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2007-05-07uml: rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_fileJeff Dike
Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix all the callers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07uml: start fixing os_read_file and os_write_fileJeff Dike
This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code. This stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on the host. If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will return -EFAULT. To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of a byte to each page. This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel. In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical address, which would be valid. Here, it appears that this code, on every host read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page. This doesn't seem to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact. This patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel build. This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log in. Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on this somehow. However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using kernel addresses to using plain read() and write(). This patch introduces os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them. These include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or kmalloc-ed. Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a mass conversion back to the original interface. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-29[PATCH] uml: fix compilation problemsJeff Dike
Fix a few miscellaneous compilation problems - an assignment with mismatched types in ldt.c a missing include in mconsole.h which needs a definition of uml_pt_regs I missed removing an include of user_util.h in hostfs Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] uml: fix host LDT lookup initialization locking, try 2Jeff Dike
Add some locking to host_ldt_entries to prevent racing when reading LDT information from the host. The locking is somewhat more careful than my previous attempt. Now, only the check of host_ldt_entries is locked. The lock is dropped immediately afterwards, and if the LDT needs initializing, that (and the memory allocations needed) proceed outside the lock. Also fixed some style violations. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() callsRobert P. J. Day
Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] uml: include stddef.h correctlyJeff Dike
We were not including stddef.h in files that used offsetof. One file was also including linux/stddef.h for no perciptible reason. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>Dave Jones
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-26[PATCH] uml: Use ARRAY_SIZE more assiduouslyJeff Dike
There were a bunch of missed ARRAY_SIZE opportunities. Also, some formatting fixes in the affected areas of code. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] uml: fix usage of kernel_errno in place of errnoPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
To avoid conflicts, in kernel files errno is expanded to kernel_errno, to distinguish it from glibc errno. In this case, the code wants to use the libc errno but the kernel one is used; in the other usage, we return errno in place of -errno in case of an error. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] uml: compilation fix when MODE_SKAS disabledPekka Enberg
CC arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.o arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.c:19:21: proc_mm.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18[PATCH] uml: move LDT creationBodo Stroesser
s390 doesn't have a LDT. So MM_COPY_SEGMENTS will not be supported on s390. The only user of MM_COPY_SEGMENTS is new_mm(), but that's no longer useful, as arch/sys-i386/ldt.c defines init_new_ldt(), which is called immediately after new_mm(). So we should copy host's LDT in init_new_ldt(), if /proc/mm is available, to have this subarch specific call in subarch code. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22[PATCH] uml: eliminate anonymous union and clean up symlink lossageJeff Dike
This gives a name to the anonymous union introduced in skas-hold-own-ldt, allowing to build on a wider range of gccs. It also removes ldt.h, which somehow became real, and replaces it with a symlink, and creates ldt-x86_64.h as a copy of ldt-i386.h for now. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] uml: maintain own LDT entriesBodo Stroesser
Patch imlements full LDT handling in SKAS: * UML holds it's own LDT table, used to deliver data on modify_ldt(READ) * UML disables the default_ldt, inherited from the host (SKAS3) or resets LDT entries, set by host's clib and inherited in SKAS0 * A new global variable skas_needs_stub is inserted, that can be used to decide, whether stub-pages must be supported or not. * Uses the syscall-stub to replace missing PTRACE_LDT (therefore, write_ldt_entry needs to be modified) Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21[PATCH] uml: fix modify_ldt - missing break in switchPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
I am a lamer :-(. Luckily, Luo Xin performed LTP testing and found this failure. Btw, the fact that the patch in which I introduced this was merged shows that: a) I'm really trusted by people b) sometimes they're wrong about point a). c) lack of time for reviewers. CC: Luo Xin <luothing@sina.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14[PATCH] uml: consolidate modify_ldtPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
*) Reorganize the two cases of sys_modify_ldt to share all the reasonably common code. *) Avoid memory allocation when unneeded (i.e. when we are writing and the passed buffer size is known), thus not returning ENOMEM (which isn't allowed for this syscall, even if there is no strict "specification"). *) Add copy_{from,to}_user to modify_ldt for TT mode. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] uml: fix a ptrace callJeff Dike
This fixes write_ldt_entry to treat userspace_pid as an array. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!