BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/arch/ia64/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch dev

arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs

2015-04-12T19:03:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack. Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by making the restart_block harder to locate. Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy targets, at least on some architectures. It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less identical on all architectures. [james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kees Cook Cc: David Miller Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Steven Miao Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: David Howells Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Tested-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/idle, ia64: Switch from TS_POLLING to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG

2014-05-08T07:16:55+00:00

Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word. This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless wakeups. Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6633akuird5hi3si4gbegkm8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic

2013-11-13T19:21:47+00:00

No point in having this bit defined by architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de

arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling()

2013-04-08T15:39:22+00:00

Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: Magnus Damm Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting

2013-01-27T18:23:27+00:00

If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be able to account the cputime without using the tick. Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by hooking into kernel/user boundaries. However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick outside idle. This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks. There are some upsides of doing this: - This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full tickless mode). - We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically (de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically. And one downside: - There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner

sanitize tsk_is_polling()

2012-10-01T13:58:13+00:00

Make default just return 0. The current default (checking TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it; ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all. ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling()) and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all). Killed the latter... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)

2012-06-01T16:58:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()

2012-06-01T16:58:47+00:00

helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits Signed-off-by: Al Viro

task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines

2012-05-08T12:08:46+00:00

Replace __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_ALLOCATOR and __HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_ALLOCATOR with proper config switches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Tony Luck Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.371309416@linutronix.de