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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:
"Mostly more sparc64 THP bug fixes, and a refactoring of SMP bootup on
sparc32 from Sam Ravnborg."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc32: refactor smp boot
sparc64: Fix huge PMD to PTE translation for sun4u in TLB miss handler.
sparc64: Fix tsb_grow() in atomic context.
sparc64: Handle hugepage TSB being NULL.
sparc64: Fix gfp_flags setting in tsb_grow().
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Introduce a common smp_callin() function to call
from trampoline_32.S.
Add platform specific functions to handle the
platform details.
This is in preparation for a patch that will
unify the smp boot stuff for all architectures.
sparc32 was significantly different to warrant
this patch in preparation.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
- Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J. Wysocki
with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.
- ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
J Wysocki.
- ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.
- Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.
- cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.
- cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.
- cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.
- Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
Brandewie.
- cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.
- cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.
- cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
and Rob Herring.
- cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
from Shawn Guo.
- cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
and Inderpal Singh.
- Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.
- Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.
- Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
Ishimatsu.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
ARM idle: delete pm_idle
blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
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Pull device tree changes from Grant Likely:
"All around device tree changes destined for v3.8. Aside from the
documentation updates the highlights in this branch include:
- Kbuild changes for using CPP with .dts files
- locking fix from preempt_rt patchset
- include DT alias names in device uevent
- Selftest bugfixes and improvements
- New function for counting phandles stanzas in a property
- constify argument to of_node_full_name()
- Various bug fixes
This tree did also contain a commit to use platform_device_add instead
of open-coding the device add code, but it caused problems with amba
devices and needed to be reverted."
* tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (23 commits)
Revert "of: use platform_device_add"
kbuild: limit dtc+cpp include path
gpio: Make of_count_named_gpios() use new of_count_phandle_with_args()
of: Create function for counting number of phandles in a property
of/base: Clean up exit paths for of_parse_phandle_with_args()
of/selftest: Use selftest() macro throughout
of/selftest: Fix GPIOs selftest to cover the 7th case
of: fix recursive locking in of_get_next_available_child()
documentation/devicetree: Fix a typo in exynos-dw-mshc.txt
OF: convert devtree lock from rw_lock to raw spinlock
of/exynos_g2d: Add Bindings for exynos G2D driver
kbuild: create a rule to run the pre-processor on *.dts files
input: Extend matrix-keypad device tree binding
devicetree: Move NS2 LEDs binding into LEDs directory
of: use platform_device_add
powerpc/5200: Fix size to request_mem_region() call
documentation/devicetree: Fix typos
of: add 'const' to of_node_full_name parameter
of: Output devicetree alias names in uevent
DT: add vendor prefixes for Renesas and Toshiba
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If our first THP installation for an MM is via the set_pmd_at() done
during khugepaged's collapsing we'll end up in tsb_grow() trying to do
a GFP_KERNEL allocation with several locks held.
Simply using GFP_ATOMIC in this situation is not the best option
because we really can't have this fail, so we'd really like to keep
this an order 0 GFP_KERNEL allocation if possible.
Also, doing the TSB allocation from khugepaged is a really bad idea
because we'll allocate it potentially from the wrong NUMA node in that
context.
So what we do is defer the hugepage TSB allocation until the first TLB
miss we take on a hugepage. This is slightly tricky because we have
to handle two unusual cases:
1) Taking the first hugepage TLB miss in the window trap handler.
We'll call the winfix_trampoline when that is detected.
2) An initial TSB allocation via TLB miss races with a hugetlb
fault on another cpu running the same MM. We handle this by
unconditionally loading the TSB we see into the current cpu
even if it's non-NULL at hugetlb_setup time.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@ut.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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(pm_idle)() is being removed from linux/pm.h
because Linux does not have such a cross-architecture concept.
sparc uses an idle function pointer in its architecture
specific code. So we re-name sparc use of pm_idle to sparc_idle.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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With the locking cleanup in place (from "OF: Fixup resursive
locking code paths"), we can now do the conversion from the
rw_lock to a raw spinlock as required for preempt-rt.
The previous cleanup and this conversion were originally
separate since they predated when mainline got raw spinlock (in
commit c2f21ce2e31286a "locking: Implement new raw_spinlock").
So, at that point in time, the cleanup was considered plausible
for mainline, but not this conversion. In any case, we've kept
them separate as it makes for easier review and better bisection.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[PG: taken from preempt-rt, update subject & add a commit log]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
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This was caused by commit 16559ae48c76 ("kgdb: remove #include
<linux/serial_8250.h> from kgdb.h") from the tty tree.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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SYSCALL_DEFINE-added wrapper will take care of those just fine;
no extra compat wrappers needed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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it's a copy of compat_sys_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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note that due to historical accident we do *not* directly take
generic versions - need to check and invert the sign of signal
number first.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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note that while struct compat_sigaction is the generic one, syscall
itself *isn't* - different arguments. IOW, CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION
stays.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc. The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The variable iommu and strbuf are not freed properly if it goes to error.
Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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__devinit, __devexit annotations are nops - so drop them.
Likewise for __devexit_p.
Adjusted alignment of arguments when needed.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
IMA on it or other security hooks."
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
__UNIQUE_ID()
MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
ima: support new kernel module syscall
add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
module: add syscall to load module from fd
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This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat support.
The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for PowerPC to do
the u32->int sign extension.
The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile, sparc and arm64 is
to keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
function declarations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [for tile]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In commit d0a21265dfb5fa8a David Rientjes unified various archs'
module_alloc implementation (including x86) and removed the graduitous
shortcut for size == 0.
Then, in commit de7d2b567d040e3b, Joe Perches added a warning for
zero-length vmallocs, which can happen without kallsyms on modules
with no init sections (eg. zlib_deflate).
Fix this once and for all; the module code has to handle zero length
anyway, so get it right at the caller and remove the now-gratuitous
checks within the arch-specific module_alloc implementations.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42608
Reported-by: Conrad Kostecki <ConiKost@gmx.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that
stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.
A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):
- kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.
We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
or kernel_execve():
kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
successful do_execve() before returning.
kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
do transition to user mode anymore.
As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
architecture-independent.
- daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c
- struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.
- sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
kernel/fork.c now."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
new helper: signal_pt_regs()
unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
death to idle_regs()
don't pass regs to copy_process()
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
xtensa: switch to generic clone()
openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
tile: switch to generic clone()
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Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Consistently spell this word across arch/sparc/mm and arch/sparc/kernel.
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Update the sparc64 arch_get_unmapped_area[_topdown] functions to make use
of vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused COLOUR_ALIGN_DOWN()]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Update the sparc32 arch_get_unmapped_area function to make use of
vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused COLOUR_ALIGN()]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull device tree changes from Grant Likely:
"Here are the DT changes I've got queued up for v3.8. As described
below, there are a lot of bug fixes here and documentation updates but
nothing major:
Bug fixes, little cleanups, and documentation changes. The most
invasive thing here touches a bunch of the arch directories to use a
common build rule for .dtb files. There are no major changes to
functionality here other than a few new helper functions."
* tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
arm64: Fix the dtbs target building
mtd: nand: davinci: fix the binding documentation
rtc: rtc-mv: Add the device tree binding documentation
devicetree/bindings: Move gpio-leds binding into leds directory
of/vendor-prefixes: add Imagination Technologies
microblaze: use new common dtc rule
c6x: use new common dtc rule
openrisc: use new common dtc rule
arm64: Add dtbs target for building all the enabled dtb files
arm64: use new common dtc rule
ARM: dt: change .dtb build rules to build in dts directory
kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule
Fix build when CONFIG_W1_MASTER_GPIO=m b exporting "allnodes"
of/spi: Honour "status=disabled" property of device
of_mdio: Honour "status=disabled" property of device
of_i2c: Honour "status=disabled" property of device
powerpc: Fix fallout from device_node->name constification
of: add 'const' for of_parse_phandle parameter *np
Documentation: correct of_platform_populate() argument list
script: dtc: clean generated files
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Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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'arch-h8300', 'arch-m32r', 'arch-mn10300', 'arch-score', 'arch-sh' and 'arch-powerpc' into for-next
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If a signal handler is executed on altstack and another signal comes,
we will end up with rt_sigreturn() on return from the second handler
getting -EPERM from do_sigaltstack(). It's perfectly OK, since we
are not asking to change the settings; in fact, they couldn't have been
changed during the second handler execution exactly because we'd been
on altstack all along. 64bit sigreturn on sparc treats any error from
do_sigaltstack() as "SIGSEGV now"; we need to switch to the same semantics
we are using on other architectures.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neither of these should ever be changed once set. Make them const and
fix up the users that try to modify it in-place. In one case
kmalloc+memcpy is replaced with kstrdup() to avoid modifying the string.
Build tested with defconfigs on ARM, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, x86 among
others.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
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Backmerge from the point in mainline where a trivial conflict had been
introduced (arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c had grown sys_kern_features()
right after where kernel_execve() used to be)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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If an irq is being unlinked concurrently with leon_handle_ext_irq,
irq_map[eirq] might be null in leon_handle_ext_irq. Make sure that
this is not dereferenced.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Document what's going on in asm/backoff.h with a large and descriptive
comment. Refer to it above the cpu_relax() definition in
asm/processor_64.h
Rename the pause patching section to have "3insn" in it's name like
the other patching sections do.
Based upon feedback from Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In atomic backoff and cpu_relax(), use the pause instruction
found on SPARC-T4 and later.
It makes the cpu strand unselectable for the given number of
cycles, unless an intervening disrupting trap occurs.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The Montgomery Multiply, Montgomery Square, and Multiple-Precision
Multiply instructions work by loading a combination of the floating
point and multiple register windows worth of integer registers
with the inputs.
These values are 64-bit. But for 32-bit userland processes we only
save the low 32-bits of each integer register during a register spill.
This is because the register window save area is in the user stack and
has a fixed layout.
Therefore, the only way to use these instruction in 32-bit mode is to
perform the following sequence:
1) Load the top-32bits of a choosen integer register with a sentinel,
say "-1". This will be in the outer-most register window.
The idea is that we're trying to see if the outer-most register
window gets spilled, and thus the 64-bit values were truncated.
2) Load all the inputs for the montmul/montsqr/mpmul instruction,
down to the inner-most register window.
3) Execute the opcode.
4) Traverse back up to the outer-most register window.
5) Check the sentinel, if it's still "-1" store the results.
Otherwise retry the entire sequence.
This retry is extremely troublesome. If you're just unlucky and an
interrupt or other trap happens, it'll push that outer-most window to
the stack and clear the sentinel when we restore it.
We could retry forever and never make forward progress if interrupts
arrive at a fast enough rate (consider perf events as one example).
So we have do limited retries and fallback to software which is
extremely non-deterministic.
Luckily it's very straightforward to provide a mechanism to let
32-bit applications use a 64-bit stack. Stacks in 64-bit mode are
biased by 2047 bytes, which means that the lowest bit is set in the
actual %sp register value.
So if we see bit zero set in a 32-bit application's stack we treat
it like a 64-bit stack.
Runtime detection of such a facility is tricky, and cumbersome at
best. For example, just trying to use a biased stack and seeing if it
works is hard to recover from (the signal handler will need to use an
alt stack, plus something along the lines of longjmp). Therefore, we
add a system call to report a bitmask of arch specific features like
this in a cheap and less hairy way.
With help from Andy Polyakov.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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