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Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE was added to enable the jump label functionality
because Jason noticed that the gcc option would not optimize the labels
and may even hurt performance.
But this is a gcc problem not a kernel one. Removing this condition should
add motivation to the gcc developers to actually fix it.
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add jump label support for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <3b5b071fcdb2afb7f67cacecfa78b14c740278a7.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Prevent no-handler signal syscall restart recursion.
sparc: Don't mask signal when we can't setup signal frame.
sparc64: Fix race in signal instruction flushing.
sparc64: Support RAW perf events.
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Explicitly clear the "in-syscall" bit when we have no signal
handler and back up the program counters to back up the system
call.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Don't invoke the signal handler tracehook in that situation
either.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If another cpu does a very wide munmap() on the signal frame area,
it can tear down the page table hierarchy from underneath us.
Borrow an idea from the 64-bit fault path's get_user_insn(), and
disable cross call interrupts during the page table traversal
to lock them in place while we operate.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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Encoding is "(encoding << 16) | pic_mask"
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Kill all BKL usage.
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Neither the overcommit nor the reservation sysfs parameter were
actually working, remove them as they'll only get in the way.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.
The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while
keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with
the generic stopped state.
This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain
code paths (like IRQ handlers).
It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for
a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters).
The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on
how the architecture implemented the throttled state:
1) We disable the counter:
a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that
b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state
2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Changes perf_disable() into perf_pmu_disable().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Since the current perf_disable() usage is only an optimization,
remove it for now. This eases the removal of the __weak
hw_perf_enable() interface.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Simple registration interface for struct pmu, this provides the
infrastructure for removing all the weak functions.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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sed -ie 's/const struct pmu\>/struct pmu/g' `git grep -l "const struct pmu\>"`
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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They were all bogus artifacts and completely unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove input_free_device() in pxa27x_keypad_remove()
Input: mousedev - fix regression of inverting axes
Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
Input: hil_kbd - fix compile error
USB: drop tty argument from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument form handle_sysrq()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers
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Merge reason: pick up perf fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.
sparc64: Fill a missing delay slot.
sparc64: Make lock backoff really a NOP on UP builds.
sparc64: simple microoptimizations for atomic functions
sparc64: Make rwsems 64-bit.
sparc64: Really fix atomic64_t interface types.
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This is based upon a report by Meelis Roos showing that it's possible
that we'll try to fetch a property that is 32K in size with some
devices. With the current fixed 3K buffer we use for moving data in
and out of the firmware during PROM calls, that simply won't work.
In fact, it will scramble random kernel data during bootup.
The reasoning behind the temporary buffer is entirely historical. It
used to be the case that we had problems referencing dynamic kernel
memory (including the stack) early in the boot process before we
explicitly told the firwmare to switch us over to the kernel trap
table.
So what we did was always give the firmware buffers that were locked
into the main kernel image.
But we no longer have problems like that, so get rid of all of this
indirect bounce buffering.
Besides fixing Meelis's bug, this also makes the kernel data about 3K
smaller.
It was also discovered during these conversions that the
implementation of prom_retain() was completely wrong, so that was
fixed here as well. Currently that interface is not in use.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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If the code were already aligned to 64 bytes, wr instruction would be executed
twice --- once in delay slot and once in the jump target.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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As noticed by Mikulas Patocka, the backoff macros don't
completely nop out for UP builds, we still get a
branch always and a delay slot nop.
Fix this by making the branch to the backoff spin loop
selective, then we can nop out the spin loop completely.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Simple microoptimizations for sparc64 atomic functions:
Save one instruction by using a delay slot.
Use %g1 instead of %g7, because %g1 is written earlier.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Store the kernel and user contexts from the generic layer instead
of archs, this gathers some repetitive code.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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- Most archs use one callchain buffer per cpu, except x86 that needs
to deal with NMIs. Provide a default perf_callchain_buffer()
implementation that x86 overrides.
- Centralize all the kernel/user regs handling and invoke new arch
handlers from there: perf_callchain_user() / perf_callchain_kernel()
That avoid all the user_mode(), current->mm checks and so...
- Invert some parameters in perf_callchain_*() helpers: entry to the
left, regs to the right, following the traditional (dst, src).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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callchain_store() is the same on every archs, inline it in
perf_event.h and rename it to perf_callchain_store() to avoid
any collision.
This removes repetitive code.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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Basically tip-off the powerpc code, use a 64-bit type and atomic64_t
interfaces for the implementation.
This gets us off of the by-hand asm code I wrote, which frankly I
think probably ruins I-cache hit rates.
The idea was the keep the call chains less deep, but anything taking
the rw-semaphores probably is also calling other stuff and therefore
already has allocated a stack-frame. So no real stack frame savings
ever.
Ben H. has posted patches to make powerpc use 64-bit too and with some
abstractions we can probably use a shared header file somewhere.
With suggestions from Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus noticed that some of the interface arguments
didn't get "int" --> "long" conversion, as needed.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix atomic64_t routine return values.
sparc64: Fix rwsem constant bug leading to hangs.
sparc: Hook up new fanotify and prlimit64 syscalls.
sparc: Really fix "console=" for serial consoles.
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.
Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Should return 'long' instead of 'int'.
Thanks to Dimitris Michailidis and Tony Luck.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As noticed by Linus, it is critical that some of the
rwsem constants be signed. Yet, hex constants are
unsigned unless explicitly casted or negated.
The most critical one is RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.
This bug was exacerbated by commit
424acaaeb3a3932d64a9b4bd59df6cf72c22d8f3 ("rwsem: wake queued readers
when writer blocks on active read lock")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The only tricky bit is the compat version of fanotify_mark, which
which on 32-bit the 64-bit mark argument is passed in as "high32",
"low32".
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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If a video head and keyboard are hooked up, specifying "console=ttyS0"
or similar to use a serial console will not work properly.
The key issue is that we must register all serial console capable
devices with register_console(), otherwise the command line specified
device won't be found. The sun serial drivers would only register
themselves as console devices if the OpenFirmware specified console
device node matched. To fix this part we now unconditionally get
the serial console register by setting serial_drv->cons always.
Secondarily we must not add_preferred_console() using the firmware
provided console setting if the user gaven an override on the kernel
command line using "console=" The "primary framebuffer" matching
logic was always triggering o n openfirmware device node match, make
it not when a command line override was given.
Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use the defconfig files generated by "make savedefconfig" for
remaining defconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in tree. Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.
Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.
Let's remove this API.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.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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dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN). So we
can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.
Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment. So
fully-coherent architectures should return 1. This patch also fixes this
issue.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
block: update request stacking methods to support discards
block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
writeback: cleanup bdi_register
writeback: add new tracepoints
writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
writeback: move last_active to bdi
writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
writeback: simplify bdi code a little
writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
...
Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.
Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:
These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
LINEMODE in the server.
There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
are disabled. Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
of signals are all disabled. This allows the telnetd to turn
off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
what state the user wants the terminal to be in.
New ioctl:
TIOCSIG Generate a signal to processes in the
current process group of the pty.
There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
bit set. This allows the process on the server side of the pty
to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.
Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.
The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
here:
http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741
Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Update defconfig.
sparc: Kill user copy check code.
sparc64: Fix perf_arch_get_caller_regs().
sparc64: Add missing ID to parport probing code.
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kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].
kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself. This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).
Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong"). This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.
The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).
The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.
[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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