applied there
    are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should
    be marked deprecated if this patch is merged.

    Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in
    shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the
    shmem_dir_alloc() helper function. This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of
    Hugh Dickens.

    Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the
    concept. Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector
    and ramfs allocations.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
    [hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup]
    Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft
    Cc: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mel Gorman
     

17 Jul, 2007

3 commits

  • Continuing the work started in 411f0f3edc141a582190d3605cadd1d993abb6df ...

    This enables code with a dma path, that compiles away, to build without
    requiring additional code factoring. It also prevents code that calls
    dma_alloc_coherent and dma_free_coherent from linking whereas previously
    the code would hit a BUG() at run time. Finally, it allows archs that set
    !HAS_DMA to delete their asm/dma-mapping.h file.

    Cc: Cornelia Huck
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: John W. Linville
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Tejun Heo
    Cc: Jeff Garzik
    Cc:
    Cc:
    Cc:
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dan Williams
     
  • Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Yoshinori Sato
     
  • Add the needed constants and defines to activate the new tty code on this
    platform

    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alan Cox
     

12 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • I'm not sure if this is going to fly, weak symbols work on the compilers I'm
    using, but whether they work for all of the affected architectures I can't say.
    I've cc'ed as many arch maintainers/lists as I could find.

    But assuming they do, we can use a weak empty definition of
    pcibios_add_platform_entries() to avoid having an empty definition on every
    arch.

    Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Michael Ellerman
     

11 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Add the termios2 structure ready for enabling on most platforms. One or
    two like Sparc are plain weird so have been left alone. Most can use the
    same structure as ktermios for termios2 (ie the newer ioctl uses the
    structure matching the current kernel structure)

    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Cc: Bryan Wu
    Cc: Ian Molton
    Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
    Cc: Richard Curnow
    Cc: Miles Bader
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alan Cox