This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks
easily and I believe it is an important change. This has been out and tested
for a while in the latest IPMI driver release. There are no functional
changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few
minor style updates).
The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they
are in use. This is bad from a number of points of view. This patch removes
the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch passes the file handle supplied in iattr to userspace, in case the
->setattr() was invoked from sys_ftruncate(). This solves the permission
checking (or lack thereof) in ftruncate() for the class of filesystems served
by an unprivileged userspace process.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds an atomic create+open operation. This does not yet work if
the file type changes between lookup and create+open, but solves the
permission checking problems for the separte create and open methods.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a new access call, which will only be called if ->permission is invoked
from sys_access(). In all other cases permission checking is delayed until
the actual filesystem operation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Though the following changes are all backward compatible (from the kernel's as
well as the library's POV) change the minor version, so interested
applications can detect new features.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch extends the iattr structure with a file pointer memeber, and adds
an ATTR_FILE validity flag for this member.
This is set if do_truncate() is invoked from ftruncate() or from
do_coredump().
The change is source and binary compatible.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most architectures.
This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the arch-specific code as
arch_ptrace.
Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude them.
They continue to keep their implementations. For sh64 I had to add a
sh64_ptrace wrapper because it does some initialization on the first call.
For um I removed an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block, but
SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL isn't defined anywhere in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous
fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h
from module.h, which is done by a followup patch.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- "extern inline" -> "static inline"
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
it's global functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
AIO was adding a new context's max requests to the global total before
testing if that resulting total was over the global limit. This let
innocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task
that was crossing the limit. This serializes the _nr accounting with a
spinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals.
Individual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int's worth of
requests by the syscall interface.
The problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating
and destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context.
Before the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN
if it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the
limit.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Reiser4 uses radix trees to solve a trouble reiser4_readdir has serving nfs
requests.
Unfortunately, radix tree api lacks an operation suitable for modifying
existing entry. This patch adds radix_tree_lookup_slot which returns pointer
to found item within the tree. That location can be then updated.
Both Nick and Christoph Lameter have patches which need this as well.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a few comments surrounding the generic readahead API.
Also convert some ulongs into pgoff_t: the identifier for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
offsets into pagecache.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add SHM_NORESERVE functionality similar to MAP_NORESERVE for shared memory
segments.
This is mainly to avoid abuse of OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and this flag is ignored
for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the hlist_for_each_rcu() API, which is used only in one place, and
is trivially converted to hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(), making the code
shorter and more readable. Any out-of-tree uses may be similarly
converted.
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>
This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit
events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch
that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events
useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring
(e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM).
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Using __typeof__(*ptr) on a pointer to const makes the __x variable in
__get_user const as well. The latest gcc will refuse to write to it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The test_bit function returns a non-boolean value, it returns 0,1,2,4,...
instead of only 0 or 1. This causes wrongs results in the mincore system
call. Check against 0 to get a proper boolean value.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
No one may sleep on us until we've been down()'d. So on allocation,
initialize `sleepers' to 0, just like everyone else does.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch>
Acked-by: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
"extern inline" doesn't make much sense.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch imlements full LDT handling in SKAS:
* UML holds it's own LDT table, used to deliver data on
modify_ldt(READ)
* UML disables the default_ldt, inherited from the host (SKAS3)
or resets LDT entries, set by host's clib and inherited in
SKAS0
* A new global variable skas_needs_stub is inserted, that
can be used to decide, whether stub-pages must be supported
or not.
* Uses the syscall-stub to replace missing PTRACE_LDT (therefore,
write_ldt_entry needs to be modified)
Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Not quite, something along the lines of the patch below works correctly (and
makes aio performance not suffer from multiple second delays), as skas0 mode
correctly switches mm contexts, unlike TT (which should probably get nuked
from the kernel now that skas0 seems to be working).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
"extern inline" doesn't make much sense.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
printk() already declared in include/linux/kernel.h so squish the
duplication. Besides, no printk() usage here. Bye bye.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It's widely seen a MCE non-fatal error reported after resume. It seems MCE
resume is lacked under ia32. This patch tries to fix the gap.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There was only one board using this (hp690 specifically), and it just so
happens that it's only physically discontiguous at the "normal" P1 offset. If
we bump up the P1 offset, it's possible to hit a shadowed region of memory
where we suddenly become magically contiguous.
As people have been using this shadowed region workaround for quite some time
(and without any adverse effects), it's time to drop the left over discontig
bits that no longer have any practical use (it was always very much
hp690-centric to begin with).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Presently it is bogus to call pte_mkhuge() outside of the CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
context, as the only processors that support _PAGE_SZHUGE do so in the
hugetlbpage context only (and this is the only time that _PAGE_SZHUGE is even
defined). SH-2 and SH-3 do not support huge pages at all, and so it is not
possible to enable this.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This extends the API somewhat to allow for platform-specific VCR reading and
writing. Some platforms (like SH4-202) implement the VCR in a split VCRL and
VCRH, but end up being in reverse order or have other quirks that need to be
dealt with, so we add a set of superhyway_ops per-bus to accomodate this.
We also have to extend the per-device resources somewhat, as some devices now
conveniently split control and data blocks. So we allow a platform to
register its set of SuperHyway devices via superhyway_add_devices() with the
control block always ordered as the first resource (as this is the one that
userspace cares about).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cleanup PPC40x eval boards (bubinga, walnut and sycamore) to support U-Boot
as bootloader. The OpenBIOS bd_info struct is not used in the kernel
anymore (only U-Boot now).
uImage (U-Boot) tested on walnut, sycamore and bubinga
zImage (OpenBIOS) tested on sycamore, bubinga and ebony
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add support for the AMCC PowerPC 440SPe SoC, including PCI Express in root
port mode.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The PowerPC 440SP SoC has two Processor Local Bus (PLB) segments (a
high-throughput segment and a low-latency segment). Fix our PLB register
definitions to cope with this, and add code to dump the status of both
segments when a machine check occurs.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The PowerPC 440SPe supports up to 16 GB of RAM, and therefore its IO registers
are at 0x4_xxxx_xxxx instead of being at 0x1_xxxx_xxxx like most other PPC 440
chips. To allow for this, this patch moves the definition of the ERPN used
for mapping UART0 from being hard-coded in the head_44x.S assembly code to
being defined in ibm44x.h.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work
for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported. Direct
access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements
dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for
x86_64.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch, however, should be applied on top of the 64k-page-size patch to
fix some problems with hugepage (some pre-existing, another introduced by
this patch).
The patch fixes a bug in the SLB miss handler for hugepages on ppc64
introduced by the dynamic hugepage patch (commit id
c594adad56) due to a misunderstanding of the
srd instruction's behaviour (mea culpa). The problem arises when a 64-bit
process maps some hugepages in the low 4GB of the address space (unusual).
In this case, as well as the 256M segment in question being marked for
hugepages, other segments at 32G intervals will be incorrectly marked for
hugepages.
In the process, this patch tweaks the semantics of the hugepage bitmaps to
be more sensible. Previously, an address below 4G was marked for hugepages
if the appropriate segment bit in the "low areas" bitmask was set *or* if
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap was set (which would mark all
addresses below 1TB for hugepage). With this patch, any given address is
governed by a single bitmap. Addresses below 4GB are marked for hugepage
if and only if their bit is set in the "low areas" bitmap (256M
granularity). Addresses between 4GB and 1TB are marked for hugepage iff
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set. Higher addresses are marked
for hugepage iff their bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set (1TB
granularity).
To avoid conflicts, this patch must be applied on top of BenH's pending
patch for 64k base page size [0]. As such, this patch also addresses a
hugepage problem introduced by that patch. That patch allows hugepages of
1MB in size on hardware which supports it, however, that won't work when
using 4k pages (4 level pagetable), because in that case hugepage PTEs are
stored at the PMD level, and each PMD entry maps 2MB. This patch simply
disallows hugepages in that case (we can do something cleverer to re-enable
them some other day).
Built, booted, and a handful of hugepage related tests passed on POWER5
LPAR (both ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).
[0] http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/ppc64-64k-pages.diff
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
base page size to 64K. The resulting kernel still boots on any
hardware. On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.
Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
information from the newer hypervisors.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Richard Purdie
Update the PXA pm.c file to allow machines (such as the Sharp
Zaurus) to override the standard pm functions but reuse/wrap them
where needed.
The init call is made slightly earlier to give machine code an init
level to override them in removing any race.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Dirk Opfer
This patch adds basic machine support for the Sharp SL-6000x (Tosa) PDAs.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Opfer
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc command line
using -imacros. This ensures that we have the kernel configuration
included from the start, rather than relying on each file having #include
<linux/config.h> as appropriate. History has shown that this is something
which is difficult to get right.
Since we now include the kernel configuration automatically, make
configcheck becomes meaningless, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The offsets of the registers are in a different place, and
some parts cannot handle a full set of modem control signals.
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis@embeddedalley.ocm>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
parent device to be set.
Example usage:
pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
if (pdev) {
err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
sizeof(platform_data));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add(pdev);
} else {
err = -ENOMEM;
}
if (err)
platform_device_put(pdev);
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Adds a phy_mask field to struct mii_bus and uses it. This field
indicates each phy address to be ignored when probing the mdio bus.
This support is needed for the fs_enet and ibm_emac drivers to be
converted to the generic phy layer among other drivers. Many systems
lock up on probing certain phy addresses or probing doesn't return
0xffff when nothing is found at the address. A new driver I'm
working on also makes use of this mask.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
