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Dave Hansen
c2ebaa425e [PATCH] sparsemem base: early_pfn_to_nid() (works before sparse is initialized)
The following four patches provide the last needed changes before the
introduction of sparsemem.  For a more complete description of what this
will do, please see this patch:

http://www.sr71.net/patches/2.6.11/2.6.11-bk7-mhp1/broken-out/B-sparse-150-sparsemem.patch

or previous posts on the subject:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110868540700001&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109897373315016&w=2

Three of these are i386-only, but one of them reorganizes the macros
used to manage the space in page->flags, and will affect all platforms.
There are analogous patches to the i386 ones for ppc64, ia64, and
x86_64, but those will be submitted by the normal arch maintainers.

The combination of the four patches has been test-booted on a variety of
i386 hardware, and compiled for ppc64, i386, and x86-64 with about 17
different .configs.  It's also been runtime-tested on ia64 configs (with
more patches on top).

This patch:

We _know_ which node pages in general belong to, at least at a very gross
level in node_{start,end}_pfn[].  Use those to target the allocations of
pages.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:00 -07:00
Dave Hansen
408fde81c1 [PATCH] remove non-DISCONTIG use of pgdat->node_mem_map
This patch effectively eliminates direct use of pgdat->node_mem_map outside
of the DISCONTIG code.  On a flat memory system, these fields aren't
currently used, neither are they on a sparsemem system.

There was also a node_mem_map(nid) macro on many architectures.  Its use
along with the use of ->node_mem_map itself was not consistent.  It has
been removed in favor of two new, more explicit, arch-independent macros:

	pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, pagenr)
	nid_page_nr(nid, pagenr)

I called them "pgdat" and "nid" because we overload the term "node" to mean
"NUMA node", "DISCONTIG node" or "pg_data_t" in very confusing ways.  I
believe the newer names are much clearer.

These macros can be overridden in the sparsemem case with a theoretically
slower operation using node_start_pfn and pfn_to_page(), instead.  We could
make this the only behavior if people want, but I don't want to change too
much at once.  One thing at a time.

This patch removes more code than it adds.

Compile tested on alpha, alpha discontig, arm, arm-discontig, i386, i386
generic, NUMAQ, Summit, ppc64, ppc64 discontig, and x86_64.  Full list
here: http://sr71.net/patches/2.6.12/2.6.12-rc1-mhp2/configs/

Boot tested on NUMAQ, x86 SMP and ppc64 power4/5 LPARs.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:00 -07:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
2894801db1 [PATCH] kbuild: display compile version
I am always trying to make sure I've booted the right kernel after a new
install.  Too paranoid maybe.  But I guess there're other people like me.
So let's make kbuild display the compile version number at the end to give
us a hint.  I know we may be booting vmlinux someday, but don't care about
it for now.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:22 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
cbe37d0937 [PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmem
Remove PG_highmem, to save a page flag.  Use is_highmem() instead.  It'll
generate a little more code, but we don't use PageHigheMem() in many places.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:17 -07:00
Wolfgang Wander
1363c3cd86 [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation
Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the
free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and
causes huge performance increases in thread creation.

The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the
mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications
that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6
kernel.

The problem is twofold:

  1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where
     the last search ended.  Before the change new areas were always
     searched from the base address on.

     So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes
     throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes
     tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base
     large and available for larger requests.

  2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last
     munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g.  five regions of
     1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K
     will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we
     appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location
     of the old region 2.  Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only
     get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation.

The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor
cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the
current free_area_cache.  If a new request comes in the size is compared
against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole
below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead.

The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my
(earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations
with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely
(as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads
requires 0.7s system time.

Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically
deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the
search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme
terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in
/proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system
time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads.

Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with
only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems
sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com>
Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:16 -07:00
David Gibson
63551ae0fe [PATCH] Hugepage consolidation
A lot of the code in arch/*/mm/hugetlbpage.c is quite similar.  This patch
attempts to consolidate a lot of the code across the arch's, putting the
combined version in mm/hugetlb.c.  There are a couple of uglyish hacks in
order to covert all the hugepage archs, but the result is a very large
reduction in the total amount of code.  It also means things like hugepage
lazy allocation could be implemented in one place, instead of six.

Tested, at least a little, on ppc64, i386 and x86_64.

Notes:
	- this patch changes the meaning of set_huge_pte() to be more
	  analagous to set_pte()
	- does SH4 need s special huge_ptep_get_and_clear()??

Acked-by: William Lee Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:15 -07:00
Martin Hicks
753ee72896 [PATCH] VM: early zone reclaim
This is the core of the (much simplified) early reclaim.  The goal of this
patch is to reclaim some easily-freed pages from a zone before falling back
onto another zone.

One of the major uses of this is NUMA machines.  With the default allocator
behavior the allocator would look for memory in another zone, which might be
off-node, before trying to reclaim from the current zone.

This adds a zone tuneable to enable early zone reclaim.  It is selected on a
per-zone basis and is turned on/off via syscall.

Adding some extra throttling on the reclaim was also required (patch
4/4).  Without the machine would grind to a crawl when doing a "make -j"
kernel build.  Even with this patch the System Time is higher on
average, but it seems tolerable.  Here are some numbers for kernbench
runs on a 2-node, 4cpu, 8Gig RAM Altix in the "make -j" run:

			wall  user   sys   %cpu  ctx sw.  sleeps
			----  ----   ---   ----   ------  ------
No patch		1009  1384   847   258   298170   504402
w/patch, no reclaim     880   1376   667   288   254064   396745
w/patch & reclaim       1079  1385   926   252   291625   548873

These numbers are the average of 2 runs of 3 "make -j" runs done right
after system boot.  Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so
these numbers aren't terribly useful except to seee that with reclaim
the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time.

I also looked at the NUMA hit/miss stats for the "make -j" runs and the
reclaim doesn't make any difference when the machine is thrashing away.

Doing a "make -j8" on a single node that is filled with page cache pages
takes 700 seconds with reclaim turned on and 735 seconds without reclaim
(due to remote memory accesses).

The simple zone_reclaim syscall program is at
http://www.bork.org/~mort/sgi/zone_reclaim.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
39c715b717 [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup
This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that
Arjan van de Ven and I came up with.

The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API
spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the
usage side.

Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the
complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined
__smp_processor_id.

In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols:

 - smp_processor_id(): debug variant.

 - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing
   uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined
   by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h.

There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT:

 - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to
                             smp_processor_id().

Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new
lib/smp_processor_id.c file.  All related comments got updated and/or
clarified.

I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86:

 {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT}

I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT.  (Other
architectures are untested, but should work just fine.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
8874b414ff [PATCH] class: convert arch/* to use the new class api instead of class_simple
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:09 -07:00
Thomas Hood
92c6dc59b7 [PATCH] apm.c: ignore_normal_resume is set a bit too late
This patch causes the ignore_normal_resume flag to be set slightly earlier,
before there is a chance that the apm driver will receive the normal resume
event from the BIOS.  (Addresses Debian bug #310865)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-14 07:19:35 -07:00
Keith Owens
5754c9b649 [PATCH] Stop arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.o being rebuilt every time
arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.o is not listed as a target so its .cmd file
is neither considered as a target nor is it read on the next build.  This
causes vsyscall-note.o to be rebuilt every time that you run make, which
causes vmlinux to be rebuilt every time.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08 16:21:13 -07:00
Dave Jones
f94ea640a2 [CPUFREQ] Typos.
cpfureq developers cant spel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:52 -07:00
Dave Jones
6778bae0f2 [CPUFREQ] longhaul - adjust transition latency.
From patch by: Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:51 -07:00
Dave Jones
1174631418 [CPUFREQ] Longhaul: Magic timer frobbing.
As mandated by the spec, disable timer around transitions.

From code by : Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:51 -07:00
Dave Jones
3be6a48f3c [CPUFREQ] longhaul - disable PCI mastering around transition.
The spec states that we have to do this, which is *horrid*.

Based on code from: Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:51 -07:00
Dave Jones
065b807ca1 [CPUFREQ] dual-core powernow-k8
With the release of the dual-core AMD Opterons last week,
it's high time that cpufreq supported them.  The attached
patch applies cleanly to 2.6.12-rc3 and updates powernow-k8
to support the latest Athlon 64 and Opteron processors.

Update the driver to version 1.40.0 and provide support
for dual-core processors.

Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:46 -07:00
Dave Jones
c5d28fb297 [CPUFREQ] Recalibrate cpu_khz [2/2]
Some cpufreq drivers (at that time, only powernow-k7) need to recalibrate the
cpu_khz at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:46 -07:00
Dave Jones
91350ed49b [CPUFREQ] Recalibrate cpu_khz [1/2]
We have to recalibrate cpu_khz in order to use the current FID instead the max
FID since some BIOS do not put the processor at maximum frequency at POST. 
Also, some BIOS will change the processor frequency at our back after cpu_khz
was calibrate.  Finally, this will fix a long standing bug when we do
something like this:

# rmmod powernow-k7
# modprobe powernow-k7

Signed-off-by: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:45 -07:00
Dave Jones
bf6fc9fd2d [CPUFREQ] AMD Elan SC520 cpufreq driver.
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:45 -07:00
Dave Jones
6f4095af6d [CPUFREQ] speedstep-smi: it works on at least one P4M
The speedstep-smi driver actually works on >=1 notebook with a
Pentium 4-M CPU where all other cpufreq drivers fail. Therefore,
allow speedstep-smi on P4Ms again, but warn users of likely failure

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:44 -07:00
Dave Jones
8282864a96 [CPUFREQ] speedstep-centrino: Pentium 4 - M (HT) support
The Pentium 4 - Ms (HT) with CPUID 0xF34 and 0xF41 seem to support
centrino-like enhanced speedstep; however, no "table" support is possible.
Therefore, put NULL entries into speedstep-centrino.c

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:43 -07:00
Dave Jones
7eb53d8823 [CPUFREQ] powernow-k7: don't print khz element of FSB.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:42 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
adaa765d76 [PATCH] acpi build fix: x86 setup.c
This is a neverending story

linux/acpi.h contains empty declarations for acpi_boot_init() &
acpi_boot_table_init() but they are nested inside #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI.

So we'll have to #ifdef in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: setup_arch()

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-31 14:54:17 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B
49f384b82b [PATCH] x86: fix smp_num_siblings on buggy BIOSes
This fixes 'smp_num_siblings' value on the systems with a buggy bios,
which sets number of siblings to '2' even when HT is disabled.  (more
details are at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4359)

I am planning to do more cleanup in this area (like moving smp_num_siblings
to per cpuinfo) shortly.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 11:14:00 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
70ffc71c5c [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c: section fix
num_cache_leaves is used in __devexit cache_remove_dev() and can therefore
not be __devinit.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 11:14:00 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
8aadff7dd5 [PATCH] Note on ACPI build fix
Even after the previous fix you can still set CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
indirectly even without CONFIG_ACPI by choosing CONFIG_PCI and
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG.

That doesn't build very well either.

This makes PCI_MMCONFIG depend on ACPI, fixing that hole.

[ I guess in theory Kconfig could follow the whole chain of dependencies
  for things that get selected, but that sounds insanely complicated, so
  we'll just fix up these things by hand.  --Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-27 08:15:05 -07:00
Len Brown
25be5e6ccc [PATCH] VIA IRQ quirk
Delete quirk_via_bridge(), restore quirk_via_irqpic() -- but now
improved to be invoked upon device ENABLE, and now only for VIA devices
-- not all devices behind VIA bridges.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-27 08:15:04 -07:00
Dominik Hackl
6431e6a28e [PATCH] voyager_smp.c static inline fix
This patch fixes a compile bug by moving a static inline function to the
right place.  The body of a static inline function has to be declared
before the use of this function.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Hackl <dominik@hackl.dhs.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-24 20:08:12 -07:00
Andi Kleen
2df9fa3664 [PATCH] x86_64: i386/x86-64: Export cpu_core_map
Needed for the powernow k8 driver for dual core support.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20 15:48:21 -07:00
Andi Kleen
4057923614 [PATCH] i386: Fix race in iounmap
We need to hold the vmlist_lock while doing change_page_attr, otherwise we
could reset someone else's mapping.

Requires previous patch to add __remove_vm_area

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20 15:48:20 -07:00
Andi Kleen
b41e29398a [PATCH] x86_64: 386/x86-64 Further AMD dual core fixes
- Remove duplicated ifdef
- Make core_id match what Intel uses
- Initialize phys_proc_id correctly for non DC case
- Handle non power of two core numbers.

Fixes for both i386 and x86-64

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20 15:48:20 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
ff0d2f90fd [PATCH] fix memory scribble in arch/i386/pci/fixup.c
The GET_INDEX() macro should use just the low three bits of the devfn,
otherwise we have a memory scribble in pcie_rootport_aspm_quirk that
overwrites ptype_all

Fix it to be more careful about its arguments while at it.

Acked by Dely Sy <dely.l.sy@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 09:27:05 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a158608bf4 [PATCH] x86_64/i386: fix defaults for physical/core id in /proc/cpuinfo
Last round hopefully of cpu_core_id changes hopefully fow now:

- Always initialize cpu_core_id for all CPUs, even when no dual core setup
  is detected.  This prevents funny /proc/cpuinfo output

- Do the same with phys_proc_id[] even when no HyperThreading - dito.

- Use the CPU APIC-ID from CPUID 1 instead of the linux virtual CPU number
  to identify the core for AMD dual core setups.

Patch for i386/x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22490eb80c Fix acpi_find_rsdp() - acpi_scan_rsdp takes length, not end
Noticed by Jakub Jermar <jermar@itbs.cz>
2005-05-06 15:39:23 -07:00
Kianusch Sayah Karadji
4713741955 [PATCH] x86: geode support fixes
- Changed Name/defines from "Geode GX" to "Geode GX1" for clarification

- Dropped "-march=i586" in favor of "-march=i486"

- Dopped X86_OOSTORE support for Geode GX1

Signed-off-by: Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Domen Puncer
125947f2ab [PATCH] CodingStyle: trivial whitespace fixups
When I do a "diff -Nur arch/i386 arch/x86_64" to see what is different between these two
architectures, I see some differences due to whitespace issues only. The attached patch removes
some of the noise by fixing up the following files:
- arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
- arch/i386/boot/video.S
- arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.S

Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
maximilian attems
a27e951f1e [PATCH] cyrix: eliminate bad section references
Fix cyrix section references:
 convert __initdata to __devinitdata.

Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 00000379
R_386_32          .init.data
Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 00000399
R_386_32          .init.data
Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003b3
R_386_32          .init.data
Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003b9
R_386_32          .init.data
Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003bf
R_386_32          .init.data

Signed-of-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:47 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
0b9e2cac8a [PATCH] Kprobes: Incorrect handling of probes on ret/lret instruction
Kprobes could not handle the insertion of a probe on the ret/lret
instruction and used to oops after single stepping since kprobes was
modifying eip/rip incorrectly.  Adjustment of eip/rip is not required after
single stepping in case of ret/lret instruction, because eip/rip points to
the correct location after execution of the ret/lret instruction.  This
patch fixes the above problem.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:39 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
0c28130b5c [PATCH] x86_64: make string func definition work as intended
In include/asm-x86_64/string.h there are such comments:

/* Use C out of line version for memcmp */
#define memcmp __builtin_memcmp
int memcmp(const void * cs,const void * ct,size_t count);

This would mean that if the compiler does not decide to use __builtin_memcmp,
it emits a call to memcmp to be satisfied by the C out-of-line version in
lib/string.c.  What happens is that after preprocessing, in lib/string.i you
may find the definition of "__builtin_strcmp".

Actually, by accident, in the object you will find the definition of strcmp
and such (maybe a trick intended to redirect calls to __builtin_memcmp to the
default memcmp when the definition is not expanded); however, this particular
case is not a documented feature as far as I can see.

Also, the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not work, so it's duplicated in the arch.

I simply added some #undef to lib/string.c and removed the (now duplicated)
exports in x86-64 and UML/x86_64 subarchs (the second ones are introduced by
another patch I just posted for -mm).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:33 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
f48d9663f1 [PATCH] x86 stack initialisation fix
The recent change fix-crash-in-entrys-restore_all.patch

 	childregs->esp = esp;

 	p->thread.esp = (unsigned long) childregs;
-	p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1);
+	p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1) - 8;

 	p->thread.eip = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;

introduces an inconsistency between esp and esp0 before the task is run the
first time.  esp0 is no longer the actual start of the stack, but 8 bytes
off.

This shows itself clearly in a scenario when a ptracer that is set to also
ptrace eventual children traces program1 which then clones thread1.  Now
the ptracer wants to modify the registers of thread1.  The x86 ptrace
implementation bases it's knowledge about saved user-space registers upon
p->thread.esp0.  But this will be a few bytes off causing certain writes to
the kernel stack to overwrite a saved kernel function address making the
kernel when actually running thread1 jump out into user-space.  Very
spectacular.

The testcase I've used is:
/* start with strace -f ./a.out */
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void *do_thread(void *p)
{
	for (;;);
}

int main()
{
	pthread_t one;
	pthread_create(&one, NULL, &do_thread, NULL);
	for (;;);
	return 0;
}

So, my solution is to instead of just adjusting esp0 that creates an
inconsitent state I adjust where the user-space registers are saved with -8
bytes.  This gives us the wanted extra bytes on the start of the stack and
esp0 is now correct.  This solves the issues I saw from the original
testcase from Mateusz Berezecki and has survived testing here.  I think
this should go into -mm a round or two first however as there might be some
cruft around depending on pt_regs lying on the start of the stack.  That
however would have broken with the first change too!

It's actually a 2-line diff but I had to move the comment of why the -8 bytes
are there a few lines up. Thanks to Zwane for helping me with this.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:30 -07:00
David Woodhouse
bfd4bda097 Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-05-05 13:59:37 +01:00
Al Viro
5cae841b13 [PATCH] ISA DMA Kconfig fixes - part 1
A bunch of drivers use ISA DMA helpers or their equivalents for
platforms that have ISA with different DMA controller (a lot of ARM
boxen).  Currently there is no way to put such dependency in Kconfig -
CONFIG_ISA is not it (e.g.  it is not set on platforms that have no ISA
slots, but have on-board devices that pretend to be ISA ones).

New symbol added - ISA_DMA_API.  Set when we have functional
enable_dma()/set_dma_mode()/etc.  set of helpers.  Next patches in the
series will add missing dependencies for drivers that need them.

I'm very carefully staying the hell out of the recurring flamefest on
what exactly CONFIG_ISA would mean in ideal world - added symbol has a
well-defined meaning and for now I really want to treat it as completely
independent from the mess around CONFIG_ISA.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-04 07:33:13 -07:00
David Woodhouse
27b030d58c Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-05-03 08:14:09 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
408b664a7d [PATCH] make lots of things static
Another large rollup of various patches from Adrian which make things static
where they were needlessly exported.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:29 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
5f76be80d9 [PATCH] fbdev: edid.h cleanups
This patch removes some completely unused code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:23 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
7ed20e1ad5 [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use
valid_signal().  This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
e49332bd12 [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups
There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two
functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding
access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for
access_ok - deprecate those.

There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out
code, fix those up to use access_ok.

After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally
removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release
or two.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:08 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
fbd568a3e6 [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
Matt Mackall
d59745ce3e [PATCH] clean up kernel messages
Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops.  Only available if
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal
configs.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:02 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
5e7b83ffc6 [PATCH] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for i386
Split the i386 entry.S files into entry.S and syscall_table.S which is
included in the previous one (so actually there is no difference between them)
and use the syscall_table.S in the UML build, instead of tracking by hand the
syscall table changes (which is inherently error-prone).

We must only insert the right #defines to inject the changes we need from the
i386 syscall table (for instance some different function names); also, we
don't implement some i386 syscalls, as ioperm(), nor some TLS-related ones
(yet to provide).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:55 -07:00