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This is a very simple method for code running in an emulator, or under
the supervision of a debugger, to use I/O facilities on the controlling
host.
Tested with OpenOCD, and ARM's Fast Models.
Details on semihosting can be found in chapter 8 of
DUI0203I_rvct_developer_guide.pdf from ARM Ltd.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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As described in e6fa16ab ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
incorrect as we need to check for shared signals we're about to block.
Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f28f
("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate code
across architectures. In the past some architectures got this code wrong,
so using this helper function should stop that from happening again.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Extract out the code patching code from kprobes so that it can be used
from the jump label code. Additionally, the separated code:
- Uses the IS_ENABLED() macros instead of the #ifdefs for THUMB2
support
- Unifies the two separate functions in kprobes, providing one function
that uses stop_machine() internally, and one that can be called from
stop_machine() directly
- Patches the text on all CPUs only on processors requiring software
broadcasting of cache operations
Acked-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Extract out the instruction generation code so that it can be used
for jump labels too.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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As commit 592201a9f15 (ARM: Thumb-2: Support Thumb-2 in undefined
instruction handler) says:
32-bit Thumb instructions are specified in the form:
((first_half << 16 ) | second_half)
which matches the layout used by the ARM ARM.
Convert the ftrace code to use the same format to avoid the usage of
different formats in kernel code.
Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Before replacing an instruction, the ftrace code determines what the old
instruction should be and verifies that that's what's really there in
memory before replacing it. This is useful if for example a bug in
mcountrecord causes it to record wrong locations.
However, in cases where we replace call sites in entry-common.S, these
checks are not needed. For these, we currently just memcpy() the memory
content and then "verify" it -- this is quite useless and can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The kexec machine crash code can be called in interrupt context via a
sysrq trigger made using the magic key combination. If the irq chip
dealing with the serial interrupt is using the fasteoi flow handler,
then we will never EOI the interrupt because the interrupt handler will
be fatal. In the case of a GIC, this results in the crash kernel not
receiving interrupts on that CPU interface.
This patch adds code (based on the PowerPC implementation) to EOI any
pending interrupts on the crash CPU before masking and disabling all
interrupts. Secondary cores are not a problem since they are placed into
a cpu_relax() loop via an IPI.
Reported-by: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Versatile Express, the PCI Express buses are broken and unusable, so
we aren't going to support PCI/ISA IO cycles on this platform. Remove
the PCI/ISA IO inb et.al. support for this platform.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Avoid potential build problems caused by lacking mach/irqs.h includes
on non-OF builds caused by an errant include in asm/prom.h. asm/prom.h
requires nothing from asm/irq.h, as Grant says:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:56:23AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:17:48PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Finally, do we need asm/irq.h in our asm/prom.h ? That's causing
> > fragility between DT and non-DT builds, because people are finding
> > that their DT builds work without their mach/irqs.h includes but
> > fail when built with non-DT. The only thing which DT might need -
> > at the most - is NR_IRQS, but I'd hope with things like irq domains
> > it doesn't actually require it.
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> I don't think so. There may be a file or two that break because they're
> not including everything they need, but I don't think anything in the
> header requires it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Print debug information on user faults for SIGBUS if user_debug = 16
in the kernel command line.
Reference: <1327333344-26340-1-git-send-email-javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The irq_start and hwirq_base assignment code is fairly hairy and ended
up being difficult to read following a conflict resolution for 3.2.
This patch rearranges the code slightly to make it easier to read.
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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ARM unconditionally selects CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS, so the definition
of for_each_irq_desc will check that the desc is non-NULL anyway.
This patch removes a redundant check from the IRQ migration code.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Cortex-A7 implements an ARMv7-compatible PMU compliant with the PMUv2
architecture specification.
This patch adds support for the PMU to the ARM perf backend.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Ensure that the software state for sched_clock() is updated at the
point of suspend so that we avoid losing ticks since the last update.
This prevents the platform dependent possibility that sched_clock()
may appear to go backwards across a suspend/resume cycle.
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Add the compiled ISA to oops dumps, along side the preempt/smp
configuration. This allows us to see immediately whether the kernel
was compiled for Thumb-2 or not.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The compiler does not conditionalize the assembly instructions for
the tlb operations, which leads to sub-optimal code being generated
when building a kernel for multiple CPUs.
We can tweak things fairly simply as the code fragment below shows:
17f8: e3120001 tst r2, #1 ; 0x1
...
1800: 0a000000 beq 1808 <handle_pte_fault+0x194>
1804: ee061f10 mcr 15, 0, r1, cr6, cr0, {0}
1808: e3120004 tst r2, #4 ; 0x4
180c: 0a000000 beq 1814 <handle_pte_fault+0x1a0>
1810: ee081f36 mcr 15, 0, r1, cr8, cr6, {1}
becomes:
17f0: e3120001 tst r2, #1 ; 0x1
17f4: 1e063f10 mcrne 15, 0, r3, cr6, cr0, {0}
17f8: e3120004 tst r2, #4 ; 0x4
17fc: 1e083f36 mcrne 15, 0, r3, cr8, cr6, {1}
Overall, for Realview with V6 and V7 CPUs configured:
text data bss dec hex filename
4153998 207340 5371036 9732374 948116 ../build/realview/vmlinux.before
4153366 207332 5371036 9731734 947e96 ../build/realview/vmlinux.after
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This line is irritating and wrong when modules are not supported, so
don't show it then.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Wire up support for the XZ decompressor
Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch adds some endianness-agnostic helpers to convert machine
instructions between canonical integer form and in-memory
representation.
A canonical integer form for representing instructions is also
formalised here.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Now that we can select a sched_clock at runtime, let's implement
it for the Integrator AP, default-select the one found in all
other board it for all plat-versatile boards and make the right
clock kick in at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The current user mapping for the vectors page is inserted as a `horrible
hack vma' into each task via arch_setup_additional_pages. This causes
problems with the MM subsystem and vm_normal_page, as described here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/55
Following the suggestion from Hugh in the above thread, this patch uses
the gate_vma for the vectors user mapping, therefore consolidating
the horrible hack VMAs into one.
Acked-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Avoid namespace conflicts with drivers over the CP15 definitions by
moving CP15 related prototypes and definitions to a private header
file.
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> [Tegra]
Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> [EP93xx]
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Rather than open-coding the jiffy-based wait, and polling for the
secondary CPU to come online, use a completion instead. This
removes the need to poll, instead we will be notified when the
secondary CPU has initialized.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Get rid of the NO_IRQ madness from Acorn expansion card handling code.
Thankfully, are relatively few users of this here, and so it's easy to
audit.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Use DEFINE_RES_xxx() to define device resources.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This register is only present on older platforms, and not on RiscPC,
so lets remove this unused support.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Use irq_alloc_descs() to allocate IRQs for expansion cards.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Use irq chip data to store the expansion card data pointer, rather
than converting from the interrupt number to a slot number. This
allows the interrupt chip methods to avoid knowing about interrupt
numbering.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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RiscPC is the only platform using the Acorn expansion card support, so
move it into its mach-* directory.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Use IRQ_TIMER0 instead, which is the same thing.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Rather than using a plain integer, use the definition already provided.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Rather than including asm/irq.h into the keyboard driver, pass the
IRQ numbers via the platform device instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Nothing but RiscPC makes use of the Acorn timekeeping code, so move
it into mach-rpc.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Sigh, warnings are there for a reason.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the x86 defconfigs since
token ring support is antiquated and obsolete.
( I reviewed both x86 defconfigs - I didn't come up with
anything else that obviously should be removed. )
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F6D05CA.2050801@xenotime.net
[ Twiddled the changelog a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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After printing out the first line of a stack backtrace,
print_context_stack() calls print_ftrace_graph_addr() to check
if it's making a graph of function calls, usually not the case.
But unfortunate ordering of assignments causes this to oops if
an earlier stack overflow corrupted threadinfo->task. Reorder
to avoid that irritation.
( The fact that there was a stack overflow may often be more
interesting than the stack that can now be shown; but
integrating that information with this stacktrace is awkward,
so leave it to overflow reporting. )
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120323225648.15DD5A033B@akpm.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
Pull cpufreq updates for 3.4 from Dave Jones: new drivers and some fixes.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.
EXYNOS5250: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS5250
EXYNOS4X12: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS4X12
[CPUFREQ] CPUfreq ondemand: update sampling rate without waiting for next sampling
[CPUFREQ] Add S3C2416/S3C2450 cpufreq driver
[CPUFREQ] Fix exposure of ARM_EXYNOS4210_CPUFREQ
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: update the name of EXYNOS clock register
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Initialize locking_frequency with initial frequency
[CPUFREQ] s3c64xx: Fix mis-cherry pick of VDDINT
Fix up trivial conflicts in Kconfig and Makefile due to just changes
next to each other (OMAP2PLUS changes vs some new EXYNOS cpufreq
drivers).
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Pull #3 ARM updates from Russell King:
"This adds gpio support to soc_common, allowing an amount of code to be
deleted from each PCMCIA socket driver for the PXA/SA11x0 SoCs."
* 'pcmcia' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
PCMCIA: sa1111: rename sa1111 socket drivers to have sa1111_ prefix.
PCMCIA: make lubbock socket driver part of sa1111_cs
PCMCIA: add Kconfig control for building sa11xx_base.c
PCMCIA: sa1111: jornada720: no need to disable IRQs around sa1111_set_io
PCMCIA: sa1111: pass along sa1111_pcmcia_configure_socket() failure code
PCMCIA: soc_common: remove explicit wrprot initialization in socket drivers
PCMCIA: soc_common: remove soc_pcmcia_*_irqs functions
PCMCIA: sa11x0: h3600: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa11x0: simpad: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa11x0: shannon: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa11x0: nanoengine: convert reset handling to use GPIO subsystem
PCMCIA: sa11x0: nanoengine: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa11x0: cerf: convert reset handling to use GPIO subsystem
PCMCIA: sa11x0: cerf: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa11x0: assabet: convert to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: sa1111: use new per-socket irq/gpio infrastructure
PCMCIA: pxa: convert PXA socket drivers to use new irq/gpio management
PCMCIA: soc_common: add GPIO support for card status signals
PCMCIA: soc_common: move common initialization into soc_common
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Pull #2 ARM updates from Russell King:
"Further ARM AMBA primecell updates which aren't included directly in
the previous commit. I wanted to keep these separate as they're
touching stuff outside arch/arm/."
* 'amba' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 7362/1: AMBA: Add module_amba_driver() helper macro for amba_driver
ARM: 7335/1: mach-u300: do away with MMC config files
ARM: 7280/1: mmc: mmci: Cache MMCICLOCK and MMCIPOWER register
ARM: 7309/1: realview: fix unconnected interrupts on EB11MP
ARM: 7230/1: mmc: mmci: Fix PIO read for small SDIO packets
ARM: 7227/1: mmc: mmci: Prepare for SDIO before setting up DMA job
ARM: 7223/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup use of runtime PM and use autosuspend
ARM: 7221/1: mmc: mmci: Change from using legacy suspend
ARM: 7219/1: mmc: mmci: Change vdd_handler to a generic ios_handler
ARM: 7218/1: mmc: mmci: Provide option to configure bus signal direction
ARM: 7217/1: mmc: mmci: Put power register deviations in variant data
ARM: 7216/1: mmc: mmci: Do not release spinlock in request_end
ARM: 7215/1: mmc: mmci: Increase max_segs from 16 to 128
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Pull #1 ARM updates from Russell King:
"This one covers stuff which Arnd is waiting for me to push, as this is
shared between both our trees and probably other trees elsewhere.
Essentially, this contains:
- AMBA primecell device initializer updates - mostly shrinking the
size of the device declarations in platform code to something more
reasonable.
- Getting rid of the NO_IRQ crap from AMBA primecell stuff.
- Nicolas' idle cleanups. This in combination with the restart
cleanups from the last merge window results in a great many
mach/system.h files being deleted."
Yay: ~80 files, ~2000 lines deleted.
* 'for-armsoc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (60 commits)
ARM: remove disable_fiq and arch_ret_to_user macros
ARM: make entry-macro.S depend on !MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
ARM: rpc: make default fiq handler run-time installed
ARM: make arch_ret_to_user macro optional
ARM: amba: samsung: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: spear: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: nomadik: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: u300: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: lpc32xx: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: netx: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: bcmring: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: ep93xx: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: omap2: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: integrator: use common amba device initializers
ARM: amba: realview: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
ARM: amba: versatile: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
ARM: amba: vexpress: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
ARM: amba: provide common initializers for static amba devices
ARM: amba: make use of -1 IRQs warn
ARM: amba: u300: get rid of NO_IRQ initializers
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Pull OpenRISC changes for 3.4 from Jonas Bonn:
"This series for the OpenRISC architecture consists of mostly trivial
fixups. The most interesting bits of the series are:
* A fix to the timer code whereby the shortest trigger period is set
to 100 cycles; previously, it was possible to set this to 1 cycle,
but by the time the register was written, that time had already
passed and the timer interrupt would not go off until the cycle
counter had gone a full cycle.
* Allowing a device tree binary to be passed in to the kernel from
u-boot. The OpenRISC architecture has been recently merged into
upstream u-boot, so this change gets OpenRISC Linux into sync with
that project."
* tag 'for-3.4' of git://openrisc.net/jonas/linux:
OpenRISC: Remove memory_start/end prototypes
openrisc: remove semicolon from KSTK_ defs
openrisc: sanitize use of orig_gpr11
openrisc: fix virt_addr_valid
OpenRISC: Export dump_stack()
OpenRISC: Select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
openrisc: Set shortest clock event to 100 ticks
openrisc: included linux/thread_info.h twice
OpenRISC: Use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
OpenRISC: Don't mask signals if we fail to setup signal stack
OpenRISC: No need to reset handler if SA_ONESHOT
OpenRISC: Don't reimplement force_sigsegv()
openrisc: enable passing of flattened device tree pointer
arch/openrisc/mm/init.c: trivial: use BUG_ON
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull miscellaneous Itanium patches from Tony Luck.
The conflicts in arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c were due to patches to
simserial that had alredy been included (with lots of further cleanups)
in the serial tree.
* tag 'ia64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
Documentation/kernel-parameters: remove inttest parameter
[IA64] Fix ISA IRQ trigger model and polarity setting
[IA64] Fix a couple of warnings for EXPORT_SYMBOL
[IA64] Check return from device_register() in cx_device_register()
[IA64] Fix warning from machine_kexec.c
[IA64] simserial, bail out when request_irq fails
[IA64] hpsim, initialize chip for assigned irqs
[IA64] simserial, include some headers
[IA64] hpsim, fix SAL handling in fw-emu
[IA64] genirq fixup for SGI/SN
[IA64] disable interrupts when exiting from ia64_mca_cmc_int_handler()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull additional x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
- address a long-standing bug related to when a kernel-spawned process
gets a signal on an i386 kernel compiled without CONFIG_VM86.
- fix the newly introduced build warning in arch/x86/boot.
- fix a typo in the i386 system call table which affects building some
libcs.
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86-32: Fix endless loop when processing signals for kernel tasks
x86, boot: Correct CFLAGS for hostprogs
x86-32: Fix typo for mq_getsetattr in syscall table
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Merge second batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
- various misc things
- core kernel changes to prctl, exit, exec, init, etc.
- kernel/watchdog.c updates
- get_maintainer
- MAINTAINERS
- the backlight driver queue
- core bitops code cleanups
- the led driver queue
- some core prio_tree work
- checkpatch udpates
- largeish crc32 update
- a new poll() feature for the v4l guys
- the rtc driver queue
- fatfs
- ptrace
- signals
- kmod/usermodehelper updates
- coredump
- procfs updates
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
seq_file: add seq_set_overflow(), seq_overflow()
proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().
procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm
procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat
proc: speed up /proc/stat handling
fs/proc/kcore.c: make get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info() static
coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP
coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
kmod: make __request_module() killable
kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()
usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constants
usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE
usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)
usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently
signal: zap_pid_ns_processes: s/SEND_SIG_NOINFO/SEND_SIG_FORCED/
signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
signal: cosmetic, s/from_ancestor_ns/force/ in prepare_signal() paths
signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE
Hexagon: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
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Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit
for 'VM_NODUMP' flag. The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag:
MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request
memory regions which should not dump core.
The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there
that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core. This flag
might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely
make sure that parts of memory are not dumped. To clear the flag use:
MADV_DODUMP.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke]
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).
Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.
The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.
The qemu code which implements this features is at:
http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch
In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.
I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.
This patch:
The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As described in e6fa16ab9c1e ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
incorrect as we need to check whether the signal we're about to block is
pending in the shared queue.
Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f28f
("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate
code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this code
wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from happening
again.
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use for_each_clear_bit() to iterate over all the cleared bit in a
memory region.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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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