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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
Remove DEBUG_SEMAPHORE from Kconfig
Improve semaphore documentation
Simplify semaphore implementation
Add down_timeout and change ACPI to use it
Introduce down_killable()
Generic semaphore implementation
Add semaphore.h to kernel_lock.c
Fix quota.h includes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (104 commits)
IB/iser: Don't change itt endianness
IB/mlx4: Update module version and release date
IPoIB: Handle case when P_Key is deleted and re-added at same index
IB/iser: Release connection resources on RDMA_CM_EVENT_DEVICE_REMOVAL event
IB/mlx4: Fix incorrect comment
IB/mlx4: Fix race when detaching a QP from a multicast group
IB/ehca: Support all ibv_devinfo values in query_device() and query_port()
RDMA/nes: Free IRQ before killing tasklet
IB/mthca: Update module version and release date
IB/mlx4: Update QP state if query QP succeeds
IB/mthca: Update QP state if query QP succeeds
RDMA/amso1100: Add check for NULL reply_msg in c2_intr()
IB/mlx4: Add support for resizing CQs
IB/mlx4: Add support for modifying CQ moderation parameters
IPoIB: Support modifying IPoIB CQ event moderation
IB/core: Add support for modify CQ
IPoIB: Add basic ethtool support
mlx4_core: Increase max number of QPs to 128K
RDMA/amso1100: Add support for "send with invalidate" work requests
IB/core: Add support for "send with invalidate" work requests
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
security: enhance DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR description
SELinux: add netport.[ch]
SELinux: Add network port SID cache
SELinux: turn mount options strings into defines
selinux/ss/services.c should #include <linux/selinux.h>
selinux: introduce permissive types
selinux: remove ptrace_sid
SELinux: requesting no permissions in avc_has_perm_noaudit is a BUG()
security: code cleanup
security: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
SELinux: create new open permission
selinux: selinux/netlabel.c should #include "netlabel.h"
SELinux: unify printk messages
SELinux: remove unused backpointers from security objects
SELinux: Correct the NetLabel locking for the sk_security_struct
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (36 commits)
[S390] Remove code duplication from monreader / dcssblk.
[S390] kernel: show last breaking-event-address on oops
[S390] lowcore: Change type of lowcores softirq_pending to __u32.
[S390] zcrypt: Comments and kernel-doc cleanup
[S390] uaccess: Always access the correct address space.
[S390] Fix a lot of sparse warnings.
[S390] Convert s390 to GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS.
[S390] genirq/clockevents: move irq affinity prototypes/inlines to interrupt.h
[S390] Convert monitor calls to function calls.
[S390] qdio (new feature): enhancing info-retrieval from QDIO-adapters
[S390] replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
[S390] remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()
[S390] qdio: remove outdated developerworks link.
[S390] Add debug_register_mode() function to debug feature API
[S390] crypto: use more descriptive function names for init/exit routines.
[S390] switch sched_clock to store-clock-extended.
[S390] zcrypt: add support for large random numbers
[S390] hw_random: allow rng_dev_read() to return hardware errors.
[S390] Vertical cpu management.
[S390] cpu topology support for s390.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: No need for per node slab counters if !SLUB_DEBUG
slub: Move map/flag clearing to __free_slab
slub: Fixes to per cpu stat output in sysfs
slub: Deal with config variable dependencies
slub: Reduce #ifdef ZONE_DMA by moving kmalloc_caches_dma near dma logic
slub: Initialize per-cpu stats
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This breaks out the ptrace handling from get_signal_to_deliver into a
new subroutine. The actual code there doesn't change, and it gets
inlined into nearly identical compiled code. This makes the function
substantially shorter and thus easier to read, and it nicely isolates
the ptrace magic.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When I ran a test program to fork mass processes and at the same time
'cat /cgroup/tasks', I got the following oops:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:72!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 4178, comm: a.out Not tainted (2.6.25-rc9 #72)
...
Call Trace:
[<c044a5f9>] ? cgroup_exit+0x55/0x94
[<c0427acf>] ? do_exit+0x217/0x5ba
[<c0427ed7>] ? do_group_exit+0.65/0x7c
[<c0427efd>] ? sys_exit_group+0xf/0x11
[<c0404842>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c05e0000>] ? init_cyrix+0x2fa/0x479
...
EIP: [<c04df671>] list_del+0x35/0x53 SS:ESP 0068:ebc7df4
---[ end trace caffb7332252612b ]---
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
After digging into the code and debugging, I finlly found out a race
situation:
do_exit()
->cgroup_exit()
->if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list))
list_del(&tsk->cg_list);
cgroup_iter_start()
->cgroup_enable_task_cg_list()
->list_add(&tsk->cg_list, ..);
In this case the list won't be deleted though the process has exited.
We got two bug reports in the past, which seem to be the same bug as
this one:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/332
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/224
Actually sometimes I got oops on list_del, sometimes oops on list_add.
And I can change my test program a bit to trigger other oops.
The patch has been tested both on x86_32 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Got burned by setting the proposed default of 65536
across all Debian archs.
Thus proposing to be more specific on which archs you may
set this. Also propose a value for arm and friends that
doesn't break sshd.
Reword to mention working archs ia64 and ppc64 too.
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Thank you, git.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Much like we added a network node cache, this patch adds a network port
cache. The design is taken almost completely from the network node cache
which in turn was taken from the network interface cache. The basic idea is
to cache entries in a hash table based on protocol/port information. The
hash function only takes the port number into account since the number of
different protocols in use at any one time is expected to be relatively
small.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Convert the strings used for mount options into #defines rather than
retyping the string throughout the SELinux code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global
code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Introduce the concept of a permissive type. A new ebitmap is introduced to
the policy database which indicates if a given type has the permissive bit
set or not. This bit is tested for the scontext of any denial. The bit is
meaningless on types which only appear as the target of a decision and never
the source. A domain running with a permissive type will be allowed to
perform any action similarly to when the system is globally set permissive.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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This changes checks related to ptrace to get rid of the ptrace_sid tracking.
It's good to disentangle the security model from the ptrace implementation
internals. It's sufficient to check against the SID of the ptracer at the
time a tracee attempts a transition.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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This patch turns the case where we have a call into avc_has_perm with no
requested permissions into a BUG_ON. All callers to this should be in
the kernel and thus should be a function we need to fix if we ever hit
this. The /selinux/access permission checking it done directly in the
security server and not through the avc, so those requests which we
cannot control from userspace should not be able to trigger this BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
#168: FILE: security/selinux/hooks.c:2656:
+ "%s, rc=%d\n", __func__, (char*)value, -rc);
total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 195 lines checked
./patches/security-replace-remaining-__function__-occurences.patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors
are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Adds a new open permission inside SELinux when 'opening' a file. The idea
is that opening a file and reading/writing to that file are not the same
thing. Its different if a program had its stdout redirected to /tmp/output
than if the program tried to directly open /tmp/output. This should allow
policy writers to more liberally give read/write permissions across the
policy while still blocking many design and programing flaws SELinux is so
good at catching today.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its
global code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Replace "security:" prefixes in printk messages with "SELinux"
to help users identify the source of the messages. Also fix a
couple of minor formatting issues.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Remove unused backpoiters from security objects.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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The RCU/spinlock locking approach for the nlbl_state in the sk_security_struct
was almost certainly overkill. This patch removes both the RCU and spinlock
locking, relying on the existing socket locks to handle the case of multiple
writers. This change also makes several code reductions possible.
Less locking, less code - it's a Good Thing.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Alpha and FRV mutexes had an option to print lots of debugging messages
in their semaphore implementation. This feature has not been carried
over to the generic semaphores, so remove the stale Kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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Move documentation from semaphore.h to semaphore.c as requested by
Andrew Morton. Also reformat to kernel-doc style and add some more
notes about the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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By removing the negative values of 'count' and relying on the wait_list to
indicate whether we have any waiters, we can simplify the implementation
by removing the protection against an unlikely race condition. Thanks to
David Howells for his suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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ACPI currently emulates a timeout for semaphores with calls to
down_trylock and sleep. This produces horrible behaviour in terms of
fairness and excessive wakeups. Now that we have a unified semaphore
implementation, adding a real down_trylock is almost trivial.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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down_killable() is the functional counterpart of mutex_lock_killable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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kernel_lock.c uses DECLARE_MUTEX, up() and down() without explicitly
including asm/semaphore.h. This is fragile and leaves it vulnerable
to breakage during header reorganisations.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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quota.h currently relies on asm/semaphore.h (through some chain; it
doesn't actually include semaphore.h itself) to include wait.h. As
well as being bad practice to rely on an implicit include, subsequent
patches will break this. While I'm in this file, add atomic.h and
list.h, and sort the list of includes.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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Move the function that prints the segment warning messages found in the
monreader driver and the dcssblk driver to the extmem base code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Newer s390 models have a breaking-event-address-recording register.
Each time an instruction causes a break in the sequential instruction
execution, the address is saved in that hardware register. On a program
interrupt the address is copied to the lowcore address 272-279, which
makes it software accessible.
This patch changes the program check handler and the stack overflow
checker to copy the value into the pt_regs argument.
The oops output is enhanced to show the last known breaking address.
It might give additional information if the stack trace is corrupted.
The feature is only available on 64 bit.
The new oops output looks like:
[---------snip----------]
Modules linked in: vmcp sunrpc qeth_l2 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.24zlive-host #8
Process modprobe (pid: 4788, task: 00000000bf3d8718, ksp: 00000000b2b0b8e0)
Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 000003e000020028 (vmcp_init+0x28/0xe4 [vmcp])
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000004000002 000003e000020000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
000000000015734c ffffffffffffffff 000003e0000b3b00 0000000000000000
000003e00007ca30 00000000b5bb5d40 00000000b5bb5800 000003e0000b3b00
000003e0000a2000 00000000003ecf50 00000000b2b0bd50 00000000b2b0bcb0
Krnl Code: 000003e000020018: c0c000040ff4 larl %r12,3e0000a2000
000003e00002001e: e3e0f0000024 stg %r14,0(%r15)
000003e000020024: a7f40001 brc 15,3e000020026
>000003e000020028: e310c0100004 lg %r1,16(%r12)
000003e00002002e: c020000413dc larl %r2,3e0000a27e6
000003e000020034: c0a00004aee6 larl %r10,3e0000b5e00
000003e00002003a: a7490001 lghi %r4,1
000003e00002003e: a75900f0 lghi %r5,240
Call Trace:
([<000000000014b300>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x2c/0x40)
[<000000000015735c>] sys_init_module+0x19d8/0x1b08
[<0000000000110afc>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
[<000002000011cda2>] 0x2000011cda2
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<000003e000020024>] vmcp_init+0x24/0xe4 [vmcp]
[---------snip----------]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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As noted by akpm:
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c: In function 'tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick':
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c:229: warning: format '%02x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type '__u64'
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> I don't think the architecture's local_softirq_pending() should return u64.
> This is the sort of thing which should be consistent across architectures.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Comments, which suggested to be kernel-doc but were not in the right
formatting, have been corrected. Additionally some minor cleanup in
the comments has been done.
Signed-off-by: Felix Beck <felix.beck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The current uaccess page table walk code assumes at a few places that
any access is a user space access. This is not correct if somebody
has issued a set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in advance.
Add code which checks which address space we are in and with this make
sure we access the correct address space. This way we get also rid of
the dirty
if (!currrent-mm)
return -EFAULT;
hack in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_pt.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Most noteable part of this commit is the new local header file entry.h
which contains all the function declarations of functions that get only
called from asm code or are arch internal. That way we can avoid extern
declarations in C files.
This is more or less the same that was done for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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This way we get rid of s390's NO_IDLE_HZ and use the generic dynticks
variant instead. In addition we get high resolution timers for free.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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> Generic code is not supposed to include irq.h. Replace this include
> by linux/hardirq.h instead and add/replace an include of linux/irq.h
> in asm header files where necessary.
> This change should only matter for architectures that make use of
> GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS.
> Architectures in question are mips, x86, arm, sh, powerpc, uml and sparc64.
>
> I did some cross compile tests for mips, x86_64, arm, powerpc and sparc64.
> This patch fixes also build breakages caused by the include replacement in
> tick-common.h.
I generally dislike adding optional linux/* includes in asm/* includes -
I'm nervous about this causing include loops.
However, there's a separate point to be discussed here.
That is, what interfaces are expected of every architecture in the kernel.
If generic code wants to be able to set the affinity of interrupts, then
that needs to become part of the interfaces listed in linux/interrupt.h
rather than linux/irq.h.
So what I suggest is this approach instead (against Linus' tree of a
couple of days ago) - we move irq_set_affinity() and irq_can_set_affinity()
to linux/interrupt.h, change the linux/irq.h includes to linux/interrupt.h
and include asm/irq_regs.h where needed (asm/irq_regs.h is supposed to be
rarely used include since not much touches the stacked parent context
registers.)
Build tested on ARM PXA family kernels and ARM's Realview platform
kernels which both use genirq.
[ tglx@linutronix.de: add GENERIC_HARDIRQ dependencies ]
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Remove the program check generating monitor calls and use function
calls instead. Theres is no real advantage in using monitor calls,
but they do make debugging harder, because of all the program checks
it generates.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Next generation of OSA adapters allows retrieval of further self-describing
infos. This is the preparational infrastructure patch for further exploitation
in the qeth driver.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The new function supports setting of permissions for the debugfs files
created by the debug feature. In addition to that, the function provides
uid and gid as parameters for future use. Currently only root is allowed
for uid and gid.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Not very helpful when code dies in "init".
See also http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/26/557 .
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Add get_clock_xt to read an 8 byte clock value using store clock
extended (STCKE) and use get_clock_xt for sched_clock. STCKE should
be faster than STCK on newer machines.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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This patch allows user space applications to access large amounts of
truly random data. The random data source is the build-in hardware
random number generator on the CEX2C cards.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The api for hardware random number generators is currently limited to
devices that never fail. If the hardware is registered as a source for
random numbers it has to work. This prevents the use of i/o based
random number devices where the i/o might fail.
Add a check for errors after the read from a hardware random number device.
This patch is required to support large random numbers retrieved
from the CEX2C cards on System z.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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If vertical cpu polarization is active then the hypervisor will
dispatch certain cpus for a longer time than other cpus for maximum
performance. For example if a guest would have three virtual cpus,
each of them with a share of 33 percent, then in case of vertical
cpu polarization all of the processing time would be combined to a
single cpu which would run all the time, while the other two cpus
would get nearly no cpu time.
There are three different types of vertical cpus: high, medium and
low. Low cpus hardly get any real cpu time, while high cpus get a
full real cpu. Medium cpus get something in between.
In order to switch between the two possible modes (default is
horizontal) a 0 for horizontal polarization or a 1 for vertical
polarization must be written to the dispatching sysfs attribute:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/dispatching
The polarization of each single cpu can be figured out by the
polarization sysfs attribute of each cpu:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/polarization
horizontal, vertical:high, vertical:medium, vertical:low or unknown.
When switching polarization the polarization attribute may contain
the value unknown until the configuration change is done and the
kernel has figured out the new polarization of each cpu.
Note that running a system with different types of vertical cpus may
result in significant performance regressions. If possible only one
type of vertical cpus should be used. All other cpus should be
offlined.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Add s390 backend so we can give the scheduler some hints about the
cpu topology.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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