17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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SPARSEMEM is a pretty nice framework that unifies quite a bit of code over all
the arches. It would be great if it could be the default so that we can get
rid of various forms of DISCONTIG and other variations on memory maps. So far
what has hindered this are the additional lookups that SPARSEMEM introduces
for virt_to_page and page_address. This goes so far that the code to do this
has to be kept in a separate function and cannot be used inline.This patch introduces a virtual memmap mode for SPARSEMEM, in which the memmap
is mapped into a virtually contigious area, only the active sections are
physically backed. This allows virt_to_page page_address and cohorts become
simple shift/add operations. No page flag fields, no table lookups, nothing
involving memory is required.The two key operations pfn_to_page and page_to_page become:
#define __pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmemmap + (pfn))
#define __page_to_pfn(page) ((page) - vmemmap)By having a virtual mapping for the memmap we allow simple access without
wasting physical memory. As kernel memory is typically already mapped 1:1
this introduces no additional overhead. The virtual mapping must be big
enough to allow a struct page to be allocated and mapped for all valid
physical pages. This vill make a virtual memmap difficult to use on 32 bit
platforms that support 36 address bits.However, if there is enough virtual space available and the arch already maps
its 1-1 kernel space using TLBs (f.e. true of IA64 and x86_64) then this
technique makes SPARSEMEM lookups even more efficient than CONFIG_FLATMEM.
FLATMEM needs to read the contents of the mem_map variable to get the start of
the memmap and then add the offset to the required entry. vmemmap is a
constant to which we can simply add the offset.This patch has the potential to allow us to make SPARSMEM the default (and
even the only) option for most systems. It should be optimal on UP, SMP and
NUMA on most platforms. Then we may even be able to remove the other memory
models: FLATMEM, DISCONTIG etc.[apw@shadowen.org: config cleanups, resplit code etc]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix sparsemem_vmemmap init]
[apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap: remove excess debugging]
[apw@shadowen.org: simplify initialisation code and reduce duplication]
[apw@shadowen.org: pull out the vmemmap code into its own file]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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In commit 4665079cbb2a3e17de82f2ab2940b9f97f37d65e ("[NETNS]: Move some
code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=n") we got a new section -
.exit.text.refok (more of 'let's tell modpost that some bogus calls are
not bogus', a-la text.init.refok).Unfortunately, the commit in question forgot to add it to TEXT_TEXT,
with rather amusing results.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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With the PCI layer properly handling legacy IDE and the kernel now using
it these can goSigned-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
13 Sep, 2007
1 commit
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Commit f629307c857c030d5a3dd777fee37c8bb395e171 introduced uses of
kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 and user_termios_to_kernel_termios_1
on all architectures. However, powerpc, s390, avr32 and frv don't
currently define those functions since their termios struct didn't
need to be changed when the arbitrary baud rate stuff was added, and
thus the kernel won't currently build on those architectures.This adds definitions of kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 and
user_termios_to_kernel_termios_1 to include/asm-generic/termios.h
which are identical to kernel_termios_to_user_termios and
user_termios_to_kernel_termios respectively. The definitions are the
same because the "old" termios and "new" termios are in fact the same
on these architectures (which are the same ones that use
asm-generic/termios.h).Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: David Miller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Aug, 2007
1 commit
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There are some parts of include/asm-generic/pgtable.h that are relevant to
the non-mmu architectures. To make it easier to include this from them I
would like to ifdef the relevant parts.Without this there is a handful of functions that are referenced in here
that are not defined on many non-mmu architectures. They could be defined
out of course, as an alternative approach.Cc: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Aug, 2007
2 commits
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Alexey Dobriyan noticed that the new WARN_ON() semantics that were
introduced by commit 684f978347deb42d180373ac4c427f82ef963171 (to also
return the value to be warned on) didn't compile when given a bitfield,
because the typeof doesn't work for bitfields.So instead of the typeof trick, use an "int" variable together with a
"!!(x)" expression, as suggested by Al Viro.To make matters more interesting, Paul Mackerras points out that that is
sub-optimal on Power, but the old asm-coded comparison seems to be buggy
anyway on 32-bit Power if the conditional was 64-bit, so I think there
are more problems there.Regardless, the new WARN_ON() semantics may have been a bad idea. But
this at least avoids the more serious complications.Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Herbert Xu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use "__val" rather than "val" in the __get_unaligned macro in
asm-generic/unaligned.h. This way gcc wont warn if you happen to also name
something in the same scope "val".Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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This changes the i386 linker script and the asm-generic macro it uses so that
ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image along
with other read-only data. The PT_NOTE also points to their location.This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
per cpu data section contains two types of data. One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus. In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out. This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end. Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.This patch:
Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc:
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Jul, 2007
4 commits
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Verify that types would match for assignment (under sizeof, so we are safe from
side effects or any code actually getting generated), then explicitly cast
everywhere to the fixed-sized types. Kills a bunch of bogus warnings about
constants being truncated (gcc, sparse), finds a pile of endianness problems
hidden by old noise (sparse).Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sparse now warns if one compares pointers with integers. However, there are
false positives, like:fs/filesystems.c:72:2: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Every time BUG_ON(ptr) is used, ptr is checked against integer zero. Avoid
that and save ~70 false positives from allyesconfig run.mentioned by Al.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Al Viro
Acked-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Nobody is using ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty. Remove
the functions from all architectures.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The last user of ptep_establish in mm/ is long gone. Remove the architecture
primitive as well.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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The problem is as follows: in multi-threaded code (or more correctly: all
code using clone() with CLONE_FILES) we have a race when exec'ing.thread #1 thread #2
fd=open()
fork + exec
fcntl(fd,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC)
In some applications this can happen frequently. Take a web browser. One
thread opens a file and another thread starts, say, an external PDF viewer.
The result can even be a security issue if that open file descriptor
refers to a sensitive file and the external program can somehow be tricked
into using that descriptor.Just adding O_CLOEXEC support to open() doesn't solve the whole set of
problems. There are other ways to create file descriptors (socket,
epoll_create, Unix domain socket transfer, etc). These can and should be
addressed separately though. open() is such an easy case that it makes not
much sense putting the fix off.The test program:
#include
#include
#include
#include#ifndef O_CLOEXEC
# define O_CLOEXEC 02000000
#endifint
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
if (argc > 1)
{
fd = atol (argv[1]);
printf ("child: fd = %d\n", fd);
if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) == 0 || errno != EBADF)
{
puts ("file descriptor valid in child");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}fd = open ("/proc/self/exe", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
printf ("in parent: new fd = %d\n", fd);
char buf[20];
snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%d", fd);
execl ("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], buf, NULL);
puts ("execl failed");
return 1;
}[kyle@parisc-linux.org: parisc fix]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Davide Libenzi
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Chris Zankel
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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
10 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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simplify sched_rt.c's sched_find_first_bit() function: there are
only 100 RT priority levels left.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Jun, 2007
1 commit
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Some changes done a while ago to avoid pounding on ptep_set_access_flags and
update_mmu_cache in some race situations break sun4c which requires
update_mmu_cache() to always be called on minor faults.This patch reworks ptep_set_access_flags() semantics, implementations and
callers so that it's now responsible for returning whether an update is
necessary or not (basically whether the PTE actually changed). This allow
fixing the sparc implementation to always return 1 on sun4c.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes, cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Mark Fortescue
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 May, 2007
1 commit
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The RO_DATA section were hardcoded to a specific
alignment in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.h.
But for sparc64 this did not match the PAGE_SIZE.Introduce a new section definition named:
RO_DATA that takes actual alignment as parameter.
RODATA are provided for backward compatibility.On top of this avoid hardcoding alignment for
sparc64 in reset of the script
Fix is build-tested on sparc64 + x86_64.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
25 May, 2007
1 commit
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Change the default printout message for WARN_ON() to say what it is, not
something else. I'm tired of having people get all aflutter about a warning.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2007
3 commits
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Throughout the kernel there are a few legitimite references
to init or exit sections. Most of these are covered by the
patterns included in modpost but a few nees special attention.
To avoid hardcoding a lot of function names in modpost introduce
a marker so relevant function/data can be marked.
When modpost see a reference to a init/exit function from
a function/data marked no warning will be issued.Idea from: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Andrew Morton -
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
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Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
12 May, 2007
1 commit
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* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes
[PATCH] match audit name data
[PATCH] complete message queue auditing
[PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls
[PATCH] initialize name osid
[PATCH] audit signal recipients
[PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)
[PATCH] auditing ptrace
11 May, 2007
2 commits
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These files are almost all the same.
This patch could be made even simpler if we don't mind POLLREMOVE turning
up in a few architectures that didn't have it previously (which should be
OK as POLLREMOVE is not used anywhere in the current tree).Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add a syscall class for sending signals.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
09 May, 2007
5 commits
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Fix the misspellings of "propogate", "writting" and (oh, the shame
:-) "kenrel" in the source tree.Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk -
This series extena and standardises local_t operations on each architecture,
allowing a rich set of atomic operations to be done on per-cpu data with
minimal performance impact. On architectures where there seems to be no
difference between the SMP and UP operation (same memory barriers, same
LOCKing), local.h simply includes asm-generic/local.h, which removes
duplicated code from the current kernel tree.This patch:
local_t: architecture independent extension
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
I agree (with Andi Kleen) this typeof is not needed and more error
prone. All the original atomic.h code that uses cmpxchg (which includes
the atomic_add_unless) uses defines instead of inline functions,
probably to circumvent a circular dependency between system.h and
atomic.h on powerpc (which my patch addresses). Therefore, it makes
sense to use inline functions that will provide type checking.atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
Digging into the FRV architecture shows me that it is also affected by
such a circular dependency. Here is the diff applying this against the
rest of my atomic.h patches.It applies over the atomic.h standardization patches.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc:
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2007
3 commits
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Three cleanups:
1: ELF notes are never mapped, so there's no need to have any access
flags in their phdr.2: When generating them from asm, tell the assembler to use a SHT_NOTE
section type. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from C.3: Use ANSI rather than traditional cpp behaviour to stringify the
macro argument.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Eric W. Biederman -
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
an mm. Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are
needed in common code. They are:arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork
arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an
mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec.The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific
activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for
other architectures. It's called when an mm is first used.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bottomley
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar -
Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain. Using simple per-cpu variables adds
happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for Xen, which we do in a
followup patch).[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
28 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (448 commits)
[IPV4] nl_fib_lookup: Initialise res.r before fib_res_put(&res)
[IPV6]: Fix thinko in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() changes.
[IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt
[WIRELESS] cfg80211: Clarify locking comment.
[WIRELESS] cfg80211: Fix locking in wiphy_new.
[WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.
[WEXT]: Misc code cleanups.
[WEXT]: Reduce inline abuse.
[WEXT]: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL statements where they belong.
[WEXT]: Cleanup early ioctl call path.
[WEXT]: Remove options.
[WEXT]: Remove dead debug code.
[WEXT]: Clean up how wext is called.
[WEXT]: Move to net/wireless
[AFS]: Eliminate cmpxchg() usage in vlocation code.
[RXRPC]: Fix pointers passed to bitops.
[RXRPC]: Remove bogus atomic_* overrides.
[AFS]: Fix u64 printing in debug logging.
[AFS]: Add "directory write" support.
[AFS]: Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 operation.
...
27 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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The page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive really consists of two
operations, page_test_dirty and the page_clear_dirty. The combination
of the two is not an atomic operation, so it makes more sense to have
two separate operations instead of one.
In addition to the improved readability of the s390 version of
SetPageUptodate, it now avoids the page_test_dirty operation which is
an insert-storage-key-extended (iske) instruction which is an expensive
operation.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
26 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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Here is the current version of the 64 bit divide common code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
09 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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Since lazy MMU batching mode still allows interrupts to enter, it is
possible for interrupt handlers to try to use kmap_atomic, which fails when
lazy mode is active, since the PTE update to highmem will be delayed. The
best workaround is to issue an explicit flush in kmap_atomic_functions
case; this is the only way nested PTE updates can happen in the interrupt
handler.Thanks to Jeremy Fitzhardinge for noting the bug and suggestions on a fix.
This patch gets reverted again when we start 2.6.22 and the bug gets fixed
differently.Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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This reverts commit 39d61db0edb34d60b83c5e0d62d0e906578cc707.
The commit was buggy in multiple ways:
- the conversion to ilog2() was incorrect to begin with
- it tested the wrong #defines, so on all architectures but FRV you'd
never see the bug except for constant arguments.
- the new "get_order()" macro used its arguments multiple times, and
didn't even parenthesize them properly
- despite the comments, it was not true that you could use it for
constant initializers, since not all architectures even use the
generic page.h header file.All of the problems are individually fixable, but it all boils down to:
better just revert it, and re-do it from scratch.Cc: David Howells
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
2 commits
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The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns
out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a
specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent
instructions. This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided.
The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch
multicall.To explain a bit more about lazy modes in the paravirt patches, basically, the
idea is that only one of lazy CPU or MMU mode can be active at any given time.
Lazy MMU mode is similar to this lazy CPU mode, and allows for batching of
multiple PTE updates (say, inside a remap loop), but to avoid keeping some
kind of state machine about when to flush cpu or mmu updates, we just allow
one or the other to be active. Although there is no real reason a more
comprehensive scheme could not be implemented, there is also no demonstrated
need for this extra complexity.Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton -
This defines a simple and minimalist programming interface for GPIO APIs:
- Documentation/gpio.txt ... describes things (read it)
- include/asm-arm/gpio.h ... defines the ARM hook, which just punts
to for any implementation- include/asm-generic/gpio.h ... implement "can sleep" variants as calling
the normal ones, for systems that don't handle i2c expanders.The immediate need for such a cross-architecture API convention is to support
drivers that work the same on AT91 ARM and AVR32 AP7000 chips, which embed many
of the same controllers but have different CPUs. However, several other users
have been reported, including a driver for a hardware watchdog chip and some
handhelds.org multi-CPU button drivers.Signed-off-by: David Brownell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
