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2008-06-30[CRIS] Correct image makefiles to allow using a separate OBJ-directory.Jesper Nilsson
Make compile succeed when building with O= (srctree != objtree). Signed-off-by: Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@cetrtapot.si> Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
2008-06-29[CRIS] Build fixes for compressed and rescue images for v10 and v32:Jesper Nilsson
- Use the normal cross gcc instead of using an elf specific cris toolchain. This removes the dependency of this second toolchain. - Use the normal cross objcopy instead of overriding it to use elf-toolchain. This allows compiling using "CROSS_COMPILE=$CRIS_GCC/cris-axis-linux-gnu-" instead of just "CROSS_COMPILE=$CRIS_GCC/cris-axis-linux-gnu/bin/" - Remove redundant rules for compiling, the implicit rules are sufficient. - Convert the arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/head.S to format accepted by the cris-axis-linux-gnu-gcc (registers must be prefixed with '$', remove explicit underscore on exported symbols) - Remove a number of unused (and duplicated) prototypes from arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/misc.c. - Correct memcpy and memset return values (actually return them!) Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
2008-06-24Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem in iosapic_alloc_rte() [IA64] Handle count==0 in sn2_ptc_proc_write() [IA64] Fix boot failure on ia64/sn2
2008-06-24Merge branch 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: KVM: Remove now unused structs from kvm_para.h x86: KVM guest: Use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs x86: Make xen use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions x86: Add structs and functions for paravirt clocksource KVM: VMX: Fix host msr corruption with preemption enabled KVM: ioapic: fix lost interrupt when changing a device's irq KVM: MMU: Fix oops on guest userspace access to guest pagetable KVM: MMU: large page update_pte issue with non-PAE 32-bit guests (resend) KVM: MMU: Fix rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bug KVM: close timer injection race window in __vcpu_run KVM: Fix race between timer migration and vcpu migration
2008-06-24Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bit
2008-06-24x86: KVM guest: Use the paravirt clocksource structs and functionsGerd Hoffmann
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs and functions, thereby making it compatible with Xen. The patch also fixes an initialization bug: on SMP systems the per-cpu has two different locations early at boot and after CPU bringup. kvmclock must take that in account when registering the physical address within the host. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structsGerd Hoffmann
This patch updates the kvm host code to use the pvclock structs. It also makes the paravirt clock compatible with Xen. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24x86: Make xen use the paravirt clocksource structs and functionsGerd Hoffmann
This patch updates the xen guest to use the pvclock structs and helper functions. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24x86: Add structs and functions for paravirt clocksourceGerd Hoffmann
This patch adds structs for the paravirt clocksource ABI used by both xen and kvm (pvclock-abi.h). It also adds some helper functions to read system time and wall clock time from a paravirtual clocksource (pvclock.[ch]). They are based on the xen code. They are enabled using CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK. Subsequent patches of this series will put the code in use. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24[IA64] Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem in iosapic_alloc_rte()Julia Lawall
As noted by Akinobu Mita alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-24[IA64] Handle count==0 in sn2_ptc_proc_write()Cliff Wickman
The fix applied in e0c6d97c65e0784aade7e97b9411f245a6c543e7 "security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_write" didn't take into account the case where count==0 (which results in a buffer underrun when adding the trailing '\0'). Thanks to Andi Kleen for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-24[IA64] Fix boot failure on ia64/sn2Jes Sorensen
Call check_sal_cache_flush() after platform_setup() as check_sal_cache_flush() now relies on being able to call platform vector code. Problem was introduced by: 3463a93def55c309f3c0d0a8aaf216be3be42d64 "Update check_sal_cache_flush to use platform_send_ipi()" Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Tested-by: Alex Chiang: <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-24xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24KVM: VMX: Fix host msr corruption with preemption enabledAvi Kivity
Switching msrs can occur either synchronously as a result of calls to the msr management functions (usually in response to the guest touching virtualized msrs), or asynchronously when preempting a kvm thread that has guest state loaded. If we're unlucky enough to have the two at the same time, host msrs are corrupted and the machine goes kaput on the next syscall. Most easily triggered by Windows Server 2008, as it does a lot of msr switching during bootup. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: MMU: Fix oops on guest userspace access to guest pagetableAvi Kivity
KVM has a heuristic to unshadow guest pagetables when userspace accesses them, on the assumption that most guests do not allow userspace to access pagetables directly. Unfortunately, in addition to unshadowing the pagetables, it also oopses. This never triggers on ordinary guests since sane OSes will clear the pagetables before assigning them to userspace, which will trigger the flood heuristic, unshadowing the pagetables before the first userspace access. One particular guest, though (Xenner) will run the kernel in userspace, triggering the oops. Since the heuristic is incorrect in this case, we can simply remove it. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: MMU: large page update_pte issue with non-PAE 32-bit guests (resend)Marcelo Tosatti
kvm_mmu_pte_write() does not handle 32-bit non-PAE large page backed guests properly. It will instantiate two 2MB sptes pointing to the same physical 2MB page when a guest large pte update is trapped. Instead of duplicating code to handle this, disallow directory level updates to happen through kvm_mmu_pte_write(), so the two 2MB sptes emulating one guest 4MB pte can be correctly created by the page fault handling path. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: MMU: Fix rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bugMarcelo Tosatti
rmap_next() does not work correctly after rmap_remove(), as it expects the rmap chains not to change during iteration. Fix (for now) by restarting iteration from the beginning. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: close timer injection race window in __vcpu_runMarcelo Tosatti
If a timer fires after kvm_inject_pending_timer_irqs() but before local_irq_disable() the code will enter guest mode and only inject such timer interrupt the next time an unrelated event causes an exit. It would be simpler if the timer->pending irq conversion could be done with IRQ's disabled, so that the above problem cannot happen. For now introduce a new vcpu requests bit to cancel guest entry. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-24KVM: Fix race between timer migration and vcpu migrationMarcelo Tosatti
A guest vcpu instance can be scheduled to a different physical CPU between the test for KVM_REQ_MIGRATE_TIMER and local_irq_disable(). If that happens, the timer will only be migrated to the current pCPU on the next exit, meaning that guest LAPIC timer event can be delayed until a host interrupt is triggered. Fix it by cancelling guest entry if any vcpu request is pending. This has the side effect of nicely consolidating vcpu->requests checks. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-23Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: don't drop NX bit xen: mask unwanted pte bits in __supported_pte_mask xen: Use wmb instead of rmb in xen_evtchn_do_upcall(). x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to
2008-06-20Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] SN2: security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_write
2008-06-20alpha: resurrect Cypress IDE quirkIvan Kokshaysky
Which was removed in the hope that generic legacy IDE quirk in drivers/pci/probe.c is sufficient for Cypress IDE. It isn't, as this controller has non-standard BAR layout: secondary channel registers are in the BAR0-1 of the second PCI function - not in the BAR2-3 of the same function, as the generic quirk routine assumes. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-20alpha: fix compile failures with gcc-4.3 (bug #10438)Ivan Kokshaysky
Vast majority of these build failures are gcc-4.3 warnings about static functions and objects being referenced from non-static (read: "extern inline") functions, in conjunction with our -Werror. We cannot just convert "extern inline" to "static inline", as people keep suggesting all the time, because "extern inline" logic is crucial for generic kernel build. So - just make sure that all callees of critical "extern inline" functions are also "extern inline"; - use "static inline", wherever it's possible. traps.c: work around gcc-4.3 being too smart about array bounds-checking. TODO: add "gnu_inline" attribute to all our "extern inline" functions to ensure desired behaviour with future compilers. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-20alpha: link failure fixIvan Kokshaysky
With built-in scsi disk driver, the final link fails with a following error: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.rodata' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o This happens with -Os (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y) with all gcc-4 versions, and also with -O2 and gcc-4.3. The problem is in sd.c:sd_major() being inlined into __exit function exit_sd(), and the compiler generating a jump table in .rodata section for the 'switch' statement in sd_major(). So we have references to discarded section. Fixed with a big hammer in the form of -fno-jump-tables. Note that jump tables vs. discarded sections is a generic problem, other architectures are just lucky not to suffer from it. But with a slightly more complex switch/case statement it can be reproduced on x86 as well. So maybe at some point we should consider -fno-jump-tables as a generic compile option... Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-20Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, geode: add a VSA2 ID for General Software x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit x86, 32-bit: fix boot failure on TSC-less processors x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
2008-06-20[IA64] SN2: security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_writeCliff Wickman
Security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_write It is possible to overrun a buffer with a write to this /proc file. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-20Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIPLinus Torvalds
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit 557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly. We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages, we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead. In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating all those useless newly zeroed pages. This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly. While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it) and a page that just wasn't mapped. We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not be turned into a "struct page *". The error is arbitrarily picked to be EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the equivalent IO-mapped page case. [ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing: that's not how that function works ] Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-20xen: don't drop NX bitJeremy Fitzhardinge
Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page into the .text segment so that it is executable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20xen: mask unwanted pte bits in __supported_pte_maskJeremy Fitzhardinge
[ Stable: this isn't a bugfix in itself, but it's a pre-requiste for "xen: don't drop NX bit" ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19x86, geode: add a VSA2 ID for General SoftwareJordan Crouse
General Software writes their own VSA2 module for their version of the Geode BIOS, which returns a different ID then the standard VSA2. This was causing the framebuffer driver to break for most GSW boards. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bitBernhard Walle
This patch uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE for crashkernel reservation also for i386 and prints a error message on failure. The patch is still for 2.6.26 since it is only bug fixing. The unification of reserve_crashkernel() between i386 and x86_64 should be done for 2.6.27. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2008-06-19x86, 32-bit: fix boot failure on TSC-less processorsMikael Pettersson
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6" (invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from native_sched_clock(). (This error occurs so early that not even the serial console can capture it.) A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7, via commit 9ccc906c97e34fd91dc6aaf5b69b52d824386910: >x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable > >tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from >the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace >tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock() >decision when to use TSC understandable. > >Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit. > >Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets called before tsc_init(). Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip the TSC and use jiffies instead. After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on !cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions. My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled" state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc" kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1 on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all checks have succeeded. I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_toSuresh Siddha
Patrick McHardy reported a crash: > > I get this oops once a day, its apparently triggered by something > > run by cron, but the process is a different one each time. > > > > Kernel is -git from yesterday shortly before the -rc6 release > > (last commit is the usb-2.6 merge, the x86 patches are missing), > > .config is attached. > > > > I'll retry with current -git, but the patches that have gone in > > since I last updated don't look related. > > > > [62060.043009] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > > 000001ff > > [62060.043009] IP: [<c0102a9b>] __switch_to+0x2f/0x118 > > [62060.043009] *pde = 00000000 > > [62060.043009] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT Vegard Nossum analyzed it: > This decodes to > > 0: 0f ae 00 fxsave (%eax) > > so it's related to the floating-point context. This is the exact > location of the crash: > > $ addr2line -e arch/x86/kernel/process_32.o -i ab0 > include/asm/i387.h:232 > include/asm/i387.h:262 > arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:595 > > ...so it looks like prev_task->thread.xstate->fxsave has become NULL. > Or maybe it never had any other value. Somehow (as described below) TS_USEDFPU is set but the fpu is not allocated or freed. Another possible FPU pre-emption issue with the sleazy FPU optimization which was benign before but not so anymore, with the dynamic FPU allocation patch. New task is getting exec'd and it is prempted at the below point. flush_thread() { ... /* * Forget coprocessor state.. */ clear_fpu(tsk); <----- Preemption point clear_used_math(); ... } Now when it context switches in again, as the used_math() is still set and fpu_counter can be > 5, we will do a math_state_restore() which sets the task's TS_USEDFPU. After it continues from the above preemption point it does clear_used_math() and much later free_thread_xstate(). Now, at the next context switch, it is quite possible that xstate is null, used_math() is not set and TS_USEDFPU is still set. This will trigger unlazy_fpu() causing kernel oops. Fix this by clearing tsk's fpu_counter before clearing task's fpu. Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18[POWERPC] Clear sub-page HPTE present bits when demoting page sizePaul Mackerras
When we demote a slice from 64k to 4k, and we are about to insert an HPTE for a 4k subpage and we notice that there is an existing 64k HPTE, we first invalidate that HPTE before inserting the new 4k subpage HPTE. Since the bits that encode which hash bucket the old HPTE was in overlap with the bits that encode which of the 16 subpages have HPTEs, we need to clear out the subpage HPTE-present bits before starting to insert HPTEs for the 4k subpages. If we don't do that, we can erroneously think that a subpage already has an HPTE when it doesn't. That in itself wouldn't be such a problem except that when we go to update the HPTE that we think is present on machines with a hypervisor, the hypervisor can tell us that the HPTE we think is there is actually there even though it isn't, which can lead to a process getting stuck in a loop, continually faulting. The reason for the confusion is that the AVPN (abbreviated virtual page number) we are looking for in the HPTE for a 4k subpage can actually match the AVPN in a stale HPTE for another 64k page. For example, the HPTE for the 4k subpage at 0x84000f000 will be in the same hash bucket and have the same AVPN as the HPTE for the 64k page at 0x8400f0000. This fixes the code to clear out the subpage HPTE-present bits. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-06-18[POWERPC] 4xx: Clear new TLB cache attribute bits in Data Storage vectorJosh Boyer
A recent commit added support for the new 440x6 and 464 cores that have the added WL1, IL1I, IL1D, IL2I, and ILD2 bits for the caching attributes in the TLBs. The new bits were cleared in the finish_tlb_load function, however a similar bit of code was missed in the DataStorage interrupt vector. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-06-17x86-64: Fix "bytes left to copy" return value for copy_from_user()Linus Torvalds
Most users by far do not care about the exact return value (they only really care about whether the copy succeeded in its entirety or not), but a few special core routines actually care deeply about exactly how many bytes were copied from user space. And the unrolled versions of the x86-64 user copy routines would sometimes report that it had copied more bytes than it actually had. Very few uses actually have partial copies to begin with, but to make this bug even harder to trigger, most x86 CPU's use the "rep string" instructions for normal user copies, and that version didn't have this issue. To make it even harder to hit, the one user of this that really cared about the return value (and used the uncached version of the copy that doesn't use the "rep string" instructions) was the generic write routine, which pre-populated its source, once more hiding the problem by avoiding the exception case that triggers the bug. In other words, very special thanks to Bron Gondwana who not only triggered this, but created a test-program to show it, and bisected the behavior down to commit 08291429cfa6258c4cd95d8833beb40f828b194e ("mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks") which changed the access pattern just enough that you can now trigger it with 'writev()' with multiple iovec's. That commit itself was not the cause of the bug, it just allowed all the stars to align just right that you could trigger the problem. [ Side note: this is just the minimal fix to make the copy routines (with __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache as the particular version that was involved in showing this) have the right return values. We really should improve on the exceptional case further - to make the copy do a byte-accurate copy up to the exact page limit that causes it to fail. As it is, the callers have to do extra work to handle the limit case gracefully. ] Reported-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (which didn't have this problem), and since most users that do the carethis was very hard to trigger, but
2008-06-16Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Fix CONFIG_IA64_SGI_UV build error [IA64] Update check_sal_cache_flush to use platform_send_ipi() [IA64] perfmon: fix async exit bug
2008-06-16Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (21 commits) [POWERPC] Turn on ATA_SFF so we get SATA_SVW back in defconfigs [POWERPC] Remove ppc32's export of console_drivers [POWERPC] Fix -Os kernel builds with newer gcc versions [POWERPC] Fix bootwrapper builds with newer gcc versions [POWERPC] Build fix for drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c [POWERPC] Fix warning in pseries/eeh_driver.c [POWERPC] Add missing of_node_put in drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c [POWERPC] Add missing of_node_put in drivers/macintosh/smu.c [POWERPC] Add missing of_node_put in pseries/nvram.c [POWERPC] Fix return value check logic in debugfs virq_mapping setup [POWERPC] Fix rmb to order cacheable vs. noncacheable powerpc/spufs: fix missed stop-and-signal event powerpc/spufs: synchronize interaction between spu exception handling and time slicing powerpc/spufs: remove class_0_dsisr from spu exception handling powerpc/spufs: wait for stable spu status in spu_stopped() [POWERPC] bootwrapper: add simpleImage* to list of boot targets [POWERPC] 83xx: MPC837xRDB's VSC7385 ethernet switch isn't on the MDIO bus [POWERPC] Updated Freescale PPC defconfigs [POWERPC] 8610: Update defconfig for MPC8610 HPCD [POWERPC] 85xx: MPC8548CDS - Fix size of PCIe IO space ...
2008-06-16Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] Au1200: MMC resource size off by one [MIPS] TANBAC: Update defconfig [MIPS] Vr41xx: Initialize PCI io_map_base [MIPS] Malta: Always compile MTD platform device registration code. [MIPS] Malta: Fix build errors for 64-bit kernels [MIPS] Lasat: sysctl fixup [MIPS] Fix buggy use of kmap_coherent. [MIPS] Lasat: bring back from the dead [MIPS] vpe_id is required for VSMP and SMTC builds [MIPS] Export smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single. [MIPS] Bring the SWARM defconfig up to date [MIPS] Sibyte: Build RTC support as an object [MIPS] Fix the fix for divide by zero error in build_{clear,copy}_page [MIPS] Fix build for PNX platforms. [MIPS] Add RM200 with R5000 CPU to known ARC machines [MIPS] Better load address for big endian SNI RM [MIPS] SB1250: Initialize io_map_base [MIPS] Alchemy: Add au1500 reserved interrupt [MIPS] Export empty_zero_page for sake of the ext4 module.
2008-06-16MN10300: Kill linux/a.out.h inclusionsDavid Howells
Kill linux/a.out.h inclusions in the MN10300 arch code. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-16[IA64] Fix CONFIG_IA64_SGI_UV build errorJack Steiner
Fix build error in CONFIG_IA64_SGI_UV config. (GENERIC builds are ok). Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Au1200: MMC resource size off by oneSergei Shtylyov
Au12x0 MMC platform device strangely claims 0x41 bytes for its memory-mapped registers. Make it claim the whole 0x80000 instead according to the memory map given in the datasheets. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] TANBAC: Update defconfigYoichi Yuasa
These boards need cca setup on CMDLINE. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Vr41xx: Initialize PCI io_map_baseYoichi Yuasa
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Malta: Always compile MTD platform device registration code.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Malta: Fix build errors for 64-bit kernelsThomas Bogendoerfer
Fix 64-bit Malta by using CKSEG0ADDR and correct casts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Lasat: sysctl fixupThomas Horsten
LASAT's sysctl interface was broken, it failed a check during boot because a single entry had a sysctl number and the rest were unnumbered. When I fixed it I noticed that the whole sysctl file needed a spring clean, it was using mutexes where it wasn't needed (it's only needed to protect during writes to the EEPROM), so I moved that stuff out and generally cleaned the whole thing up. So now, LASAT's sysctl/proc interface is working again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Fix buggy use of kmap_coherent.Ralf Baechle
Assuming the call of kmap_coherent in local_r4k_flush_cache_page doesn't need fixing this was skipped in fcae549295bcae801ac48fc1c2030ab8cc487020. Turns out it needed the same change after all. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Lasat: bring back from the deadThomas Horsten
After the common MIPS CPU interrupt controller (for irq0-7) was introduced the Lasat boards didn't get their interrupts right, so nothing worked. The old routines need to be offset by the new 8 hardware interrupts common to all MIPS CPU's. Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16[MIPS] Export smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single.Zenon Fortuna
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>