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2006-05-03[PATCH] Remove wrong cpu_has_apic checks that came from mismergingAndi Kleen
We only need to check cpu_has_apic in the IO-APIC/L-APIC parsing, not for all of ACPI. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01Merge branch 'audit.b10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing [PATCH] More user space subject labels [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages [PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing [PATCH] audit inode patch [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2 [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering [PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit() [PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit} [PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit() [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() [PATCH] sockaddr patch [PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
2006-05-01[PATCH] timer TSC check suspend notifier changeShaohua Li
At suspend time, the TSC CPUFREQ_SUSPENDCHANGE notifier change might wrongly enable interrupt. cpufreq driver suspend/resume is in interrupt disabled environment. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386: Remove apic= warningAndi Kleen
The apic= option can be used to set the APIC driver too. When that is done this code would always produce bogus warnings. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386: Fix overflow in e820_all_mappedAndi Kleen
The 32bit version of e820_all_mapped() needs to use u64 to avoid overflows on PAE systems. Pointed out by Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix ACPI disabled LAPIC handling mismergeAndi Kleen
The patch I submitted earlier to fix disabled LAPIC handling in ACPI was mismerged for some reason I still don't quite understand. Parts of it was applied to the wrong function. This patch fixes it up. Cc: <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit}Al Viro
... it's always current, and that's a good thing - allows simpler locking. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-28[PATCH] kprobe: fix resume execution on i386Masami Hiramatsu
Fix resume_execution() to handle iret and absolute jump opcode correctly on i386. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] kprobe cleanup for VM_MASK judgementmao, bibo
When trap happens in user space, kprobe_exceptions_notify() funtion will skip it. This patch deletes some unnecessary code for VM_MASK judgement in eflags. Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] Avoid printing pointless tsc skew msgsDave Jones
These messages are kinda silly.. CPU#0 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. CPU#1 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. inspired from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7713&action=view Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26[PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitionsChandra Seetharaman
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition of notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-20[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information leak between processesAndi Kleen
AMD K7/K8 CPUs only save/restore the FOP/FIP/FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE when an exception is pending. This means the value leak through context switches and allow processes to observe some x87 instruction state of other processes. This was actually documented by AMD, but nobody recognized it as being different from Intel before. The fix first adds an optimization: instead of unconditionally calling FNCLEX after each FXSAVE test if ES is pending and skip it when not needed. Then do a x87 load from a kernel variable to clear FOP/FIP/FDP. This means other processes always will only see a constant value defined by the kernel in their FP state. I took some pain to make sure to chose a variable that's already in L1 during context switch to make the overhead of this low. Also alternative() is used to patch away the new code on CPUs who don't need it. Patch for both i386/x86-64. The problem was discovered originally by Jan Beulich. Richard Brunner provided the basic code for the workarounds, with contribution from Jan. This is CVE-2006-1056 Cc: richard.brunner@amd.com Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19[PATCH] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes for i386Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Andrew Morton pointed out that compiler might not inline the functions marked for inline in kprobes. There-by allowing the insertion of probes on these kprobes routines, which might cause recursion. This patch removes all such inline and adds them to kprobes section there by disallowing probes on all such routines. Some of the routines can even still be inlined, since these routines gets executed after the kprobes had done necessay setup for reentrancy. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19[PATCH] apm: fix Armada laptops againSamuel Thibault
Fix the "apm: set display: Interface not engaged" error on Armada laptops again. Jordan said: I think this is fine. It seems to me that this may be the fault of one or both of the APM solutions handling this situation in a non-standard way, but since APM is used very little on the Geode, and I have direct access to our BIOS folks, if this problem comes up with a customer again, we'll solve it from the firmware. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: "Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19[PATCH] x86 cpuid and msr notifier callback section mismatchesRandy Dunlap
Fix section mismatch warnings in x86 cpuid and msr notifier callback functions. We can't have these as init (discarded) code. WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/cpuid.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'cpuid_class_cpu_notifier' (at offset 0x0) and 'cpuid_fops' WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/msr.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'msr_class_cpu_notifier' (at offset 0x0) and 'msr_fops' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-18[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8.c: fix a check-after-useAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes a check-after-use introduced by commit 4211a30349e8d2b724cfb4ce2584604f5e59c299 and spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-18[CPUFREQ] Remove duplicate check in powernow-k8Tobias Klauser
Remove a duplicate NULL pointer check introduced by commit 4211a30349e8d2b724cfb4ce2584604f5e59c299 Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-18[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix ACPI disabled LAPIC handling mismergeAndi Kleen
The patch I submitted earlier to fix disabled LAPIC handling in ACPI was mismerged for some reason I still don't quite understand. Parts of it was applied to the wrong function. This patch fixes it up. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-14[PATCH] DMI: move dmi_scan.c from arch/i386 to drivers/firmware/Bjorn Helgaas
dmi_scan.c is arch-independent and is used by i386, x86_64, and ia64. Currently all three arches compile it from arch/i386, which means that ia64 and x86_64 depend on things in arch/i386 that they wouldn't otherwise care about. This is simply "mv arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c drivers/firmware/" (removing trailing whitespace) and the associated Makefile changes. All three architectures already set CONFIG_DMI in their top-level Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()Jens Axboe
Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference. Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the input pipe data. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386: Remove bogus special case code from AMD core parsingAndi Kleen
It's not actually needed and would break non power of two number of cores. Follows similar earlier x86-64 patch. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86-64/i386: Don't process APICs/IO-APICs in ACPI when APIC is disabled.Andi Kleen
When nolapic was passed or the local APIC was disabled for another reason ACPI would still parse the IO-APICs until these were explicitely disabled with noapic. Usually this resulted in a non booting configuration unless "nolapic noapic" was used. I also disabled the local APIC parsing in this case, although that's only cosmetic (suppresses a few printks) This hopefully makes nolapic work in all cases. Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementationsKyle McMartin
While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't being exported from lib/string.c. Investigating further, I noticed a changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more architectures. The justification was that "other arches do it." I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines __HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it themselves. Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] mpparse: prevent table index out-of-boundsRandy Dunlap
John Z. Bohach <jzb@aexorsyst.com> found this bug: If the board has more than 32 PCI busses on it, the mptable bus array will overwrite its bounds for the PCI busses, and stomp on anything that's after it. Prevent possible table overflow and unknown data corruption. Code is in an __init section so it will be discarded after init. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386: print EIP/ESP lastRandy Dunlap
Print summary registers (EIP and SS:ESP only) as last death info. This makes this important data visible in case it had scrolled off the top of the display. Similar to what x86_64 does. Suggested by Andi Kleen. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] swsusp: don't require bigsmpAshok Raj
Switching to automatic bigsmp causes a misleading error message, that more then 8 cpus are detected, and user needs to select either X86_GENERICARCH or X86_BIGSMP to handle. Reason is we switched to bigsmp to avoid IP race when new cpu is comming up. [bigsmp is nothing but using physical flat mode that can work for 1 .. 255 cpus] [default is X86_PC, that uses logical flat mode up to 8 CPUs max] Current x86_64 code uses bigsmp as default when hotplug is enabled. It would be preferable to make bigsmp as default, and work the dependencies of other related code like SMP_SUSPEND, and some related to memory hotplug code for i386. Current logical flat mode doesnt use shortcuts that cause the race by using the send_IPI_mask() instead of shortcuts when HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled. In the meantime this patch is the path of lease resistance. We will switch to bigsmp default sometime soon, when we get to work it again. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09Move request_standard_resources() back to before PCI probingLinus Torvalds
This effectively undoes the PCI resource allocation changes done in commit b408cbc704352eccee301e1103b23203ba1c3a0e, but leaves the cleanups of that commit in place. We're going back to marking the resources reported by e820 busy _before_ doing PCI probing, so that any PCI resource that clashes with the BIOS- reported memory map will be reloacted to a non-clashing area. The reason? Larry Finger reports that his laptop has the cardbus controller set up by the BIOS so that it conflicts with the e820 memory map, and needs to be relocated. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6337 for more details. We'll have to work out how to handle the fbcon problem that caused that commit in the first place in some other way. Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: <bjk@luxsci.net> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] i386: Remove printk about reboot fixups at rebootAndi Kleen
Printk doesn't have any value Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Proper null pointer check in powernow_k8_getJacob Shin
This prevents crashes on dual core system when enough ticks are lost. Replaces earlier patch by me. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Revert earlier powernow-k8 changeAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] i386: Consolidate modern APIC handlingAndi Kleen
AMD systems have a modern APIC that supports 8 bit IDs, but don't have a XAPIC version number. Add a new "modern_apic" subfunction that handles this correctly and use it (nearly) everywhere where XAPIC is tested for. I removed one wart: the code specified that external APICs would use an 8bit APIC ID. But I checked a real 82093 data sheet and it says clearly that they only use 4bit. So I removed this special case since it would a bit awkward to implement now. I removed the valid APIC tests in mptable parsing completely. On any modern system they only check against the full field width (8bit) anyways and are no-ops. This also fixes them doing the wrong thing on >8 core Opterons. This makes i386 boot again on 16 core Opterons. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86-64/i386: Don't process APICs/IO-APICs in ACPI when APIC is disabled.Andi Kleen
When nolapic was passed or the local APIC was disabled for another reason ACPI would still parse the IO-APICs until these were explicitely disabled with noapic. Usually this resulted in a non booting configuration unless "nolapic noapic" was used. I also disabled the local APIC parsing in this case, although that's only cosmetic (suppresses a few printks) This hopefully makes nolapic work in all cases. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Introduce e820_all_mappedArjan van de Ven
Introduce a e820_all_mapped() function which checks if the entire range <start,end> is mapped with type. This is done by moving the local start variable to the end of each known-good region; if at the end of the function the start address is still before end, there must be a part that's not of the correct type; otherwise it's a good region. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/net/ BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/net/lcs.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/slab.c BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/highmem.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/ptrace.c BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/shm.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/freevxfs/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/udf/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/sysv/ BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/inode.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/fcntl.c BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dquot.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid10.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid6main.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid5.c Fix minor documentation typo BFP->BPF in Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt ...
2006-04-02Manual merge with Linus.Dmitry Torokhov
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c
2006-04-01kexec: grammar fix for crash_save_this_cpu()Horms
kexec: grammar fix for crash_save_this_cpu() Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-31[PATCH] unexport get_wchanAdrian Bunk
The only user of get_wchan is the proc fs - and proc can't be built modular. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()Andrew Morton
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead. Reasons: - It's more flexible. Things which would require two or three syscalls with fadvise() can be done in a single syscall. - Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX. The patch wires up the syscall for x86. The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c. The intention is that we can move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later. Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c. A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz. The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC. I can skip the ->fsync call for NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common." Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if the queue is congested. This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set wbc->nonblocking. But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation details down to that level. Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing. Same with fsync() and fdatasync()). Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines. It makes such attempts appear to succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility. Perhaps it should make such requests fail... Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]OGAWA Hirofumi
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and parse_args(,unknown_bootoption). And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup(). start_kernel() -> parse_args() -> unknown_bootoption() -> obsolete_checksetup() If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was handled. If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other ->setup_func(). If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0, a parameter is seted to argv_init[]. Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app. If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit. This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] Mark unwind info for signal trampolines in vDSOsJakub Jelinek
Mark unwind info for signal trampolines using the new S augmentation flag introduced in: http://gcc.gnu.org/PR26208. GCC 4.2 (or patched earlier GCC) will be able to special case unwinding through frames right above signal trampolines. As the augmentations start with z flag and S is at the very end of the augmentation string, older GCCs will just skip the S flag as unknown (that's why an augmentation flag was chosen over say a new CFA opcode). Signed-off-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] i386 kdump timer vector lockup fixVivek Goyal
Porting the patch I posted for x86_64 to i386. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114178139610707&w=2 o While using kdump, after a system crash when second kernel boots, timer vector gets (0x31) locked and CPU does not see timer interrupts travelling from IOAPIC to APIC. Currently it does not lead to boot failure in second kernel as timer interrupts continues to come as ExtInt through LAPIC directly, but fixing it is good in case some boards do not support the other mode. o After a system crash, it is not safe to service interrupts any more, hence interrupts are disabled. This leads to pending interrupts at LAPIC. LAPIC sends these interrupts to the CPU during early boot of second kernel. Other pending interrupts are discarded saying unexpected trap but timer interrupt is serviced and CPU does not issue an LAPIC EOI because it think this interrupt came from i8259 and sends ack to 8259. This leads to vector 0x31 locking as LAPIC does not clear respective ISR and keeps on waiting for EOI. o This patch issues extra EOI for the pending interrupts who have ISR set. o Though today only timer seems to be the special case because in early boot it thinks interrupts are coming from i8259 and uses mask_and_ack_8259A() as ack handler and does not issue LAPIC EOI. But probably doing it in generic manner for all vectors makes sense. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system callJens Axboe
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected [CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask() [CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8 [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: add range check [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: keep ignore_nice_load value when it is reselected [PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: Warn if it cannot run due to too long transition latency [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alternative initialise approach [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: make for_each_cpu() safe [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alter default responsiveness [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: aligning of codebase with ondemand
2006-03-28[PATCH] fix signed vs unsigned in nmi watchdogJesper Juhl
Fix "signed vs unsigned" in nmi_watchdog_tick. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctlAdrian Bunk
Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no longer use this ioctl. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: i386KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. under arch/i386. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask()Andrew Morton
It is unneeded and wrong. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-27[CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8shin, jacob
Andi's previous fix to initialise powernow_data on all siblings will not work properly with CPU Hotplug. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: i386Ingo Molnar
i386: add the futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser() assembly implementation, and wire up the new syscalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>