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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
Remove __DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC
Remove asm/semaphore.h
Remove use of asm/semaphore.h
Add missing semaphore.h includes
Remove mention of semaphores from kernel-locking
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On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).
The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.
This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.
Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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All users have now been converted to linux/semaphore.h and we don't need
to keep these files around any longer.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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While doing some tests with our lcrash implementation I have seen a
naming conflict with prefix_info in kvm_host.h vs. addrconf.h
To avoid future conflicts lets rename private definitions in
asm/kvm_host.h by adding the kvm_s390 prefix.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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List of major changes:
- split qdio driver into several files
- seperation of thin interrupt code
- improved handling for multiple thin interrupt devices
- inbound and outbound processing now always runs in tasklet context
- significant less tasklet schedules per interrupt needed
- merged qebsm with non-qebsm handling
- cleanup qdio interface and added kerneldoc
- coding style
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Kernel headers shouldn't expose functions to userspace.
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Most likely it is broken anyway because of the changes in memory
detection. Since we can't test it and there are probably better ways
that using a P390 card, remove support for it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Move memory detection code to own file and also simplify it.
Also add an interface which can be called at any time to get the
current memory layout. This interface is needed by our kernel
internal system dumper.
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Some macros in pgtable.h access members from struct task_struct.
Currently always works since sched.h seems always to be included
before asm/pgtable.h. Unfortunately that is not anymore true with
Jeremy Fitzhardinge's ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction patch.
So fix this.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Add support for new micro code load of CEX2C and CEX2A adapters,
which uses different IDs. This patch just adds the IDs to the
existing drivers.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <ralph.wuerthner@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Now it is possible to specify additional kernel parameters on the IPL
command line using the IPL PARM option.
If the Linux system is already running, the new reipl sysfs attribute
'parm' can be used to change kernel parameters for the next reboot.
Examples:
IPL C PARM dasd=1234 root=/dev/dasda1
IPL 1234 PARM savesys=mylnxnss
echo "init=/bin/bash" > /sys/firmware/reipl/ccw/parm
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The idle notifier chain consists of at most one element. So there's
no point in having a notifier chain. Remove it and directly call the
function.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This patch adds a driver for subchannels of type chsc.
A device /dev/chsc is created which may be used to issue ioctls to:
- obtain information about the machine's I/O configuration
- dynamically change the machine's I/O configuration via
asynchronous chsc commands
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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This interface makes it easy for drivers to register usage of different
I/O interruption subclasses without needing to worry about possible
other users of the same isc.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Enhance the adapter interruption API so that device drivers can
register a handler for a specific interruption subclass. This
will allow different device drivers to move to differently
prioritized subclasses in order to avoid congestion.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Replace the numeric values for I/O interruption subclass usage
with abstract definitions and collect them all in asm/isc.h.
This gives us a better overview of which iscs are actually used
and makes it possible to better spread out isc usage in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Add support for clock synchronization with the server time protocol.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Add the user_regset definitions for normal and compat processes, replace
the dump_regs core dump cruft with the generic CORE_DUMP_USER_REGSET and
replace binfmt_elf32.c with the generic compat_binfmt_elf.c implementation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Provide functions which can be used to incrementally construct fcx
enabled I/O control blocks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Provide functions for assembling and starting fcx enabled I/O request
blocks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Extend the scsw data structure to the format required by fcx. Also
provide helper functions for easier access to fields which are present
in both the traditional as well as the modified format.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Stop mprotect's pte_modify from wiping out the s390 pte_special bit, which
caused oops thereafter when vm_normal_page thought X's abnormal was normal.
Debugged-by: Ryan Hope <rmh3093@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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__ctl_load/__ctl_store are called with either an array of unsigned long or
a single unsigned long value. Add an address operator to the "m"/"=m"
contraints to make them work for unsigned long arguments as well.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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virtio tests with guests larger than 4 GB revealed that the dma_addr_t
definition for s390 did not make it into the 64bit world.
This patch changes the definition on s390 to have an u64 on 64bit and
u32 on 32bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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We should use const char * for passing the name of the debug feature
around since it will not be changed.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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The #ifdef for the integer types was reversed; the standard pattern in
these files are:
#ifndef __s390x__
/* 32-bit code */
#else
/* 64-bit code */
#endif
Stick with the original pattern, but make sure the 32-bit code
actually comes first!
Reported by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Use the existing arch_alloc_page/arch_free_page callbacks to do
the guest page state transitions between stable and unused.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This removes redundant arch code for generic ptrace requests
already handled by ptrace_request and compat_ptrace_request.
It simplifies things to just have the standard entry points,
and use the generic compat_sys_ptrace.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it
was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used
preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called
vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host
intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered
immediately.
This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the
SIE instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the
instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm
code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting
for these types of intercept as well.
The advantages:
- works with and without preemption
- signals are delivered immediately
- much better host latencies without preemption
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This modifies <asm-s390/types.h> to use the <asm-generic/int-*.h>
generic include files.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (53 commits)
tcp: Overflow bug in Vegas
[IPv4] UFO: prevent generation of chained skb destined to UFO device
iwlwifi: move the selects to the tristate drivers
ipv4: annotate a few functions __init in ipconfig.c
atm: ambassador: vcc_sf semaphore to mutex
MAINTAINERS: The socketcan-core list is subscribers-only.
netfilter: nf_conntrack: padding breaks conntrack hash on ARM
ipv4: Update MTU to all related cache entries in ip_rt_frag_needed()
sch_sfq: use del_timer_sync() in sfq_destroy()
net: Add compat support for getsockopt (MCAST_MSFILTER)
net: Several cleanups for the setsockopt compat support.
ipvs: fix oops in backup for fwmark conn templates
bridge: kernel panic when unloading bridge module
bridge: fix error handling in br_add_if()
netfilter: {nfnetlink,ip,ip6}_queue: fix skb_over_panic when enlarging packets
netfilter: x_tables: fix net namespace leak when reading /proc/net/xxx_tables_names
netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: signed tcphoff for ipv6_skip_exthdr() retval
tcp: Limit cwnd growth when deferring for GSO
tcp: Allow send-limited cwnd to grow up to max_burst when gso disabled
[netdrvr] gianfar: Determine TBIPA value dynamically
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] Update default configuration.
[S390] use generic sys_ptrace
[S390] Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack.
[S390] Convert to SPARSEMEM & SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
[S390] System z large page support.
[S390] Convert machine feature detection code to C.
[S390] vmemmap: use clear_table to initialise page tables.
[S390] Move stfl to system.h and delete duplicated version.
[S390] uaccess_mvcos: #ifdef config dependent code.
[S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock.
[S390] Add topology_core_siblings to topology.h
[S390] cio: Make isc handling more robust.
[S390] remove -traditional
[S390] Automatically detect added cpus.
[S390] smp: Fix locking order.
[S390] Add missing ifndef/define to include/asm-s390/sysinfo.h.
[S390] Move show_regs to traps.c.
[S390] cio: Use strict_strtoul() for attributes.
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TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK no longer needs to be in the _TIF_WORK_* masks. Those low
bits are scarce, and are all used up now. Renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to
free one up.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After the PT_IEEE_IP hack has been removed s390 can now use
the common code sys_ptrace function.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Convert s390 to SPARSEMEM and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. We do a select
of SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP since it is configurable. This is because
SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP gives us a hell of broken
include dependencies that I don't want to fix.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This adds hugetlbfs support on System z, using both hardware large page
support if available and software large page emulation on older hardware.
Shared (large) page tables are implemented in software emulation mode,
by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page
to store page table information.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
This lets us use defines for the magic bits in machine flags instead
of using plain numbers all over the place.
In addition on newer machines features/facilities are indicated by the
result of the stfl instruction. So we use these bits instead of trying
to execute new instructions and check wether we get an exception or
not.
Also the mvpg instruction is always available when in zArch mode,
whereas the idte instruction is only available in zArch mode. This
results in some minor optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This exposes the core siblings to user space via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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In order to protect against compile breakage in case the header file
gets included twice.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This is where it should be and we can get rid of some externs
and a static inline function.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Unaligned access is ok for the following arches:
cris, m68k, mn10300, powerpc, s390, x86
Arches that use the memmove implementation for native endian, and
the byteshifting for the opposite endianness.
h8300, m32r, xtensa
Packed struct for native endian, byteshifting for other endian:
alpha, blackfin, ia64, parisc, sparc, sparc64, mips, sh
m86knommu is generic_be for Coldfire, otherwise unaligned access is ok.
frv, arm chooses endianness based on compiler settings, uses the byteshifting
versions. Remove the unaligned trap handler from frv as it is now unused.
v850 is le, uses the byteshifting versions for both be and le.
Remove the now unused asm-generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Read out number of ports from the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Instead of having each driver for ccwgroup slave device parsing the
input itself and calling ccwgroup_create(), introduce a new function
ccwgroup_create_from_string() and handle parsing inside the ccwgroup
core.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Convert XIP to support non-struct page backed memory, using VM_MIXEDMAP for
the user mappings.
This requires the get_xip_page API to be changed to an address based one.
Improve the API layering a little bit too, while we're here.
This is required in order to support XIP filesystems on memory that isn't
backed with struct page (but memory with struct page is still supported too).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory
model (which is more dynamic than most). Instead, they had proposed to
implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in
the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted:
vm_normal_page()
{
...
if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) {
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) {
#ifdef s390
if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
return NULL;
#else
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
return NULL;
#endif
goto out;
}
...
}
This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine
refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based
schemes. So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based
scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get
slightly better code generation in the process):
vm_normal_page()
{
#ifdef s390
if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
return NULL;
return pte_page(pte);
#else
...
#endif
}
And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather
than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this.
Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may
not be able to spare pte bits. This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more
ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate.
So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c. It is
currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any
compiled code changes to mm/memory.o.
BTW:
I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion.
The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually
implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it
depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the
only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function --
the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and
accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do
not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and
we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there
out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then
we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I
don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions,
while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both
mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is no need to use interlocked updates when the rcp
lock is held. Therefore the simple bitops variants can be
used. This should improve performance.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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