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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (28 commits)
sysfs: Shadow directory support
Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem
Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time
Driver core: add device_type to struct device
Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class
SYSFS: Fix missing include of list.h in sysfs.h
HOWTO: Add a reference to Harbison and Steele
sysfs: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer()
kobject: kobject_put cleanup
sysfs: kobject_put cleanup
sysfs: suppress lockdep warnings
Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()
driver core: Change function call order in device_bind_driver().
driver core: Don't stop probing on ->probe errors.
driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c
driver core fixes: make_class_name() retval checks
/sys/modules/*/holders
USB: add the sysfs driver name to all modules
SERIO: add the sysfs driver name to all modules
PCI: add the sysfs driver name to all modules
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (116 commits)
sk98lin: planned removal
AT91: MACB support
sky2: version 1.12
sky2: add new chip ids
sky2: Yukon Extreme support
sky2: safer transmit timeout
sky2: TSO support for EC_U
sky2: use dev_err for error reports
sky2: add Wake On Lan support
fix unaligned exception in /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
Remove unused kernel config option DLCI_COUNT
z85230: spinlock logic
mips: declance: Driver model for the PMAD-A
Spidernet: Rework RX linked list
NET: turn local_save_flags() + local_irq_disable() into local_irq_save()
NET-3c59x: turn local_save_flags() + local_irq_disable() into local_irq_save()
hp100: convert pci_module_init() to pci_register_driver()
NetXen: Added ethtool support for user level tools.
NetXen: Firmware crb init changes.
maintainers: add atl1 maintainers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (140 commits)
ACPICA: reduce table header messages to fit within 80 columns
asus-laptop: merge with ACPICA table update
ACPI: bay: Convert ACPI Bay driver to be compatible with sysfs update.
ACPI: bay: new driver is EXPERIMENTAL
ACPI: bay: make drive_bays static
ACPI: bay: make bay a platform driver
ACPI: bay: remove prototype procfs code
ACPI: bay: delete unused variable
ACPI: bay: new driver adding removable drive bay support
ACPI: dock: check if parent is on dock
ACPICA: fix gcc build warnings
Altix: Add ACPI SSDT PCI device support (hotplug)
Altix: ACPI SSDT PCI device support
ACPICA: reduce conflicts with Altix patch series
ACPI_NUMA: fix HP IA64 simulator issue with extended memory domain
ACPI: fix HP RX2600 IA64 boot
ACPI: build fix for IBM x440 - CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT
ACPICA: Update version to 20070126
ACPICA: Fix for incorrect parameter passed to AcpiTbDeleteTable during table load.
ACPICA: Update copyright to 2007.
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The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*.
What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each
network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net.
I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is
for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect
lookups to the real directory you want.
Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current
network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a
clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit
trickier.
I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path
in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really
at that location the shadow master.
The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory
structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement
the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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For the block subsystem, we want to delay all uevents until the
disk has been scanned and allpartitons are already created before
the first event is sent out.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This allows us to add type specific attributes, uevent vars and
release funtions.
A subsystem can carry different types of devices like the "block"
subsys has disks and partitions. Both types create a different set
of attributes, but belong to the same subsystem.
This corresponds to the low level objects:
kobject -> device (object/device data)
kobj_type -> device_type (type of object/device we are embedded in)
kset -> class/bus (list of objects/devices of a subsystem)
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Sysfs.h uses definitions (e.g. struct list_head s_sibling) from list.h
but does not include it.
Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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/sys/module/usbcore/
|-- drivers
| |-- usb:hub -> ../../../subsystem/usb/drivers/hub
| |-- usb:usb -> ../../../subsystem/usb/drivers/usb
| `-- usb:usbfs -> ../../../subsystem/usb/drivers/usbfs
|-- holders
| |-- ehci_hcd -> ../../../module/ehci_hcd
| |-- uhci_hcd -> ../../../module/uhci_hcd
| |-- usb_storage -> ../../../module/usb_storage
| `-- usbhid -> ../../../module/usbhid
|-- initstate
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This adds the module name to all USB drivers, if they are built into the
kernel or not. It will show up in /sys/modules/MODULE_NAME/drivers/
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This adds the module name to all SERIO drivers, if they are built into
the kernel or not. It will show up in /sys/modules/MODULE_NAME/drivers/
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This adds the module name to all PCI drivers, if they are built into the
kernel or not. It will show up in /sys/modules/MODULE_NAME/drivers/
It also fixes up the IDE core, which was calling __pci_register_driver()
directly.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
issues, if it wants to.
Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm
driver fixes.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Cc: <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Cc: <linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (27 commits)
[IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)
[IA64] swiotlb cleanup
[IA64] make swiotlb use bus_to_virt/virt_to_bus
[IA64] swiotlb bug fixes
[IA64] Hook up getcpu system call for IA64
[IA64] clean up sparsemem memory_present call
[IA64] show_mem() for IA64 sparsemem NUMA
[IA64] missing exports hwsw_sync_...
[IA64] virt_to_page() can be called with NULL arg
[IA64] alignment bug in ldscript
[IA64] register memory ranges in a consistent manner
[IA64] Enable SWIOTLB only when needed
[IA64-SGI] Check for TIO errors on shub2 Altix
[IA64] remove bogus prototype ia64_esi_init()
[IA64] Clear IRQ affinity when unregistered
[IA64] fix ACPI Kconfig issues
[IA64] Fix NULL-pointer dereference in ia64_machine_kexec()
[IA64] find thread for user rbs address
[IA64] use snprintf() on features field of /proc/cpuinfo
[IA64] enable singlestep on system call
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
USB HID: handle multi-interface devices for Apple macbook pro properly
HID: move away from DEBUG defines in favor of CONFIG_HID_DEBUG
USB HID: fix bogus comment in hid_get_class_descriptor()
USB HID: remove hid_find_field_by_usage()
HID: API - fix leftovers of hidinput API in USB HID
HID: hid debug from hid-debug.h to hid layer
hid: force feedback driver for PantherLord USB/PS2 2in1 Adapter
hid: quirk for multi-input devices with unneeded output reports
hid: allow force feedback for multi-input devices
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IB/ehca: Remove obsolete prototypes
IB/ehca: Remove use of do_mmap()
RDMA/addr: Handle ethernet neighbour updates during route resolution
IB: Make sure struct ib_user_mad.data is aligned
IB/srp: Don't wait for response when QP is in error state.
IB: Return qp pointer as part of ib_wc
IB: Include <linux/kref.h> explicitly in <rdma/ib_verbs.h>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: (32 commits)
mmc: tifm: replace kmap with page_address
mmc: sdhci: fix voltage ocr
mmc: sdhci: replace kmap with page_address
mmc: wbsd: replace kmap with page_address
mmc: handle pci_enable_device() return value in sdhci
mmc: Proper unclaim in mmc_block
mmc: change wbsd mailing list
mmc: Graceful fallback for fancy features
mmc: Handle wbsd's stupid command list
mmc: Allow host drivers to specify max block count
mmc: Allow host drivers to specify a max block size
tifm_sd: add suspend and resume functionality
tifm_core: add suspend/resume infrastructure for tifm devices
tifm_7xx1: prettify
tifm_7xx1: recognize device 0xac8f as supported
tifm_7xx1: switch from workqueue to kthread
tifm_7xx1: Merge media insert and media remove functions
tifm_7xx1: simplify eject function
Add dummy_signal_irq function to save check in ISR
Remove unused return value from signal_irq callback
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (37 commits)
[S390] Avoid excessive inlining.
[S390] Mark kernel text section read-only.
[S390] Convert memory detection into C code.
[S390] Calibrate delay and bogomips.
[S390] Hypervisor filesystem (s390_hypfs) for z/VM
[S390] Add crypto support for 3592 tape devices
[S390] boot from NSS support
[S390] Support for s390 Pseudo Random Number Generator
[S390] ETR support.
[S390] noexec protection
[S390] move crypto options and some cleanup.
[S390] cio: Don't spam debug feature.
[S390] Cleanup of CHSC event handling.
[S390] cio: declare hardware structures packed.
[S390] Add set_fs(USER_DS) to start_thread().
[S390] cio: Catch operand exceptions on stsch.
[S390] Fix register usage description.
[S390] kretprobe_trampoline_holder() in wrong section.
[S390] Fix kprobes breakpoint handling.
[S390] Update maintainers file.
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Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The problem was introduced in 2.6.18.3 with the casting of some
36bit-defines (PCI memory) in au1000.h to resource_size_t which may be
u32 or u64 depending on the experimental CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT.
With unset CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT, the pci-memory cannot be accessed
because the ioremap in arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c already used the
truncated addresses.
With set CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT, things get even worse, because PCI-scan
aborts, due to resource conflict: request_resource() in arch/mips/pci/pci.c
fails because the maximum iomem-address is 0xffffffff (32bit) but the
pci-memory-start-address is 0x440000000 (36bit).
To get pci working again, I propose the following patch:
1. remove the resource_size_t-casting from au1000.h again
2. make the casting in arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c (it's allowed and
necessary here. The 36bit-handling will be done in __fixup_bigphys_addr).
With this patch pci works again like in 2.6.18.2, the gcc-compile warnings
in pci.c are gone and it doesn't depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Bigga <ab@mycable.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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CC arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.o
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c:42: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c:43: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c:49: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c:50: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c: In function ‘au1x_pci_setup’:
arch/mips/au1000/common/pci.c:82: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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There is no _fdata symbol in kernel.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The old code was assuming that min_low_pfn was always 0. This
means that platforms having a big hole at their memory start
paid the price of wasting some memory for the allocation of
unused entries in mem_map[].
This patch prevents this waste.
It introduces PHYS_OFFSET define which is the start of the
physical memory and uses it wherever needed. Specially when
converting physical/virtual addresses into virtual/physical
ones.
Currently all platforms defines PHYS_OFFSET to 0.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This patch makes a better usage of these two globals.
'min_low_pfn' is now correctly setup for all configs, which
allow us to rely on it in boot memory code init.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Current prom_free_prom_memory() implementations are almost same as
free_init_pages(), or no-op. Make free_init_pages() extern (again)
and make prom_free_prom_memory() use it.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Move I8259A_IRQ_BASE from asm/i8259.h to asm/mach-generic/irq.h and
make it really customizable. And remove I8259_IRQ_BASE declared on
some platforms. Currently only NEC_CMBVR4133 is using custom
I8259A_IRQ_BASE value.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The irq_base for {mips,rm7k,rm9k}_cpu_irq_init() are constant on all
platforms and are same value on most platforms (0 or 16, depends on
CONFIG_I8259). Define them in asm-mips/mach-generic/irq.h and make
them customizable. This will save a few cycle on each CPU interrupt.
A good side effect is removing some dependencies to MALTA in generic
SMTC code.
Although MIPS_CPU_IRQ_BASE is customizable, this patch changes irq
mappings on DDB5477, EMMA2RH and MIPS_SIM, since really customizing
them might cause some header dependency problem and there seems no
good reason to customize it. So currently only VR41XX is using custom
MIPS_CPU_IRQ_BASE value, which is 0 regardless of CONFIG_I8259.
Testing this patch on those platforms is greatly appreciated. Thank
you.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Add abstraction so that the file can be used by environments other than IA64
and EM64T, namely for Xen.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes
- marking I-cache clean of pages DMAed to now only done for IA64
- broken multiple inclusion in include/asm-x86_64/swiotlb.h
- missing call to mark_clean in swiotlb_sync_sg()
- a (perhaps only theoretical) issue in swiotlb_dma_supported() when
io_tlb_end is exactly at the end of memory
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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getcpu system call returns cpu# and node# on which this system call and
its caller are running. This patch hooks up its implementation on IA64.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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It does not return NULL when arg is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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While pursuing and unrelated issue with 64Mb granules I noticed a problem
related to inconsistent use of add_active_range. There doesn't appear any
reason to me why FLATMEM versus DISCONTIG_MEM should register memory to
add_active_range with different code. So I've changed the code into a
common implementation.
The other subtle issue fixed by this patch was calling add_active_range in
count_node_pages before granule aligning is performed. We were lucky with
16MB granules but not so with 64MB granules. count_node_pages has reserved
regions filtered out and as a consequence linked kernel text and data
aren't covered by calls to count_node_pages. So linked kernel regions
wasn't reported to add_active_regions. This resulted in free_initmem
causing numerous bad_page reports. This won't occur with this patch
because now all known memory regions are reported by
register_active_ranges.
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This function doesn't exist.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Driver for the PA Semi PWRficient on-chip Ethernet (1/10G)
Basic enablement, will be complemented with performance enhancements
over time. PHY support will be added as well.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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As is pointed out in
http://www.gelato.org/community/view_linear.php?id=1_1036&from=authors&value=Ian%20Wienand#1_1039,
if single step on break instruction, the break fault has higher
priority than the single-step trap. When the break fault handler
is entered, it advances the IP by 1 instruction so break instruction
single-stepping is skipped, actually it is next instruction which
is single stepped.
This patch modifies this, it adds TIF_SINGLESTEP bit for thread
flags, and generate a fake sigtrap when single stepping break
instruction. Test case in attachment can verify this. Any comments
is welcome.
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Set read-only flag in the page table entries for the kernel image text
section. This will catch all instruction caused corruptions withing the
text section.
Instruction replacement via kprobes still works, since it bypasses now
dynamic address translation.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Hopefully this will make it more maintainable and less error prone.
Code makes use of search_exception_tables(). Since it calls this
function before the kernel exeception table is sorted, there is an
early call to sort_main_extable().
This way it's easy to use the already present infrastructure of fixup
sections. Also this would allows to easily convert the rest of
head[31|64].S into C code.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Preset the bogomips number to the cpu capacity value reported by
store system information in SYSIB 1.2.2. This value is constant
for a particular machine model and can be used to determine
relative performance differences between machines.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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3592 tape devices are able to write data encrpyted on tape mediums.
This z/Linux device driver support includes the following functions:
* ioctl to switch on/off encryption
* ioctl to query encryption status of drive
* ioctls to set and query key encrypting keys (kekls)
* long busy interrupt handling
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Add support to boot from a named saved segment (NSS).
Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang <hongjie@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Starting with the z9 the CPU Cryptographic Assist Facility comes with
an integrated Pseudo Random Number Generator. The generator creates
random numbers by an algorithm similar to the ANSI X9.17 standard.
The pseudo-random numbers can be accessed via a character device driver
node called /dev/prandom. Similar to /dev/urandom any amount of bytes
can be read from the device without blocking.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This patch adds support for clock synchronization to an external time
reference (ETR). The external time reference sends an oscillator
signal and a synchronization signal every 2^20 microseconds to keep
the TOD clocks of all connected servers in sync. For availability
two ETR units can be connected to a machine. If the clock deviates
for more than the sync-check tolerance all cpus get a machine check
that indicates that the clock is out of sync. For the lovely details
how to get the clock back in sync see the code below.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does
not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a
different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing
mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data.
As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate
page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses
(storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is
used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the
data addresses.
The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer
in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that
contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really
private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU
list).
Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into
both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of
a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the
data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a
page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV
with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn)
and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the
kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return
mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the
exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored
behind the signal stack frame.
This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space
mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing
modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works
for user space.
After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs
instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new
mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows
to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the
page tables need to be walked manually.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Currently works anyway since search_binary_handler has a
set_fs(USER_DS). But start_thread() is the place where this should be
done. Following all other architectures...
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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cpu_relax() has barrier() semantics hence there is no need to use both
of them in conjunction in sclp_sync_wait(). Also change cpu_relax()
so it's more obvious that it has barrier semantics.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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